I Remember having this game on the Nintendo 64, and my uncle has it on his PlayStation. Me and my brother played this since then. Other than that, Mortal Kombat is my favorite fighting game since 1999.
Interesting Fact: MK4 was going to have a Japanese release by SNK and was even going to have a Neo Geo Pocket port by Atari Games that was found from a list of upcoming games for the handheld. Ultimately, it got canceled as this was after the infamous school student murders that happened in 97' and the series hasn't seen a single release in Japan since MK Trilogy due to the change of Japanese censorship with gore in games after the incident.
@@LaZdiZorro Yeah, the console ports of MK 1 and 2 for SNES and Sega consoles did got Japanese releases outside of that exclusive PS1 port along with the port of MK3 for said console.
The "school shooting murders" never happened in 97, that was early 1999 and authorities found that one of the shooters was a huge PC Doom fanboy so they tried to blame ALL videogame systems which resulted in Sega of America wussing out from releasing a Sega Stunner light gun from Japan for House of the Dead 2, making people play with the stupid Dreamcast pad which was allegedly "improved" by Bernie Stolar by chopping off two face buttons from the Sega Saturn NiGHTs analogue pad. It also meant that you had to import the Japanese light gun, the official one because there were some unofficial ones that were not as good.
@@apollosungod2819 Um no, that was in the United States. The incident I'm talking about in 1997 involved a incident on numorous heads of school students found across a town in Japan that were done by a delinquent which caused a scare on violence in video games and even shows and movies within the country which created a huge restriction for censorship on games depicting beheadings and other types of gore violences (example: Resident Evil 4 or Biohazard 4's death animation with Leon getting behead by the chainsaw man was cut down to just a slit in the throat in the Japanese version because of the restrictions).
Its a pretty good first attempt at a 3-D Mortal Kombat game. It even has the classic Mortal Kombat "We're not taking this very seriously!" sense of humor, with silly things like the fighters quickly uttering "OohI'mgonnathrowyouoverthere!" when they grab an opponent to execute a throw.
@@radiantansel202 Which one is supposed to be a Spanish quote? I'm Spanish myself and never noticed them saying anything in my language in the original MK games xD
An interesting fact with my own experience in MK Gold: The only character I was able to do the Master II Ladder, was the secret character, Sektor. Spamming the Teleport Punch with him and shooting the missiles were so satisfying. 😄
Of note, there is a reissued "Hot New!" sticker (actually printed on the manual) version of the DC port that fixes freezes and music skips (the disc has a yellow background on the no-tag version, reddish-orange on the corrected one). I highly suggest playing that version instead of the original. Also a widescreen hack just came out last month!!! GREAT VID!
Back in 2017, I owned a copy of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon on the PS2, but I find it funny that it came with the PS1 MK4 disc. Thankfully, I played that version on real PS1 hardware, and let me tell you, I really enjoyed it!
I remember I wasnt impresed when I first saw this in arcade. Ps1 graphics in a time when vf3 was already avaliable, something similar happened to me with fatal fury wild ambition, wasnt atractive graphically at the time of it's release
Yeah, I remember this game flopped in arcades, and it's no surprise when you see what other 3D games were out in 1997. Virtua Fighter 3, Tekken 3, Last Bronx, fuckin... Soul Edge came out in 95 and STILL looks better!
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN Yeap and even worst when MK Gold released for Dreamcast, people compare it to Soul Calibur which was also on Dreamcast. Soul Calibur alone makes the game feel outdated from day one.
I remember actually enjoying the PSOne port of this game. Yes, the game was not deep whatsoever but it had some charm to it and I loved the music. For me, it was better than the N64 version in terms of gameplay and audio. Dreamcast version was the best port though.
Good vid. I never played MK4, but being the right age I grew up playing Mortal Kombat in the arcade. Let's be honest here however , Street Fighter II and some of the SNK fighters were always superior
This game is like the bridge that tie the 2D games with the 3D games. Whereas the normal sweep, uppercut, throw, dial-a-combo, and roundhouse from the 2D games are still here, you also get new 3D stable features such as side-stepping, harassment, interactive stage fatalities, cutscenes, and weapon usage. I also believe this game was the only MK game in the franchise to use live actors to portray 3D models rather than a sprite. Later 3D MK entries simply used CGi render models instead which doesn't required live actors anymore thus losing that MK charm.
