Street Fighter at 30: Why we love this hilariously bad video game movie

Table of Contents Video game movies didn’t have a great track record in the ’90s, as exemplified by 1993’s live-action Super Mario Bros. movie and the ill-fated Double Dragon film. Those two projects were followed in December 1994 by Street Fighter, an adaptation of Capcom’s hit fighting game franchise. The Street Fighter 2 game had revitalized arcades three years earlier, which made this film the second-most prominent video game adaptation to that point. It was also far more successful at the box office than either Double Dragon or Super Mario…

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