From Pixels to Projectors: Hollywood's Video-Game Movies

Street Fighter, 1994
Vibrant story lines have never been a selling point for fighting games. That did not stop Hollywood from trying to squeeze a movie out of the highly successful Street Fighter franchise. Street Fighter, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, right, as William F. Guile and the late Raúl Juliá as General M. Bison, was a hodgepodge of character backstories tied together with a generic plot about Bison's bid for world domination. Worse, for a movie based on perhaps the most celebrated fighting game of all time, the fight sequences were remarkably underwhelming and lacked the video game's signature fighting moves — there wasn't even a single hadouken thrown out!

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