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Nuh uh what about nintendo But I do have to admit myself. The coleco vision did cook with that intro. I'm not saying the Nintendo did better, but I'm just saying that Nintendo would probably still stand in the gaming market.
0:16 let's see how port's can replicate this iconic theme 0:24 this is not good but not terrible 0:31 i think the missing note makes it better 0:40 somewhat better than the coleco tabletop port 0:48 there is no bitting way that THIS is the most seling game for the Atari 2600 0:54/1:03 alright good job 👍 1:11 i have no idea on what to say 1:19 close to perfect 1:27 really close to perfect 1:34 DAM, THIS IS MY JAM DUDE 😎 1:43 same as apple II 1:50 the off-tempo makes this somehow good 1:58 why is this hated so much? it sounds fine to me 2:05 if the hardware had square wave built-in somehow, this would've sounded better. I actually have no idea what are the specs for this computer are 2:21 epic swing tempo moment. Even tho that kinda ruins the last part of notes 2:29 oh god what the hell are those graphics 2:37 okay that's better 2:43 the music is having a panic attack tbh 2:50 sounds off-key but eh 3:15 z-man, is that you? 3:30 okay that painful 3:38 i like the fm 👍 3:45 this is even better 4:30 last fm music 🫡 7:11 i think this is the music that sounds cool in midi
Even allowing for the varying capabilities of those early machines, it's amazing how wrong they managed to get some of those attempts at reproducing that tune.
Dude that’s actually crazy how they knocked the SFX out of the park right from the beginning, then for a solid year it’s just garbage disposal noises, like I get technological limitations and all that but fax machine noises until the 90’s is wild to me
I had an LCD Pac-Man watch when I was a kid in the early 80s! Got it through a cereal promotion or something like that. I don't remember if it had intro music but the alarm sound was "Dixie".
The Apple II (][) jingle is just the intermission (coffee break) jingle. Creative. (Also, fun fact-- said version is actually based out of a clone called "Taxman"-- this version, under Atari(soft)'s approval, was re-released officially by themselves with the original Pac-Man branding.)
6:24 GBA be tryin' so hard to replicate the Namco WSG Synth Bass, I appreciate bro's efforts tho, even the square sound it's releasing in the process just sounds cooler
Fun. Good opportunity to talk about the 2600 Pac-Man, and how I've long considered its intro tune to serve as a microcosm of a game whose design choices were fundamentally driven by a very drug-addled brain. How on earth do you go from a recognizable little ditty that is actually music... to a four-tone avantgarde composition which I can only assume was a deliberate stab at the most discordant thing you could create with two voices? It sounds like he was trying to emulate the tones heard when typing on a phone keypad, and then just borrowed that work rather than trying to actually approximate the arcade's music.
@@ElPeruanox2.0_Oficialcheck Puyo Puyo's OST for Genesis and the X68000, they're near identical. The X68000 maybe even slightly better. They're just FM chips at the end of the day, of course if they can make faithful and 1to1 sounds they will cuz it's just replicating waveforms.
every other console: let's try our best to emulate what the game was like on arcade to best of our hardware's capabilities Java Mobile be like: let's get this party started
I just watched over 8 minutes of the same jingle repeated over and over (with the exception of Apple II) and I was more engaged than most things I’ve done this week.
Hearing the different GBA versions side by side was super interesting, with the one relying on crushed wave samples and the other seemingly relying on much cleaner waveform generation through the legacy GB sound channels.
Interesting how all the Atarisoft and Tengen versions just seemed to reuse the code for the 8-bit/5200 version(s) and sound identical no matter what system they were on.
Not included: An MSDOS version I found on a retired corporate Compaq SLT 286 laptop as a kid. Might not have been officially licensed, but I remember the level was wider than it was tall, and the PC-speaker beep intro music was rhythmically very different but hit at least some of the same (relative) notes.
I notice that Namco Bandai has been emulating the classic PAC-MAN jingle on the latest iterations. It seems that Namco has been sticking to it’s beginning versions lately though it doesn’t hurt to get a crack at a 3D PAC-Man game like Pac-Man World.
Apple II - WRONG GAME! Every other version at least TRIES to use the right theme, but I'm sure that the music for the Apple II version is from a completely different instalment.
I would have really expected all of the post-9/11 releases of PAC-MAN to have honed in on the original arcade sound, but there were a few surprises there. The J2ME one was especially interesting, wonder if there's any specific reason it sounds so different
Atari had exclusive distribution rights to Pac-Man for home consoles and computers for a time. But I don't think they're allowed to distribute their versions anymore since they never show up on Atari Flashback.
