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Game-o-rama => Console Gaming => Topic started by: SkyMyl on June 21, 2010, 11:52:38 AM

Title: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: SkyMyl on June 21, 2010, 11:52:38 AM

I'm not kidding. Watching the GameCube start-up is a lot like watching the trap play out in Mouse Trap. I could watch it until my eyes melt from their eye sockets and my eardrums implode on themselves. It's a magical sequence, and it's one of the reasons the GameCube is absolutely badass.

...that's what I like to think, anyway. It's entertaining, to say the least. Personally, I consider it the best start-up of any video game system of all time. I dare you to try to find a better start-up to a system than the GameCube.

The first person to post a video of the Xbox 360 will be violently face raped in the near future.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Light on June 21, 2010, 12:42:09 PM
There IS no better startup. Gamecube wins, hands-down. Especially with the hold-z effect:



TBH, I didn't know about the last one until I looked it up a few secs ago.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Lotos on June 21, 2010, 12:53:38 PM
I thought you meant it's launch selection, or at least at Christmas time.  Melee, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion.  That's a nice selection there.

The Sega Saturn has a decent one.



I believe this is the Japanese start-up, Which is the best in my own opinion.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Tupin on June 21, 2010, 01:09:01 PM


Well, it DID come from the Famicom Disk System startup sound, so I guess it is good.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Java on June 22, 2010, 12:56:20 AM
I never really truly appreciated the GameCube start-up until now.

Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: JrDude on June 22, 2010, 01:24:26 AM
I LOVED THE GAMECUBE THINGY!
I almost always pressed Z to do that
I also thought it would do different music depending on how many controllers did it, nothing, but I did end up trying every controller combination (1, 2, 3, 4 [all had the baby laugh thing at the end]) and found the weird sumo one though.
My favorite is the single Z hold.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Zero on June 22, 2010, 08:56:24 AM
Agreed. I still adore the GCN.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Kayo on June 22, 2010, 11:03:57 AM
Yes, I absolutely adored the GameCube, with all my heart.

brb playing gamecube
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: FruitFlow on June 22, 2010, 02:18:34 PM
Seeing this makes me wonder why Nintendo never even bother to give Wii a start-up.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: The Riddler on June 22, 2010, 02:24:28 PM
I loved the Gamecube's startup sound, but I did quite love PS1's startup sound too.

Don't forget about Gameboy. The ba-ding! Will never get old.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: FruitFlow on June 22, 2010, 02:40:26 PM
Quote from: Detective Conan on June 22, 2010, 02:24:28 PM
I loved the Gamecube's startup sound, but I did quite love PS1's startup sound too.

Don't forget about Gameboy. The ba-ding! Will never get old.
Oh, yeah.
I remember that.

The Nintendo logo would scroll downward, and as it hit the center of the screen it would make that ba-ding sound.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Silverhawk79 on June 22, 2010, 06:06:11 PM
I miss my Gamecube.
I might take it to college with me if I can't take the Wii.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: SkyMyl on June 22, 2010, 08:06:30 PM
Quote from: Detective Conan on June 22, 2010, 02:24:28 PM
Don't forget about Gameboy. The ba-ding! Will never get old.


Magical.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: The Riddler on June 22, 2010, 08:45:55 PM
<3 BA-DING.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Silverhawk79 on June 22, 2010, 09:01:42 PM
Quote from: Detective Conan on June 22, 2010, 08:45:55 PM
<3 BA-DING.
Or the DS.
DADONGdadongdadong
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Light on June 22, 2010, 09:15:58 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on June 22, 2010, 06:06:11 PM
I miss my Gamecube.
My Gamecube only works occasionally. ;-;
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: The Riddler on June 22, 2010, 09:16:14 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on June 22, 2010, 09:01:42 PM
Or the DS.
DADONGdadongdadong
No. Only BA-DING! is awesome. And the GBA comes close second.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: FruitFlow on June 22, 2010, 09:23:06 PM
I wonder if the 3DS will have a start-up.
Or maybe Nintendo will just simply ignore it like they did with Wii and show a hazard screen leading straight to the menu...
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: SkyMyl on June 23, 2010, 05:15:47 AM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on June 22, 2010, 09:01:42 PM
Or the DS.
DADONGdadongdadong
Uhh...no. DS pales in comparison to the Game Boy.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Silverhawk79 on June 23, 2010, 11:39:27 AM
Quote from: Detective Conan on June 22, 2010, 09:16:14 PM
No. Only BA-DING! is awesome. And the GBA comes close second.
Didn't one of the Sega systems go SEEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAAA every time you turned it on?
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Tupin on June 23, 2010, 11:43:07 AM
Nope, the only two Sega systems to have BIOSes were the Saturn, which had a bunch of space dust coming together to form the Saturn logo, and the Dreamcast which had an orange ball bouncing over the words Dreamcast before unraveling into a swirl.

The Xbox 360 has the best BIOS of modern systems.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Kayo on June 24, 2010, 10:06:55 AM
Quote from: Detective Conan on June 22, 2010, 09:16:14 PM
No. Only BA-DING! is awesome. And the GBA comes close second.
... ... ...baDING <3

also
pwaaaaahhhh ... DING!
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Zero on June 24, 2010, 11:35:48 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on June 23, 2010, 11:39:27 AM
Didn't one of the Sega systems go SEEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAAA every time you turned it on?

That was an in-game thing for every Sega game ever back in the day
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Kayo on June 25, 2010, 09:35:53 AM
Quote from: Zero on June 24, 2010, 11:35:48 PM
That was an in-game thing for every Sega game ever back in the day
The game I got for my DS that features a bunch of old sonic games does that after i start playing :3
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Mystic on June 25, 2010, 12:33:53 PM
Quote from: Zero on June 24, 2010, 11:35:48 PM
That was an in-game thing for every Sega game ever back in the day
Yes. Reason enough to play Sonic Gems Collection.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Lotos on July 08, 2010, 10:46:01 AM
Quote from: Riddler on June 22, 2010, 09:16:14 PM
No. Only BA-DING! is awesome. And the GBA comes close second.

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... ti-ting.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Commander Awesome on July 10, 2010, 03:18:18 PM


Ahem. Gentlemen.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: SkyMyl on July 10, 2010, 03:38:55 PM
Quote from: Commander Awesome on July 10, 2010, 03:18:18 PM


Ahem. Gentlemen.
Originally, I was going to say "no go away dreamcast fag", but then I actually watched the video, as I've never owned a Dreamcast.

It's good, but it's certainly no Gamecube. Not even close.
Title: Re: The GameCube has the greatest start-up of any Legacy system to ever be devised.
Post by: Turok on July 15, 2010, 10:31:46 PM
Quote from: Commander Awesome on July 10, 2010, 03:18:18 PM


Ahem. Gentlemen.
Marry me.

Quote from: SkyMyl on July 10, 2010, 03:38:55 PM
It's good, but it's certainly no Gamecube. Not even close.
b-b-but...
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