Best Attract Mode

[tomaitheous]

Star Parodier has a cool GoT style attract mode that becomes legendary due to the subject matter (crew of Bombermen loading HuCard ammo into a giant mecha PC Engine, etc)-



The money shots begin at 2 minutes in. This level of awesomeness was not rivaled until Segagaga's end boss gauntlet years later.

That's probably one of my favorite ones.

[Pulstar]

[jamesdude]

[Puffy2k316]

[Kollision]

This is certainly one of the most awesomEST ever!

[17daysolderthannes]

This level of awesomeness was not rivaled until Segagaga's end boss gauntlet years later.

OMG, Segagaga is awesome! We need an English translation ASAP!!!

[Joe Redifer]

Soul Edge/Blade did indeed have an amazing intro. I find that if the music is awesome, it really, REALLY helps how much I like it. Dialog bores me.

[Iron Lizard]

The name comes from the fact that it was used to "attract" players to play the game, something I feel many arcade game designers didn't pay enough attention to considering how much time an arcade spends in attract mode vs. play.



yeah, that one did a good job of capturing the essence of the TV show, but the Turtles in Time one took it a step further and made an intro that was almost self aware of how well known the franchise was. It's like "HOLY FUCKING TURTLES, LOOK!"

Yeah its good thing I never saw that one in the arcade at the time or I may have shit my pants.

[tomaitheous]

Just captured/made this attract mode video for Spriggan Mark 2. Best Compile shooter ever.

[Da_Shocker]

Arcade - Mortal Kombat 2 however the one JamesDude Posted seems like the SNES Version. the REAL arcade had better music and clips of fighting moves as it played through.

Console - Final Fantasy X

That is because it's the 32X version. Neither of the 16-Bit versions had the intro.

[Joe Redifer]

Just captured/made this attract mode video for Spriggan Mark 2. Best Compile shooter ever.

Does your video card not support full screen? It's just a little box with black bars around all sides.

Edit: Nevermind, you uploaded it in a 16:9 ratio with black bars on the side for some reason. I edited your post for you to enable Widescreen.

[Nobi]

arch rivals

[kool kitty89]

#3 pick, Daytona USA (arcade/Saturn):


Song alone makes it. Gets the #3 slot because it's the only thing besides Days of Thunder that makes NASCAR actually look appealing.

Heh, I realized the ST intro for Starglider has an odd similarity to that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAVqOBCHxkM


Edit: that's just a comment, not one of my favorite attract sequences

Now these on the other hand, are awsome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RTqMJYXQmo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pda2jBcUBWg


And come to think of it th eoriginal Silpheed has a pretty great intro sequence as well (PC8801 is the true original, but I really like the EGA DOS with MT-32 rendition)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n4nOiURgzg

[tomaitheous]

[grolt]

The first thing I thought of when I saw the threat title was Daytona, and sure enough it was in the first post. ROOOOLLLLLLLLLIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTT! !!!!

I really loved those light, breezy rock soundtracks SEGA pumped into the arcades in the nineties with games like Daytona, SEGA Rally, Virtua Fighter et al.

For non-arcade games, somehow the one that sticks out most to me is the opening for Blaster Master on the NES. Makes it look so epic, and the music is boss: