Game introductions -- often a cut scene, sometimes mainly narration, sometimes interactive or including a tutorial, but before you have full control over what you do in the game.

Which game introductions do you remember the best?
Which are your favorites?

Here are some examples -- all games I played in my first two years of adventure gaming...

Grim Fandango (1998) -- One of the best. Introduces you to Manny. What a surprise when he took off his working shoes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBuMtIpVlq8

Secret of Monkey Island (1990) -- The mountain/volcano with the music at night. Nothing fancy, but that particular mountain and music are symbolic for those who enjoyed the original version of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySmLlHTV5rU

Myst (1993) -- Falling into the mysterious starry expanse. Myst fans will remember the closing phrase "perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30r0iRH73Q

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992) -- An extended, partially interactive introduction where Indy searches various rooms in the museum for a statuette. He falls through the floor numerous times and the credits display while he recovers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMSDHryYsb4

7th Guest (1992) -- Starts with the picture of the house, then tells the story of Stauf's rise to power. Less scary than corny, just like the rest of the game. The music is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Z-Q5KVTyI

Faust (1999) -- I had no idea what this introduction was about the first time I played the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sLZytieiz0
While I was playing, I had no idea I was playing as Marcellus Faust. As with many 1st person games that show your player character during cut scenes, I didn't understand that that was my character in the cut scene and thought it was somebody else.

Atlantis: The Lost Tales (1997) -- Flying to Atlantis in the air ship. (I loved those air ships)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASN_elfBUrs

Arthur's Knights (2000) -- Two introductions -- one partially interactive, before the pageboy character chooses the red or white book, another after. The intros to Bradwen's stories are pretty much the same whether you choose the red book to play as the Celtic knight (around 5:34 into the video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-_RiXXlHI
or the white book to play as the Christian knight (around 5:12 into the video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2hrDaoswA

One my favorite intros is this:

Dust: A Tale of the Wired West (1995)

Great intro, great narration during the opening credits (be sure to watch that), really sets the tone for the entire game. I loved the humor in this game, and the designers had obviously seen all the great Westerns and used that to their advantage.

The intro to Arthur's Knights (which you linked to above) is also one of my favorites.

Great topic Jenny.

I remember loving The Longest Journey into and here is another favorite.

Syberia

There are so many...I would go along with Syberia being one and another that drew me in was the intro to Phantasmagoria.

One of my favorite intros, for various reasons.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURIEAWm3-Q

The Dig !!

Drew me in right away and the music was fantastic too

That indeed has a great intro - the music is wonderful too!

Mad,

I loved The Dig. The music set the atmosphere for this great game.

thanks for bringing this up Jenny100, I agree with most of the Intros mentioned and the others I don't recall, another Intro that I absolutely loved was the 1st Gabriel Knight and the Music was FANTASTIC, to this day I still love that Tune and right now it is playing over and over in my head.

And let's not forget Eric Idle's song during the opening credits of Discworld 2:

Discworld 2

Hahaha !! Absolutely couldn't forget THAT !!

I generally find intros from older games more interesting, when they didn't look like animated Hollywood movies. The limited resources nurtured a creativity that we seldom see nowadays. Secret of Monkey Island, which already has been mentioned, is an excellent example of this.

Sam and Max, of course. You can't go better than a mad scientist being angry about getting "friendzoned", and then a police car busting through the wall with a dog and a rabbit coming out!

I should really play that game again.

Another one is Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6EZyasaVk

I think another game with an intriguing intro is The Riddle of Masterlu.

[ Love that game ]