Lol I don’t miss that at all either! Starting up a game was some buffet-pick of:

NVIDIA - the way it’s meant to be played. ATI HAVOK engine. F-Mod BINK video EA GAMES - (challenge everything) Ubisoft purple tunnel video clip “This game might cause seizures BTW ask ur doctor idk.” “Graffiti is art but it’s a crime we didn’t make you do it.” (JSRF lol)

NOW LOADING. . . . . . . . .

FINALLY. Start menu.

And I remember clicking around and hitting ESC or the controller buttons in vain just out of sheer wishfulness. XD