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Putting all this shit behind cuts, because it's mostly just a buttload of Youtube embeds.
Console start up routines. (Only including ones for which I ever personally touched the actual hardware at least once with my own two hands, either that I owned myself or at least borrowed for an extended time from a friend. I know there are some other good ones out there, but if I included them all I'd be here all night.) This shit is my childhood (and teens and early adulthood). NES, SNES, and others are not included because they simply didn't have start up jingles, at least that I was ever aware of, anyway.
(Also, god damn, I completely forgot how totally fucking sick that Sega CD thing was, as that was one that I only ever borrowed rather than owned myself at some point.)
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo DS
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo Wii
Sega CD/CDX
Sega Dreamcast
Sony Playstation
Sony Playstation 2
Sony Playstation 3
Sony PSP
Microsoft Xbox
Microsoft Xbox 360
Company/publisher/developer specific logo jingles. These are the ones that played after any of the above (or were usually the first things you heard on something like SNES or whatever that didn't have a system start-up sound). I'll mostly be including compilation videos here, but if I can't find what I want in that format, I'll use individual videos. Mostly of the general, traditional jingle, but if there are any game-specific ones that I remember particularly fondly, I'll include those, too. I might also give more commentary on these than I did above.
Capcom
I was going to say that I mostly only remember the one(s) from the first 30 seconds or so, as that was the one that was at the start of pretty much every SNES/Genesis/etc. Capcom game, but then I recognized that lasers-hitting-blocks intro, too, and I definitely remember the QSound logo from my PS1 copy of Street Fighter Alpha 3, which was the version of that particular game that I played by far the most. And the one at the end (a modernized version of the first one), I'd never heard it prior to now but it's pretty smooth, too.
Ah, the days when Capcom didn't suck.
Konami
Okay, so Konami apparently had several other logos, but I'm only going to include the two here that I actually remember.
The main one (SNES version):
The main one (Sega Genesis version):
The special one they used for Metal Gear Solid on the PS1:
Seriously, scroll up and play the PS1 start-up sound vid, then wait a few seconds, then play this one. That was the start of the Metal Gear Solid experience. Also, a neat fact about this one, which I didn't find out until many years later... this one actually originates from a track from Policenauts, another Hideo Kojima game.
Ah, the days when Konami didn't suck rancid, rancorous asshole.
Those two are honestly the main two that I remember from my old console days being particularly memorable, so now I'm going to switch over from console to PC games.
Sierra On-Line
My favorite, of course, was the main, traditional one, associated with their heaviest hitters, like the King's Quest games (5 and 6, anyway) and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. However, I did like the more game-specific ones, like the ones for Leisure Suit Larry 3, 6, and 7, Space Quest 6, Phantasmagoria, and The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, aka GK2. (I actually didn't much care for the one for GK3, though.) And, of course, the special one for Shivers, with the wind sounds and wolf howl, rarely fails to give me literal shivers when I hear it (which is far more often than I've ever played the actual game).
Requiescat in pace, Sierra On-Line. I guess all of their IP belongs toActivision BlizzardMicrosoft now? Ugh. As if they'll ever do anything with it, and even if they do, as if it'll be any actual good. Double ugh.
LucasArts
This isn't necessarily the best video for my purposes here, because it's showing more of the intros of the games than just the company logo in some cases, but... yeah.
Makes me want to replay Loom again... and all the Monkey Island games... and the Indiana Jones games... and Day of the Tentacle... and Sam and Max Hit the Road... and Full Throttle... and The Dig... and Grim Fandango... and at least some of those Star Wars games...
Hell, even of the games I didn't recognize and haven't ever played, which was probably at least a third of the total (at least half or more of them were fucking Star Wars games that I mostly don't give a shit about), it made me kind of want to at least look into them and see what their deal is.
Honestly, out of all the companies, it seems like LucasArts was the one that had the most fun with the logo for each game.
Too bad they got assimilated by Disney along with LucasFilm and all the rest and then unceremoniously shitcanned. Resistance is futile.
Valve
This was also used as the power up sound for when you finally (re)acquired the HEV suit in Half-Life 2. It's actually a full piece of music on the soundtrack. (Tangentially speaking, it kind of reminds me a bit of "(When) Your Middle Name is Danger" by Trocadero, aka the Meta's theme from Red vs Blue [which is one of the very few specific things I actually remember about RvB these days, but I digress].)
Remember the good old days when Valve actually used to make video games, instead of just run Steam? I miss those days.
Westwood Studios
Mainly for the Command & Conquer: Red Alert intros, really. I mean, it's fucking "Hell March" after all. But... this also reminded me of The Legend of Kyrandia... and Blade Runner... Oh, and how many other video game developers just straight up had their name read out loud by Patrick Stewart at the start of it? I really need to give the Lands of Lore games another shot one of these days, too...
FUCK YOU, EA, YOU KILLEDULTIMAWESTWOOD STUDIOS!!! (AND ALSO ULTIMA!!!) FUCK YOU!!!
Okay, while I probably could keep going with this, I think I'll stop there. (I mean, it's already overlong as it is.) These company specific ones are starting to depress me, due to the associated demoralizing modern video game industry bullshit.
