Do you remember the first time you heard a video game talk?

A video game talking wasn't as exciting for me as when games went to CDs and started having fully voiced dialog, I remember being blown away that Final Fantasy X-2 ( i think ) was fully voiced, and really well animated to boot. I still think it is a very good looking game.

Welcome to Jurassic Park

I never could make out what they were talking about.

You stole my answer.

I think it was maybe the Chase HQ arcade? I also remember hearing there were voice samples in the ZX Spectrum version, and that a reader of one of the magazines back then described it as "crystal clear", but I bet that was a real shitshow.

EDIT: Oh man, skip to about 25 seconds in...

No, really I cant. Maybe Tiger Electronics XMen but I'm pretty sure I heard voice in a video game (if even one word) before that in an arcade game.

Pretty sure mine was "The 7th Guest" when I got my first CD-Rom. Game scared 10 year old me to death, which is funny considering how non-scary it is now.

I'm guessing command and conquer.

probably some old computer game.

Honestly? No i don't.

Probably an old PC game. Most of my young gaming was PC games.

Not the first, but certainly one of the most memorable.

I never owned any of the Konami NES sports games, but I played Blades of Steel and Double Dribble at friends' houses. I think I might have been impressed by those a bit, but I was eight years old or something so I don't recall. That "It looks like it hit the tree, Jim" is burned into my head as well. I have roommates that play Tiger Woods games currently and I will say that whenever they hit a tree.

The first time my mind was ever blown by voice in a game was when I was at the Dillard's department store and I saw Ys Book 1 and 2 playing on the Turbografx 16 with the CD-ROM add-on. I think my mind might have been blown when I saw the CD-I at a department store as well, but I was young and stupid.

Im jealous of anyone who got to have the experience of having an arcade machine tell them that IT HUNGERS. I imagine that would've been a crazy thing to hear.

I believe my first game was Tarzan for the PS1, which had soundbites from the movie in it. Pokemon Yellow also has Pikachu shout at you.

Probably this for me as well.

I was like 6, though, and I don't remember it actually blowing my mind. I guess I just figured "well, this game talks". The first time I remember my mind being blown was when playing Metroid Prime 1, where I sat there for a few days with my jaw on the floor.

"Ready, down, hut hut hut hut hut hut"

I remember being blown away by Pikachu saying its name in Pokemon Yellow, and later at the voice samples/full FMV in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. I never realized how powerful a handhold console would eventually get.

I came into gaming a little late, and console games were already talking by then, although the fact that all or at least most of the dialogue in Final Fantasy X blew my mind at the time. And I wasn't really a PC gamer until three or so years ago.

It was definitely the SEGA-VO at the beginning of Sonic 1.

There were probably ones before it, but the one that always stands out for me for Metal Gear Solid.

You're all so young! My first 'talking' game was 'B-17 Bomber' for my Intellivision with the special 'voice adapter' to make the game talk. I'll never forget popping in the cart as a kid and be greeted by the heavy-synth southern drawl shouting "B Seventeen Baawww-mer"...

For me it was Blades of Steel as well. Then Sinistar.

Does the toejam and earl wobble sound count? If not, maybe... Spyro 2? Or a demo of metal gear solid or something like that.

It's probably Blades of Steel as I didn't have that fancy, talking Intellivision II.

However, the first time talking in a game blew my mind was the opening of Super Metroid because I couldn't believe how clear sounding it was. Also, it wasn't just a one second sound clip played ad nauseum

Yup. "Dubble Dibble," which would be a great band name.

Edit: At least on home systems. Like others above have mentioned, it was probably Sinistar for arcade games.

Don't remember the first time (it probably was Fate of Atlantis though which also was my first game ever) but I distinctly remember the first time a video game talked to me in german. That was Jedi Academy. It blew my mind cause I mostly played SNES games before.

Probably, unfortunately.

Probably Mortal Kombat. I remember when my brothers were freaking out over FFX being fully voiced, I didn't think it really mattered. I still don't.

I think if it wasn't a Master System game, it would have been a Mega Drive/Genesis game in which as soon as you start it up you get "SEEEEGA!!"

Then following that it would have been this.

Which had a lot of talking directly from the movie, even the epic speeches of Simba and Scar at the end of the game/movie.

I got it in a bundle with my Megadrive.

Tecmo Bowl would say "Touchdown!" that was my first.

My neighbors down the street I babysat for had The Intellivoice Voice Synthesis Module for the Intellivision. I remember the father (real redneck gun nut) was playing B-17 when I came over to watch his kids on time. I thought to myself, "Wow, games that can talk!!!". Back then I don't think I could even imagine ANY game look like they do now, so speech just blew my mind. It wasn't even possible in my mind that games could look or do what they do now.

@penguindust: right answer.

No and If they ever did I would destroy that motherfucker.

B-17 Bomber, for Intellivision (with Intellivoice attachment of course)

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISEE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!!!

it was an arcade game called Astro Blaster

That is all!

Not entirely sure which it was. Maybe Duke Nukem II, which opens with Duke saying "I am back!", but I think I may have played something with voice samples before that too.

I don't really go far back enough in video game history to remember a time when video games weren't talking. The first game I picked up for the PS1, there was actual voice acting right there.

I already said Intellivision but I wonder if the first game I ever saw was Speak & Spell. I remember a few Christmases in the mid-80s when everyone eventually got a Speak & Spell.

There were games with little bits here and there on the NES and in Arcades but the first game that really wowed me with talking was:

I think it was this:

I don't know if I remember correctly but it was probably Super Metroid.

Beach Head 2 (still remember the rumour/urban legend which was told on our school yards, that it was actually a real digitized death scream you hear in the game), Space Taxi and Impossible Mission on the C64.

This was mine as well. Good times.

Probably Sunset Riders for the SNES. If you don't count the "YAHOO" when pressing start, it's the first boss saying, "It's time to pay!".

Man Megarace was the shit! I played the hell out of that and the Daedalus Encounter on my Packard Bell.

First game I heard talk is very questionable. It would have to been arcade Gauntlet back in the 80's

@daddycabinet: I think Mario 64

The first time would be Blades of Steel on the NES, then the next memorable one would be the intro for Super Metroid. Then I got into PC gaming and discovered Lucasarts and Sierra games have had FULLY voiced games for YEARS....my mind was blown. Sam & Max Hit The Road would probably be my first fully voiced game.

Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi - 1991

My friend and I had just gotten back from Lechmere with a brand new Soundblaster Pro sound card and this opening blew my mind.