After Street Fighter 2's release in 1991, both the arcade and home consoles would see a flood of imitators hit the market. Alpha Denshi (later ADK) would bring us the World Heroes series, Konami had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters.... there was Body Blows, Power Move, Kaiser Knuckle, the list could go on forever. Most of these games were trash. When the dust finally settled, only one of them really stands out to me as worth revisiting. That honor goes to the Data East classic Fighter's History Dynamite, also known as Karnov's Revenge. Karnov's sets a golden standard for kusoge; a ridiculously broken game that remains entertaining by sheer spectacle. Objectively, we know this game is horrible but it doesn't matter when you can make Karnov turn into a balloon and spit fire. Nothing in Street Fighter 2 ever came close to the sheer exhilaration of Clown telling me to "pick a card." Matlok anti-airing by thrusting his entire body upwards in a strange leap-frog manuever. Marstorious setting up inescapable throws from full screen by sliding towards you with a blood-curdling screen. It is pure kino. No imitator will ever do it like Karnov did, and that is a good and bad thing at the same time.