Best arcade intro to a game

[CAZMIESTER]

Ok as the title says best intro movie or scene to a coinop arcade game my two votes would be Blazing Star and The last Blade 2 you actually get two intros to that game as the following vids show beautifully drawn and great music honorable mention original samurai shodown

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fRDbf_bKrig?feature=oembed

 

[ZXDunny]

R-Type.

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[dgame]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wf20vlxkRzU?feature=oembed

 

[b_o_b]

To be honest, I think the best intro is no intro. I hate games that have long intro's, especially when it is not possible to skip it. If I want to play a game, I do not want to watch a movie. 

 

[Gruntfuggly]

That's why I like the intro to Ghosts and Goblins - short, sweet and straight to the point...

 

[levi]

I don't know of any arcade games with unskippable intros. Insert credit, press 1p start and the machine wakes up for you. It's only on disc-based home consoles where they need to load game data during the first intro where they make it unskippable (excepting contractual video codec etc. screens).


Personally my favourite of the Street Fighter intros is SF3 third strike's intro. But it's not that amazing, so I won't link it.


I did try to find an old intro I liked from the late 90s, I think. It was a Japanese shooter, and used loads of parallax and atmospheric music. I thought it was Sokyugurentai, but I checked youtube and it's not.

 

[CAZMIESTER]

I don't know of any arcade games with unskippable intros. Insert credit, press 1p start and the machine wakes up for you. It's only on disc-based home consoles where they need to load game data during the first intro where they make it unskippable (excepting contractual video codec etc. screens).


Personally my favourite of the Street Fighter intros is SF3 third strike's intro. But it's not that amazing, so I won't link it.


I did try to find an old intro I liked from the late 90s, I think. It was a Japanese shooter, and used loads of parallax and atmospheric music. I thought it was Sokyugurentai, but I checked youtube and it's not.

Radiant Silvergun? was it horizontal or vertical rayforce raystorm come to mind metal black used a shed load of parallax effects

 

[levi]

Vertical shooter, I think. Not Radiant Silvergun - that has an FMV intro, and not Rayforce - that's all 3D. This was all sprite based.

I think after all it must've been Sokyugurentai. It's got all the right features, it's just a bit shorter than I remember. Must've overinflated it in my memory banks.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/M6PhTkch-Xg?feature=oembed

 

[PokeParadox]

To be honest, I think the best intro is no intro. I hate games that have long intro's, especially when it is not possible to skip it. If I want to play a game, I do not want to watch a movie. 

Yup arcades use the intro in "attraction mode" and with a couple of gameplay demos usually. I don't think I've seen a machine that doesn't let you jump right in as soon as it has your money...

 

[CAZMIESTER]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_txDmyeEDaY?feature=oembed

 

[milkshake]

I had to rub my eyes for a minute after watching that how did they not get sued from capcom?

 

[Fzero]

Hard to pick a best arcade intro for me, was thinking perhaps Star Wars arcade pretty much for the theme tune and just because it's Star Wars...

Operation Wolf did pop to mind though, with the classic "Operation, Wolf" at the end.

Isn't even that stunning really but something about it, perhaps where I just loved it so much when I was a 11 or however old I was then.

Also, because of it's similarities to the film Commando staring Arnie, which is one of my old classic favs from the 80's.

The start of Operation Wolf is like the bit in Commando where Arnie kits himself out to raid the house and take down that scumbag Bennett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R37IyVo011g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNEiBl3aQcY