Historical note: Does anyone remember the original "Castle Wolfenstein" on the Apple II?

[HopeHoops]

As far as I know, it was the first game to use voice simulation. A buddy of mine worked on it. The way they did it was to use the cassette port (remember cassette tapes? This is a song about cassette tapes.) and pipe in speech. They digitized it and just threw it back at the speaker. The sound sucked, but so did cassette storage.

[foo_bar]

1. I remember wondering why the nazis had so many chests filled with Liebfraumilch

I think it prefigured Grand Theft Auto, or at least it's the first video game I remember where the goal was to hold people up at gunpoint and steal all their Lebkuchen or whatever.

[HopeHoops]

3. I'll have to ask my buddy about the Liebfraumilch chests.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. I played that on our school Apple II's in junior high.

The speech was even worse than limited amount of speech which had been implemented in arcade games up to that point.

But Wolfenstein was a hell of a game for its day.

[uriel1972]

4. My teacher parents would borrow their high schools Apple II for a week or two in the holiday's

I think the most we got to play was Lemonade.

[MrSlayer]

5. I played it on my Commodore 64.

Beyond was better than the original. You get to kill Hitler.

[HopeHoops]

6. C=64 also had the most killer sound chip available.

The Apple II relied on clicking the speaker to make sounds. The C=64 had a 4-wave sound chip with a shitload of functions. I wrote an assembly language program to map the entire chip onto the keyboard. It took a while to get used to playing it, but it was one hell of a synthesizer!

[Ter]

7. Berzerk was the first game I heard that used digitized speech

"Chicken! Fight like a robot!"

That was around 1981. Probably slightly before Castle Wolfenstein.

[HopeHoops]

8. "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! THE ENTRUDER MUST NOT ESCAPE!"

[Gore1FL]

9. Schweinhund!

I liked that game.