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Fighting Games that are so bad that they're Good


So Bad They're Good

Fighting game fan have all played that game that is so awful it's awesome.These are those games, and a can not stress enough that if you get a chance, sit down and make your friends play these fantasticly bad games with you. 

Criteria 

these games have been slected based on the following criteria. 
  • Cheese factor, a basket ball player fighting a mummy could just about win you a number one spot.

  • Bad Gameplay... but not to bad,  you still want the game to be playable, but ridiculously cheap combos and weird special moves are a plus.

  • Awesome/ Awful Character Design  

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Primal Rage

1. Primal Rage

This is what a 12 year old with a gaming company in the 90's would design... And it also feels like a 12 year old programed it. Strange characters, poor balance, Strange move execution,awesome game for children of the 90's.

Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire

2. Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire

At first glance you think, "what?" then after playing it you think, "what?". Thats the whole experience behind Jackie Chan in fists of fire. you almost can't believe its real.

Shaq Fu

3. Shaq Fu

The name alone, Shaq Fu, I really don't know what to tell you here. Its a fighting game featuring Shaquille O'Neal battling through an alternate universe. Yah I don't need to go any farther.

ClayFighter

4. ClayFighter

Claymation stop-motion graphics does not lend itself well to fluid balanced game play. When you look at the cover your thinking "oh they know its bad". After playing it Im not so sure, it was more of just bad, bad. Its sad to think that this may have been a legit try at a real fighting game

Killer Instinct

5. Killer Instinct

the thing that holds killer instinct back is the fact its almost a good game. Its too cheap and broken to be good ,but to well rounded and playable to be truly terrible. Playing the game just makes you wish it was a little bit better.