Way back in the dawn of polygon gaming, back before the first analog controller was released for the Sony Playstation, there was a phenomenal rally racing¹ game for the Sega Saturn.

Yeah, that's right, I owned one of the ill-fated Sega Saturns. A darn good system too, I might add, were it not for Sega's hamfisted marketing. It coulda beena contenda.

Back to the rally racing game: it was called Sega Rally Championship, and despite the fact that you had to use a digital pad to tap-tap-tap your way around turns, the game had one of the most amazing feels of any rally racing games before or since. It also was the first game, IMO, to have a replay function worth actually watching.

Being a Japanese product, though, it was not immune from the cultural peculiarities of its design team. Perhaps the most notable non-racing feature in the game was the fact that it had this full-cheese announcer who, when the race was finished for whatever reason and the phrase "Game Over" appeared on the screen, would sing "Game Over, Yeeeeeeaaaah!" in a voice that sounded like an indie Seattle-scene vocalist doing some moonlighting. It was freakish, and instantly became part of the vocabulary shared between my brother and I.

So I've been looking for that soundclip for probably five years now, and nothing's come up. This is made harder by the fact that the game is so old, and also because until recently there weren't any good emulators of the Saturn system I could use to capture it.

But last week I found it. It's a crappy recording, clearly done by someone with no attention to detail, but who cares? It's good enough for a telephone ringtone, much to my officemates' annoyance.

Listen to all its gloriousness yourself: Click Here!

¹Rally races are auto races that take place offroad, the most famous of them being the Paris-Dakar rally.