Had the chance to see both 64 and Gold side by side back then on one of those places people went to rent playtime. Even back then we could notice how much clearer Gold was, but people were so addicted to Mortal Kombat that they didn't even care which version was running
Man, MK4 without its complex graphics engine of the arcade version really shows the game’s age, doesn’t it? While I do admit that MK4 (ignoring the GBC port) has that late 90s-flavored jank, I still want to get my hands on every version and try it out.
I was a kid when I saw the mk 4 in the arcade and it was crazy, the arcade cabinet in that room was huge, the sound and music were wonderful. I think it stood out in the whole room.After a while I managed to get the game on Playstation and my brother and I played non-stop. It wasn't like mk3, but we still had fun. Excellent game. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷. Psd: unlike its predecessors, the characters were not as charismatic. And that was a bit disappointing. There were many characters missing. I loved Shinok and Quan Chi.
Parece que somos los únicos a los que nos gusta el juego. Recién de grande me enteré de que no lo querían. A mí me parecía que tenía mucha onda y me gustaba que había recuperado la oscuridad de Mortal Kombat 2 que se había perdido en el 3.
Many years ago, when a new store with a lot of closeout stuff opened near me, they had a whole shelf full of computer games for $5 each and I bought a bunch of them. Mortal Kombat 4 was one of those games. I never actually got around to installing it though. Sadly, that happened with quite a few of the games. I didn't want to pass them up for that price, but was just never in the mood to install and play them. They're all sitting in a big box in the basement. I have played it through PS1 emulation though. The only Mortal Kombat game I was ever competent at was the Amiga port of the first game. I knew how to do most of the special moves and fatalities. Goro still kicked my ass every time. Seriously, every time I tried to attack him, he'd just reach out and grab me from like half a screen away!
I know just what you mean. I've bought a load of games in the past because they were being sold off cheap. Actually, Ive just started playing Maffia 3 on my Series X. I had no idea I even owned the game. Found it in my collection while putting other games away. I must have bought it cheap somewhere.
@@RetroCore The same store continued to have software for about a year after they opened, although it was later relegated to a table, and then a spinning rack. I managed to score a few multi-packs too. If I recall correctly, one had Serious Sam, Oni, Rune, Heavy Metal FAKK2, and some RPG. Another I think had New Crime Cities, Airfix Dogfighter, and a third game. These were just normal sized boxes, so I guess nobody realized, or cared that they had multiple games in them. Then they had some big-box triple packs. These were the same height as a normal box, but about 2.5 times as wide. One had Majesty 1 & 2, plus something else. Another had one of the Mech Warrior games (3 I think) and a couple add-ons. I think I bought 3-4 of these. At first they had them priced at $5 like the rest, but then someone wised up and started pricing them at $10 each. Still a good price, but I don't think I ever happened to find any I wanted after that. I bought pretty much anything that appealed to me at the moment. Outcast, Fargate, The Eden Project, Prince of Persia 3D (played and liked this one), Lode Runner 2, Gubble, Beam Breakers, Puzz3D Mansion, Inherent Evil, Mech Warrior 2: Titanium Edition, Starlancer (I think, I know it was a "lancer" game), Descent Freespace: The Great War, Hexen II, POD: Planet of Death, Test Drive ? (4, 5, or 6), Formula One Grand Prix ? (one of the Geoff Crammond games), Master Rallye, 4x4 Evo 2, Sega Rally Championship (kind of disappointed with that one), Crazy Taxi, Virtual On: Cybertroopers, and a bunch of other games that escape my memory at the moment. :) Plus I have games I've bought elsewhere. I have a copy of Homeworld that I bought for $1.99, and I've never even opened it. I love the graphics and the idea, but I suck at strategy games. I bought a game called Torrente for a few dollars just because I liked the style of the graphics on the back of the box. It's still unopened because I later learned that you're not allowed to save during missions.
upon all my best fighting game, i guess Mortal Kombat is the 2nd behind Street Fighter series for me i didn’t have any time having fun with game (or so i thought since i never play any of MK games)
I played MK4 on N64 when it came out back in the day and I remember not really liking it that much but Eurocom did a fantastic job with no fogging and it runs at 60fps but overall all the ports are good but it’s a shame that even the Dreamcast port which is the best looking port by far suffers from the floor vanishing and is based on the PS1 port. Anyway great battle of the ports as always and one I wasn’t expecting.