0:16 the OG 0:24 why is it shortened 0:32 the missing bass makes me like it a bit 0:39 it's good, but no bass :( ): 0:48 seriously? the theme is that short? no wonder, nickelodeon asia used the sounds from this 0:55, 1:02 is good 👍🏼 1:09 this isnt mission impossible, apple (plus i like samsung better because it IS better) 1:19 kinda similar to the arcade 1:26 please use a different instrument, by all means is good 1:34 PERFECT, I LOVE IT! 1:42 why them ghosts atari ghosts? (good intro btw) 1:49 bro is different 1:58 played in bass clef 👍🏼 ill take it 2:04 why did they use this sound? :( , ): 2:12 quite similar to arcade 2:20 did you forget the treble part 2:29 sir please raise the graphics or im upgrading you to the PCG 2:36 ok thank you 2:43 sir, your music is speeding 2:51 🎵the key's a minor, the key's a minor🎵 2:59 i feel like this theme would match with the personality of my speech and debate classmate, Ariana. 3:07 NIIIIIIIIIIINTENDO!!!! memez 3:15 N O T E S H I F T I N G, im like it 3:22 yes 3:30 AAAAHGGAGAGAAGDJROCOHOESNÆÆÃÆƘŤĞČ̣ƆĽʼnAÁÁÁ 3:38 much better than the original mk2. 3:44 sonic, that you? 3:52 you are the NES's brother, your rating is the same as him. 3:59 very cool 4:14 you are similar to the game boy. GGs in the chat lol 4:30 noice musik 4:37 - 5:22, 5:54, 6:38 - 7:09, 7:32 - 7:54these are either very similar or an emulation 5:23 okay! 5:38 audio quality ill take it 6:01 the audio quality is BASURA 6:17 surprisingly good quality, this is the GBA, remember? 6:24 PAL mode? Colecovision's twin??? SISTERS!?? Also, your text glitches if it's on fullscreen. 7:09 trompeta 🎺 🆗️ done
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skull emoji
Can you do the ms pacman intro themes too?
@sonarinfection yes, i'll try to do It soon.
@@gamma123-xyz I hate skull emoji 😡
2:32 huge fan of the gabber kicks
some speedcore gabber kicks innit
Hi mel
i could make an awesome tracker song out of that
hell yeah buddy
hi melodyy
I like how the Apple II version just uses the bonus theme for its intro
Have to assume there's not a lot of data for music so they had to pick one or the other
hold up there was an apple ii version of pac man??
@@trainboy2000 its in the video ??
and some of the notes are just completely wrong 😭
@@trainboy2000there is even a Ms PAC -man version on apple 2
3:30: *printer noises*
When pacman will die your ears will melt for real
Bad sound 💀
U- A- E- A- A- U- U- U- A- E- A- A- U- U- U- A- E- A- A- U- U- U- U- A- U- U- A-
Also 2:04
3:29
3:29
1:17 bro really said 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
for real
AAAHHH HOW I DIDN'T EXPECT IT
My neighbors be like
I was thinking of... something else.
@@ger_weetLMAO😂
7:09 Megalovania jumpscare 💀
💀🙏
Damn, this theme is just one wrong note away from megalovania lol
Ghostalovania
omg max! the elf!
Yo no way
4:49, the Pac-Man sounds metal
It's the weird snes echo
2:05 music to my ears
like hell
saw cutter jumpscare
How did they manage to fuck up the PC-88 soundchip that bad 😭😭
Colecovison COKED with that intro, No wonder they canceled it, It would make the gaming console industry burn.
Nuh uh what about nintendo
But I do have to admit myself. The coleco vision did cook with that intro.
I'm not saying the Nintendo did better, but I'm just saying that Nintendo would probably still stand in the gaming market.
@@therealsandwichman bros never heard of a joke in his entire life
@@calvinmann5773
Guess what
I take jokes seriously
@@therealsandwichman so are you severely autistic, 11 years old, or just an asshat?
I think the 2600 version already did that. 😂
0:16 let's see how port's can replicate this iconic theme
0:24 this is not good but not terrible
0:31 i think the missing note makes it better
0:40 somewhat better than the coleco tabletop port
0:48 there is no bitting way that THIS is the most seling game for the Atari 2600
0:54/1:03 alright good job 👍
1:11 i have no idea on what to say
1:19 close to perfect
1:27 really close to perfect
1:34 DAM, THIS IS MY JAM DUDE 😎
1:43 same as apple II
1:50 the off-tempo makes this somehow good
1:58 why is this hated so much? it sounds fine to me
2:05 if the hardware had square wave built-in somehow, this would've sounded better. I actually have no idea what are the specs for this computer are
2:21 epic swing tempo moment. Even tho that kinda ruins the last part of notes
2:29 oh god what the hell are those graphics
2:37 okay that's better
2:43 the music is having a panic attack tbh
2:50 sounds off-key but eh
3:15 z-man, is that you?
