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I never really liked this much

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I know this is going to sound like sacrilege but I was never a fan of the Mortal Kombat games. Having played Street Fighter and Fatal fury before it I just didn't see much point in another fighting franchise.

Plus, the digitised graphics, which were supposed to be 'groundbreaking' and make us all go 'ooohhh, ahhh' were just really rubbish. They were so blocky and resembled just a few big, chunky pixels vaguely in the shape of a human. I tired of it pretty quickly I'm afraid to say but a few months after I stopped playing it I went back after finding cheat codes in a magazine to restore the censored gore. But even that was dumb!

A gallon of blood splattered into the air every time you punched someone and it just looked so stupid that it had no edge. And then later on I got the cheats for the finishing movies and 'babalities' and 'animalities' or whatever such nonsense. But by that point they just took it too far and I never went back to it again. And the sequels never took my interest either.

Not the best fighting game by far.

Graphics C
Sound C
Gameplay C
Lasting Appeal C+

WAY better than its Super Nintendo counterpart

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Mortal Kombat is the game that reinvented the tournament fighter. This game series took the growing controversy of "violence in video games" to a whole new level. While many gamers loved this series, a number of parents feared it was a bad influence on children (of course, those people were morons.) The series all began here, with the original Mortal Kombat. Read on for my review.

PROS:
-First and foremost: Unlike the Super Nintendo version of the game, this one contains a code you can use to turn on the violent fatalities, as well as other options!
-There are seven characters you can choose from, each of which with his or her own strengths and weaknesses. The characters are as follows: Sub-Zero, a ninja who belongs to a clan of assassins. Scorpion, a ninja who has risen from the dead to avenge himself. Sonya Blade, a special forces officer. Kano, a wanted criminal. Johnny Cage, a martial arts movie star. Rayden/Raiden, the god of thunder (the spelling of his name depends on which version of the game you're playing.) And Liu Kang, a young martial artist who wants to get revenge for his brother's killing. No two characters play the same.
-You can do two player games.
-Unlike later Mortal Kombat games, the fatalities here are easy to execute.
-Each character has his or her own ending.

CONS:
-The graphics pale in comparison to those of the arcade version.
-Why was the violence taken out of the game if there's just a code to put it back in anyway?
-You can't play as Goro or Shang Tsung, the two boss characters. Likewise, you can't play as the hidden character, Reptile.
-Sub-Zero, Scorpion, and Reptile look exactly the same, only the colors of their uniforms are different. This "pallet-swapping" technique was used repeatedly in later games, to show just how lazy the creator could be.
-The endings aren't quite as cool as the ones in the arcade version.

OVERALL:
If you only get one consular version of the original Mortal Kombat, make sure it's this one. This puts the Super Nintendo version of the game to shame, no questions asked.

Mortal kombat for sega genises is awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a good, hardcore oldie this is it. It is a tournament style fighting game. There arent as many characters as the new titles but who cares. The playable characters are Lu Kang, Sonya, Raden, Scorpion, Subzero and Kano. The bosses are Shang Tusng and Goro. After you beat all the characters you fight a mirror image of yourself. Then you fight Shang Tusng and if he is losing he might turn into Goro. All in all this game is probably one of the best games there is.

Here is the game that started it all!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the most popular game today! Despite the lack of characters, this game has tons of devastating fatalities. It also includes the pit!

Mortal Kombat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

MORTAL KOMBAT for the SEGA was much better than the SNES version for a very simple but almost CRUCIAL part of the game, the blood could be unlocked. The game came in the censored version but if you knew the code, you could get the real thing and that's why MK on SEGA was just better.

The graphics weren't as smooth as SNES but that could easily be overlooked because of the blood code and being able to get the real deal. And of course how do you go wrong with the original characters? Cage, Kano, Liu Kang, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Raiden and Sonya plus the sorceror Shang Tsung and the mighty 4 armed Goro. Along with Test Your Might challenges, the Mirror Match (where you fight yourself) and two 2-on-1 matches, the original MK tested your ability for what it was.

If you owned the SEGA, you needed MORTAL KOMBAT, there's really no excuse for you to not have this game. So really, pick up MK and also check out SUPER STREET FIGHTER II, the New Challengers, STREETS OF RAGE and even BALLZ. Just whatever you do, skip ETERNAL CHAMPIONS.

A Classic Title

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Mortal Kombat is a great game. It is still one of my favorite games and one of my favorite Mortal Kombat games as well.

I know this game is thirteen years old, has dated graphics and sound, is cheesy as hell and the gameplay is sluggish...but it's still awesome and a classic. There's just something about it that makes it good despite how dated it is now.

It's probably because it's just a simple, violent fighting game. Seven playable characters (Kano, Johnny Cage, Sonya, Scorpion, Rayden, Sub-Zero and Liu Kang), each with a few, easy to remember special moves and one fatality...with lots of completely unrealistic blood thrown in for good measure. On top of that there's two bosses (Goro and Shang Tsung), a hidden character (Reptile) and an easily accessible cheat menu. Simple.

I don't care how dated it is, Mortal Kombat is still a lot of fun. I liked this game so much that I'd wake up a little early before school so I could play it. I know it sounds lame, but I worshipped this game with every fiber of my being.

If you dig old school fighting games and haven't played Mortal Kombat...you don't dig old school fighting games.

my favorite game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

mortal kombat will always be 1 of my favorite games, i played when i was 11 and i still play it now at the age of 25. end of story.

I SEEMED TO HAVE LIKED THE SUPER NINTENDO VERSION MORE

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST VERSIONS OF THE ORIGINAL GAME YOU CAN BUY. THE GRAPHICS ARE HORRIBLE, THE FIGHTS ARE BORING, AND THIS VERSION JUST LACKS THE DEPTH OF THE SUPER NINTENDO VERSION. ONLY REASON I DON'T GIVE THIS THING 1 STAR IS BECAUSE OF THE CODE THAT YOU CAN USE TO UNLOCK THE GORE AND THE FATALITIES THAT AREN'T FOUND ON THE OTHER VERSION. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, STICK WITH THE FAR SUPERIOR SUPER NINTENDO VERSION. THIS VERSION AIN'T WORTH LOOKING FOR.

MK is still as fun as it was back in '92

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i first got this game at agarage sale. a while later, i learned all the moves and fatalities(though i couldnt perform them) it was way funner than the crappy mk2 genesis game, which i also had. any day i always mk1 first. here's why:
MUSIC-the music is the original tunes, only maDE WITH VIDEO GAME BEEPS so its more cartoony sounding. still very fun to listen to. i usually get lost in it:)
GRAPHICS-meh. the graphics are fair, but they're not the best. the oni in goro's lair still blink, the monks move their heads, clouds roll. the graphics seem pixely chunky, but heir pretty good.
FUN-this game is fustrating!if i make it on easy difficulty, its not challenging. if i put it on hard difficulty, its too challenging!medium is perfect for newbies.
BLOOD-blood can be activated via a cheat in this game. even then, its not the best. only a few pints, or dots spill out of their heads when you punch em. but when you uppercut them, its very fun to see drops of blood fall from the air. and who who could forget scorpion's bloody spear? the fatalities are gruesome, thought not as bloody. although subbies fatality as ass-cool to see blood repeatedly drip from their spines in his fat.
MOVES-the classic special move are easy to do if you have a decent controller. if you do them more than once, they drain more health!
OVERALL-this is a fun classic.fatalities are easy and funto watch, gameplay is decent and not repeatitive, music is beautiful. buy this!!

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