I'm probably one of the only Mortal Kombat players who REALLY disliked the mechanics in MK3/Trilogy to the point of near hating them, so scaling them back in MK4 (with damage caps and easier to perform combos) made it a lot more enjoyable for me. I still prefer MK2 overall, but I have a lot of love for MK4.
Actually this was the best fighting game of 90s PC era! I think they should have added more combos features, including brutalities! It suffered a lot from short timed code development. (Tekken 3 ruled in late 90s)
@@thefonzkiss I'm speaking about PC not console. Clearly thinking about console it was no match. But if you're thinking about other MK games on DOS, they were really bad portings.
Ah, Mortal Kombat 4. Known to many a hardcore fighting game fan as "Mortal Kombat MAXIMUM DAMAGE" or "Mortal Kombat: The One Where We Stopped Playing Mortal Kombat Games Until Mortal Kombat 2011". It's worth noting that despite looking good, Mortal Kombat Gold is a DISASTER when it comes to playing. Why? Well, Gold added several new characters. *All of these characters are unfinished and do not function correctly*.
Ahh yes Mortal Kombat 4, the game that marked the beginning of the series' floundering for a good 14 years until they finally got back to basics with Mortal Kombat 9. This is not a bad game and there's lots of beefy sound effects and memorable music to draw you in but it's gameplay just completely unravels once you attempt combos and realize how weapons cheapen the fights. After you've beaten it a few times compared to the earlier games there's very little incentive to come back for more or at least that was my experience with the N64 version.
7:45 No idea what's being said here, but as a kid I always thought he said "Oh, I'm gonna throw you over there!". Still sounds that way to me. Maybe it is.
I remember being very disappointed with MK4. Very, very average game at best, and it was just riding on the popularity of the series. There were a ton of 3D fighting games on the market at the time, and they mostly ate Midway's productions for lunch.
Honestly the overall good quality of these Midway fighting game ports to the N64 makes me a bit sad about basically none of the japanese 3D arcade fighters of the time being released for it, I'd say stuff like SF EX, DOA1, Rival Schools or Bloody Roar would have been perfect on N64 even if they had to eliminate the FMV.
Eurocom did a nice job with their ports, but basing the Windows and Dreamcast ports off of their PS1 port was an odd choice. PC and Dreamcast were definitely powerful enough to mimic the arcade instead of the PS1, hell even the arcade version wasn't graphically stunning for the time. It also appears they put some blur filter in the DC/Windows ports, as everything looks less pixelated but also less defined than the PS1 version they're based on.
I was always more of a fan of the Street Fighter franchise. While I didn't dislike Mortal Kombat, I always felt it was the game made for THAT kind of 9 year old boy. The obnoxious one in class that's always bragging how his parents were permissive enough to let him watch hard R horror movies since he was 3, and he thinks it makes him hardcore, and thus he's more grown up. Someone who bought the game for shock value instead of appreciating anything else about it.
i was on a gaming sabbatical when this came out. but when i came back to it, i got a dreamcast and was offered a copy of this along with a ton of demos and stuff. i turned it down. glad i did
I played the N64 version the most, and even though graphically it might have been inferior, it played really really well. I laughed hard at my friend trying to pull an infinite hit glitch with Scorpion where he would grab me by the arm and hit under it, under the shoulder. The PC version would allow him to do this until the life bar was depleted. Well, in the N64 version, not anymore 🤣🤣.
Growing up, my friend was really into the Mortal Kombat games and really liked 4. I somewhat enjoyed the series but greatly disliked 4. As time passes I grew fondness for this entry mostly because of how batshit the audio and gameplay was and found the cheesy voices and acting to be charming. I ended up getting an N64 copy for myself and my friend and I still like to revisit it when we can.
Many reasons why people hated this game: 1. The game looks terrible compare to other 3D games of that time. 2. It was released when arcade was dying 3. It doesn't had a unique final boss, as you know the final boss in this game is also a default character. Something MK had never done before. 4. Combos had limitation this time preventing players from doing infinite exploit. 5. The game is too easy. 6. The game had terrible voice acting. 7. The movies were terrible especially the PS1 and N64 ones. 8. The weapons and items are just generic props and are nothing unique. 9. Not all characters had projectiles, this was surprising considering every character from passed MK games before this had always had a projectile. 10. The lack of Shang Tsung and Kano kinda ruin this for some. 11. Not a lot of hidden characters, only Meat and Noob Saibot and both are basically just costume swap for the default character. 12. All the codes in the game sucks and had no redeeming values unlike the ones in MKII and MK3/Ultimate MK3, but not MK Trilogy.
