Video game openings help set the stage for the game itself. What are your favorite video game openings? Could be the title screen, or the first bit in-game before the play starts. Could be that you like the music, or that they have a clever twist, or that they’re technically impressive. Bonus points if you can link to a PeerTube or YouTube clip of them to let other people here who haven’t yet seen them watch them!
This intro cinematic goes so hard it’s still not been dethroned and no one has the balls to do it
This was on the original PlayStation. They stretched that system to its limits.
Once in game, no “loading” screens, you could traverse from one end to another without downtime. That was a masterful feat with the PS1