3:30 okay that painful
3:38 i like the fm 👍
3:45 this is even better
4:30 last fm music 🫡
7:11 i think this is the music that sounds cool in midi
the best Comment on this video XD
Fun fact: Pac-Man was only the best selling game for the Atari 2600 because Atari started giving it out for free with the console
At 0:13, it was packed into most ataris
2:58 MMSSXX
3:08 goated
Even allowing for the varying capabilities of those early machines, it's amazing how wrong they managed to get some of those attempts at reproducing that tune.
mm yes, the iconic Pac-Man intro
so iconic that most of Pac-Man World's soundtrack is centered towards it
1:34 buddy fr went PAL mode
and cooked too
I love niche jokes like thisss
2:29 bro was eating in bass
WOW! They have it! SQUARE 2:29
I not your bro
Dude that’s actually crazy how they knocked the SFX out of the park right from the beginning, then for a solid year it’s just garbage disposal noises, like I get technological limitations and all that but fax machine noises until the 90’s is wild to me
1:10 bro is different fr fr
Lol why did I think it kinda sounds like Jojo music... 💀
@@Steve1035andKnucklesit does tho💀💀
I wanna hear it played on a guitar or something
some are good, some are fine, some are ear screeching
But all are Pac-Man.
@@anidiotonyoutube2022 yes, all are pac man, but SOME verisons have terrible sounding
@Bder5wait until you hear 3:29
3:37 is way better
Yes fr
3:18 CRIIISPYYY AUUUUDIIIOOOOOOO
1:24 why does it sound like the “guh-huh!” From banjo-kazooie
Guh-huh!
I heard that too
@AlNimation64 did somebody made or said to you “You should eat Sauerkraut”?
1:23 sounds like a busted cop car
0:40 If Pac-Man was on a Game and Watch
true
I had an LCD Pac-Man watch when I was a kid in the early 80s! Got it through a cereal promotion or something like that. I don't remember if it had intro music but the alarm sound was "Dixie".
2:32 was Pacman the first one to ever be bass-boosted?
Rave-Man
0:49 pac-man eating frisbees
it's because the aspect ratio of the 2600 is not 4:3, it's somewhere around 10:7
@@tchomsdaguyit’s 1.33:1 or in other words 10:6.67 which is rounded up to 1:0.7 or 10:7
LMAO
I don't think those are Frisbees
The ghost is having a seizure
2:33 awesome beat
7:10 WHY IS IT A MIDI 😭 🙏
J2ME phones tend to have built in hardware support for MIDI so why not.
@ I didn’t know it was a phone lol.
GEE. I WONDER WHY
what else do you expect from J2me
@ I didn’t know what it was
3:30 i think bro has the wrong sound chip?
1:49 bro fr forgot what he was supposed to play
🤨
Still sounds good
4:00 - this is the first one I played.
1:16 the forbidden pacman that the creators didnt wanna show you
2:09 bro really said 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
3:54 I've played this version more than the original and I don't know why, it just appears
The Apple II (][) jingle is just the intermission (coffee break) jingle. Creative.
(Also, fun fact-- said version is actually based out of a clone called "Taxman"-- this version, under Atari(soft)'s approval, was re-released officially by themselves with the original Pac-Man branding.)
0:48 music to my ears
Edit: and that was before I discovered the even more ear burning ones
We've had bit music, piano, rock and even Printer trying to work
Atari 2600 just screamed all in my ear 🫨
There's a reason there are so many of them in that dump.
As a kid, I thought it sounded like dial tones.
2:04
ow.
my ears didnt like that one
3:30 is so loud 😂😂😂
2:52 did this give you the creeps
yea
No, but it's kind of unsettling...
no?
They made it weirdly minor
0:16 "Mom, can I play Pac-Man?"
0:48 "We have Pac-Man at home."
6:24 GBA be tryin' so hard to replicate the Namco WSG Synth Bass, I appreciate bro's efforts tho, even the square sound it's releasing in the process just sounds cooler
2:10 bro rlly said “👏👏👏👏👏”
more like 🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓
Hahahahahahaha you're so funnny.... 😒😒😒😒
@wariothief That should've been the comment.
