beyond castle wolfenstein (1982/83)...question about a German phrase in that old game...

hudster

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...ah, good ol' Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein...gaming greatness at it's best. I have a question though, for any of you out there who played those old games, and who maybe know a little (or lot) more German than I do:

In Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, we know how the guards would say stuff like "Halt" and "aus pass" and "Heil!". Well, there is one word they said, that my friends and I never could figure out: when you got you gun out, and the guards saw you, they would shout something....to me, it sounded something like "vonsof!", my friend says "barnslow!" (I think my word it more phonetically accurate to the original word from the game ;) ). So can anybody out there in nostalgic computer game land tell us what that word was? It would be quite exciting finding out what this word really is, 20 years after playing the game!

Actually, earlier today, I found this page, that towards the bottom gives the words in the original Castle Wolfenstein game, and I learned what the word Schweinhund! ("Pig dog!" (literally)) was...I never knew that word either.
 

techwanabe

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I had the original Castle Wolfenstein on the Commodore 64. It had really crude speach synthesis, and I heard most of the frases. I did hear Schwinehund alot or Was ist das... etc. I took German in HS and College so these were easy to understand. There were a few which I couldn't make out due to the garbled nature of the synthesis on the C64.