Is This The WORST Mortal Kombat EVER?

[@Hardman5509]

Hey, did you notice something? Reptile's fatality in this game uses a video of him killing...Johnny Cage. Who isn't in this port.

[@EddieSlabb]

So the whole thing is a Johnny Cage movie. Like how Super Mario 3 is a stage play...

[@llSuperSnivyll]

In fact, I think everyone's fatality involves Johnny Cage being killed.

[@flowrepins6663]

​@@EddieSlabb the game was suppose to be a game of the movie bloodsport and was cancelled then they created a lot of stuff and brought ideas to create mk game. there wasnt nothing like mk game in the movie. is like saying silent hill is jacobs ladder.

[@CrocoDylianVT]

​@@EddieSlabbif that was the logic Johnny wouldn't get killed lol

[@EddieSlabb]

​@@CrocoDylianVTit's all just special effects

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

Reptile, having just beaten Tanya into a vulnerable state - "Welp, better go kill Johnny Cage."

[@Trimint123]

... Who isn't in this game.

[@ChaseMC215]

​​@@Trimint123 Outside of the Fatality video

[@metalheadedtothemax]

😂😂😂

[@marsbitrona5920]

The very first round of this game I ever played, I accidentally found an infinite combo and used it to sweep the entire arcade ladder.

[@Raziel_Plisken]

@marsbitrona, hey man, by any chance do you remember how was the combo and with which character, I'm curious. Thanks

[@marsbitrona5920]

@@Raziel_Plisken Maybe Sub-Zero? Sorry, I don’t recall the details.

[@SpaceBaked]

​@@marsbitrona5920id remember that forever

[@paulk6399]

I choose to believe that Reptile is the same colour as the backgrounds because the devs wanted him to feel ‘chameleon-like’ and blend in with camouflage.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

I was thinking this exact thing. But I feel like it was less intentional but more a product of oversight due to rushing. But im theory, that would be a nice little tiny ruby on this shitheap if true.

[@davion4777]

Absolutely not. There’s isn’t the slightest chance the developers would actually make something good about this game even by accident. It’s 100% total incompetency.

[@kyclerealman]

​@@davion4777Or maybe just limitations of its time

[@deathdude360]

@@kyclerealman I think it's only limitation to an extent. I mean, reptiles not even the right color. they have green available as evidenced by the living forest stage, health bars, tower, etc, but they made him blurple?

[@fhagane6821]

I remember when this was released, even at that time, we realized how unplayable it was. This is slightly below MKadvance IMO

[@jamellee504]

I remember MKA, that game was so hard for no reason lol

[@Raziel_Plisken]

Emphasis on slightly 🤣

[@HeavySandvichGuy1]

As a kid I really enjoyed MKA...

[@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial]

Naw. Mk advance is the worst. This is still playable.

[@franck5226]

Do we count MK mythologie Sub-Zero ? Since it ain't a "combat" game, it sucks Even if it's playable ig

[@whobitmyname]

Reptile literally looks like Robocop with a Saturday Night Fever skin.

[@windebiesteultima3317]

Lmaooo John travolta cosplaying as reptile

[@marccaselle8108]

Rowdy Roddy reptile

[@MrSkerpentine]

@@windebiesteultima3317 *insert Scientology joke that gets me assassinated here*

[@tafua_a]

"Staying alive, creep."

[@pious83]

I'm sure with either Rollback netcode or an EVO slot, this game could find an audience...

[@CherryPixelBun]

With a MiSTer FPGA you can at least run local setups with the 2P GameBoy cores lol

[@trashcan7594]

i can't wait to see competitive mk4 gameboy gameplay at evo 2023

[@edgelord121]

@@trashcan7594 actually I could watch it out of curiosity

[@dcard228]

Rollback cures all that ails

[@jeremygregorio7472]

Hey sailor Moon s did

[@spikesmad7869]

Blue Quan chi was my favorite character from og mk4. The perpetual screaming facial expression was always classic

[@planexshifter]

He had the best Fatality too Rip off leg Beat em with it Repeatedly…

[@no64256]

Another *good* GB conversion of a fighter is Steet Fighter Alpha on GBC. There isn't any cut content (other than 2-player for some reason), the animation is smooth, and the game is basically as fast as the arcade game. There were also some neat NeoGeo conversions

[@vahlok1426]

The NeoGeo Pocket Color fighting games were absolutely amazing. Capcom vs SNK for example had a unique story, as well as endings for every character, on top of having smooth animations and legit great gameplay, not just for handheld standards either they were just plain good games.

