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 December 5, 2025 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.

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

10 hours ago, KirbyR said:

I actually think there’s still a place for video themes, especially in a frontend like LaunchBox where the whole idea is preserving and celebrating games. Static artwork does the job, but a well-made video theme can add atmosphere and make browsing a collection feel more like visiting a personal gaming museum.

That said, I can also understand why some people moved away from them. Creating quality video themes takes a lot of time, and not everyone has the hardware, storage space, or patience to maintain a large collection of videos.

The work you’re describing with Nostalgic Bedroom shows the difference between just adding motion and actually creating an experience. When a theme captures the era, style, and feeling of a game, it becomes more than decoration. It helps preserve the memory around the game, which fits perfectly with what platforms like LaunchBox are trying to do.

Thanks, Kirby. I honestly don’t know who you are — maybe you created your account just to reply, since I can see you’ve only posted one message. Maybe you come from another community or another frontend, I have no idea…

But honestly, your message is like a little light in the darkness. LOL.

You see, I tried posting something on Reddit again today. I thought, “Alright, maybe people have finally calmed down.”

Because honestly, Reddit has become a nightmare. It’s basically nothing but tech support now. One giant customer service page. Nobody shares images, creations, or original projects anymore. There’s almost nothing left.

And the second someone dares to share something they’ve created, they get torn apart. You can post something you’ve spent a huge amount of time working on, and people immediately come along and spit in your face. Then, once they finally realize it’s actually pretty cool, they come back smiling and ask you to give it to them. And if you say no, you get downvoted.

Honestly, it’s become awful.

And yet, it could be such a great community space. There could be so many interesting things being shared there. But now the whole place feels rotten to the core, and it’s such a shame.

What I genuinely cannot understand is that some people seem determined to destroy their own community. I have honestly never seen anything like it.

People coming from other frontends and visiting the LaunchBox Reddit must look at all this and think, “What the hell is wrong with these people? Are they eating each other alive? Are they cannibals or something?”

I have never seen a community shoot itself in the foot like this while insulting its own contributors. It is completely insane.

Part of me genuinely wonders whether some of these people actually come from competing frontends and are deliberately trying to poison the atmosphere. Because at this point, it is hard to believe that people who care about the community would behave like this.

There is clearly something that needs to be done on the moderation side, because right now they are allowing a small number of people to ruin the whole space. They are slowly poisoning everything, and honestly, it drives me crazy.

I’m a patient person, though. I gave it another try because two or three of my recent posts had gone fairly well. I thought maybe the atmosphere had changed… and then, bang, same story all over again.

I posted a comparison video about different themes, specifically to show the differences between several communities. I even made a real effort to highlight the work from both sides. And then some guy comes along and says something like, “What is this crap? Get this crap out of here.”

Four years ago, if someone had spoken like that on the forum, they would have been called out immediately, or even banned. Today, it just goes completely unchecked. There’s simply no respect anymore.

So honestly, thank you for your message. It genuinely feels good to see that at least one person understood what I was trying to do.

I still don’t know who you are, Kirby… but thank you. Seriously.

The video in question

 

 

Honestly, I don’t think there’s much that can be done, unfortunately unless there’s a genuinely active moderation team. But even then, it’s impossible to monitor everything and be there all the time. Reddit is Reddit, I guess… but it’s such a shame. Such a massive shame.

Because I have so many things I could share. And in reality, these people are shooting themselves in the foot, because what I could contribute would genuinely help LaunchBox move forward in a huge way.

There are so many things I know, so many ideas and techniques I would genuinely like to share. But all that negativity completely kills my desire to do it. It makes me not want to give anything anymore.

And the worst part is that they don’t even realize what they’re missing out on.

Anyway, I’m going to stop whining now — this isn’t the complaints desk. I’m going back to creating.

But honestly, I just don’t see much passion here anymore. It feels like some people are simply sitting there, waiting… waiting for someone to post so they can take a shot at them with a sniper rifle.

I’m so focused on creating things that, recently, I needed to make a few profiles for a project. I can’t really talk about the project here, but I created those profiles after spending a little time browsing Reddit.👀

And honestly, the result says everything.

So I suppose I didn’t lose everything after all. At least they managed to inspire me.😂

 

Sorry for the wall of text — I just needed to get it off my chest.

Anyway, as usual, nobody will probably reply.

I’m not even sure five or six people will see it. It’s such a tiny niche forum.

[Suhrvivor]

Extremely suspicious comments from new accounts linking to beting websites...

[JoeViking245]

8 minutes ago, Suhrvivor said:

Extremely suspicious comments from new accounts linking to beting websites...

Either I'm not seeing them, or someone else already "handled it".

[Suhrvivor]

Just now, JoeViking245 said:

Either I'm not seeing them, or someone else already "handled it".

Yeah, they're gone now.

[PadeMoNiuM Prods]

21 hours ago, Suhrvivor said:

Extremely suspicious comments from new accounts linking to beting websites...

That’s pretty sketchy. Did you check it properly? Be careful anyway. These things can be dangerous, and nowadays you really shouldn’t click on just anything. Especially when crypto is involved… it’s incredibly easy to end up with spyware or some kind of tracker just from clicking the wrong link.

They’re everywhere, seriously. I’ve had the same kind of thing happen on my Discord too. I honestly don’t see the point of someone coming in just to leave a message like that.

I’m becoming more and more suspicious of brand-new, empty profiles. They immediately look shady to me. Most of the time, it’s someone trying to get something from you, often coming from another community or another scene entirely.

I had loads of people like that messaging me privately when I released Zelda Ultima.

Anyway, just be careful, everyone.😉