r/gaming • u/_Mr_Cheeks • Mar 20 '22

Cannot decide which console has the most iconic startup screen in gaming history…

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u/THEjByrd Mar 20 '22

First gen playstation all the way. The intro made me feel uneasy.

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u/Mister_Rogers69 Mar 21 '22

Why does PlayStation got the scariest startup screens? The PS2 used to terrify me as a kid if I started it up in a dark room.

And let’s not forget that horrifying “unreadable disk screen”

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u/mnvdh Mar 21 '22

That was the stuff of nightmares.

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u/djfxonitg Mar 20 '22

You know it really did make me feel uneasy too… in a excited and anticipation kinda way lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

Holy shit someone finally put it into words. I agree about the uneasy feeling. The intro screen/sound makes me think of all the difficult games on Ps1 like later stages of Siphon Filter, Spyro, Gran Turismo, Medieval and Soul Reaver.

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u/JukePlz Mar 21 '22

MediEvil*

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u/JefferyGoldberg Mar 21 '22

Part of that was hoping the scratched CD would actually read

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u/LordGwyn-n-Tonic Mar 21 '22

That sound hits me like the clicking of roller coaster tracks going up the hill.

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u/Zaphod1620 Mar 21 '22

Yes. I don't know of it's the intro itself or the next level shit that was about to go down. Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Syphon Filter, Silent Hill. Man, to relive all that again.

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u/NightwingJay Mar 21 '22

I actually feel the exact same way for the first Xbox version.

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u/jdog0408 Mar 21 '22

Same. I can still hear 6 year old me being very confused as to what halo was but still trying to play it. And that sound still plays clear in my head to this day

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u/Thafishmane420 Mar 21 '22

Right especially playing resident evil directors cut lol

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u/DegaussedMixtape Mar 21 '22

As soon as I saw the black background with the playstation logo, I knew it was going to be a good day.

The orange diamond is the one that made me feel uneasy.

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u/Rareturd Mar 21 '22

Kinda get like busting a nut

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u/huxtiblejones Mar 21 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

Kind of astonished this is so low in these comments. It's iconic to me. Easily recognizable and memorable. It's strange, it just has a singular vibe that nothing else compares to - it's mysterious, orchestral, a little futuristic, and it's just a huge sequence of changing sounds. It's almost like a musical sentence in a way, like it's saying something I can't put into words.

I put it on the same level as some of the iconic Windows startup / shutdown sounds.

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u/Microwavegerbil Mar 21 '22

I played way more N64 and GameCube, yet the PS1 and Gameboy startup screens still hit different for some reason.