Great Videogame Title Screens

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If nothing else, Tim can at least perfectly describe and appraise title screens. I remember these two exactly the way he describes them.

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If you haven't seen it, you should. There really isn't anything I can spoil by describing it to you. It starts with a "Nintendo Presents," and moves on to a cycling voyage through a some kind of electron-microscope-magnified net of tissues and structures. This Dust-Brothers-ish music kicks up. When the spinning camera finally stops, and the METROID PRIME logo materializes, and the background begins to flicker, and the music crashes and then drones on: you've got the best videogame title screen ever, on the best videogame ever.

Metroid Prime's title screen is, in many ways, a revamping of the former best-videogame-title-screen ever, a title which belongs easily to Zone of the Enders. That odd song in that odd language sounds so calm following such a fiercely action-packed FMV. The computer-ish cycling background echoes this calm. The logo contains a rough map of the moons of Jupiter, which move as slowly as the music's tempo rolls. All in all, you don't see title screens more perfect that that of Zone of the Enders.