6:49 The most nostalgic form, to me.
This Pac-Man Start Jingle is the greatest of all time!
Man, a few of these are what I imagine having a stroke would sound like
3:45 SONIC SOUNDFONT
This computer uses FM synth for its music similar to, but not the same as, the sega genesis' YM2612 FM chip
10 year old when they find out about sega genesis (yes I know this isn’t a Sega genesis game)
1:44 finally something that doesn't destroy my ears
The ones that have scroll mode and full screen mode should only be counted once.
Fun. Good opportunity to talk about the 2600 Pac-Man, and how I've long considered its intro tune to serve as a microcosm of a game whose design choices were fundamentally driven by a very drug-addled brain. How on earth do you go from a recognizable little ditty that is actually music... to a four-tone avantgarde composition which I can only assume was a deliberate stab at the most discordant thing you could create with two voices? It sounds like he was trying to emulate the tones heard when typing on a phone keypad, and then just borrowed that work rather than trying to actually approximate the arcade's music.
The Apple II eating sound reminds me of my upstairs neighbors
2:43 what is so fast 💀
1:35
Alright who let Sue in this?
1:43 and this
1:56 and this?!
Palette problems, probably.
@superdean9966 fr fr
I think they were trying to make pinky but the color palette was too limited, so they did this
@@tchomsdaguy that really explains why they made it look like Sue
names for the discolored ghosts:
Green: Glenn
Brown: Rebel
3:45 sounds like genesis
4:30 sounds like minecraft
That's just an FM chip, similar to, but not the same as, the Sega's YM2612 sound chip
@@DVDRAR yeah, but sounds like it 😐
@@ElPeruanox2.0_Oficialcheck Puyo Puyo's OST for Genesis and the X68000, they're near identical. The X68000 maybe even slightly better.
They're just FM chips at the end of the day, of course if they can make faithful and 1to1 sounds they will cuz it's just replicating waveforms.
Imagine if Sonic was in Pac-Man Games.
3:30 who let pac-man main menu play on the printer
1:58 what happened to the orange ghost
It's seen better days
It’s a dithering effect. The system couldn’t render orange there, so they used yellow with checkered red.
@@Stilwufsame with yellow
i ate him
You see he became a twin of red
Ahh, finally. Pac-Man versions: the musical.
0:55 The tune is nice, but the ghosts look so fricking adorable
every other console: let's try our best to emulate what the game was like on arcade to best of our hardware's capabilities
Java Mobile be like: let's get this party started
2:09 bro really said 🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓
2:50 bro fr is on a minor key
you have two timed comments in a row good job
@@ColorMen101 don't encourage this lmao
@@BurnBot_TV yeah probably shouldn’t rofl
@@ColorMen101 Spamming comments looks so goofy, I just don't understand why people do it. But eh, what do I know?
@ You know:
𝔞🃎⨕∯🜇🜘▩◫⬂ᕍ⬃➫◭◬🝈🜇🝛
1:49 My Personal Fav Intro
7:40 Remember when Google make this too?
Yes
I just watched over 8 minutes of the same jingle repeated over and over (with the exception of Apple II) and I was more engaged than most things I’ve done this week.
4:29 Sounds so good!
Oh and you forgot the Gynzy Kids one
I love how the GameBoy version has the ghosts spot on but Pac-Man just looks out of place as all hell
3:45 Sunds lik Sonic genesis soundfount.
fr
who else accidentally clicked on this video and couldn't click off because of nostalgia? :D
Me. This popped up on autoplay, but the many different computer noises intrigued me. This is a cool channel premise.
I like pac man A LOT and I like this video
Hearing the different GBA versions side by side was super interesting, with the one relying on crushed wave samples and the other seemingly relying on much cleaner waveform generation through the legacy GB sound channels.
was not expecting this flashy of an intro for a pacman sound comparison, but i am a big fan of it
1:09 JOJO'S 😱🔥💪
Joe Joe not normal journey
@@TheDudeLol-df3ucJohn John’s Excessively Abnormal and Mysterious Voyage
@@AlNimation64negative sentence
@@TheDudeLol-df3uc Joj’s weird hike
Interesting how all the Atarisoft and Tengen versions just seemed to reuse the code for the 8-bit/5200 version(s) and sound identical no matter what system they were on.
2:43 bro you're going too fast
you have two timed comments in a row good job
Arcade is my favorite
7:06 makes me feel like I may have a bad time...
