10 Mortal Kombat Rip-Offs You Won't Believe Got Made

9. The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan - Kaneko (1995)

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Mortal Kombat was busy working its way onto the big screen just as big screen action legend Jackie Chan was trying to steal away quarters in the arcade from Mortal Kombat.

In terms of originality, The Kung-Fu Master wasn't a carbon copy clone of Mortal Kombat (to its credit), even if a moment of hearing the announcing and character sound bytes is enough to know exactly which game franchise it was emulating.

It was criticized for having a minuscule roster of characters, originally leaving Jackie Chan himself to last boss detail. As a result, the game underwent several revisions nearly immediately upon release, even resulting in an entirely new name: Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire: Legend of Jackie Chan.

Chan became a playable character - in fact, the player had the choice of using him in three different outfits (which still brought the grand total of playable characters only up to nine).

Despite doing alright in arcades, it never received a home port.

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Jason Russell has been working in video game journalism since the early 1990s before the internet existed, the term "fanzine" had meaning and sailors still debated as to whether or not the earth was flat. The first time. More recently he has been the guy responsible for the Retrospective column for Old School Gamer Magazine, pens up a Game Skinny column on a plethora of video game topics. He's somehow managed to author nine novels, writes and runs the blog CG Movie Review, is co-founder of the science fiction publishing house Starry Eyed Press, and sometimes, when the planets align and the caffeine has fully left his system, it's rumored he sleeps.