Well here’s something awful: the game based on the Street Fighter movie
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
And what a fiasco that was, as some might recall, back in 1994. Even so, a game was produced based upon it, using digitized takes on the actors from the movie, and yep, most sadly enough the horrific Jean-Claude Van-Damme was among them. Here’s a recording right here:
Let me say, first of all, that there’s one work of brilliance in this otherwise not-very-impressive competition game that I suppose is worth crediting: Chun-Li, I think, has a move where she jumps on top of the opponent’s shoulders and then slaps them silly. It’s a move so wackily brilliant in ways not unlike what some Japanese designers can come up with that you have to wonder why nobody else did anything similar. Then again, I figure that the badness of the movie this was based on, as well as the game itself, must’ve discouraged anyone from trying a really similar idea. It’s understandable.
The game bombed as a coin-op for at least 2 reasons: one, because nobody liked the rock-bottom movie it was based on, which came short of even making back the amount it took to film it, and two, because fans of Capcom’s original games didn’t find the digitized actors as appealing as the original animated sprites. Van-Damme alone takes away any appeal the game might have, assuming it ever did to begin with. You could also add to the list of detractors the rather deviant gameplay engine it had, another fault.
It was made by a small company called Incredible Technologies, which mainly designs cabinets for games sold in the US, but does have its own game output, such as the long-running Golden Tee golf series. Of course, they’re also responsible for putting out two other notorious monstrosities, Time Killers and its sequel, Blood Storm, and must I point out how sickening those games were, even with animated graphics? Bleah. They deserved for this to flop.
And the reason why this is getting posted here is because it’s at least more tolerable than those 2 aforementioned abominations, as well as Mortal Kombat, that other notorious game using digital graphics. That game will decidedly NOT be getting any spotlight post here due to how graphically violent it is. Hey, I have my limits.
