[Coco] SSC

[Frederick D Provoncha]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:27:41 -0500 Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
writes:

> Interbank was one of the coolest uses of the Speech/Sound Pak.

> 

> Now, the SSC could have strings of music pre-programmed and 

> triggered, 

> so you could load it, then say "play that sequence" and it would do 

> it 

> by itself.  That was cool.

> 

> If you want to have fun, plug up almost any of the old Steve Bjork 

> disk 

> games from the later CoCo 2 days -- Pitfall 2, Ghana Bwana, etc. -- 

> and 

> listen!  They have music (Pitfall 2 played the background music) and 

> 

> some talk -- Ghana Bwana says "ugh" when you shoot the natives.  

> Pretty 

> neat re-experiencing games with the SSC once I found that out.

> 

> Interbank was cool, providing sound effects to the scenes.  Wow, 

> forgot 

> about that one.  Who wrote that?

> 

>                 Allen


The Coco2 game "Gantelet" also uses the SSC, as well as the game "Pegasus
and the Phantom Riders". It was cool re-experiencing those games when I
finally got a SSC not too long ago.

Fred