Best opening sequence...

[5MinuteRetro]

Inspired by just winning the latest post on the Guess the screen$ thread, I wonder... what's the best opening sequence of any ZX Spectrum game? I'll kick off with Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper, if only because it's the only one I can think of right now (and it *is* awesome!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gyQ07WN_ls

...and, later, we can do the best end sequence. (Or have both ideas already featured here?!)

[Juan F. Ramirez]

The fireworks in Penetrator, awesome for such an early game.

[AndyC]

I think it's near impossible to outdo Trantor. It was worth loading the game just for the intro sequence alone.

[Evil Genius]

Mercenary has a pretty good one

https://youtu.be/47PfAI18eTc

[SteveSmith]

I don't know if it's just nostalgia, but for an early game, I thought the intro to Bugaboo created a great atmosphere.

[5MinuteRetro]

Mercenary has a pretty good one

https://youtu.be/47PfAI18eTc

Good, but Trantor remains on the lead, I’d say.

[5MinuteRetro]

I don't know if it's just nostalgia, but for an early game, I thought the intro to Bugaboo created a great atmosphere.

Yeah, it really did. Good call.

[Ast A. Moore]

North & South was pretty good and funny.

[Jbizzel]

survivisection

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27982

[+3code]

Amaurote

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... m/Amaurote

[5MinuteRetro]

Amaurote

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... m/Amaurote

I loved that game but didn’t remember the opening. It really is an epic!

https://youtu.be/K-M_a4VbuWk

[5MinuteRetro]

North & South was pretty good and funny.

Yep, that’s pretty cool!

https://youtu.be/RNUVWqaBgAM

[5MinuteRetro]

survivisection

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27982

Not perhaps as spectacular as others, but effort made, for sure.

https://youtu.be/bGjLjeax8hw

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Match Day. Funny tune.

[catmeows]

Predator, TMHT

[5MinuteRetro]

Match Day. Funny tune.

I think we’ll file that one under it’s so bad, it’s good.

[5MinuteRetro]

Predator, TMHT

Yeah, Predator seems pretty good. TMHT, not so much.

https://youtu.be/yVYR-ozm68k

[Vampyre]

The first four posts immediately came to mind but as soon as Amaurote was mentioned... The 128 version was astonishing for an 8-bit game alone but for a budget game on top to do that...

Trantor a close second.

[R-Tape]

Aeon is an orgy of cutscences from start to finish. They just seemed to be inexhaustibly sweating creativity while making it.

[equinox]

The Addams Family! It has very attractive Ocean and Paramount logos, lightning flashes, characters' heads and a text storyline, and great music. Not even a multiload (though it does require 128K). Adidas Championship Football is another good Ocean one, with a bit of multicolour.

I remember a Russian fan game too (Mortal Kombat?) that essentially had a scene demo at the beginning, with 3D rotating digitised heads of the creators. A bit overblown, but clever.

[stupidget]

I remember loading Trantor when it was on a Crash cover tape and was amazed by the intro. I used to load it just to listen to the music.

[Mort]

I would also Add Dan Dare (1st game) , with the Comic book style Dan and Digby speed over the asteroid

[Art]

Reaper, Hostages, Twilight.

[Audionautas]

Hi

In the modern era of Spectrum gaming I think Drift! by Zosya Entertainment wins hands down. It's simply stunning, it has everything, great visuals, great animation and really catchy music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohkJ-Uc4tk

[zup]

Freddy hardest had a small intro, and La Pulga had one of the earliest examples I've seen.

Besides that, Project: Stealth Fighter had a entire load to show an intro. And in Mig-29, the plane mutated into an F-14 for a small take-off sequence.

Some videos showing the intros...
- Freddy Hardest, past the long credits sequence and straight into the intro. It tries to show a drunk Freddy flying, colliding with an asteroid and crashing into the alien planet (rewind to see all the way through the credits).
- La Pulga, english intro.
- Project: Stealth Fighter: Intro / copy protection.
- Mig-29: Mig-29 Soviet Fighter.