Number 21:
An easy one. Yoshi's here! From Super Mario World.
Above: The sound triggers when he appears and when Mario gets on his back
Number 22:
It's the shield regenerate sound from Halo 3, but it's similar in all three Halo games.
Above: Halo's most memorable sound comes from standing still
Number 23:
Another classic coin insert, this time from 1986's OutRun. We had some more coin insert counds, but they were too obscure. This one was too magical to leave out.
Above: From the days when loose change was your five-minute ticket to heaven
Number 24:
Did you get it? It's the sound of getting a tetris in Tetris. Triggered by clearing the maximum four lines at once with a 'long one', it may sound odd, but it's the sweet sound of success.
Above: No! We need the next one to be the inverted Z! Gaaargh!
Number 25:
And finally. The first time we heard this in Resident Evil 4, we thought it was a motorbike. "Who could be revving a motorbike here? What? Oh my God it's a chainsaw man!" We almost went with the decapitation sound, but it was too messy, both in audio fidelity and resulting goo.
Hope that one didn't leave you on 24/25...
Above: Is that chainsaw on fire? We'd be surprised if it's not coated in boiling acid too. Laced with splinters and rejection.
Oct 09, 2008
Pop ballads, hair metal and other ear-ripping tunes so bad you can’t stop listening
Not all game music sucks - check out these beauties
An older article. But it's got Boyz II Men wrecking the theme from NiGHTS, so worth another cringe.
