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[IbizaPocholo]

Video game console startup sequences are an oft-overlooked art form. From the Gamecube's multi-faceted, semi-playable startup, to Xbox's series of white spheres that all fade into one another if you line them up, to Sega Dreamcast's iconic swirl, here's...well, not every startup sequence ever, but whole lot of them. Watch them progress before your very eyes as your nostalgia gland pumps wildly!

 

[Birdo]

The Mega/Sega CD boot screen is such a shit-show

It looks like a school science video intro.

PS3 is the best.

 

[sol740]

That Sega CD startup felt like the future to 12 year old me. I learned a harsh lesson after spending a summers worth of my lawn mowing money on it. Saved me from a 32X and Saturn purchase though.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Saturn and PS1 are my favorites

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

The Genesis "SEEEEGA!" and the Game Boy "pling" are the two etched most deeply into my adolescent brain, the other being...



I like how Saturn has two different startup noises. I didn't realize this until I replaced my US Saturn with an imported one from Japan (I like the US one a lot better)

 

[Nymphae]

PS1's is just so comforting, I use the 20th Anniversary theme on my PS4 just to hear that.

 

[Eimran]

Them nostalgia moments

 

[HeadsUp7Up]

I forgot how much I liked the Dreamcast boot up.

 

[jimmyd]

The PS1 double whammy

 

[MrA]

microsoft and subtlety seam like oil and water, the xbox sex better have a bombastic start up and not an understated one like the xboxone,
maybe a cracking a volume knob up to 12 and the speaker exploding into an xbox logo

 

[Soleil rouge]

The last Saturn one they showed is the best. That and Dreamcast.

 

[Tranquil]

PS4 is probably the most boring out of them all. PS1 being the best.

 

[Nymphae]

NES sound of you blowing into a cartridge over and over again was sick

 

[EverydayBeast]

PS4's is not much of a start up reality is instant boots ups are great.

 

[TLZ]

Sega Mega Drive, PS1 and PS2 trigger nostalgia for me.

I like the GameCube and Dreamcast ones but I never played them back in the day. (Dreamcast only once or twice then packed, and years later lost )

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Amazing how deeply these sounds get embedded into one’s memory.

One thing I don’t get is: why did the NES and SNES not have a specific boot-up screen and jingle, but the Game Boy did?

 

[Gormless Noodle]

The Mega/Sega CD boot screen is such a shit-show

It looks like a school science video intro.

PS3 is the best.

Same energy.

 

[EightBit Man]

The PlayStation startup is synonymous with the best time of my life: the mid to late 90s.

 

[UnNamed]

No PSP? So fresh, that summer vibe.

 

[UnNamed]

Also, do you know original XBOX startup hide a easter egg that has yet to be found?

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Megadrive ones are not startup sounds though, they do nothing without a cartridge being plugged in.

 

[K.N.W.]

Amazing how deeply these sounds get embedded into one’s memory.

One thing I don’t get is: why did the NES and SNES not have a specific boot-up screen and jingle, but the Game Boy did?

I'm investigatin too, and the SNES one seems to be fan made I'll update as soon as I check the others.

 

[IbizaPocholo]