I have to be sincere... I quite like MK4 to this day, arguably the one in the series I think I still enjoy For how horribly stiff, repetitive and clunky the series is known for, this one feels a bit more "free" to play, sure the run and block buttons are still stupid additions but they don't feel as bad. The silly aspect of it also helps quite a lot in my opinion, it's surprisingly charms, and I think the soundtrack of the series was honestly pretty damn good (anything prior to MK9 that is...) So while not an award winning fighter, I feel it's one of the best in the series Nice nostalgia trip I had watching this
The best thing I can say about Mortal Kombat 4 is that it made me a lot of money to spend on better games. Way back when, I picked up an import job lot for a pittance, in there was the US PS1 version of Mortal Kombat 4 in like new condition. It sat in storage for a decade or so until I was looking for stuff to convert into funds for a PlayAsia order. People want to pay how much for this?? Mortal Kombat 4 it's time for you to go. Mortal Kombat 4 nearly paid for the entire order just by itself. I hope my copy at least got played and didn't get sent off for grading.
I agree MK4 has a decent PS1 port. Better than another Midway game "San Francisco Rush" that was not so hot on PS1. Nice to know about the Windows port. I still use Windows XP. I bet it runs the disc swell.
Shame the windows version was so gimped. Also, the Playstation version sounded very muffled while the PC version didnt, despite it being based on the Playstation version. Either way, I never really liked MK4. It felt like such a step back from MK3. MK3 was just so damned good.
I am a big Sega fan for long long times and owned the Dreamcast and the crummy Dreamcast MK4 Gold.. you only gain high "res" textures... but have to listen to the grinding Dreamcast GD-ROM drive to load levels.. that is not better and the high res just comes off a high res PlayStation graphics which was common even if there was less glitches... The Nintendo 64 conversion was the absolute best version... now while it is true that the N64 has it's particular specs, Eurocom were not really some ace programmers who could tap the hardware... they just like you said, made this port in eight months which no doubt means that they did not really try to dig into the hardware and they were under Midway Games who overall on N64 just made shloppy ports with no bother to truly learn or tap the N64 hardware nevermind not make rushed ports and they had a track record for using small size ROM cartridges... for MK4 they had practice cause they ported War Gods first... just like Midway arcade devs did that game to train before making MK4... Again the N64 MK4 conversion is at least more accurate to the arcade because thanks to the ROM Cartridge format, there is NOT LOADING... just nanosecond access times and bam you can play a full match while Playstation and Dreamcast gamers are still struggling waiting for now loading screens. Also the arcade version featured real time in engine character endings which were hilarious and the N64 preserves this accurately while PS1 gamers are stuck looking at pre-rendered CGi videos that are lame af... same for Dreamcast which also had glitches prompting many people to exchange their MK4 Gold for the "New Hot" or whatever sticker that was cooked up thanks to Sega of America's crap planning and handling of Dreamcast in North America which ultimately was what UK and Europe PAL regions got stuck with too.
I remember when this came out and it baffled me how a developer can go backwards in quality. I'm not saying that MK3 was an amazing game. But this plays much worse than any of the first MK games. This proves that all games didnt make the journey from 2D to 3D smoothly.
I really didn't like the direction of technology that Midway headed at this time period Mark. Personally, I thought it started the demise of Midway with poor 3D graphics, repetitive movements, and clunky controls. I can't blame you for Mortal Kombat 4 not being a personal favorite Mark. Anthony..
For sure. Their 3D arcade hardware was very bad compared to Sega's hardware at the time. Namco, Capcom and Konami were using PlayStation based hardware for their 3D arcade games which always looked bad in an arcade cabinet.
Did Netherrealm lose the source code for this game? Cuz with all the caveats with the console releases, you'd think there'd be a market for a Mortal Kombat 4 remaster that targets the arcade version's graphical fidelity with the home versions' quality of life features, albeit with the real-time cutscenes
I recall NintendoComplete loving Mortal Kombat 4 the most of the 90s games, preferring it over 2 and 3, and mentioning how the combo system feels more natural compared to MK3’s Dial a Combo system (which I wasn’t too fond of either). As for the ports, it seems the N64 and Dreamcast ports are the best and the GBC port is… ouch.
I think you should have set the difficulty to easy so you could do a run of each version, because you forgot to say that the ending cinematics change in the Dreamcast version.
