What are your favorite video game openings? (olio.cafe)

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Video game openings help set the stage for the game itself. What are your favorite video game openings? Could be the title screen, or the first bit in-game before the play starts. Could be that you like the music, or that they have a clever twist, or that they're technically impressive. Bonus points if you can link to a PeerTube or YouTube clip of them to let other people here who haven't yet seen them watch them!

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[-] Davel23@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Outpost, while a mediocre game had an opening cinematic set to "Mars" from Holst's The Planets which sounded AWESOME on my Roland MT-32/SCC-1 (I don't remember which I had at the time.)

Here is the intro with standard Sound Blaster music, and here is just the music played on a Roland SC-55 which sounds pretty much the same as an SCC-1.

[-] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

"now it is time to leave the cradle...

or die in the attempt."

[-] tal@olio.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

I'm assuming, based on the YouTube channel name ("MT-32 Theater"), that this was rendered with a Roland MT-32:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWCrp31xL3c

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Yup, that definitely sounds like an MT-32. I've updated my comment with an SCC-1 version (or close enough).

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Here is the intro with standard Sound Blaster music, and here is just the music played on a Roland SC-55 which sounds pretty much the same as an SCC-1.

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