🌙 MOON POWER 6000
video game music and shitposting,
but never in that combination*
*(not a guarantee)
I'm just saying, if we're gonna live in a world where PC games now need to precompile shaders on the main menu before starting in order to not be a stuttering mess during gameplay, the least they could do for the culture is bring back boot-time jingles like the arcade games of yore.
I've always liked the idea about owning an arcade, putting all the Gradius / Bubble System units on the same circuit, flipping that on, and having this tune in chorus starting your day
Bespoke loading/install screens in general are something I genuinely miss, yeah. Those SSDs might feel like magic in terms of how instantaneous they can load stuff in games codes to actually take advantage of them, but there was something to be said for the ambiance of, "Hey, we've got a little intermission to get through, but we're still gonna keep it true to the game." Sometimes I pull them up on YouTube just so I can bask in their majesty again ahaha
Or some kind of minigame! If they are so inclined of course. I’d be down for that.
Is this song a cover of something? Because it sounds like it could very easily have be written by a classical musician.
I remember when I heard this for the first time in the 1990s, after playing the arcade game in a Nemesis emulator. That's it, it just emulated Nemesis. Nothing else. Emulators were considerably less broad in scope back in those days... even MAME just played a handful of early Namco and Universal games, and that was it. And you had to run them from the DOS command line!
