OG Xbox still goes hard, especially with surround sound

GameCube is charming and Dreamcast is etherealy beautiful, but nothing beats pressing that Xbox power button and feeling like you just started up a nuclear powered machine from the future.

Heh… I looked at those and thought “what am I missing? None of the companies that made those consoles were startups.”

5 seconds later “ahh… favourite boot screens….”

SEGA

Also several of them were very playful and had some quirky animations that set perfectly the tone for the game.

Edit: that’s the Genesis/mega drive for you.

Game Cube with the Z button held down. (Monkey sounds and a child’s laughter replacing the regular boot up jingle.)

Dreamcast starting is so soothing… even if it comes with fan noises.

Not a start up excatly, but I can’t help but be nostalgic for all the various versions of the SEGA screen in genesis games.

The OG PlayStation is my childhood. The Sony logo goes almost as hard as the THX deep note. And then waiting with anxiety for the disc read to succeed on a scratched up disc, anticipating the sweet release of the PlayStation logo and sound.

E. A. Sports. I’ssin the game.

Think I’d have to pick the PS2 just for the incredible startup. I love it now for nostalgia and back then I loved it because it was so damn cool.

Which is funny because I never owned a PS2 but I have fond memories of going over to my cousins’ houses and playing which is my nostalgia.

The orchestral tune up of the PS3 was always a great one.

PS1, no contest. I even have that audio playing and my KDE Plasma startup sound.

1989 Gameboy

i have so much nostalgia wrapped up in DS, GameCube, And PS2 that I could never make meaningful evaluation; I’d just choose those three every time

edit: does anyone know where to find videos of these startup screens so I can add them to my steam deck?

Sega Master System

GameCube’s was fun because you could make it wiggle by messing with the controls. Gameboy had something similar where if you played an OG Gameboy game on GBC, you could mess with the controls to select the colour scheme