In the ’90s, a new movie genre was born: The video game adaptation. And wouldn’t you know it, the decade saw six such releases before it wrapped up! So here are the first six movies based on a real video game:

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

From our review: “I would suggest that you go in knowing, as you probably already do, that it’s not an accurate adaptation, and instead view it as a sort of homage to the series, incorporating its basic elements into something entirely different and worth viewing as a stand-alone film.”

Double Dragon (1994)

From our review: “I seriously give this film props for investing deeply into this world, because they don’t just pay it lip service with a single throwaway reference and one flaming trash barrel. Every scene in this movie is informed by this bizarre setting, and you can tell that a whole lot of thought went into making it.”

Street Fighter (1994)

From our review: “Street Fighter is one of those stormtrooper flicks where only the faceless bad guys are ever shot and killed, where bullets veer wildly off their paths from the good guys to lodge into a metallic console, and where a puny pistol is far more deadly and accurate than a fully automatic AK-47.”

Mortal Kombat (1995)

From our review: “The game’s old rep notwithstanding, this is not a mean and nasty sort of movie. It’s a goofy, optimistic, friends-should-stick-together kind of movie that just also happens to involve massive Gothic sets and occasional supernatural powers.”

Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997)

From our review: “Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a bad movie.  That’s probably not surprising to you, considering it is not only a video game movie, but a SEQUEL to a video game movie.  Even in that realm of the damned, however, Annihilation stands apart as a whole different breed of suck.”

Wing Commander (1999)

From our review: “What surprised me the most about Wing Commander, though, was its slower pacing. A movie about spaceships would almost always lend itself to being more bombastic and action-packed, screaming from fight set piece to fight set piece, but a great deal of this movie was very… well, naval in the way it approached space stuff.”