Most irritating music/sound f/x in a shmup

[IronGiant]

Easy nomination - Capcom's 1942 - good god, that music drives me around the bend, and what makes it worse is the annoying whistle blowing sounds.

Then there's the weedy sound f/x.

Pathetic really considering the game itself is a lot of fun.

And your nomination is ................ ?

[Udderdude]

Xevious.

[emphatic]

That announcer in Thunder Dragon 2.

[Battlesmurf]

haha- I was going to say Xevious too. Isn't it like a 3-5 second music loop?

One other that comes to mind is Raiden Fighters (only 1 or 2 of them). I enjoy alot of the music- sound effects are 'eh' (I really really love the games- don't get me wrong!) but some of the stages are obnoxious.

[BulletMagnet]

I love Mushihime-sama's music, but the death scream grates on me like few sound effects can.

[bucklemyshoe]

Homura

I would play the game more if the damn shot sound wasn't so annoying.

RFA music as a whole generally sucks. There is a few good tracks though.

[null1024]

The music to Vulgus. It's not grating at all [like 1942], but there's something about it that is annoying as hell.

[crithit5000]

Um, everything in Giga Wing that isn't the title screen theme, the stage 6 theme, the ending theme, the reflect barrier noise, and "OTAY." Yeah, everything else audible in the game is horrible.

♪ COME ON ♫

[EPS21]

The announcer for the Self Destruct, who is probably the same kid who made it. Really fun and addicting game for what it is, and given it's an indie effort wouldn't expect any budget at all saying a sentence worth of words

[emphatic]

Homura

I would play the game more if the damn shot sound wasn't so annoying.

I really liked that sound. The game in itself is kinda bland though.

[Momijitsuki]

I love Mushihime-sama's music, but the death scream grates on me like few sound effects can.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~

I'm gonna have to say the announcer guy from Thunder Dragon 2. Ear rape.

[AraraSPAMWitch]

Xevious.

That was the first word that came to mind when I saw the topic title, I think it's the winner by far.

Also, mildly unrelated, but in a junky arcade I played a clearly-bootleg version of Raiden Fighters where the only sound in the game was the first few seconds of the stage 3 theme looped for eternity, it was truly nerve-wracking.

[emphatic]

Xevious.

That was the first word that came to mind when I saw the topic title, I think it's the winner by far.

Also, mildly unrelated, but in a junky arcade I played a clearly-bootleg version of Raiden Fighters where the only sound in the game was the first few seconds of the stage 3 theme looped for eternity, it was truly nerve-wracking.

That's not a bootleg I'm afraid, but the cheap non-SPI-cart-&-mobo-but-cheap-ass-pcb version of the game.

[Leandro]

Blazing Star

BONUS!

[evil_ash_xero]

Muchi Muchi Pork's pig girls are quite shocking.

[Kollision]

Master of Weapon on the Mega Drive.
It makes my ears bleed.

[CStarFlare]

Muchi Muchi Pork's pig girls are quite shocking.

this, and pink sweets

[gs68]

Area 88, SNES version, perma-DANGER mode.

[linko9]

Um, everything in Giga Wing that isn't the title screen theme, the stage 6 theme, the ending theme, the reflect barrier noise, and "OTAY." Yeah, everything else audible in the game is horrible.

♪ COME ON ♫

OTAY and COME ON! are pure gold. Probably my favorite shmup voice clips besides the DonPachi announcer. I actually didn't mind the rest of the music/SFX in Giga Wing though.

I'd personally say Radiant Silvergun's music is my least favorite shmup sound. I first played the game in an emulator, and for the longest time I thought the sound was being emulated incorrectly, because the music sounded like ass. Then I played the game on a Saturn, and found out that that's just how the game sounds.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

The BGM tunes on Data East's Darwin 4078 PCB circa 1987 is subpar. Even the BGM tunes found on Capcom's 1986 Hyper Dyne Sidearms sounds much better despite having been released a year earlier + considering the fact that both arcade shmup PCBs are mono output to begin with. Could it be that Capcom went with better chips for it's BGM tunes to begin with?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Mortificator]

The Xevious music is so repetitive you can kind of tune it out, but listening to 1942 is like having someone piss in your ear.

OTAY and COME ON! are pure gold.

It almost sounds like Takumi used the same guy for Night Raid. POWAH!!

[ZOM]

1942 - no contest.

I know I probably am the only one on this planet who actually likes Mushi's death-scream.

[clp]

Homura

I would play the game more if the damn shot sound wasn't so annoying.

I really liked that sound. The game in itself is kinda bland though.

lolwut , people on this forum never cease to amaze me .

[NAVVARR]

I've always found the music in Team 17's game X2 really annoying- i've never been able to play it with music yet. Always switch it off.

[Ruldra]

No mention of Omega Fighter yet? The Saber weapon (the one that loses range when powered up) has such an annoying sound I avoid using it.

[Herr Schatten]

Raiden Fighters Jet.

Worst music ever.

[Danny]

B-Wings, Xevious a close second.

Seriously to call B-Wings' BGM music is a stretch. It's the most migrain inducing, repetitive and annoying sound in any game in my opinion.

[SockPuppetHyren]

Irori from ESP RA.DE. That voice is so grating that t almost (just almost) turned me off from playing the game. Shit, every line that comes out of her mouth is singularly annoying.

[AraraSPAMWitch]

Also, mildly unrelated, but in a junky arcade I played a clearly-bootleg version of Raiden Fighters where the only sound in the game was the first few seconds of the stage 3 theme looped for eternity, it was truly nerve-wracking.

That's not a bootleg I'm afraid, but the cheap non-SPI-cart-&-mobo-but-cheap-ass-pcb version of the game.

Oh wow, there are multiple machines with this same problem? Scary! I'd really hate to be one of the poor bastards saddled with this version of the game. You weren't one of them, I hope?

[emphatic]

Also, mildly unrelated, but in a junky arcade I played a clearly-bootleg version of Raiden Fighters where the only sound in the game was the first few seconds of the stage 3 theme looped for eternity, it was truly nerve-wracking.

That's not a bootleg I'm afraid, but the cheap non-SPI-cart-&-mobo-but-cheap-ass-pcb version of the game.

Oh wow, there are multiple machines with this same problem? Scary! I'd really hate to be one of the poor bastards saddled with this version of the game. You weren't one of them, I hope?

Nope. I had the SPI version, but traded it recently for IBARA!