Intellivision Entertainment President and CEO Tommy Tallarico
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Roblox’s famous ‘oof’ death sound allegedly came from a Tommy Tallarico game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Roblox death sound, a comical and short “oof” noise, has become famous to the 90 million players who play games in the kids virtual world. But it turns out that Roblox may not have created the sound at all.

Instead, the credit apparently goes to Tommy Tallarico, who said in an email to GamesBeat that he owns the rights to the sound and will be talking to the company about being compensated for its use across many Roblox games over the past 14 years or so.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.