The List, Part 2

18. City Hunter, 1993: Jackie Chan as Chun-Li

I love Jackie Chan and all, but he's made a few truly bad movies. The live action "City Hunter" film, based on the popular Japanese manga series, certainly belongs in that category. This might be the most wretchedly bad scene on this list, but it has to be included, if for no other reason than its infamous, show-stopping badness. In the clip, Chan is fighting a pony-tailed bad guy in what appears to be a large arcade room. During the fight, he's thrown into an arcade game and is electrocuted. Chan falls into a dream-like state and sees Street Fighter II playing. Suddenly, he imagines himself and his opponent as Street Fighter II game characters - namely Ken and E. Honda - complete with the game's original music and sound effects. The fight scenes features impossibly bad live action replications of the game's signature combat moves, and Chan begins to transform into different characters of the game, including Guile and, in the scene's most awful and infamous segment, Chun-Li. Seeing Jackie Chan dressed like Chun-Li and imitating her fighting moves and victory giggles was almost as bad as seeing Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze in "To Wong Foo..."
Clip: Jackie Chan goes Street Fighter II
Real Game?: Yes, the immortal Street Fighter II.
Primary Message: Chun-Li rules and can kick any guy's butt.
Secondary Message: Even the greatest movie stars in the world make a few regrettable choices in their otherwise illustrious careers.
Trivia: City Hunter was actually made into a video game of its own for TurboGrafx-16 in 1990.
Quote: "Ha-ha-ha! Yata!"

Jackie Chan as E. Honda in "City Hunter." It gets worse...

Oh wow....

17. The Wizard, 1989: Super Mario Showdown

In terms of milestones in the portrayal of video games, "The Wizard" owns a crucial piece of history because it features an actual video game tournament. The story deals with Jimmy (Luke Edwards), a nine-year-old video game prodigy who nonetheless is catatonic after witnessing the tragic drowning of his sister. Jimmy's older half-brother Corey (played by Fred Savage) kidnaps Jimmy to prevent his stepfather and mother from putting him in a psychiatric hospital. Corey and Jimmy runaway to Los Angeles with another runaway Haley (Jenny Lewis), and Corey hatches a ridiculous plan: he'll enroll Jimmy in the Video Armageddon gaming tournament to win the prize money and also prove that Jimmy doesn't belong in a mental institution. Meanwhile, Corey's father (Beau Bridges) and older brother (Christian Slater, paying the bills in between "Heathers" and "Pump Up the Volume"), as well as a bounty hunter hired by the stepfather, try to chase down the trio of hitch-hiking youngsters. The movie culminates with the little Pinball Wizard Jimmy playing in the Super Mario Bros. 3 championship and beating hated rival and reigning champ Lucas Barton (who looks suspiciously like a young Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel).
Clip: Jimmy wins the tournament
Real Game?: Yes, Super Mario Bros. 3.
Primary Message: Video game tournaments are fun for the whole dysfunctional, mentally disabled family.
Secondary Message: If you're on the verge of being institutionalized as a child, the best bet is to runaway to L.A.
Trivia: "The Wizard" is also noted for prominently featuring the Nintendo Power Glove, which never caught on despite heavy marketing.
Quote: "Come on shorty, I love ya!"

The Super Mario Bros. 3 championship tournament at the end of "The Wizard."

Fatal1ty look-alike Lucas Barton, with the Power Glove, in "The Wizard."

16. Nightmares (1983): The Bishop of Battle!

Wow. I had to go deep in the well to dig this one out. An outrageously bad 80s horror movie, "Nightmares" is actually a collage of four different stories. The second episode is titled "The Bishop of Battle" and it focuses on J.J. Cooney (played by a young Emilio Estevez) who's obsessed with video games and spends most of his time mastering the arcade title Bishop of Battle. After getting grounded, he breaks into the arcade and tries to beat the Bishop once and for all, only to find that the game has come to life and is suddenly attacking him. But the Bishop is too powerful and the game pulls a "Tron" on poor J.J. and sucks him into the video game world. The movie ends with J.J.'s friends returning to the arcade the next day to find a mini-Estevez stuck on the Bishop of Battle's game screen. Comically horrendous, this scene is nonetheless memorable for its unintentional humor and amazing ability to take itself far too seriously (for more, check out this feature from I-Mockery.com).
Clip: This isn't the final battle, but here's a clip of J.J. playing the arcade game at the start of the movie.
Real Game?: No, and thank God for that.
Primary Message: a horror movie with a theme about the dangers of obsessive video game playing isn't a winning combination.
Secondary Message: 80s movies - and their stars - don't age well.
Trivia: James Tolkan (Principal Strickland from "Back to the Future") provided the voice of the Bishop of Battle.
Quote: "Greetings, earthling. I am the Bishop of Battle, master of all I survey. I have 13 progressively harder levels. Try me if you dare."

Emilio Estevez is about to get owned by the Bishop of Battle in "Nightmares," and that's what he gets for taping Larry Lester's buttocks together.