Were there ever any (arcade) video games that didn't have a sound chip but instead produced their sounds and music electrically or mechanically?
pong did it electrically with no sound chip
for home consoles I don't imagine there were any but for arcades you'd have to have technicians trained in repairing musical instruments... I'm losing hope this was ever a thing, please prove me wrong
>>729646365pinball tables
>>729646637any pinball table company that later worked on arcades
>>729646164Back in my day there was a tiny negro in every arcade cabinet that played the banjo as you went through the level. See in those days the quarters were made out of pure silver. And that midget negro would eat em and pure silver is choke full of nutrients so he could play all day on fifty cents. We never should have ended slavery.
>>729647089@grok is this true
Monaco GP
>>729646164Don't know about arcade games, but on PC, arguably, Covox.
>>729647245interesting
I thought that was what old atari games did like defender and robotron.
>>729646164Every electromechanical game until the mid 70s.Strictly speaking they were arcade games, but not video games.
>>729648896Those used a MC1408 DAC driven by a MC6808 CPU
>>729647245the manual even came with a diagram of the sound circuithttp://adb.arcadeitalia.net/download_file.php?tipo=mame_current&codice=monacogp&entity=manual&oper=view&filler=monacogp.pdf
>>729646164yes, several early arcade video games used non-ic electronics to produce their sound.
Ciel no Surge / Ar no Surge Gold tier LE ($1,000 btw)came with music box that takes punched paper to play bits of the soundtrack. Also came with blanks so you could make your own tunes. How anyones supposed to figure it out thats not a musical genius is beyond meits the black box at the bottom with the crank
Yes, even Donkey Kong used so called "discrete logic" sound in addition to chip sound.Many games emulated by MAME required sound samples recorded by rhe community before they put the effort into circuit simulation, in sure there are games that still need samples to this day
>>729649765oh damn so we've been hearing the soundtrack wrong the entire time
>>729649752>>729646164Bump for interest.
unfortunately sound chips got better just as the other video game components were getting good
>>729649752>A thousand muttcoins>For a piece of plastic shit that doesn't even amount to $15 to produce, design costs includedZipperheads are the biggest grifters on Earth.
>>729647089troonhou
