Time to relive the 90s with the classic fighter series
So there I am, way back in 1996 just ripping into my Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 opponents at my local favorite arcade, Tilt, at Lakeside Mall. I had just picked up my N64 from Electronics Boutique the week prior and was back to buy some accesories before Christmas, so I decided to take a shopping break and hit up the arcade. I was KING shit on that game. So much so, in fact, that the arcade had cleared out and most of my opponents went home.
I was about to hit the final battles in the climbing tier when all of a sudden a giant pair of hands appears next to me on the board. A quarter, like an apparition, stacks up onto the screen. “Can I hop in?”
I look at the hands and trail up, noticing how long the arms were, to see them attached to Detroit Lions famed wide reciever Herman Moore. He was my favorite wideout on MY team, so this really felt like a Christmas miracle. I was visited by the ghost of Christmas Present!
“Sure!”
He proceeded to clobber me, over and over. The dude was GREAT. I was reduced to dust. But it was fun.
Mortal Kombat produced some of my favorite gaming moments of the 90s, and I always bought the games for consoles when they arrived. Those classics have appeared over and over in different versions, but now I’ll have the chance to have them all together, all at once.
During PlayStation’s State of Play developer Digital Eclipse hopped on the show to announce the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, a new package of those original Arcade and home console games, from MK1 all the way through to the GBA’s wild Tournament Edition.
- Mortal Kombat – 1992: Arcade, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear
- Mortal Kombat II -1993: Arcade, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, 32X
- Mortal Kombat 3 – 1995: Arcade, SNES, Genesis
- Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 – 1995: Arcade, SNES
- Mortal Kombat 4 – 1997: Arcade
- Mortal Kombat Advance – 2001: Game Boy Advance
- Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance – 2002: Game Boy Advance
- Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition – 2003: Game Boy Advance
- more mystery games?
The pack will include the games, sure, but what I’m most interested in are the behind the scenes notes, videos, and developmental stuff that makes Digital Eclipse’s work so good.
It looks like yet another must-have product from the team, and with the support of the original developers it will be sure to have some golden bits to enjoy.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launches for all platforms later this year.
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