Won't lie, even in its best form, MK4 is the weakest entry in the franchise's mainline. It had none of the charm or nuance of the first three games. It took multiple hardware generations before 3D MK titles felt like anything but gimmicky crap. Compared to Namco and Sega's 3D fighters, Mortal Kombat never had the depth or fluidity to be a top tier experience. It still doesn't, tbh. Give me Tekken or Soul Calibur over MK any day.
I admire 4. It has the move sets of the games before it. So anyone who is good at MK3 will be good at MK4. When MK moved to PS2 even Sub Zeros freeze move changed button inputs. Had to re-learn everything which was a drag until I got use to it. MK4 retains all the speed and fluidity of MK3 yet manages in 3D and adds weapons. I enjoyed it alot at the time in the arcade and N64 and the slightly enhanced MK Gold for Dreamcast. But for 3D fighters indeed Tekken 3 got more love from me.
I prefer it to MK3, I intensly dislike the mechanics in that game and feel they were refined a fair bit in MK4 for the better. I know I'm in the minority and many people LOVE MK3 for some reason, though.
@@forcedfeedbackclassicgamer5499 word. MK3 felt like a rushed game and it looked worse than MK2 in many aspects. To this day I still can't believe how crappy the dedicated fatality sprites were in MK3 and its expansions.
I really like this one, but the ps2 era Mortal Kombat games were dissapointing. The N64 port of 4 is excellent, and it was even fully PAL optimised. (for people who don't own a NTSC N64 for some odd reason ;) )
@@RetroCore Eurocom was very talented with N64 hardware. It usually felt like they didn’t even care about the PS1. Hydro Thunder is the only Eurocom game I can think of that runs slower in PAL format. The NTSC version of that game has a weird bug where the entire game slows down ro PAL speed if you have a rumble pak inserted.
In retrospect: Mortal Kombat games main selling point was shock value. Nowhere near good as Street Fighter II games. I did enjoyed MK 3 very much though. At least they implemented proper combo moves here.
That's digital eclipse for you. They suck although everyone nowadays think they're Awsome because they can emulate old stuff on very powerful consoles.
dont get me wrong im glad you made this video, like all your videos... but god damn i hate this game.. i think this was maybe the fifth n64 game i played , and after that it basically insured i was done with both mortal kombat and n64.. of course now, years later, i have discovered and come to love a modest number of n64 games and maybe the mortal kombat games have gotten better (no, clue still havent gone back), this was the game that set me on this path..
Hey, no worries. I hate this game too. Playing it for all these versions not fun. Actually, this video was supposed to be released a month ago but I kept putting it off because I didn't want to play the game.
the MK black sheep almost no one played Note this is the first non akklaim ported game this game flopped so hard midway put a bunch of them in semi trucks and went to places like shopping malls and such and called it "MK on tour"but it came out at the worst time as arcades had hit rock bottom fighting games were sort of on their way out of favor and when you still had ultimate mk 3 which had all the characters for the first 3 games plus bosses and and hidden characters VF with blood and weapons just didn't cut it
I played this for a bit on the ps1 and the n64 back in the day andthough I'd rather play one of the 2d games. It is a shame the ports are ps1 derivatives...
Not gonna lie I frigin hated this game lol. Despite it borrowing elements from MK3 and playing somewhat snappy and responsive, the issues with the AI and the lack of extras really made the 4th entry feel so pointless. MKgold was decent enough as it addressed the lack of content, but yeah. Only thing worth sticking with the game for was the endings for each character..just like the previous games. Meh game overall.
Why on earth did the developers get lazy and just port the PS1 code over to Dreamcast & PC, 2 far more capable systems. I really thought this practice died out with the demise of the European home micros
Easy money I guess. The same thing happened with the Dreamcast port of Nightmare Creatures. It's just the PlayStation game complete with the low resolution textures and low polygon models.
Ah, Mortal Kombat 4. A series rough transition to 3D (or 2.5) and a guilty pleasure during my PlayStation 1 days. Definitely not the best of the original Midway games (that honor goes to Mortal Kombat II), but damn it it was fun to play. Nowadays, the only redeeming factors from the fourth mainline game are the laughable character endings (regardless of version). Still in my eyes, MK4 is the series' "diamond in the rough."
