10 Mortal Kombat Rip-Offs You Won't Believe Got Made
7. Street Fighter: The Movie - Capcom (1995)
This is like something out of the film Inception, without Christopher Nolan's ego. Street Fighter II inspired Mortal Kombat. Street Fighter: The Movie is a game based on the movie based on the game - only it was clearly inspired by Mortal Kombat instead.
Confused? Me too.
All you need to know is Street Fighter: The Movie digitized the film's actors and turned them into a dull, choppy one-on-one experience in arcades in 1995, and then on the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation - right when Mortal Kombat 3 was on top of the world.
Strangely enough, Capcom opted to farm out development to Incredible Technologies, a company best known for arcade golf and bowling titles, rather than do it themselves.
The game was quickly forgotten but left a bitter enough taste in the mouths of Street Fighter II fans to be generally excluded from the franchise's rich canonical history, instead becoming a sort of black sheep spinoff to the Capcom legacy.