Batman Arkham Asylum
If you asked me what my favorite video game intro was in 2009, when I was in middle school and my hormones were doing all kinds of crazy things, I would say Batman Arkham Asylum. But, surprising to me, I don’t think that opinion is the consequence of eating too many strawberry flavored Nerds—it stands the test of time.
Though its key aspects—dour, foggy sky, a tense walk through Arkham Asylum’s Intensive Treatment center, the Joker escaping and launching bad puns at people after killing them (“The choke’s on you!”)—are moody middle schooler bait, the tension is tight enough to have generational appeal. Not everything has to change when the year does.
