10 Video Games You Loved As A Teen (But Should Never Play Again)

9. Mortal Kombat

Though 1992's Mortal Kombat birthed an iconic media empire and will always have its place in history for that reason, the original bloody brawler doesn't really hold up. Like, at all.

Compared to the decidedly superior Mortal Kombat II released the very next year, the original MK was relatively charmless and forgettable once you got past the photo-realism (for the time) of the visuals and, of course, the highly controversial, teen-baiting blood-letting.

The kernels of what made the series truly great in later instalments are definitely there, but without the exuberant personality of its sequels - particularly in the fatality, combo and roster stakes - it feels more like a malnourished proof-of-concept than an actual AAA fighter in its own right.