[@no64256]

@@vahlok1426 oh definitely. I was just trying to stick to GB/GBC games, as the NeoGeo Pocket was released like a decade after the original Gameboy and had better hardware

[@leigiboy]

the studio that made that one, Crawfish Interactive made reallly cool games they also did Alpha 3 for GB Advance, funnily was founded by the guy who alone programed MK2 for gameboy, the only MK for gb considered decent.

[@Hatsworthful]

Credit where credit is due the fatalities here got more justice than in mortal kombat advance lmao

[@aaronb4571]

4:00 Reptile's camoflague seems to be pretty effective on some stages!

[@Boonehams]

Now tell Matt McMuscles to cover this for The Worst Fighting Game.

[@Gigacorn]

"This is revenge for putting me through MKA!!"

[@EsquedaDouble]

"WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!"

[@Darkstar-rg8ze]

The worst is "dangerous streets "

[@DoomsayerStudios]

This is basically just the GB port of MK3 (which I had) but worse

[@kapiteinfox3142]

I bought this the day it came out. My parents had taken away my consoles to try and improve my grades (didn't work), so handheld versions were my life raft😂

[@thecclan2]

I bet this game was like an anchor in your raft tho lol

[@kapiteinfox3142]

@@thecclan2 When you're a video game starved 13 year old, you'll take any port in a storm. But yeah, wasn't long before I returned to Pokemon and left this in the shoebox of loose carts lol

[@KaoruMzk]

Of course it wouldn't work. Your parents would have to *sit with you* and *help you study* if they wanted to actually improve your grades. But blaming video games and TV is easier than doing actual parenting.

[@windebiesteultima3317]

@@KaoruMzk get that common sense stuff outta here! That’s it, no more PlayStation!

[@quentinstewart4276]

@@KaoruMzk the problem is that our U.S. education is in flux and what worked decades ago won't work today.

[@hkoizumi3134]

As a former Assembly programmer, the MK4 on Gameboy is pretty impressive. The limitation of screen resolution and the hardware itself makes it even more to admire for the game.

[@Formula_Zero_EX]

Mortal Kombat Advance: I-I thought I was the worst… 😢

[@gaslit7442]

Seeing this, I'd suggest looking at the NES bootleg MKs, if only to talk about the UMK3 hack that has no right to work the way it does, with so many fighters and decent controls. Would be an interesting contrast with the official 8-bit efforts.

[@memehierarchy6226]

They've E talked about mugens before

[@nida4602]

@@memehierarchy6226 MUGEN is a freeware engine that has some MK fangames on it. Bootlegs are unlicensed games made by amateurs for consoles.

[@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial]

The NES bootlegs are interesting. MK1 and 2 feel a little like street fighter in physics but still enjoyable. Mk3, trilogy on nes are bad. But the UMK3 rom hack is amazing.

[@reyntime1950]

"dead or Alive, you're coming with me" - Reptile

[@zeigman]

This game looks even sadder when you look at what was done to the Street Fighter Alpha port for the same system...

[@strippinheat]

How does Shinnok even work? Does he just have Spear and one other move or can he change move sets?

[@JRob1125]

The fact that 8-bit games were still being made in the late 90s in kinda crazy in retrospect

[@Sener]

Something also of note as far as the visuals go: The character select screen, the difficulty select screen and the tower screen are all from the MK3 Gameboy version.

[@Videogamelover58]

Yep

[@TehDrewsus]

Can we play mk4 at the arcade? Mom: we have mk4 at home. The mk4 at home:

[@Videogamelover58]

Lmao

[@Rodrickheffley0011]

Reptile in this port be like : you know what? I'mma kill cage instead of sub zero

[@Catkeeper]

Virtua Fighter Animation for the Master System is probably the best example of a 3D fighting series getting an 8bit entry, it's not half bad either.

[@Videogamelover58]

And fatal fury on game gear

[@natecw4164]

Online gaming, ranks, leaderboards, all cool stuff. Defeating a seemingly never ending line of challengers trying to kick you off the arcade cabinet? Nothing compares ❤

[@Alatuber]

5:37 Wow that's Cyber Sub Zero! Oh wait... He's just Quan Chi :(

[@ChaseMC215]

A wise KZbinr once asked and said: "How long did it take them to make this game, an hour?! How in the heck was this allowed to be released?? As a port of Mortal Kombat 4, it's a joke, As a game, it's just plain disgusting, it's the most blatant and shameless cash grab I've ever seen!"

