| 31 August 2011
It's been a while since you've heard from me on this wonderful gaming website, mostly because I haven't been doing a whole lot of gaming lately. That all changed today when I downloaded the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection (brilliant use of the letter "K", guys). You see, it became available on both XBLA and PSN this week to the tune of $10. Considering the mounds of quarters I spent on the first game alone, $10 for the arcade versions of Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is a ridiculous steal. I mean, back in the 1990s I paid $50 for the Sega Genesis versions of each of those games, and face it, those ports pretty much sucked compared to the arcade versions.
So how do these games hold up? In a nutshell: I planned on checking out each game for a few minutes, but three hours flew by instead. There's something to be said about having the actual arcade versions of these games at my disposal, as opposed to the watered-down console versions I mastered as a teen. The controls are exactly how they were on the arcades (read: slightly unresponsive, especially the first game) and the end bosses are still a bunch of cheap, cheating assholes. The pause menu has a moves list which includes fatalities etc, but for some reason you can only access the moves list during a match.
In hindsight, I should have bought the game on the PSN to use the superior PS3 d-pad, but I had my eye on the Xbox 360 achievements, which are pretty easy to earn ("do a fatality", "do a babality", etc). It still plays fine on the Xbox controller though. There are options to turn off blood (yeah right!) and a difficulty setting, which as far as I could tell didn't make the game any easier.
So yeah, if you played these games as a young lad/lass, you definitely owe it to yourself to check this shit out.
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