Originally Posted by mattlach Originally Posted by

I always figured they were using the time that the video played to load game data in the background, and you were able to skip it, as soon as the game data was done loading (Sort of like the world building "in the beginning, the earth was withoutform and void" scene in Civ 1 that ran when it was creating the map - quite a difficult task for a 286... You could skip this sequence as soon as the map was generated in the background.)