I've already established that I love a good game intro. Nothing can get you pumped for hours of button mashing better than an assault of high-octane music and flashy video.

Few games did this better than the early CD-based Japanese titles, which started mimicking the over-the-top openings that anime had used for years.

Burning Rangers for the Sega Saturn is a great example. Sure, the multiple images of characters running in front of strobing lines is exciting, but the song sells it:

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You can listen to the full song -- both in English and Japanese -- after the break.

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The Geekbox - Episode 48 (2010-01-14)
Wherein we discuss Torchwood, Tom Green's sheer idiocy, Demon's Souls, the Goonies, Bayonetta, Star Trek Online, the A-Team (including the first official Geekbox fanfic production), Avatar(d), Lost vs. Obama, Spider-Man 4's sudden downward spiral, and near-birthdays. Starring Ryan Scott, Karen Chu, Andrew Fitch, and Ryan Higgins.
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3D Dot Game Heroes -- The Hero's Tomb

3D Dot Game Heroes -- Water Temple

The 7th Guest -- The Game

The 7th Guest -- Skeletons in My Closet

 

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Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth -- Shi-Long Lang: Speak Up Pup!

Achievement Unlocked -- Main Theme*

Actraiser -- Bloodpool Theme

Actraiser -- Offering 

Actraiser -- Peaceful World

The Addams Family -- The Portrait Gallery

Advance Wars -- Grit's Theme

Advance Wars: Dual Strike -- Lash's Theme

Afterlife -- Track 2

Air Zonk -- Cyber City

Aladdin -- Arab Rock

Alan Wake -- Up Jumped the Devil by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Alien Hominid -- Main Theme

Amped 3 -- Menage a Brahs Rap

Animal Crossing -- K.K. Ballad

Animal Crossing -- K. K. Soul

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney -- Troupe Gramarye 

Aquaria -- The Light

Aquaria -- The Traveler

Aquaria -- Undiscovered Waters

Art Style: Light Trax -- Spectra 1*

Assassin's Creed 2 -- Ezio's Family 

Assassin's Creed 2 -- Venice Rooftops

Astyanax -- Stage 1 

 

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Bad Dudes -- Stage 2

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean -- Violet Storm

Banjo-Kazooie -- Gobi's Valley

Banjo Tooie -- Jiggywiggy's Temple*

Batman -- Stage 2*

Batman -- Streets of Desolation

Battlefield Heroes -- Main Theme

Beyond Good and Evil -- Home Sweet Home

Bionic Commando -- Bionic Commando (Rusko Remix)

Bionic Commando -- Stage 1

Bionic Commando Rearmed -- Main Theme Remix

BioShock -- Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin

BioShock -- Cohen's Masterpiece

BioShock -- Welcome to Rapture

BioShock 2 -- Waking Up in 1959

Bit.Trip Beat -- Transition

Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled -- Parting Ways

Blaster Master -- Area 1 Music

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger -- Rebellion (Ragna's Theme)

Blue Dragon -- Waterside

Blueberry Garden -- Valse by Daduk

Body Harvest -- Indoor Music*

Boom Blox -- Main Theme

Boom Blox -- Tiki Sacred Honor

Borderlands -- Ain't No Rest for the Wicked by Cage the Elephant

Borderlands -- No Heaven by DJ Champion

Braid -- Downstream

Brave Fencer Musashi -- Allucaneat Palace Theme

Breath of Fire 2 -- Fly Pudding

Breath of Fire 2 -- Windia

Brütal Legend -- Die For Metal by Manowar

Brütal Legend -- Girlfriend 

Bubble Bobble -- Main Theme (NES Version)

Bully -- Main Theme

Burning Rangers -- We Are Burning Rangers

Burnout Paradise -- Paradise City by Guns N' Roses

Bust a Groove -- 2 Bad

Bust a Groove -- Natural Playboy

Bust-a-Move -- Theme (Arcade Version)

 

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Call of Duty -- Call of Duty

Call of Duty -- Red Square

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare -- The Coup

Canabalt -- Main Theme

Capcom vs. SNK -- Sign

Castle Crashers -- Forest Entrance

Castle Crashers -- Race Around the World

Castlevania -- Vampire Killer

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night -- I Am the Wind

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night -- Lost Painting

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night -- Wood Carving Partita

Cave Story  -- Mischievous Robot (REMIX)

Cave Story -- Eyes of Flame

Cave Story -- Moonsong

Chime -- Brazil by Philip Glass Ensemble

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers -- Stage J

Chrono Cross -- Dream of the Shore Bordering Another World

Chrono Cross -- Dream of the Shore Near Another World

Chrono Cross -- Magical Dreamers

Chrono Cross -- Magical Dreamers: Wind, Stars, and Waves

Chrono Cross -- The Scars of Time

Chrono Cross -- Star-Stealing Girl

Chrono Trigger -- At the Bottom of Night

Chrono Trigger -- The Brink of Time Track 1 (REMIX)

Chrono Trigger -- Chrono Trigger

Chrono Trigger -- Corridors of Time

Chrono Trigger -- Guardia Millenial Fair

Chrono Trigger -- Schala's Theme

Chrono Trigger -- To Far Away Times 

Chrono Trigger -- To Far Away Times (REMIX)

Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross -- Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross Themes by Play! Symphony

Chu Chu Rocket -- Theme

Civilization 4 -- Baba Yetu

Clay Fighter -- Title Screen

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 -- Hell March 3

The Company of Myself -- Theme*

Conker's Bad Fur Day -- Great Mighty Poo

Conker's Bad Fur Day -- Windy

Contra -- Stage 1*

Contra 3: The Alien Wars -- The Final Gauntlet (Part 1, 2, & 3)

