AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
The Legend of Zelda: A Beep to the Past
Twenty Thousand Hertz
The History of the NES
All of the different notes that you can produce from the NES just sound like slightly different varieties of electronic beeps. These beeps and boops were made using one of the console's five sound channels. One of them can play short samples, like recorded audio samples, but because of technical limitations, they sound terrible and are very rarely used. In Japan, Zelda was actually released on something called the Famicom Disk System.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode