cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29503020

Could be a console startup, title screen, intro cutscene, etc. I just got wired off an energy drink so I apologize in advance if this post is unhinged.

I personally associate it with Kirby Super Star’s intro, the Sega CD boot screen (non-US, I associate the US ones with Christmas), and the original Xbox startup.

  • businessfish
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    42 days ago

    barony!

    my friends and i were just getting into the game and we didn’t know how long a good run could go.

    for the uninitiated, barony is a coop roguelite that is very difficult especially in the early game, so all our runs had died relatively quickly. we had no clue that a winning run could take over 3 hours… so we celebrated our victory in the morning sunlight.

    • @edgemaster72
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      93 days ago

      I’ve done that before but I wouldn’t associate a game intro with staying up late playing a game, cuz I’d already be hours and hours past the intro.

      • @flubba86
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        22 days ago

        Same. The only time I’ve ever stayed up past sunrise was when I was trying to finish a game storyline. And by that time the intro was long past. I would never associate a game intro with staying up late.

    • RQG
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      23 days ago

      Ah, just one more turn.

      Okay one more turn.

      One last tu… Fuck the suns up.

  • teft
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    143 days ago

    PS1 intro screen. Mainly because my PS1 sucked since it was second hand and I had to restart it a lot.

    • @[email protected]
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      213 days ago

      Kids these days will never know the relief of hearing the swooshing sound when you finally see the Playstation logo after praying for a disk to read

      • @Zahille7
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        43 days ago

        God, yes. Keeping your fingers crossed the whole time.

        That was me and Jak 3 on PS2. It was a copy a friend had let me keep because I kept playing it all the time at their house. It was scratched a bit so every often it just wouldn’t start.

  • @lordnikon
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    143 days ago

    In the past it was Link to the past character select screen music. Today Satisfactory start up menu music that game must generate a time dilatation field. I swear I only play for 10 mins then it’s 5am and I have to go to work.

  • @HerrVorragend
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    103 days ago

    The red Valve picture and ‘Dang!’ sound at the start of CS 1.6

  • @[email protected]
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    93 days ago

    The chunky, thundering sound of the ID logo smashing into the screen when starting up Quake 3 Arena. So many LAN parties…

  • @[email protected]
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    63 days ago

    The Wild Arms opening music and scene always does this for me. I’ve been replaying it on a CRT and it holds up decently well.

  • @Sterile_Technique
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    22 days ago

    Zelda OOT, or vanilla WoW. Hearing the intro music from either is a pretty strong nostalgia hit.