Nope, that was digitized sound, not synthesized.

Chris Newman wrote:

'82 I think. It was mentioned in the book 'Hackers' by Steven Levy
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Chris Newman wrote:


Um, Creepy Corridors?

What year was it?


First speech *synthesis* game for PC was Metropolis; for other
platforms, I'm not sure.


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Stuart Feldhamer wrote:



Hey, if I was nerdy, I would have played those text adventure games

instead



of the cool sports games. : ) Uh, wait a sec...

I didn't find the question THAT nerdy because you had a movie reference to check. If I asked a question like "What was the first game to use speech SYNTHESIS (ie. not pre-recorded sound)?", then THAT would be

nerdy.


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