Courier Crisis -- Keep Your Hands on the Boogie by Hot Chicken Stew

Courier Crisis -- What You Believe by Big Drill Car

Crazy Taxi 2 -- No Brakes by The Offspring

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos -- And So the Adventure Begins

Cruis'n Exotica -- Menu 1

 

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Dark Cloud -- Main Theme

Dark Cloud 2 -- Rainbow Butterfly Woods

Dark Void -- Main Theme

Darksiders -- Darksiders Theme

Darkstalkers 3 -- Fetus of God

Darkwing Duck -- Title

Daytona USA -- Let's Go Away

Deadly Premonition -- FBI Special Agent

Deadly Premonition -- Life is Beautiful

Deadly Premonition -- The Woods and the Goddess

Déjà Vu -- Theme of Ace Harding*

Deus Ex -- Main Theme

Deus Ex: Human Revolution -- Theme*

Devil May Cry -- Flock Off!

Devil May Cry 3 -- Devils Never Cry

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness -- Beautiful Rondo

Donkey Kong Country -- Aquatic Ambiance

Donkey Kong 64 -- DK Rap

DonPachi -- Stage 1*

Doom -- Main Theme

Dr. Mario Online Rx -- Fever

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine -- Password Screen*

Dragon Quest VIII -- Overture 

Dragon Warrior -- Battle Theme

Duck Tales -- The Moon

 

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Earthbound -- Giygas' Theme (Pokey Means Business)

Earthbound -- Kraken of the Sea

Ecco the Dolphin -- Opening Theme

Echocrome -- Prime 5

Einhänder -- Street

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind -- Theme

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion -- Harvest Dawn

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion -- King and Country

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion -- Main Theme

Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil -- Beloved Tomboyish Girl

Enemy Zero -- Agony

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem -- Gateway to Destiny

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem -- The Gift of Forever and Ram Dao 

Eternal Sonata -- Pyroxene of the Heart

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Editor's note: The state of Japanese game development is an interesting subject. It's weird that, right now, I'm enjoying two very different RPG experiences -- one from Japan (Demon's Souls), and one from American (Dragon Age). And I'm really digging the Japanese game. Are you troubled by the state of Japanese development? -Jason

 

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The 2009 Tokyo Game Show's over and done with, and very little big news came out of the event. Sadly, instead of returning to the U.S. excited about what's on the horizon from the country that used to be the de-facto leader of the gaming world, the press slunk back, seemingly dismayed at the state of development in Japan.

Even with huge titles like Final Fantasy 13 and The Last Guardian on the way, a pall hovers above the Japanese horizon because their leadership in the games realm seems to be coming to an end.

In a September 28 post, Brian Crecente of Kotaku.com said that this year's TGS revealed "an industry scrambling to stay relevant in an increasingly Westernized gaming world."

Crecente's story went on to say that "Capcom's famed developer Keiji Inafune, the man behind such hits as Mega Man, Onimusha, and Dead Rising, warned that Japanese game development has one foot in the grave."

 

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Cologne's Gamescom is an avalanche of sausages and questionable haircuts. Today was media and exhibitors only…tomorrow, the gates open to the public and it really gets nuts. Here's what I've seen so far:

10AM-ish -- Microsoft/Lionhead Press Conference
I was promised a Microsoft/Lionhead press conference, but got the one-man Peter Molyneux show instead. The Fable creator made a quick announcement about Fable 2 episodic DLC, then launched into his main topic for the day, Fable 3.

"The third child is always the problem child," he said, and in true Molyneux's signature style, he teased a major tweak to the standard role-playing game format but wouldn't reveal exactly what he had in store. I think he said something about "removing a cornerstone."

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Editor's note: In the grand tradition of Folgers instant coffee commercials, I plan to switch out the innards of this multimillion dollar medical device with a Boong-Ga Boong-Ga arcade cabinet. Let's see if he notices the difference! -Demian

 

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Pilots are one thing -- you know, since they shoot the "enemy" -- but now doctors will benefit from video game playing, as well? I came across the above scan in a promotional flier at a local hospital in Redlands, CA earlier today. Personally, I don't know if I'd trust a doctor looking into the first iteration of Nintendo's Virtual Boy to cut me up...would you?

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Editor's Note: Get confused whenever you get ready to fire up one of your favorite multiplayer games or when you're trying to figure out if you have enough Xbox Live Points to buy the latest downloadable treat? Andrew Hiscock shares some of the things he feels are most confusing about games today. -Jason

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Videogame players have a remarkable ability to decipher complicated phenomena. Take your average videogame website. If you can navigate IGN.com, you deserve an honorary degree in geography. These skills are developed in dealing with our chosen hobby. User interfaces, hardware connectivity, and even the very games we play have developed a new tier of problem solving for humanity.

Should the world at large ever take these skills seriously, they would find a readily available segment of the population ready to be air-traffic controllers, IT consultants, and mediators for Middle East peace talks. If you can figure out any of the phenomena listed below, you'll be able to impress any old professor of quantum mechanics.

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Likes: What Nintendon't, Retro style, Pachinko
Dislikes: Console Manufacturing, Long dev times, New IPs
"Hi, all out there. A while ago I broke up with consoles, and now I'm playing the field. I'm happy where I am, and I'm not looking for commitment, just a night on the town and we'll see what happens. I'm a restless spirit, but don't call me whore, I'm just living my life!"

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