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

5. Kasumi Ninja - Atari (1994)

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Kasumi Ninja was the first of a proposed trilogy of Mortal Kombat clones for the Jaguar (the others being Ultra Vortek and Thea Realm Fighters). The trilogy stopped at two but suffice to say, the damage was done!

When yet another dark entity breaks the gate between our dimension and the underworld (would someone please put a better lock on that thing), the Preeminent Celestials select warriors to compete in a tournament to restore balance to the universe. We apologize if you've heard all this before, evidently part of MK cloning demands that your story be somehow become less intelligent with each iteration of the material.

Known for such things as bad controls, difficult menu navigation and unoriginality in every possible regard, Kasumi Ninja is perhaps best remembered for being the Mortal Kombat rip-off where the red-haired guy lifts his kilt and blows a fireball from his crotch.

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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.