Not included: An MSDOS version I found on a retired corporate Compaq SLT 286 laptop as a kid. Might not have been officially licensed, but I remember the level was wider than it was tall, and the PC-speaker beep intro music was rhythmically very different but hit at least some of the same (relative) notes.
the coleco vision looks so cool!!!
I notice that Namco Bandai has been emulating the classic PAC-MAN jingle on the latest iterations.
It seems that Namco has been sticking to it’s beginning versions lately though it doesn’t hurt to get a crack at a 3D PAC-Man game like Pac-Man World.
Apple II - WRONG GAME!
Every other version at least TRIES to use the right theme, but I'm sure that the music for the Apple II version is from a completely different instalment.
I’m gonna have this tune stuck in my head ‘till 2026
YES!!
Yoooo it’s the pac-man
the pac-man
I like how it’s either a decent remake or sounds like you put the theme through a blender
2:20 goes kinda hard
I would have really expected all of the post-9/11 releases of PAC-MAN to have honed in on the original arcade sound, but there were a few surprises there. The J2ME one was especially interesting, wonder if there's any specific reason it sounds so different
It is interesting to see how different portable platforms handle the full screen mode
6:54 “hey kid?” Pac-man asks from the sewer opening, “you want to help me defeat the ghosts?”
Underrated ah comment even If its 2 days old
The amount of these versions that forget the ghost notes is ironically amusing.
Atari had exclusive distribution rights to Pac-Man for home consoles and computers for a time. But I don't think they're allowed to distribute their versions anymore since they never show up on Atari Flashback.
wait. i think is a oscillators waveforms
Square wave: 0:55
Sawthooth wave: 1:26
Triangle wave: 1:19
0:16 the OG
0:24 why is it shortened
0:32 the missing bass makes me like it a bit
0:39 it's good, but no bass :( ):
0:48 seriously? the theme is that short? no wonder, nickelodeon asia used the sounds from this
0:55, 1:02 is good 👍🏼
1:09 this isnt mission impossible, apple (plus i like samsung better because it IS better)
1:19 kinda similar to the arcade
1:26 please use a different instrument, by all means is good
1:34 PERFECT, I LOVE IT!
1:42 why them ghosts atari ghosts? (good intro btw)
1:49 bro is different
1:58 played in bass clef 👍🏼 ill take it
2:04 why did they use this sound? :( , ):
2:12 quite similar to arcade
2:20 did you forget the treble part
2:29 sir please raise the graphics or im upgrading you to the PCG
2:36 ok thank you
2:43 sir, your music is speeding
2:51 🎵the key's a minor, the key's a minor🎵
2:59 i feel like this theme would match with the personality of my speech and debate classmate, Ariana.
3:07 NIIIIIIIIIIINTENDO!!!! memez
3:15 N O T E S H I F T I N G, im like it
3:22 yes
3:30 AAAAHGGAGAGAAGDJROCOHOESNÆÆÃÆƘŤĞČ̣ƆĽʼnAÁÁÁ
3:38 much better than the original mk2.
3:44 sonic, that you?
3:52 you are the NES's brother, your rating is the same as him.
3:59 very cool
4:14 you are similar to the game boy. GGs in the chat lol
4:30 noice musik
4:37 - 5:22, 5:54, 6:38 - 7:09, 7:32 - 7:54these are either very similar or an emulation
5:23 okay!
5:38 audio quality ill take it
6:01 the audio quality is BASURA
6:17 surprisingly good quality, this is the GBA, remember?
6:24 PAL mode? Colecovision's twin??? SISTERS!?? Also, your text glitches if it's on fullscreen.
7:09 trompeta 🎺 🆗️
done
I love how the 2600 version isn’t even a song. It’s just a few discordant beeps, like it’s crying for help. Kind of matches the quality of that port.
I have never heard of the “Nabu Personal Computer” or its exclusive PAC-MAN port prior to this video. New discovery?? 👀
6:54 just screen record on your pc this sounds recorded with a phone
it actually sounds like that lol
NES 3:07 and NEC PC-9801 4:29 sounds the best so far
I also had the 2009 mobile port on my 4th generation IPod Touch as a kid! :)
0:48 this noise plays at alien swirling saucers at disneyworld i didnt know it was from atari pacman
What synthesis did the chip for the original Namco Arcade version use?
"Mom can we go to arcade for me to play pac man?"
"-dont you have one in your Atari?" 0:48
The NES sound effects will always be my favorite. I am speaking completely from bias since that was the version of Pac-man I grew up playing.
0:50 2:07 3:32 the worst versions. Good video by the way!