Ranking Every Video Game Joker From Worst To Best

11. Commodore, 8-Bit, Game Boy And Early 16-Bit Iterations

Games: Batman The Caped Crusader, Batman (1989/1990), Return of The Joker, Revenge of the Joker, Batman: The Animated Series.

In the early days of companies gaining a penchant for the lucrative sensibilities of video games becoming genuine revenue generators, almost every popular license in existence was being outsourced to different developers.

Coincidentally, Batman just happened to have a gargantuan pop-culture resurgence around the same time, and with Tim Burton's theatrical interpretation exploding in the box office, plans to create tie-in video games were quickly being made.

The predominant issue that plagued a lot of these titles, both at the time and retrospectively, was that gaming wasn't anywhere near as technologically advanced as cinema, and a fair few elements were lost in translation due to this.

Mainly, the maliciously joyous personality of Nicholson's show-stealing performance as the Crown Prince of Crime. The main antagonist that featured in every video game accompaniment to the source material.

Perhaps people were able to heavily rely on their imagination more prominently during this infantile era. As the deplorable lack of personality imbued here - depending on your stance - is either laughably bad, or no laughing matter. The first appearance(s) of the Joker - despite being profitable - are not exactly prolific.