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

7. Street Fighter: The Movie - Capcom (1995)

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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.

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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.