Startups

Startups are a short animation played before the game loads the main menu. Every Nitrome game has a startup and is always accompanied by the Nitrome Jingle.thumb|right|444px

Hot Air!
Hot Air's Driver is shown pumping up balloons in the shape of the word Nitrome.

Sandman
An image of Sleepwalkers being followed by Nightmares with the word Nitrome made of sand in the foreground near a bucket and shovel.

Chick Flick
After a pile of leaves move the Squirrels are shown by a wood carve-out of the word Nitrome while the Red Squirrel holds a chainsaw.

Roly Poly
Poly, in ball form, rolls into the word Nitrome and fuzz much like the hedgehog's appears on the words.

Feed Me!
A fly flys toward a pink flat shape, when the fly gets close the pink flat object snaps shut to form the word Nitrome.

Tanked Up
A Tank drives up and fires at a brick wall which collapses into the word Nitrome.

Scribble
The word Nitrome is scribbled in chalk.

Frost Bite
The Eskimo shoots her grappling hook on a snowy mass and is pulled up which shakes the snow loose revealing the word Nitrome.

Skywire
The word Nitrome slides in as indivdual letters along a rail.

Space Hopper
The word Nitrome starts as a blue blur and slowly comes into focus.

Dangle
A large pool of water is shown and is sucked down a drain, revealing the word Nitrome, which Dangle jumps out of.

Hot Air! Balloon Maker
A mimic of Hot Air's startup but with a different background.

Hot Air 2: All Blown Up
A mimic of the Hot Air!'s Startup but with a different background.

Square Meal
A variety of multicolored and mulitextured letters slide to form the word Nitrome.

Toxic
A magnet on a rod reaches into a pool of toxic and pulls up the word Nitrome.

Yin Yang
The word Nitrome is shown in white with a black background after a cord is pulled the colors reverse.

Nanobots
The word Nitrome is shown at a minuscule size and is zapped with electricity, this causes it to grow to normal size.

Off The Rails
The Cactus Brothers are shown sitting at a rail station, when a rail car with the word Nitrome on it rolls to a stop in front of the Cactuses

Headcase
Headcase jumps and smashes a large ping block and then jumps again to smash the other half, this reveals the word Nitrome.

Pest Control
A group of letters with fly wings fly randomly before a mini-Flyswatter arranges them into the word Nitrome.

Twang
Red, Orange, Blue, Green, Purple, Light Blue, and Goal wires pull in letters to form the word Nitrome.

Thin Ice
The Eskimo skates on a pond and bumps into a snowy mass which the snow falls off of the snowy mass to reveal the word Nitrome.

Snow Drift
Letters slide in from the left and right, flinging away two Penguins, and forming the word Nitrome.

Jack Frost
Jack Frost slides along Red and Pink blocks that form the word Nitrome and freezes them.

Aquanaut
Multiple bubbles float to the middle of the screen and pop to reveal the word Nitrome.

Dirk Valentine and the Fortress of Steam
Dirk's Clawshot flies across the screen grabs the word Nitrome off screen and drags it to the center of the screen.

Magneboy
A Magnetized "N" attracts the other letters of Nitrome.

Cheese Dreams
The letters of Nitrome bounce in from all areas of the screen.

Knuckleheads
Purple "Nitr" and Green "ome" bounce over eachother (Like the Knuckleheads without a chain) and come together in the middle of the screen.

Skywire 2
Same as Skywire, but the letters are different colors.

Small Fry
The cursor drags the letters of Nitrome into order and flies away.

Mutiny
Three Bombs land on a strip of land carving out the word Nitrome.

Final Ninja
The letters of Nitrome swing in on Ninja Rope.

Onekey
The letters of Nitrome fall into the screen at separate speeds on chains and crush the Red Feather Tribesmen.

Mallet Mania
The letters of Nitrome come onto the screen in small bursts of electricity.

In the Dog House
The letters of Nitrome are dragged in by the Cursor.

Numbskull
The letters of Nitrome fall in from the sky and bounce.

Bomba
Three Bombs blow Moss off of the word Nitrome.

Flipside
The letters of Nitrome slide onto the screen followed by the same streaks Flipsides make.

Toxic 2
A mimic of Toxic.

Fatcat
The Owl drags the letters of Nitrome onto screen.

Frost Bite 2
A mimic of Frost Bite.

Ice Breaker
The Viking Leader smashes the word Nitrome out of a layer of ice surrounding it.

Pixel Pop
A black square slowly turns blue from top to bottom on a multi-colored background to reveal the word Nitrome.

Flashcat
A very long Robotic Bug walks onto the screen with the word Nitrome on its back.

Twin Shot
Both Angels simultaneously shoot a Chest that throws the word Nitrome into the air and onto the ground.

Mirror Image
The Warlock poofs in the letters of Nitrome, and like all menu screens in Mirror Image, is flipped for a few seconds before going to the next screen.

The Glassworks
A Hobo drives a large hover car with the word Nitrome on a trailer, and then drops it in the middle of the screen.

Ice Breaker: The Red Clan
A mimic of Ice Breaker, but with the Viking Leader being replaced for the Red Viking Leader

Rustyard
Rusty plugs himself into the word Nitrome and lights it up.

Final Ninja Zero
The letters of Nitrome slide in, transparent because of Stealth, and appear in the middle of the screen.

Powerup
The letters "Itrom" fall between the "N" and the "E" and complete the electrical current causing Sparks to go between the letters and light up the word Nitrome.

