Ok, thanks, that makes sense.

The two games I was thinking about specifically that I wanted to focus on, both because they're two of my favorites and because they're available to me now and I know for a fact that they work, are matching games. Both have speech, which is what I assume you mean when you say you want games with more than just tones. Anyway, one of them is Tiger Electronics henry, and the other is called Bird Brain. I don't remember which company made that one, but I would think that's where the inspiration for Phrase madness came from, at least in part. In any case, they both have sounds or phrases which you need to match in order to win. The offer is always open should you guys decide you want those as submissions, since, as I said, both are ready to go and I should be able to get decent-sounding recordings of them. As for the others, I'm glad there wouldn't be a rush to find them, because I have no clue exactly where they all are at this point.

@turtlepower17, bird brain was also by tiger, and the inspiration for phrase madness is more likely Milten, a similar game released by milten braddly (appropriately enough) in 1981. it is now working in mame. it holds the destinction of being the first (or at least one of the first) with speech, so there's deffinatly some historical interest.

Thanks @29, that's interesting. I've certainly never seen an original unit of the Phrase Madness game, but you've got me curious now.

update: I found out that the download link has been guarded by a stupid captcha without an audio alternative. this is discrimination against the blind community and should be downright illegal under the Ammericans with Disabilities act. in the meantime, I have sent the original link to datajake1999, in case he wishes to hoast it on his website.

Hi to all,
Thanks for all the interest, I'm glad there are people who actually enjoy this library for what it is.
Americandad2005, I'll check the sounds you posted when I have a stable internet connection. About the games like Milton and Bird brain, I guess we could put them in? one of our members has a bird brain already, although he hasn't recorded it yet. We tried looking for a test mode, and interestingly we found a way to make it play a beep, but not much else. After you pressed any button, the beep would stop, and it would simply say good bye. Also, a while back I made a recording of Milton using Mame, but haven't gotten around to trimming it yet, but what I do have that I thought people wouldn't be as interested in, is another library add on, basically, called LPC, containing the Texas Instruments Speak and spell and Speak and math, as well as a few other things. I took about two months last year to make that, and if I could help with giving that out to anyone who is interested, I'd be glad to do so. I just thought this is so different from electronic games that I didn't want to include it immediately.
Also, the bopit referenced in post 30 is called the Bratz bopit from 2004. We have a recording of that ready to be trimmed as well, no worries, we just haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Thanks for letting me knoe about it again, I totally forgot it existed since it's so similar to the clear bopit from 2002 that I now happen to own. Looks the same, too, apparently, from what I'Ve been told, so if you're blind you can't tel the difference unless you play it.
Thanks again for the links being put up, I'll check how it's going in a few hours once I am able to download a large amount of files.

I'd be interested in the lpc library myself. my email is [email protected]

here's my collection of game and watch era sounds, plus the original tamigachi sounds.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CcUYsL … sp=sharing
as a bonus, I included the handheld game simulators that used to be on the handheld remakes website, which is where I sourced them.

thanks to help the retchid, I present to you the sounds from the zelda game and watch!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h4-9ST … sp=sharing

The archive is also up on my server.
http://grossgang.com/EG%20Public%20Library.7z

Hmmm I actually think we should have 2 things.
1.  an active ftp upload or something like that for the library or just as we are doing it and an update of the library.
I'd say a resilio sync key, for active contributors but then it gets harder and I am not going to be online all day since this is a family connection and I really don't want to bog it down with resilio, pluss while its unlimited with all the streaming devices in the house I know resilio uses bandwidth like crazy.
But keep these links coming also every so often the main library should be updated with newer material would actually be good if the library was active on a server or something, you downloaded the library but would have a way to update it with a program or something.

the problem with resilio is the fact that it uses bittorrent protocol, which ISPs in the US are cracking down on for legal reasons. you may remember a fiew months ago when I posted a Public service announcement on this very forum erging people to avoid torrents due to the risk of a blanket ban from internet access.
Currently I am looking for sounds from the older tiger electronics (pre brain warp), I already found the music from the tiger duke nukem handheld. I've also asked arcade USA if he could possibly record the sounds from his family guy handheld pinball machine.
the mattel sounds were taken from a program called LedHead by peter hurshburg, and the merlin sounds are from a simulator by shain monroe. finding those programs was a bitch and a half.
I don't have the money to invest in any more handheld games to record beyond the ones in the archive and my 2004 merlin. if I still had my acti mates, I'd add them to the lpc library, since they all use the lpc codec, using a later revision of Ti's chipset.
btw, can anyone recommend me a free FTP server to hoast the archive?

sorry for that, I was so excited for the library that I didn't bother to read the readme.