(EDIT) Wait, no, how could I have possibly forgotten Egosoft? Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video that was just the (original, superior) logo, so here is a longplay video of X: Beyond the Frontier, though you only need to watch the first 30 seconds or so to see the logo. (/EDIT)
Console start up routines. (Only including ones for which I ever personally touched the actual hardware at least once with my own two hands, either that I owned myself or at least borrowed for an extended time from a friend. I know there are some other good ones out there, but if I included them all I'd be here all night.) This shit is my childhood (and teens and early adulthood). NES, SNES, and others are not included because they simply didn't have start up jingles, at least that I was ever aware of, anyway.
(Also, god damn, I completely forgot how totally fucking sick that Sega CD thing was, as that was one that I only ever borrowed rather than owned myself at some point.)
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo DS
Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo Wii
Sega CD/CDX
Sega Dreamcast
Sony Playstation
Sony Playstation 2
Sony Playstation 3
Sony PSP
Microsoft Xbox
Microsoft Xbox 360
Company/publisher/developer specific logo jingles. These are the ones that played after any of the above (or were usually the first things you heard on something like SNES or whatever that didn't have a system start-up sound). I'll mostly be including compilation videos here, but if I can't find what I want in that format, I'll use individual videos. Mostly of the general, traditional jingle, but if there are any game-specific ones that I remember particularly fondly, I'll include those, too. I might also give more commentary on these than I did above.
Capcom
I was going to say that I mostly only remember the one(s) from the first 30 seconds or so, as that was the one that was at the start of pretty much every SNES/Genesis/etc. Capcom game, but then I recognized that lasers-hitting-blocks intro, too, and I definitely remember the QSound logo from my PS1 copy of Street Fighter Alpha 3, which was the version of that particular game that I played by far the most. And the one at the end (a modernized version of the first one), I'd never heard it prior to now but it's pretty smooth, too.
Ah, the days when Capcom didn't suck.
Konami
Okay, so Konami apparently had several other logos, but I'm only going to include the two here that I actually remember.
The main one (SNES version):
The main one (Sega Genesis version):
The special one they used for Metal Gear Solid on the PS1:
Seriously, scroll up and play the PS1 start-up sound vid, then wait a few seconds, then play this one. That was the start of the Metal Gear Solid experience. Also, a neat fact about this one, which I didn't find out until many years later... this one actually originates from a track from Policenauts, another Hideo Kojima game.
Ah, the days when Konami didn't suck rancid, rancorous asshole.
Those two are honestly the main two that I remember from my old console days being particularly memorable, so now I'm going to switch over from console to PC games.
Sierra On-Line
My favorite, of course, was the main, traditional one, associated with their heaviest hitters, like the King's Quest games (5 and 6, anyway) and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. However, I did like the more game-specific ones, like the ones for Leisure Suit Larry 3, 6, and 7, Space Quest 6, Phantasmagoria, and The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, aka GK2. (I actually didn't much care for the one for GK3, though.) And, of course, the special one for Shivers, with the wind sounds and wolf howl, rarely fails to give me literal shivers when I hear it (which is far more often than I've ever played the actual game).
Requiescat in pace, Sierra On-Line. I guess all of their IP belongs to
LucasArts
This isn't necessarily the best video for my purposes here, because it's showing more of the intros of the games than just the company logo in some cases, but... yeah.
Makes me want to replay Loom again... and all the Monkey Island games... and the Indiana Jones games... and Day of the Tentacle... and Sam and Max Hit the Road... and Full Throttle... and The Dig... and Grim Fandango... and at least some of those Star Wars games...
Hell, even of the games I didn't recognize and haven't ever played, which was probably at least a third of the total (at least half or more of them were fucking Star Wars games that I mostly don't give a shit about), it made me kind of want to at least look into them and see what their deal is.
Honestly, out of all the companies, it seems like LucasArts was the one that had the most fun with the logo for each game.
Too bad they got assimilated by Disney along with LucasFilm and all the rest and then unceremoniously shitcanned. Resistance is futile.
Valve
This was also used as the power up sound for when you finally (re)acquired the HEV suit in Half-Life 2. It's actually a full piece of music on the soundtrack. (Tangentially speaking, it kind of reminds me a bit of "(When) Your Middle Name is Danger" by Trocadero, aka the Meta's theme from Red vs Blue [which is one of the very few specific things I actually remember about RvB these days, but I digress].)
Remember the good old days when Valve actually used to make video games, instead of just run Steam? I miss those days.
Westwood Studios
Mainly for the Command & Conquer: Red Alert intros, really. I mean, it's fucking "Hell March" after all. But... this also reminded me of The Legend of Kyrandia... and Blade Runner... Oh, and how many other video game developers just straight up had their name read out loud by Patrick Stewart at the start of it? I really need to give the Lands of Lore games another shot one of these days, too...
FUCK YOU, EA, YOU KILLED
Okay, while I probably could keep going with this, I think I'll stop there. (I mean, it's already overlong as it is.) These company specific ones are starting to depress me, due to the associated demoralizing modern video game industry bullshit.
(EDIT) Wait, no, how could I have possibly forgotten Egosoft? Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video that was just the (original, superior) logo, so here is a longplay video of X: Beyond the Frontier, though you only need to watch the first 30 seconds or so to see the logo. (/EDIT)
