Oscilloscopes in video games

[Whales]

It's common to see oscopes cameo in the backgrounds of movies, but has anyone ever noticed them in video games?  I rather unexpectedly found these Tektronix' in GTA San Andreas hiding away in a military base.

It makes me rather wish I owned them.

[DG41WV]

call of duty black ops have hp oscilloscopes

[rsjsouza]

The game designers often just rip the images from Google image search. It's the worst with languages. They usually get some Japanese/Chinese characters upside down, and notoriously both Battlefield and Call of Duty used entirely the wrong languages on some levels and the text was just random squiggles (supposed to look like Arabic I guess). So I wouldn't read much into it, I doubt the designers had a clue what the pictures were really of.

Hahaha... And people complain about "Chinglish" 

That reminded me of some American movies that showed street scenes supposedly shot in Brazil... Only that all billboards and storefronts were all written in Spanish... 

[FrankenPC]

There is a pretty cool oscilloscope map in Fallout 3.  I couldn't find a decent stand alone image.  But this one works.  I can't tell if it's modeled after any particular manufacturer though.

[Someone]

The game designers often just rip the images from Google image search. It's the worst with languages. They usually get some Japanese/Chinese characters upside down, and notoriously both Battlefield and Call of Duty used entirely the wrong languages on some levels and the text was just random squiggles (supposed to look like Arabic I guess). So I wouldn't read much into it, I doubt the designers had a clue what the pictures were really of.

Hahaha... And people complain about "Chinglish" 

That reminded me of some American movies that showed street scenes supposedly shot in Brazil... Only that all billboards and storefronts were all written in Spanish... 

2:40 here

[Mechanical Menace]

Now of course there's only native English speakers that just throw together random shit when dealing with other languages for art and/or marketing.

[Mechanical Menace]

Oh Mojo I think you just proved my point lol. They're just as bad as us when it comes to this sort of stuff.

Which language/dialect is that btw? No I can't read it but the characters somehow look sort of right but still sort of wrong iykwim.

[Tomorokoshi]

The other one I find funny is SuperDry. They put Japanese writing on their clothes, but it's all just nonsense. They try so hard to be Japanese, but are based in London. "Super Dry" in Japan is a brand of rather unpleasant dry beer.

I found the use of quotes with that Asahi beer to be strange, because they write it as: ' Super "Dry" ', with just the "Dry" in quotes.

Does that mean it isn't really dry? What does "dry" mean for beer anyway?

[Stonent]

The game designers often just rip the images from Google image search. It's the worst with languages. They usually get some Japanese/Chinese characters upside down, and notoriously both Battlefield and Call of Duty used entirely the wrong languages on some levels and the text was just random squiggles (supposed to look like Arabic I guess). So I wouldn't read much into it, I doubt the designers had a clue what the pictures were really of.

Hahaha... And people complain about "Chinglish" 

That reminded me of some American movies that showed street scenes supposedly shot in Brazil... Only that all billboards and storefronts were all written in Spanish... 

It wasn't until recently that I found  out that Carmen Miranda wasn't singing "Mama yo quiero"

[rsjsouza]

It wasn't until recently that I found  out that Carmen Miranda wasn't singing "Mama yo quiero"

Songs are hard, and this particular phrase is very similar between the two languages.

When we "sang" english pop songs as kids, you would probably laugh at our attempts to simply mimic sounds (as we couldn't understand squat).

[Berni]

I recognized a piece of equipment in the game WatchDogs but i forgot what it was

[tom66]

Lester, a character in GTA V, has an oscilloscope in his house. It constantly displays a scrolling sine wave because that means science is happening.

[fubar.gr]

It constantly displays a scrolling sine wave because that means science is happening.

Oscilloscope with a a bad triggering circuit?

[Berni]

Oscilloscope with a a bad triggering circuit?

Perhaps he was using it for aligning a local oscillator with a satellites clock. He is still out by a Hz or two in that case. Obviously didn't hold the tongue at the right angle. All the cool sciencey stuff has to involve a satellite in some way.

[XOIIO]

Holy shit that jailbait t-shirt. that's amazing 

[TerraHertz]

Holy shit that jailbait t-shirt. that's amazing 

My fave is the one at the bottom of that set. WHAT is going on there? Mom and daughter? They are wearing mics... Whyyyyy?

How about oscilloscope in a kpop music video, does that count?
  h t t p : //www.youtube.com/watch?    v=bqYWpzb65rE  (You stop that, video embedding robot!)

I want to know, what was too hard about even powering it up?