What are your favorite arcade sounds?

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Don't list an entire game's sounds; but just one or two sounds from any game. Ones that really stick out in your mind and you never get sick of hearing them. Yeah I know, they're all great but pick your top 2 or 3 favorites. Here's mine:

1. clearing the Astro Battles board on Gorf; when it sweeps clean the blue board and advances your ship.

2. hitting the UFO in Battlezone

3. when the Sinistar comes to life
 
Space Duel fire and explosions! With the four speakers it has quite an impact on the sound of the arcade. Damn, I want a robotron too. That scream sound or whatever it is, is just f'ing wonderful... :cool2:
 
1. The power-up sound on Defender.

2. The sound mario makes when jumping over a barrel on Donkey Kong.

3. Shots fired by your xwing on Star Wars.
 
I have so many its hard to narrow down, but here goes:

1. Pacman start music.
2. Space invaders sounds in general
3. Defender credit up, and shots be fired really fast.
4. Berzerk vocies, shots fired, and hit sounds

I like to play the arcade ambience mp3 all the time.
 
Killer Instinct: "ULTRAAAAAAA COMBOOOOOO"

and for added measure..

the high revving engine sound in Excitebike before the bike overheats.

that's all I can think of for now.
 
The DK jingle right before you start a board.
"Prepare to qualify!"
The 1942 cheese ball (but catchy) single note music.
 
1. "and......he's down for the count!"
2. "body blow....body blow......."
3. "great fighting! your an up and coming boxer!"
 
coin up - Defender
wraaaaaaaaaagh! - Sinistar
explosions - Space Duel

When I first got my Space Duel cocktail, I had it in my dorm room. The game sounded normal to me on the 6th floor of Ashdown. But the people down on the 3rd floor didn't like the bass rumblings of the explosions. At 4am. :damnmate: Strange thing is nobody on the 4th, 5th, and 6th floor complained!

Nothing beats Defender starting up.
 
1. warp between levels on tempest
2. player coming into joust after losing first guy on a level
3. satan's hollow flight of the valkyre music
4. monitor implosion !
 
X-Men attract mode intro (love the music and Magneto saying "X-Men")
Ms Pac-Man game start music
Tron game start music
 
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