First home video game with voice without the aid of an add-on peripheral?

[boatofcar]

The Intellivoice made voice in games possible for that console, but what was the first game that had voice samples in it that didn't use a peripheral?

[Nikademus1969]

I want to say Quadrun, but I'm not sure.

[ubersaurus]

Intellivision, wasn't it? I seem to recall the old Baseball game for it had a voice sample without the intellivoice.

[MarioMania]

Was it the VCS

[ApolloBoy]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Berzerk and RealSports Baseball for the 5200.

[k8track]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Berzerk and RealSports Baseball for the 5200.
That was my immediate first guess as well.

Also, there was Squish 'Em for Colecovision.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Intellivision, wasn't it? I seem to recall the old Baseball game for it had a voice sample without the intellivoice.

No, it requires the Intellivoice module for speech.


I'm surprised nobody mentioned Berzerk and RealSports Baseball for the 5200.Tough call...Quadrun for 2600 was developed (and completed) before both of those, but was released after.

[icbrkr]

No, he's right. In the original Intellivision Baseball, the "Yer Out!" is definitely done without an Intellivoice. That came out in 1979, 1980?

[chrisbid]

Major League Baseball for the Intellivision - 1980

http://www.intellivisiongames.com/gamepage.php?gameId=52

"Fun Fact: Major League Baseball is the only cartridge to use the Intellivision sound chip for speech synthesis (the umpire crying "Yer out!"). Marketing put a stop to any further such use, fearing it would hurt sales of the Intellivoice module. "

[Sniderman]

I always thought it was Vectrex Spike, though it came out in 1983:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/spike

[PingvinBlueJeans]

No, he's right. In the original Intellivision Baseball, the "Yer Out!" is definitely done without an Intellivoice. That came out in 1979, 1980?

Major League Baseball uses the stock Intellivision sound chip to generate a crude computer "voice", but it's not actual voice synthesis like that featured on the Intellivoice games like World Championship Baseball, or Quadrun for 2600, both of which have actual human voice samples. Obviously this is a gray area...I'm not sure what the original poster was asking for.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Realsports Baseball for the 5200.