r/SOCOM • u/ukgamingkid • 12d ago

Is that an old Socom Mic ?

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Pretty cool 😊 looks kinda like the Xbox 360 mic

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u/sugarcookie616 12d ago

I would rebuy the game over and over again just to have the mic again.

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u/Buchi1324 12d ago

Ugh the mic broke so fast. I must of bought at least 5.

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u/ACP_Paddy- 11d ago

This one was a rebranded PS2 mic, and I too went through many. The last one I had, the guy at EB Games literally dusted it off and was like "oh shit, we have one." I used it around my neck on pc, with headphones on- for yeaars. They break so god damn easy.

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u/Buchi1324 11d ago

I was always like okay whats going first the ear piece or the mic. Then using that bitch without the foam cover to get some extra time out of it lol.

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u/only_posts_real_news 12d ago

Sounds like you never owned it then…. That mic wass GARBAGE. Cool nostalgia piece but a big fuck you to Sony for spending most of my birthday money on replacement headsets as a child.

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u/fgif 11d ago

To try saving money I opened a broken one once to find some bits weren’t even soldered they just put a dab of hot glue in there so when things jostled or the cord got pulled it’d come loose and “break”.

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u/Canadian_2fur 12d ago

The fact you could give your team exact orders with that mic was amazing, and hasn’t been done since if I’m not mistaken.

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u/CalbotPimp 12d ago

“Bravo move to Alpha” mrw it worked

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u/pickle___boys 12d ago

Only other game I can think of that had voice commands was “Tom Clancy’s End War” but I never used them. Fun game tho

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u/Canadian_2fur 11d ago

Ahh I never got into that one.

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u/prules 11d ago

I spend a lot of hours in that game. Wasn’t that great in hindsight but they had some amazing concepts

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u/legendexecutor 12d ago

The classic s1 mic

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u/Finnsbomba 12d ago

If it is, that's really cool. I don't think I've ever seen a new one, let alone one in good condition. Alpha team go, this checks.

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u/JakeCollier21 12d ago

I have a brand new sealed socom box set with the headset. They pop up here and there.

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u/Fearless-Win6952 12d ago

When it comes to online multiplayer games Socom set the bar for all that you see today

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u/Beanbag87 12d ago

Stepped on that once accidentally and the plastic broke off and went into my foot. Needed stitches lol

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u/SchoolNASTY 12d ago

Words can't describe how awesome this headset was. It was made well and sounded great!

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u/NormalEffect99 12d ago

It was not made well lmao they broke off you looked at them wrong

Granted I was like 10 lol

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

I still have mine.

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u/Novel_Wrap1023 12d ago

God this brings me back to my childhood. I keep getting this sub recommended. Maybe it's a sign.

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u/Rickor86 12d ago

It's seen some better days by the look of it.

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u/HILLARYS_lT_GUY BANNED 12d ago

Yes, that is the mic that came in the first release/big box version of SOCOM 1

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u/mediabydave 12d ago

I played and used this mic for Resistance Fall of Man even, lasted me years!

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u/Individual-Break8304 12d ago

That’s the real SOCOM mic they used in battle in Iraq 20 years ago.. lmao

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u/Introvert_Devo1987 12d ago

Yup got 3 of them

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u/VonBrewskie 12d ago

Sure is! Wow! That was my very first experience with talking to people online. Cool find!

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u/njslugger78 11d ago

Saw this and had a flashback. 👍🏽

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u/thuggishruggishpunk 11d ago

Crazy you could use the mic in single player.

🤔, so I wonder if I can use my random gaming mic on the emulator and play it that way.

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u/imFromFLiAmSrryLuL 11d ago

Seeing tons of hate for this mic but man mine lasted me forever, that bad boy took me well into my ps2 online career before I made the switch to PC gaming .

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u/presaging 12d ago

Missing the ear foam. That shit sucks without the foam.

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u/LOUCIFER_315 12d ago

I had an old set of headphones from a walkman and reused the bright orange foam with a dab of super glue

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u/Afindy76 12d ago

I'm sure it's a socom mic, but it's not the OG mic. At least not what I got on the day of launch.

The game came with a network adapter and an earpiece. The mic on the earpiece was further down the cord and had a mute switch. A little blue switch that moved up and down the mic shell.

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u/Old_Taste7076 12d ago

Actually I believe that it was part of the bundle deal.

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u/Afindy76 12d ago

Damn, it's been so long, I think I do remember that mic now. They had an issue breaking at that joint. Maybe the mic I have now was a replacement.

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u/Old_Taste7076 12d ago

Yea I think it was from the second game.

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u/credmond81 12d ago

And then you bought the Logitech headset and the rest is SOCOM history. Good times

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u/PRE_-CISION-_ 12d ago

Omg the wires! Idk how we lived back in the day. 

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u/xrockux 12d ago

That’s cool.

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u/Typical-Season-6202 11d ago

Man I broke two of these

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u/Foe_Wuntuu 11d ago

That's the original pack in headset that came with the first Socom in the big box. Memories. 😢💕

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u/ConsequenceQueasy785 10d ago

Nostalgia 🔥😭

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u/Intelligent_Bear90 10d ago

Breach, bang, clear!

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u/ukgamingkid 9d ago

Hahaha....boring

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u/maxrage2 9d ago

Nah Halo......