10 Video Games That Are So Bad They’re Actually Awesome

7. Survival Arts

There's something inherently funny about digitised games from the 90s. In the absence of photo-realistic graphics, while some developers wisely decided to make the most of lovely pixellated graphics, giving us aesthetically timeless classics like Street Fighter II, others dressed up a bunch of out-of-work actors in silly clothes and mo-capped them in a futile strive for realism.

This worked out pretty well for Mortal Kombat, but for every Mortal Kombat, there were 10 games like Survival Arts - an abomination of a fighting game filled with unintentionally comical characters, chaotic backgrounds, and Dantel - a final boss who looks like a fusion of Jon Bon Jovi and Pete Burns and starts spewing cut-out black-and-white images of Mussolini, Hitler and other famous dictators when you defeat him (check out the video below).

Clearly none of the actors have martial arts experience, resulting in 'high' kicks that barely reached above the waist, limited move sets, and punches that, well, just don't look like punches. It plays terribly, but you'll be too busy laughing at the odd backgrounds, robotic sound-bites and the sheer campiness of it all to care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIl9FBcTodQ

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