No matter how much games change, some things stay the same — like 'Start' screens. Nowadays they represent a "this has finally stopped loading, wake up" screen, but in the NES days the focus was arguably different — load times weren't a particular issue, so they perhaps felt more like arcade-style prompts to give that initial buzz. They could simply be text, have minor animations, and in rare cases have some poor-quality voices blurting out the title.
They can stick with you, however, so it's perhaps not surprising that someone is gunning for a nostalgia overload by compiling every NES Start screen into one single video. They're in alphabetical order and the video is a little under three hours, so a comfy chair is required.
We're taking the word of YouTuber NicksplosionFX that every NES game is included in their video. If he's missed any, let us know below, while this seems like a good opportunity to reminisce on some old 8-bit favourites.
[source kotaku.com]
Comments (30)
Nearly 3 hours of this. Nostalga overload this is.
sweet! i know what im doing tonight
Well I bet it wouldn't be that hard to do this for the Wii U seeing as there is very little games out for it.(I have a wii u and i don't hate it, in fact i love it!!!!)
Nearly finished watching it.
It's NOT all...
there are a bunch missing, and a lot are duplicated.
I saw this on IGN last night.
I just couldn't once I got to Action 52....
One of those "someone had too much time on their hands" moments to be sure. Cool though.
Hot dang.
@MixMasterMudkip: Action 52's background music was awesome, how could you hate?
I made it about 1:27 into it.............
The Battle Kid games get no love.
It is almost 4 hours!! But they included pirate games, if you look 2:16:46 it appears Street Fighter III for NES.
Game Boy (/Color) version noa! >:3
Nerd drinkin' game. Everytime a "Start-screen" from a game you've played is shown. You DRINK!
Well, I learned something from that video: Action 52 totally stole its startup music. Somehow I'm less than surprised.
@schizor Oh my God. I have to try this.
I'll save this for a rainy day,
Whatever lonely nerdy person found the time for this...
I wanna' meet him and give him a hug.
I didn't read the whole article, went ahead and starting watching it... 5 minutes later, I curiously checked how much time was remaining. O.O heck, I'm not sitting through that. Still, kudos for anyone that patient, I have enough impatience sitting to watch 3 hour films, title screens cannot hold my interest that long.
Also, I was born in '89, my first console was a SNES at 5, my nostalgia here is very limited...
Someone needs a different hobby.
Maybe dating.
So I am assuming this includes all 97 games?
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@DarkEdi
Not, it's 2 hours 50 minutes...
@sleepinglion Did you post that on IGN as well?
Someone did!
Hey, I like the NES start screens!
Imagine how many times they had to blow into the cartridges.
@KnightRider666 The memory of all those games along with that "music" is to much for me to handle.
@MixMasterMudkip: Lol, it's all good;)
that's a long video! i guess i can watch 10 minutes or 20 minutes of it per day
Cool
Didn't know Youtube would let u upload such long vids.
Ah... the days when games just started up, and didn't make you watch a minute of production credits telling you the physics engine and the graphics engine and the video codecs...
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