The BEST ever game opening thread.

Don’t think this has been done before. I’ll start.
Soul Blade

Super Famicom – Castlevania IV.

Sorry don’t know how to embed videos.

FFVII

The pullback from Aerith showing the street scene, then Midgar, then zooming back in and the quick cut scenes of the train.

An epic start to the greatest computer game of all time.

Super Mario 64 blew me away when it came out, 3 dimensions son. 16 wasted years ago :sheds tear:

1. e4 e5 2. f4

best game opening ever

Spy Hunter … on the Spectrum 48k rubber keys…. Great sound track by the Art of Noise

Slapsies is the best game ever.

*clearly too old for this thread*

Am I showing my age yet?

Spy Hunter … on the Spectrum 48k rubber keys…. Great sound track by the Art of Noise

How the hell did that slip under my radar. Art of noise records and spectrum games were pretty much the only thing I spent my pocket money on back then.

what boardinbob said.

Not played another world but flashback on mega drive was pretty good

similar game but a bot silly seem to recall in the later levels you had to get out quick cue falling down 3 screens, probably a couple of hundred feet and then suddenly grabbing a ledge with out dislocating your shoulders or ending up looking like mr tickle

I lost weeks of life playing this bad boy.

going vintage…

more recently

Unklehomer *heart* Valve… 😀

I can scarcely believe nobody has mentioned Zero Wing on Genesis/Mega Drive yet… spawned a million ‘all your base’ internet memes

Or the original PS1 Resident Evil intro… so bad it’s great

How the hell did that slip under my radar. Art of noise records and spectrum games were pretty much the only thing I spent my pocket money on back then.

A mate I used to work with had every single Rob Hubbard soundtrack (from his Speccy/C64 days) recorded as MP3 on a CD! He even brought them in one day to show us! What a sad f&*k! Yes, he was a techie 😛

Also, some Amiga ones that I have very fond memories of:

Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies for its (at the time) stunning sound/music

Shadow of the Beast 2

Heimdall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D-e3cv5uIc

Cannon Fodder

Monkey Island!

So many great memories of that golden age of computers/games

Lots of good stuff in here. But it’s still Final Fantasy 7, by a country mile… Because sure, it was pretty and it set the scene, but then it just led so perfectly into the game.

Most of the Mechwarrior games had good FMV intros.

I think Half-Life is hard to beat, but I always liked:

Nice work on “Another World”.

Impressively predicts the particle accelerator at CERN and is also essentially the same plot device used by Half Life many years later.

Recently watched the intro to Borderlands 2 and thought it looked quite cool. Love the cartoon art style.

Here is the infamous FrankieOnPC playing through it with a mate:

Another World +1

Totally blew me away when I saw it. First time I’d ever seen proper cinematic-style graphics in a computer game I think, but it also had artistic merit. Flashback also, but to a lesser extent.

For Another World and Syndicate Wars

They both bought back some happy memories …… Cannot for the life of me remember where I use to play Another World unless I have a Sega copy …. goes off to check …..

EDIT >>>> It was indeed on my Mega Drive. Now how to spend the rest of the afternoon ….

Apologies for the Gary Bushey….. He agrees though.

It was indeed on my Mega Drive. Now how to spend the rest of the afternoon ….

Keep restarting until you can complete the whole game without dying. Report back this time next year with progress report.

Trying to remember the name of an old game on the Atari ST (probably Amiga too)

Think it was a helicopter game. Had a nice cinematic opening sequence, but all I can remember is the dialogue:

“Things.. are getting desperate…”

“Yes, Mr President”

Any ideas?

Half Life
and, for me, Bioshock – the whole ‘plane crashing, landing in the water’ thing really drew me in, made me want to find out what was going on.