10 Greatest Video Game Movies Of All-Time

9. Street Fighter (1994)

Chances are that, if you only watched Street Fighter when you were a kid, you still think this movie is awesome. Most people who would admit to being fans have a nostalgic adoration, after all, though I'd still argue that - despite its b-movie aesthetics - Street Fighter is still way more fun to sit through than more recent, humourless video game film travesties like Hitman: Agent 47 and Need for Speed.

Also: how can you really hate a film that features Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia and a then-largely unknown Kylie Minogue? You cannot.

Really, though, the reason to seek out this film is for Julia's frankly insane performance as villain General M. Bison. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Julia took the role to appease his children before passing on, and the man just went to town. There is chewing the scenery, and then there is Raul Julia in Street Fighter. It's one of the greatest turns in a video game film, no question.

And so Street Fighter offers simple pleasures; it's just about the most unpretentious film ever made, invokes the silliness of the video game it was based on, and harks back to a time - 1994, to be precise - where technology wasn't quite good enough to do the things that the filmmakers wanted it to do. Which, in retrospect, comes across as more endearing than it does embarrassing.