[@wonphi]

Street Fighter Alpha on GBC is a great example of a quality port. It's not the fault of the GBC, but rather the amount of effort put in by the devs of the game.

[@innocenceUnknown]

They spent all that time wondering how but never considered if they should

[@Shiratto]

9:30 I guess that’s _one_ way to fit his invisibility in!

[@ScorpioIsland]

Wow the Game Gear version is a thousand percent better than this, came out many years earlier, and is also on a portable system

[@VeggieBrah]

Reptile walks like a South Park character.

[@LeftyPem]

It’s so strange that this game is almost exclusively a sprite swap of MK3 for GameBoy, which was total trash, but they somehow managed to make it worse!

[@windego999]

This looks like one of those chinese bootlegs you'd get on an NES where they just tried to put in what little they could with barely functional gameplay and just set it out into the wild. You should consider covering MK3 on GB since it's as awful as this. The only half decent MK games on older handhelds are the MK2 port on GB and UMK3 on DS since it's a direct arcade port that works well.

[@marccaselle8108]

I was the dummy who bought mk4 for game boy color when toys r us was still a store lol. I realized my mistake after 5 minutes lol.

[@wingedhand2525]

One reason why I appreciate MK4 for the GBC is because of how much speculation and wild mass guessing Reiko's ending caused

[@siegfriedc2332]

What was Reiko's ending on this port? Does it describe him putting on the helmet, or just say that he walks into a portal?

[@wingedhand2525]

@@siegfriedc2332 The ending text reads "With the battle over and only himself left standing, Reiko returns back to rule the realm which he left. Once again as ruler supreme, he can continue the attack on earth as he did when leading the assault in the last Mortal Kombat".

[@siegfriedc2332]

@@wingedhand2525 Ah ok. Pretty much confirms that he was originally meant to be Shao Kahn. I used to have a theory that he was Shao Kahn's son.

[@birdmonster115]

This almost feels like an old AVGN video lmaoo

[@vahlok1426]

I feel really bad for the fighting game centric channels, specifically MK like your guys'. This new policy (more like fallacy) means we'll mostly be seeing MK, but no blood. It just feels wrong...

[@dree35]

Tell me more

[@stephenmanuel9860]

@@dree35 YT's content screening detects overt amounts of gore and violence (yes, even fake and CGI) and instantly age-restricts it, effectively killing any amount of algorithm exposure and advertising revenue.

[@vahlok1426]

@@dree35 Just like the other reply said. Notice how none of the MK9 footage in this video had any blood? Blame YT's obsession with making everyone inevitably leave their site due to overly sensitive take on censorship.

[@dree35]

@@vahlok1426 wow I didn’t peep until you said something smfh

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

If you want Handheld MK, just get the DS port of UMK3. It even has Puzzle Kombat in it!

[@howaboutsomesoyfood]

this seems like a game that some clueless parent buys their kids when they ask for Mortal Kombat

[@escopeto7849]

Fantastic review! 🎉 As a matter of fact, I used to own this game 20 years ago on the yellow Gameboy Color. Guess which one stayed at home all this time 😂 A guilty pleasure still!

[@slothsong080]

The fatalities look like footage capture directly from a microscope using a soda can.

[@blackest3314]

A moment of silence for the devs who had the misfortune to work on this project. Somehow they fought the urge to quit on the spot.

[@jwonggg]

Ill buy this game

[@huffindoback3776]

You gon learn

[@Felipera_]

Come on, Reptile has built in invisibility. That's commitment to the lore right there.

[@marccaselle8108]

The controls are indeed horrible. If you wanted to get a special move off, you had to pray to God on a Sunday, while wearing a rosary and press the buttons just right under a full moon, and maybe, you could get a special move off lol.

[@stirlock]

OMG! You used music from Raging Fighter, my favorite gameboy game! So many memories.

[@PNDKM]

Raging fighter was really impressive for it's time. Had it as a kid!

[@stirlock]

@@PNDKM yep, same! Got it as a birthday present when I was 8. I would spend hours just listening to the sound test lol. The actual game is pretty solid as well.

