23. Street Fighter: The Movie (console, 1995)

1994’s so-bad-it’s-classic Street Fighter movie actually spawned two completely different fighting games. Incredible Technologies’ arcade game was a legendary mess more akin to Mortal Kombat, but I’d always heard Capcom’s PlayStation and Saturn home version was more like Super Street Fighter II Turbo, only with homely, digitized sprites of Jean Claude Van Damme and co. Sounded like a fun lark!

In fact, saying Street Fighter: The Movie “plays like Super Turbo” is kinda like saying legendary Famicom pirate knock-off Somari “plays like Sonic the Hedgehog”: superficially true, but overlooking a lot of fuckin’ details. Yeah, you got your basic six-button Super Turbo action here, but running like molasses and ugly as sin thanks to the choppily animated digitized characters.

There’s definitely a car accident factor in that it’s fun to mess around with Street Fighter: The Movie while wondering what Capcom was thinking. The game’s not a complete Way of the Warrior-esque digitized misfire, but a quick session or two will be plenty to assuage most people’s curiosity. — Alexandra Hall