Okay, I just played a really fun freeware game

It's a Sierra-style point-and-click adventure. It's freeware -- they just ask that, if you like it, you tell all your friends. So I am.

It was written in AGS, which is a development environment for making Sierra-style point-and-click adventures, and has nearly professional production values. I mean, for 1998 or so. It was apparently a senior project at Yale. I hope it was for a writing class or something, because programming in AGS isn't very challenging from a technical point of view, but WRITING an adventure game IS very challenging. And they did a marvelous job -- plot, puzzles, jokes, voice actors, cartoony graphics, and all.

If you've got a PC, and speakers, and a fast enough net connection that you can reasonably download 117 MB, and enough disk space that you can reasonably store 117 MB, then I highly recommend it. It follows the adventures of a teenaged girl who, instead of being sent to Miss Pernilla's Institute for Unwifely Women (A Facility for Correctional Charm), is accidentally sent to the Amazonian rainforest to foil the plot of the evil Baron von Dusseldorf.

http://www.gregames.net/dusseldorf.zip

Which Batman movies exist in YOUR mind?

So, I was just talking to my cousin Mike, who stated that Batman Begins is the first Batman movie made.

I disagreed, and pointed to Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and Mike conceded the point, changing his claim to "Batman Begins is the first live-action Batman movie.

But I was wondering: in your own personal brain, which of the following do YOU acknowledge the existence of?

The Batman: 1943 with Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft, a 15-episode Columbia serial.

Batman: 1966 with Adam West and Burt Ward ("Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb.")

Batman Fights Dracula: 1967 starring and directed by a bunch of people you've never heard of, somewhere in the Philippines

Batman: 1989 with Michael Keaton, directed by Tim Burton

Batman Returns: 1992 with Michael Keaton, directed by Tim Burton

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: 1993, animated, with Kevin Conroy as Batman, directed by Bruce Timm, written by Paul Dini.

Batman Forever: 1995, Val Kilmer, directed by Joel Schumacher

Batman & Robin: 1997, George Clooney, directed by Joel Schumacher

Batman: Dead End: 2003, Clark Bartram as Batman, written and directed by Sandy Collora -- an eight-minute independent film someone put together

Batman Begins: 2005, Christian Bale, directed by Christopher Nolan

Note I'm leaving out a number of direct-to-video movies, 'cause this is about Batman shown in movie theaters.