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Title screen

The screen a game shows before play, with its name and a menu, its options, and often an intro or a demo after a while.

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The title screen is a game’s front door. It shows the name and a menu, such as the number of players, and often leads to an options screen that sets up the next game. If the player waits, it often plays an intro or a demo.

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Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels 1986GameMenuRoutine and DemoEngine are Super Mario Bros.'s menu and demo, rewritten in part: the menu drops the one- or two-player choice and the world select, and starts the game at world 1, or at world A when A is held and the game has been beaten 8 times; Select switches between Mario and Luigi; the demo plays new button presses and durations through the same code.Code