Talk:Bosconian

Name
The name "Bosconian" is probably a reference to the enemies from E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensman series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskone This page uses a bunch of other names from the series to describe the ships: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Bosconian/How_to_play Caliginous (talk) 03:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Speech
Stop vandalizing this entry, the speech in Bosconian is definitely as follows (100% certain):


 * Blast Off
 * Alert Alert
 * Battle Stations
 * Spy Ship Sighted
 * Condition Red (repeats)

The speech data is encoded as 4-bit monoaural PCM in ROM.

STOP CHANGING IT.

I have the Bosconian ROMs for MAME and when enemies approach, the game clearly says "Alive! Alive!" And when a spy ship is sighted, it says "Space Invading!" Gingerfield sucks 10:27, 12 January 2006

No it does not, I have played the real game in the arcade and various emulators and the speech is exactly as I have listed. It says "Alert Alert" to alert you that enemies are approaching, the stupid thing you keep putting in doesn't even make sense. Stop vandalizing this and other Namco games entries with your inaccurate garbage.

I hav a version that says nothing but the background music changes wen red alter comes or theres an enemy ect. but this is a 5 game pack box with a joystick and a button so it differs from the original arcade version you can also only move in four directions instead of eight eliminating the diagnol options. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.224.237.75 (talk) 04:22, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Link - http://qtchicks.hp.infoseek.co.jp/namco_bosco.html

Download the game's ROMs for MAME here -http://arcadeconnection.serverbox.org/acdroms03a29/Roms/acdroms1.html. Scroll down until you find bosco.zip and download it. You'll see that the game says "Alive Alive" and "Space Invading". Gingerfield sucks 14:14, 26 January 2006

You're both wrong. It's clearly (well, not very clearly at all) saying "Alarm! Alarm!". Clayhalliwell 19:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I could believe both "Alarm" and "Alert." To my ears, it sounds like "Alart," an obvious mispronounciation that isn't surprising in a Japanese game.  There is no planet anywhere in the universe on which it sounds like "Alive."  Which doesn't even make sense. Nandesuka 21:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I remember the Japanese domestic arcade game and it said "LOOK OUT!" "LOOK OUT!"


 * I have a version of this game and most of the speech is accurate. Except for the second one and third one. When enemies attack, it clearly says "Alive! Alive!" and when an attack formation is approaching my version says something like "Help save me!" Not that surprising as the voice isn't really understandable. 75.62.133.194 (talk) 00:23, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Correction: The third one is right. After listening carefully, it did say "Battle stations." The second one is still wrong. I listened carefully and it indeed says "Alive! Alive!" 75.62.141.83 (talk) 21:12, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I am removing the entire section. I played this game before and there is ZERO speech.

In Correct (talk) 04:06, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Playing this game in the early 80's it always sounded like "A lie. A lie" which doesn't make any sense. It sounds like that on a YouTube gameplay video. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.106.23 (talk) 10:27, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

No Speech
I played Bosconian before and there is no speech! I think there is a revised version that was made. This article is dumb because it says that every version of Bosconian has the speech when the game does not. In Correct (talk) 04:09, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * You are completely incorrect. The game has always featured speech in both the arcade version and the majority of the ports. No idea what you are talking about.Namcokid47 (talk) 18:39, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Well, it could have been a machine with a busted PCB. The ROM's PCM could have failed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.226.21.180 (talk) 23:21, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

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