Droplets
The letters of Nitrome drop from the sky on parachutes.

Double Edged
The Spartan hacks at a statue of a Mermaid that reveals the word Nitrome. After the Spartan leaves an Artist comes, says "Oh! My Statue!" and cries over his lost work.

Castle Corp - Castleware for All Occasions
Multiple Knights smash a fortress wall and two Cannons to reveal the word Nitrome.

Parasite
The Parasetic Alien stabs the lime green colored word Nitrome, which turns to the gray-green color creatures turn when taken over.

Twin Shot 2 - Good & Evil
A mimic of Twin Shot's.

Rockitty
The letters "Nitrome" land on a big Normal Planet, and Rockiity flies above the planet.

Nebula
The letters nitrome slowly light up yellow, starting from the "N", and ending at the "E", then there is a yellow flash, and the blue Outer Space is visible.

Cave Chaos
The Bats place three Green Crystals, and then a Red Crystal a little bit farther and a little bit higher then the Green Crystal. Then the bats place four Purple Rock Platforms underneath the green crystals, and the Brown Miner jumps onto the purple rock, runs to collect the three Green Crystals while the Purple Rock falls off the screen (Revealing the word Nitrome), then jumps off the screen to collect the Red Crystal.

Graveyard Shift
The Red Target shoots three segments of Living Moss, till the Moss is gone, revealing the word Nitrome.

B.C. Bow Contest
The letters nitrome are shot onto the screen, with each of the seven letters making the word Nitrome, attached to the back of seven arrows.

Cold Storage
The right arm of the Giant is seen holding the word Nitrome by the "e", and gives it to the Giants right arm, which puts it onto a platform of Ice.

Ice Breaker: The Gathering
A Mimic of the original Ice Breaker Startup, except the Elder Clan Leader breaks the ice around the word "Nitrome".

Avalanche
A penguin pulls a sled towards the bottom-left edge of the screen. The sled has Nitrome's logo on it.

Rubble Trouble
A metal hand comes down and pulls the top of a building off, revealing the yellow Nitrome Logo.

Skywire V.I.P
The Skywire startup.

Blast RPG
The Pig Cannon shoots out the 7 Nitrome letters.

Tiny Castle
The Wizard uses a spell and makes all the Nitrome letters grow up, only until one letter doesn't grow up. The Wizard struggles trying to make it turn up, turning red twice. The letter then grows up.

Chisel
Chiseller drills down a large Nitrome "N", then drills through all the Nitrome letters.

Bullethead
The nitrome letters are all floating in the air. The "N" and "E" of the Nitrome logo move over to each other, then turn around and shoot down all the other letters. The N and the E turn to face each other, with the E shooting the N and the N shooting the E, falling into place.

Fault Line
Several gaps in the screen join together to form the Nitrome logo.

Ribbit
The letters N-I-T-R, Pink, and the letters O-M-E jump around before jumping into position, making the Nitrome logo.

Worm Food
A Villager walks onto the screen. The Nitrome logo, in the sky, moves over to the villager, then roars, scaring it away.

Temple Glider
The yellow Nitrome logo emerges out of the sand wrapped in bandages.

Sky Serpents
The Young Norse Warrior falls from the Sky, then stabs his knife into the lime green Nitrome logo, the jumps up on it.

Enemy 585
Turner, wit the "OME" part of the Nitrome logo navigates himself into a spot so the "OME" connects with the "NITR"..

Super Treadmill
The Game Cartridge for Super Treadmill is put into the Nitrome Enjoyment System. The "P" button is pressed several times. The Cartridge is taken out, blow on, and put back into the System. The P button is pressed on again, this time successful. The Message shown when a game cartridge is put into the original Nitrome Enjoyment System is shown, with directions at the bottom saying to ignore it.

Bad Ice-Cream
A Vanilla Ice Cram Character blows, out of his mouth, the Nirrome logo made of ice.

Rush
Several fast streaks fly onto the screen, bringing on the Nitrome letters, before a final streak goes through the complete Nitrome logo.

Test Subject Blue
The syringe of the Blue Enzymes are dropped form "nitrome".

Chisel 2
Mimic of chisel except chiseler is rocket jumping.

Steamlands
Two tanks that have NITR and OME are battling,the NITR tank loses and the OME tank takes the letters NITR forming 'nitrome"

Test Subject Green
The Orange Enzyme form "nitr" while the blue enzymes form "ome" then they collide into forming a Green Enzymes forming "nitrome'.

Silly Sausage
The silly sausage cartridge is connected to the game muscle cartridge and it's connected to the controller and play is push.

Rubble Trouble Tokyo
A Pachinko lands on a building, bounces a few times, then explodes, leaving the word 'Nitrome'.

Gift Wrapped
The word Nitrome covered in snow is shown in the middle of the screen, while snow falls.

Magic Touch
The Wizard makes the word Nitrome appear in multiple colors.

Go! Go! UFO
A mimic of Space Hopper, but with pink letters instead of blue.

Snot Put
The letters of Nitrome in snot fly onto the screen from the side, land, and jiggle before settling.

Cosmic Cannon
A mimic of Cheese Dreams.

Squawk
Squawk is pulled over by the Wheel Peg, just before the Nitrome logo in green pops up in front of him.

Four Play
The word 'nitrome' comes falling out of the ceiling and then the Pink Alien flies past and off the screen.