I worked out that it is exactly 209 frames or 3.484 seconds from selecting continue to the first frame that Arnie spawns (sprite is visible on screen).

This could help for timing/frame counting of runs since most people dont have an input display for console, and some of them have a little bit of latency anyways.

Obviously this assumes that the player is holding A after continue is selected to get through the level screen as fast as possible.

Not that predator runs need to be frame counted, but thought it would be nice to have this information somewhere.

Today I learned you can hold A instead of mashing it like an idiot. This will surely help me optimize my runs. :D