[@GloGod]

I remember picking this up ONLY because MKA was sold out at the time. I was sick when I first played it 😭

[@silenc3068]

This feels a lot like a game that should’ve waited until the GBA, the bumpers alone would’ve opened up so much more

[@Roge9]

this makes me appreciate Street Fighter Alpha gameboy color port more and more. Outstanding port for the system, all things considered.

[@YujiNakaSonic]

I always wanted you to cover MK3 on iOS it looks like such a strange MK game

[@nozomashii821]

You know, at the point in the video where you were talking about how it's hard to tell characters apart, I was like--hah, I can tell these people apart easily, that's Tanya and that's raidin like 6 times now I've looked over and been like huh is that cyber sub zero--no, quan chi. then later I see quan chi again and miss the ponytail, turns out that's fujin. I stand very corrected

[@shaynehughes6645]

I had the exact same thoughts

[@BJI82a]

This looks like if mortal Kombat was on Atari with a Nintendo controller. At least the first mortal Kombat worked well on the system the problem is that the gameboy color didn’t have enough processing power to handle all of the functions of the game. I would hate to think what would happen if a mortal Kombat game came out on virtual boy cause with the red and black colors your eyes wouldn’t make it to the final fight and I’ve played with that failed system.

[@EpicJasonX9000]

“When I said, aim low, I didn’t mean for them to excavate the tar pits!” - Al Bundy

[@Rangaisia]

Battle Arena Toshinden series did a pretty decent job translating a 3D fighting game to the Game Boy. Oh yeah, Digital Eclipse here isn't technically the same company that exists today, they merged with ImaginEngine in 2004 to form Backbone Entertainment, which went defunct in 2012 (their last game was coincidentally Midway Arcade Origins). Bunch of former Backbone employees found Other Ocean, that ended up buying and resurrecting the Digital Eclipse brand.

[@esmooth919]

1:36 And yet we got a near faithful port of Street Fighter Alpha on the Game boy color (despite only having two buttons to work with).

[@SonicTheDarkHedgehog]

GBC: Stands as the worst Tiger Handheld electronics: Yeah, hold my beer

[@lnlonelyness2801]

immediately when I saw the visuals I just thought "isn't this Karateka but looks like if someone made a ripoff sequel to it?"

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

The GBC port also rendered two names wrongly with Scorpion being rendered "SCORPIO" and Lui Kang rendered "LIUKANG"

[@mrturret01]

I wouldn't judge the developers too harshly here. Portable conversions were usually made on a shoestring budget by inexperienced teams with unreasonably tight deadlines. Publishers were also massive cheapskates when it came to cartridges. This ment that developers often had to deal with very limited rom space, and rarely were able to get publishers to splurge on a save battery.

[@HollyGameShow]

SNK portable games for GB are awesome.

[@bucky5676]

I’ve asked before on a random video but is there anywhere to download your theme/intro song? I’ll try to save this video to check back for a response periodically. Thanks

[@nuggetlordalmighty1865]

He I was wondering, do you ever plan to do a competitive history of sub-zero? I imagine that would be quite the task considering how many games he has been in, but it would make for a great milestone video.

[@vibemasterkorosu2469]

That would be AWESOME

[@pjf674]

When absolutely still, the sprite work on Tanya isn't terrible. She's very recognizeable and the colors are right.

[@jacobbrown1407]

What about Mortal Kombat for the Tiger Electronic handheld?

[@Stars-Sapphire]

I dunnu, it's kind of a funny artstyle, I think this would actually work nicely as a filter for the modern games to play around with, like imagine you can unlock a filter that totally pixelises the entire game to look like this, would be a funny bonus and something to mess around with

[@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial]

Art style looks like action 52

[@lenin17301560]

5:02 I want Scorpio as DLC for MK1.

[@escopeto7849]

Horoscope Spear all over the place.

[@Rodrickheffley0011]

Scorpio loool

[@Trialwolf]

Best Mortal Kombat on Game Boy/GBC is Mortal Kombat II. It was responsive and it both looked and felt like Mortal Kombat (especially after the disaster that the original MK on GB was) shame they didn't just go back to that game to see what and how it worked and then built off of that.

[@cjwars2828]

got og gb one and my god cant go past two fights never mind the boss years

[@Gamesta100]

MK4 on PS1 is what got me into MK. There was a show here in Aus where two comedians voiced "pe**s"puppets called Short and Curly where they would interview celebrities, play a video game and I think some other stuff. They played MK4 on the show and I really liked what I saw and then rented the game.

