Ah, menus. Where would we be without them? From the lowliest hobo to the mightiest Hitler, menus have enriched our lives for centuries, enabling us to do everything from ordering food at restaurants to hiring prostitutes over the telephone. They are a testament to the strength of the human spirit – to our capacity as a species to impose order and meaning on a chaotic and sometimes hostile universe. Without menus, society would sink into a morass of infinite indecision, and the world as we know it would simply cease to be.

But in the futuristic cyberworld of videogames, where all bets are off and anything goes, it is often all too easy to overlook the importance of menus. The sad truth is that most gamers don’t even acknowledge their existence, and those that do tend to regard them as little more than a necessary inconvenience. And yet – what would a game be without menus? How would it start? How would it stop? How would it save and load? Without menu screens ... how would it be a game at all?

It wouldn’t be. Games are about interactivity, and interactivity is a function of choice. And what facilitates choice?

Menus.

So that’s why we did this thing.  

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