lol Wow, those are some great examples. Sorta wishing the 360 did something like that with its installs. The only game I can recall doing anything like this off the top of my head is the Adventures of Willy Beamish Sega CD game. It just had like a screen saver thing while things loaded, which you could also access by simply pausing the game or whatever. And it was just a squiggley line that you could control as it veers around on screen. Pretty simple. But it means the idea was in place like 15 years ago. Its odd that it hasn't gotten more popular. Especially with smaller/newer developers that haven't figure out how to cut down their loading times substantially yet. It'd keep critics and fans from bitching about long loading times if they had something to do during it