A History of Hup, the Jump Sound in Every Video Game

The first-person shooter was born in silence. Before Sega's Heavyweight Champ would spawn the fighting genre or an Arpanet contractor and outdoorsman would invent the text adventure, networked, multiplayer matches took place in the barren halls of Maze War, bounded by vectors, given form only in the imagination of those with access to a terrifically expensive PDS-1 computer. Updates eventually added spectator functionality, computer-controlled enemies, up to eight simultaneous players, and a level editor--essentially everything that would come to define the deathmatch. Few people today remember, let alone can claim to have played, Maze War. But you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who hasn't heard of Pong, which came out the year prior, and despite its considerably less impressive graphics and features was among the first games to include sound.