> So many shows just cheap out and use Atari2600 pacman or something else with the > sounds from that title. Ugh!
I've mentioned this before, but there are big stock sound effect libraries produced by various places in Hollywood that are widely used for both films and video games. At my previous job we had one of the libraries (I think it was the Warner Brothers one) and the "video game sounds" were indeed 2600 Pacman.
You're supposed to modify the sounds to make them your own with various effects VSTs or Ableton's sample-chopper or whatever, but a lot of sound designers just use them as-is. This is why the very distinctive Resident Evil 1 UI sounds also appear in several other games and a few movies.
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