I remember reading about that in EGM, they had to pull the arcade because it had a camera for you to take pictures of yourself for the high score list, but people kept taking pictures of their penis instead.

What voice did berzerk have? I don't remember any but then I mostly played the a2600 port
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game)]This had some sampled voices[/url] as did [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth:_History_in_the_Making]this[/url]. I had to restart the second one right after I heard the voice because I couldn't believe the C64 could produce such crystal clear voices. After all the previous benchmark was "Ahh another visitor, stay a while. stay FOREVER!"

Well if they were listening to journey, they were probably overwhelmed by gay

According to wikipedia
:"Coins detected in pocket": During attract mode, specifically while showing the high score list.
"Intruder alert! Intruder alert!": Spoken when Evil Otto appears.
"The humanoid must not escape": Heard when the player escapes a room after destroying every robot.
"Chicken, fight like a robot": Heard when the player escapes a room without destroying every robot.
"Got the Humanoid, got the intruder": Heard when the player loses a life. (The "Got the intruder" part is a minor third higher than the "Got the humanoid" part)
I dont know if that is all accurate, but I definetely remember voices[url=][/url][url=][/url][url=][/url][url=][/url][url=][/url]

*attempts to delete Journey from his Last.fm tracks*

another one from 1981. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDOujz-nAFQ
and I know my examples might not be considered voice acting, but I am posting them anyway

Thanks for the input. It seems that Dragon's Lair was the earliest to use proper (professional) voice acting. Fascinating. I'll see if I can find a version that will work on my system.
Thanks again

As far as home computer games only: The first home computer game I remember with any amount of voice was Space Taxi for the Commodore 64. ("Space taxi. Beep beep.") The first PC game I remember with significant voice acting was Wing Commander. There was a voice pack for it that turned all the cut scenes and co-pilots into talkies, if you had a sound card. Many of the Ultima games also had voice acting for the cut scenes and some of the dialog.
(Speaking of which, we need the Origin games here. Wing Commander series and Ultima series.)
EDIT: Did some research, and it seems that the voice pack was for Wing Commander II, not the first one. I thought I remembered a voice pack for the first one as well, but 20 year old memories can get blurry.

and i thought first was Gauntlet on arcade [1985. with narrator voice generated by Texas Instruments TMS5220C speech chip]
more on [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_(arcade_game)]wiki[/url]
Warrior Needs Food!
Warrior Needs Food Badly!
good old times...

Star Wars arcade was another early one.
"The Force will be with you, always"
I found online that Star Wars was released in 1983.
If you want to also include synthesized speech, then Gorf was released in 1981 with some speaking. The robotic alien overlord would speak at you while you played and taunt you. The little robo-bastard would even laugh at you when you died.