Who Wants to Live Forever?!

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

Let’s be honest:
video themes are disappearing.
We see fewer and fewer of them.
And that’s a shame… a real shame.

A lot of people are going back to more classic methods, simpler approaches, “a PNG that doesn’t move”.
Nothing wrong with that — everyone does what they can, with what they have.
But video games deserve better than that.
They deserve interfaces that tell a story.

 

.So… didn’t you feel anything watching that video?

As for me, instead of giving up, I chose to do the opposite.
For five years, I’ve been building Nostalgic Bedroom:
hundreds of hand-animated views,
intros, reworked trailers,
full universes designed to last, not to vanish.

Over time, my themes slowly became something strange:
a kind of digital physicality.
A way to extend the life of games,
pull them out of the feed,
and protect them from the 48-hour hype cycle that erases 99% of the industry.

A cinematic theme isn’t “just a background that moves.”
It’s a time capsule.
A collectible piece.

A tribute to a studio, a trailer, an era.
A way of saying:
“Your game deserves to exist longer than a tweet.”

 

 

That’s what I’m trying to bring here.
A space where games keep existing.
Where the work of creators doesn’t get diluted.
Where trailers become pieces of an interactive museum.

So no, I’m not giving up on video themes.
No, I’m not going back to static images.
And yes, I’ll keep pushing this format / even if it’s no longer considered “cool”.

Because someone has to do it.
Because physical media is fading.
Because memory — real memory — has to stay.

That’s a part of what I’m trying to save.
That’s why I keep going

I’m not saying any of this out of arrogance.
Take it as the message of someone who keeps moving forward, experimenting, proposing — sometimes ahead, sometimes off the beaten path, but always trying to push this medium further.

Because abandoning video is impoverishing the medium.
It’s removing a layer of emotion, staging, memory.
And I refuse to let that disappear.

I’m simply defending an art that’s becoming rare.
An art that requires time, breath, passion.
An art that very few people still practice with consistency and quality.
And I’m not saying this to judge anyone — only to explain the “why” behind cinematic themes, and to remind everyone that they still hold real value today.

If you want to get back into it, try it, or simply understand how I do things — just ask.
I’m here to share, not to keep it all to myself.

Even if I’m not as active on the forum,
even if I won’t be posting or sharing for now,
I’m still out there, somewhere, crafting what I love crafting:
Pieces of memory.

And if this inspires even one person here to create something of their own… then I’ve already won.

Thanks to everyone who follows, comments, or simply takes a couple of minutes to read.
It means more than you think.

Feel free to react.
Feel free to create.
Feel free to show what you’ve got inside.

AND BE epic!

That’s how we keep video games alive.
Amen

Edited Friday at 05:02 PM by PadeMoNiuM Prods

[Jabb3rJaw]

I personally love video game themes and use some of yours. I notice most of your themes are for newer games. It would be nice to have sets of older systems like Atari, Sega, and the original PlayStation done. I was a Patreon before and found a handful of game themes on your site I could use but always wished there were complete sets for consoles done. 

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

3 hours ago, Jabb3rJaw said:

I personally love video game themes and use some of yours. I notice most of your themes are for newer games. It would be nice to have sets of older systems like Atari, Sega, and the original PlayStation done. I was a Patreon before and found a handful of game themes on your site I could use but always wished there were complete sets for consoles done. 

Thanks for your message!
And yes ! the full series do exist. But I only share them through direct links, and only with people I genuinely trust.

That’s how my Patreon works:
not “more subscribers = more money,”
but “a small circle built on trust and respect for the work.”

Having thousands of subscribers means nothing if the content ends up resold or spread everywhere.
I prefer a smaller community that’s loyal, careful, and respectful.
That’s also why you barely see any of my work on parallel markets.

Another issue here is visibility.
The content exists — it’s massive — but it’s not highlighted at all.
Creators are visible for maybe a week after posting, then everything sinks into the void.
The search engine struggles, and finding a specific PC theme among 300 topics… good luck.

I once suggested centralizing everything with other creators, but nothing really happened.
It’s a shame, because better visibility would motivate a lot of people again.

But hey… after fighting against the current for so long, at some point you step back a little

[Jabb3rJaw]

These are great but like you mentioned a little all over the place as far as systems. I would love to see PlayStation -full set then click on Atari 2600 - full set. Not download a bunch of files and move each one to their folders. I did not see full system sets on your Patreon and fortunately  I don’t know how you would prevent them from shared but I would rejoin or even pay for full system sets. 

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

1 hour ago, Jabb3rJaw said:

These are great but like you mentioned a little all over the place as far as systems. I would love to see PlayStation -full set then click on Atari 2600 - full set. Not download a bunch of files and move each one to their folders. I did not see full system sets on your Patreon and fortunately  I don’t know how you would prevent them from shared but I would rejoin or even pay for full system sets. 

First of all, what I’m going to do here is centralize all the major Launch Themes posts via a  another post: the ones from Sucra, Survhivor, Davmek, Ctrl Alt… and anyone else who wants to join the party.
Just send me an email and I’ll group everything together.
Honestly, I don’t see why the staff would be against it — it highlights the creators, makes searching easier, and everyone wins.

About the complete packs on my Patreon, it’s a bit different:
I work by collections and sagas, not by system.
I’ve made 60–70 of them easily — Megaman, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Kingdom Hearts, and so on.
For each saga, you get all the themes, clean and consistent.

“Per-console” packs are something I could do, but it’s not my format at the moment.
That said, your remark is genuinely interesting: I’m taking it into account, and I’m definitely considering moving in that direction.
I’ll start preparing best-set theme packs by system, ready to use — just copy and paste into the right folder.

And just for your information:
this type of pack already exists through EmuMovies.
They’re not the same style as mine (much simpler), but their service offers full console-based packs:
NES, SNES, Saturn, etc.
If your EmuMovies account is synced with LaunchBox, you can download all the cinematic themes for a given system, and LaunchBox will place them directly in the right folders.

Atari, however, never got a video theme pack — too old, too minimalistic.

But if you want to try EmuMovies, it can definitely help you out for several systems.