GAMES TALK BACK
“ ...this is your crew speaking. sir. and while we'd follow you through hell and high water, sir. we'd recommend you activate the star shield as those are alien attack ships on our port side. sir... ” An imaginary conversation with your computer?
GAMES TALK BACK
“ ...this is your crew speaking. sir. and while we'd follow you through hell and high water, sir. we'd recommend you activate the star shield as those are alien attack ships on our port side. sir... ”
An imaginary conversation with your computer? Your computer talks back? All possible, since voice synthesizer electronics have been available for some time.
Until very recently, game programmers haven’t spent as much time as they might on the audio portion of the program. Some, perhaps rightly, consider the audio as secondary; others have limited memory and don’t want to waste program space on sound when that same space might be used to improve picture resolution or game strategy.
But for Intellivision users, all that has changed. Mattel Electronics has a new Intellivoice Voice Synthesizer. This module is plugged into the Intellivision Master Component to give the computer the power of speech.
What’s exciting about this are the new special carts that will be introduced to take advantage of the speech synthesizer. So far, it’s reported that Space Spartans. Bomber Squad, and B-17 Bombers are to be offered. All these programs will talk in realistic computer male and female tones.