(Unofficial) NES Mortal Kombat

[ProZach500]

I was reading on Wikipedia and read about a pirate Mortal Kombat for the NES. I was wondering if anyone here actually owns a copy or even played one. Just out of curiosity.

[Nionel]

I've never played the game myself, however, I have seen gameplay of it on Youtube, here's a link if you're interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHC3DFGwG7U

[Mobius]

I've never played the game myself, however, I have seen gameplay of it on Youtube, here's a link if you're interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHC3DFGwG7U

You know, there's a Street Fighter II pirate for the NES that I could actually see myself playing, but this... Ugh, this is awful.

[MASTERWEEDO]

Looks horrible.

[careerbellman]

Well, not exactly, but I got one of those pirate flash cards for the DS and on the NES emulator I downloaaded MK for the NES. I also downloaded Samuari Showdown as well. They pretty much suck but they are interesting. Not sure if this is exactly what your talking about. They look and play like old gameboy games. Maybe that's where they from and someone converted the ROMs to the NES emulator?

[Blitzwing256]

Theres several different versions of mk and sf2 famicom pirate originals, some are decent,some are beyond terrible, some even have other charecters in em, one of the ones I have includes mario as a playable charecter in sf2.

[Ruudos]

I have it on multi-cart. I also have Street Fighter II and King of Fighter 95 for NES on some multi-carts.

[bangtango]

I remember an issue of EGM saying in the Upcoming Release info that the NES was going to get a port of the original Mortal Kombat. I'd say whoever was thinking of porting this (officially) probably changed their mind.

[ProZach500]

I remember an issue of EGM saying in the Upcoming Release info that the NES was going to get a port of the original Mortal Kombat. I'd say whoever was thinking of porting this (officially) probably changed their mind.

Now I find that interesting. I had yet to hear about that.

[Steve W]

Well, Mortal Kombat was ported to the SMS along with several 8-bit computers, so it was possible if not really needed.

I think the makers of that NES port should have worked on the difficulty a little more. Graphically, it's pretty nice, but five hits and your opponent is dead? It'd be nice if the CPU controlled character occasionally fought back, too. I did like the 'blood', which ends up looking like a fortune cookie popping out of them every time you kick them.

[Superman]

The Mortal Kombat on the video wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. It certainly did look and play like a Gameboy game though.

[bangtango]

Now I find that interesting. I had yet to hear about that.

Did you read EGM back in the early 1990's?

They mentioned it once or twice about NES Mortal Kombat. You'd have to dig through EGM issues from around the time Mortal Kombat's home versions were being worked on. This was during the era when EGM had those 400 page issues, most of which were either ads or Street Fighter 2/Mortal Kombat coverage.

Anyway, it wasn't mentioned in the "Quarterman" gossip section, so they didn't consider it to be a rumor. I'm sure somebody was in line to cobble together a slightly enhanced version of the Gameboy port for NES (with color and a faster speed) before it rode off into the sunset. ***** (read the very bottom of my post for more info)

That time period at EGM was an interesting one. The issues were huge. That top bar on the front cover which listed what systems they covered had over a dozen systems listed.

There was that infamous issue where they gave Golden Axe III (Sega Mega Drive) a scathing review in what was supposed to be a simple "preview" of International/Import titles that normally didn't contain any subjective opinions.

There was that "letter war" between EGM's editor and the guy from Sunsoft who programmed World Heroes for Super Nintendo. EGM's editor basically said it was a piece of shit and the programmer wrote in pissed off about it which led the EGM editor (Ed Semrad) to respond.


***** (I used to get ALL the gaming magazines back then. There was another magazine besides EGM which talked about a possible NES version of Mortal Kombat and they also said it was being considered. What they added to the discussion was that if it was done it would quietly trickle in a few weeks after "Mortal Monday" when the more high profile versions were released. Similar to the way Madden 09 on Xbox and Tony Hawk 3 on N64 both showed up unexpectedly.)

[TSB-Champ]

I got SFII and MK in ROM form.
Neither are any good.