[@JeanBaptistePollien]

UMK3 was ported on GBC by Z80artist, and it is very impressive! The best MK on GB!

[@Facade953]

The newest beta isn't available for download though. The A.I. of the original is even more broken than the MK: Advance one.🙄

[@deadvikingtrolls]

Due to limitations this version is missing a few characters like scorpion but there's an original character in scorpio who punches upwards for some reason.

[@FakeSypha]

MK2 on Gameboy was miles better than this.

[@xdxdhehe]

I miss scorpio

[@memesandhoi2924]

Can anyone tell me what's the music after the intro plays?

[@EndlessFear-hm4xd]

I have never clicked faster in my life. God I love Mortal Kombat and this channel.❤️🖤

[@mau-fm3xm]

tbf its impressive that they managed to do something that runs on a Gameboy

[@thebestonumeritos]

You say that because you haven't seen MKII or MK3 on Game Boy. They're bad, but a million times better than this.

[@jimmybenyoucef4416]

Those short vids are like a creepypasta or sum 🤣

[@STK_AKUMA209x]

Character Select and Ladder screens look like they're from MK3 too lol

[@AkamexAris1023]

This was actually my first experience ever with Mortal Kombat. My dad passed it down to me and I even played it on the OG GBA so it was in that classic green tint. Eventually I became accustomed to true MK as I moved onto the N64 titles and beyond

[@phillipminer3554]

I remember another KZbin commenter saying in the past decades of gaming, “every game was perfect.” I really want to show them this video. Not letting modern gaming off the hook here, but to say that the past had no flaws and complain how things aren’t like the “good old days” is just plain myopic.

[@jonnylyden]

still better than the most recent MK

[@ggn3]

Besides using Shao Kahn's voice effects for round announcements with MK4, this game also lazily reuses the character select, Choose Your Destiny, and Kombat Kode entry screens used from the Game Boy port of MK3. Definitely a case where the developers didn't give a toss beyond making a quick cash grab.

[@joylessgaming]

A lot of ports from the 90s were just shovelware, especially the handheld ports.

[@abakusx]

Power Quest was my GBC Fighting Game of choice. The RPG Storymode was nice and some of the music i listen to still.

[@mehlessmidori602]

I'm not sure when and how but I had this as a kid. I managed to beat the game with a few characters but could never pull off a fatality. But I did like how it was done automatically when you beat Shinnok.

[@hdofu]

Me "Is it Mortal Kombat 4 Game Boy Color?" *confirms it is* "Yes this isn't even a question, it is the worst"

[@nellyp2622]

I don’t have this MK Game Boy game but I have MK1-3 so I have had this on my eBay watch list for a while. Someday I will pick it up for the right price.

[@fantasticdavidson1179]

I remeber thinking that when I saw it on the shelves at funcoland

[@devious187]

It's amazing this franchise is still around all these years, I can't count the amount of quarters I pumped into MK machines back in the day

[@KasumiRINA]

For people who don't know how fighting games could look and play on Gameboy Color, look up the ports of Neo Geo Pocket games, even bootleg games on that engine were leagues about WTF this is.

[@mylesatmaximum8858]

PnD, we gotta go deeper. The Bootleg NES pirates by Yoko! And that one MK4 NES, but it’s really MK3 but with even fewer characters!!!

[@Batnano]

making a port of motal kombat 4 into gameboy is the same as trying to replicate water with legos

[@Sandata64RD]

Good video. Look into Power Quest for a good game boy fighter. Heh.

[@purplegardevoir2654]

A very fun and almost hidden gem of a 3d mortal kombat game on the gameboy (advance), is Mortal Kombat Tournament Edition, also seen as Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance for the Gameboy Advance! It actually has the 3d style the og game has, and puts alot of effort into it. It’s not the absolute best by any means, but it’s impressive for a handheld.

[@YasaiTsume]

This is exceptionally atrocious considering Primal Rage accomplished the same feat of porting a high quality Arcade game to the Gameboy but with the game actually intact.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Killer Instinct ported just fine to original Gameboy. So did Toshinden. That was 3D too.

[@BIGACORN]

I need that Tanya spirit on Salty Bets asap!!!

[@WaifuDiver]

You should do a video on Deadly Alliance for GBA.

[@flipsvstheworld]

I remember the mk2 version for the gba being al black and white with these same issues.