Favorite Game Intro Themes

[noiseredux]

[Balasubbie]

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo SNES gets me in the mood all the time.

As trite as the term has become, but this baby just stands as the epitome of aural
epicness.

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about Noise! You read my mind dude!

[noiseredux]

that screen used to scare me so bad when I was little haha. It's so iconic to me now.

[Ivo]

There are so many computer games that I think should be mentioned.

I just remembered the intro to the first X-com game, UFO: Enemy Unknown. That was pretty cool.



Dune 2 also had a pretty cool intro:


Syndicate:


Another World:


Flashback:


Privateer:


Some of the above have console ports of course.

Another one, less known than those above, was Cybermage. It is made like a comic book (the game came with a comic book with the events prior to those in the intro).
It had a pretty cool atmosphere back in the day, I guess now it is going to look a bit corny:

[Erik_Twice]

Dune 2 also had a pretty cool intro:

Wow, the narrator's voice is so bad, it prevented me from taking the intro seriously

I just remembered the intro to the first X-com game, UFO: Enemy Unknown. That was pretty cool.

I love the style of the intro. The character's designs make it a bit cheesy but it's still good.

I never played Megaman II back in the day, but when I booted up the emulator for it, I thought the intro was really cool and got me pumped.

[Flake]

M.U.S.H.A's opening always gets me pumped.

[Jrecee]

Sonic CD and Ristar. The whole intros, not the music on its own (Which is still pretty good, although I can't say I'm a fan of the jap song in sonic cd)

[Xeogred]

Man Ristar owns.

Flashback:


Another one, less known than those above, was Cybermage. It is made like a comic book (the game came with a comic book with the events prior to those in the intro).
It had a pretty cool atmosphere back in the day, I guess now it is going to look a bit corny:

It was pretty mindblowing seeing that cinematic on the Genesis/SNES.

CyberMage I've actually been meaning to check out someday, I'm pretty sure Warren Spector was heavily involved with it so I wonder how that worked out? It looks pretty funky, but maybe the story/atmosphere rocks?

[Rurouni_Fencer]

The Neo Geo boot screen.



Runner Up:
King of Fighters 2006/KoF: Maximum Impact 2 (PS2) intro screen


Everything from the fight between Terry and Ryo, (Terrys hat gets knocked off as he coughs up blood,) to Iori patiently stalking Kyo from a nearby rooftop as his plane flies into the city. This opening just kicks so much ass!