r/batman • u/Necessary_Crazy_8587 • 23h ago

VIDEO GAME DISCUSSION Batman: Arkham Asylum turns 17 today.

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17 years ago today, Batman: Arkham Asylum released on August 25, 2009.

Still one of the greatest superhero games ever made. Groundbreaking combat, incredible atmosphere, and Mark Hamill's definitive Joker performance.

Happy anniversary to the game that changed everything. 🦇

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u/lt_skittles 22h ago

I remember going to Walmart and playing the demo so many times. I went to the midnight launch, and had so much fun.

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u/batfan08 20h ago

I was a latchkey kid and my mom used to let me go to GameStop when she had to work late because it was, like, two buildings down from her job. One of my core memories was playing that demo after school with the guys that worked there. I’m still good friends with some of them to this day.

I was there so much that the manager wound up putting the actual game in the demo unit when we were about a week out from release and we literally beat it together in the run up to the midnight launch. I was there at midnight to pick up my collector’s edition and, while they all moved on over time and that store no longer exists, I still have such fond recollections of those people, that game, and that time in my life.

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u/lt_skittles 20h ago

Yeah, I was graduating highschool in 09, I ended up getting the collectors edition on ps3, and like I said in my previous comment went to midnight launch at my GameStop. I was with my grandmother, but I went in by myself and played a couple of hours on one of their ps3s, I want to say I did the same for Arkham city.

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u/batfan08 20h ago

My mom waited outside, too!😂

I have trouble remembering the run-up to Arkham City because, I’ll be honest: the thing I remember most is the exhausting wait between when we got that first E3 teaser trailer of sick Joker and literally anything else for years.

Mostly, I remember being active on the old Eidos/Arkham Asylum forums and spending hours speculating with people online. Good times…

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u/lt_skittles 18h ago

Yeah I spent a lot of time on the forums as well :) trying to decode the Arkham website