The "Alex Kidd" Scream

Originally, continuing my series of notable screams, I was going to highlight Malcolm McDowell's/Alex's disturbing scream from A Clockwork Orange.  Yet, after realizing that it would be following Eli Sunday's blood-curdling banshee wail, I decided highlight a scream that has a different effect.

Recently, I've come across the Angry Video Game Nerd website and I've watched many of his videos that report on various bad, old-school video games.  Unfortunately, I played many of these games as a kid.  (Note:  because of my youthful love for all things Ghostbusters, I actually played that horrible Activision Ghostbusters game that the AVGN righteously trashed... for hours and hours.  As a wee-one, I should have been reading a book.)

So, with that seed planted, when I sat down to create the podcast for McDowell's scream from ACO, I suddenly made a connection:  "Alex...  Alex...  oh yeah!  There was that game Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars on the Sega Master System that featured a really annoying 8-bit scream!"

As a kid, my family had a Sega Master System, the video game console the preceded the far-superior Sega Genesis console.  One of the games that we had for the system was Alex Kidd: TLS, a platformer title that, in all fairness, is decent.  Yet, the worse part of Alex Kidd: TLS was the fact that whenever Alex would lose life as a character, he'd make this really grating, mechanical howl that sounded like an old robot-lady falling down.  It was, hands down, the worst part of the game.

This podcast features that memorable scream.  The link to the direct download is below ("AlexKiddScream.m4a"). The audio is actually taken from a YouTube video that features a segment of the video game.

"Aaaah!"  Enjoy.

For more info on Alex Kidd:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kidd

For more info on The Angry Video Game Nerd:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Video_Game_Nerd