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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.

Dave @sasuraiger1/4/2023, 10:36 PM

i'm sure OP and all involved know the background here, but i fall down a wiki hole on the Bubble System every time I see this video. In short, the system had to physically heat up to the correct temperature range before it would work. The countdown sequence gives operators a timer and a pleasant melody to enjoy while the game boots.

The "Morning Music" was so named because the operator would hear it every morning when they turned on the system. This is also the reason Tekken arcade versions say "Good morning!" when you start them up.

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Kimimi @Kimimi1/4/2023, 3:03 PM

I'd happily sit through some classic Konami Bubble System tunes :D

Tom @iiotenki1/4/2023, 3:11 PM

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

Elixir of Will @ElixirofWill1/4/2023, 4:57 PM

Or some kind of minigame! If they are so inclined of course. I’d be down for that.

M. Neko @mneko1/4/2023, 10:38 PM

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!

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andi @mcc1/5/2023, 12:03 AM

"and a pleasant melody to enjoy while the game boots."

Okay but I'm thinking about period Japanese arcades with those rows of consoles and I am imagining twenty to fifty copies of this song playing at slight offsets to one another, and in my head it sounds very different? Those saw waves would blend into a swarm of digital hornets. Steve Reich Visits Hell

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