I didn't play this one back then- I had decided I wasn't into MK after the 3rd game- when you take away the digitized graphics, I feel like it comes off a lot less interesting
I have only played the Dreamcast version. That was pretty rough. It looked dated at the time. I hated it at first... Later on I could see some appeal, but I am not a Mortal Kombat fan at all.
I Remember having this game on the Nintendo 64, and my uncle has it on his PlayStation. Me and my brother played this since then. Other than that, Mortal Kombat is my favorite fighting game since 1999.
Interesting Fact: MK4 was going to have a Japanese release by SNK and was even going to have a Neo Geo Pocket port by Atari Games that was found from a list of upcoming games for the handheld. Ultimately, it got canceled as this was after the infamous school student murders that happened in 97' and the series hasn't seen a single release in Japan since MK Trilogy due to the change of Japanese censorship with gore in games after the incident.
@@Deeko21 real? I thought only the first two games were even released in Japan (MK2 even had an exclusive PS1 Japan only version!)
@@LaZdiZorro Yeah, the console ports of MK 1 and 2 for SNES and Sega consoles did got Japanese releases outside of that exclusive PS1 port along with the port of MK3 for said console.
Very interesting.
The "school shooting murders" never happened in 97, that was early 1999 and authorities found that one of the shooters was a huge PC Doom fanboy so they tried to blame ALL videogame systems which resulted in Sega of America wussing out from releasing a Sega Stunner light gun from Japan for House of the Dead 2, making people play with the stupid Dreamcast pad which was allegedly "improved" by Bernie Stolar by chopping off two face buttons from the Sega Saturn NiGHTs analogue pad.
It also meant that you had to import the Japanese light gun, the official one because there were some unofficial ones that were not as good.
@@apollosungod2819 Um no, that was in the United States. The incident I'm talking about in 1997 involved a incident on numorous heads of school students found across a town in Japan that were done by a delinquent which caused a scare on violence in video games and even shows and movies within the country which created a huge restriction for censorship on games depicting beheadings and other types of gore violences (example: Resident Evil 4 or Biohazard 4's death animation with Leon getting behead by the chainsaw man was cut down to just a slit in the throat in the Japanese version because of the restrictions).
Man i remember as a kid being hyped for mk4 because of those commercials
Will always have soft spot for this game, put lots of hours into PC and then Dreamcast version :)
Its a pretty good first attempt at a 3-D Mortal Kombat game. It even has the classic Mortal Kombat "We're not taking this very seriously!" sense of humor, with silly things like the fighters quickly uttering "OohI'mgonnathrowyouoverthere!" when they grab an opponent to execute a throw.
Ah, that's what they were saying?
@@RetroCore Yeah. Its all a bit silly, but I feel like that adds to the charm.
@@RetroCore Most stuff are surprisingly Spanish quotes, believe it or not
@@radiantansel202 I noticed that, especially the Quan Chi soundbites.
@@radiantansel202 Which one is supposed to be a Spanish quote? I'm Spanish myself and never noticed them saying anything in my language in the original MK games xD
Mk2 will always be my favorite. No contest.
Same, which is why I felt all the more betrayed when I found out that the AI was programmed to cheat lol
The arcade version is so much better than what mame can emulate still to this day.. that zues chip was serious!
Mortal Kombat 4 for the Game Boy Color is the only Mortal Kombat that I've ever beat LOL
Maaaan even when this first came out..I was like "What the hell?"
An interesting fact with my own experience in MK Gold: The only character I was able to do the Master II Ladder, was the secret character, Sektor. Spamming the Teleport Punch with him and shooting the missiles were so satisfying. 😄
Sektor wasn’t in MK4. He was a secret character in MK Gold.
Of note, there is a reissued "Hot New!" sticker (actually printed on the manual) version of the DC port that fixes freezes and music skips (the disc has a yellow background on the no-tag version, reddish-orange on the corrected one). I highly suggest playing that version instead of the original.
Also a widescreen hack just came out last month!!!
GREAT VID!
Nice to know they fixed that audio issue. The PlayStation also has the some problem.. I wonder if they ever fixed that?
Back in 2017, I owned a copy of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon on the PS2, but I find it funny that it came with the PS1 MK4 disc. Thankfully, I played that version on real PS1 hardware, and let me tell you, I really enjoyed it!
I remember I wasnt impresed when I first saw this in arcade. Ps1 graphics in a time when vf3 was already avaliable, something similar happened to me with fatal fury wild ambition, wasnt atractive graphically at the time of it's release
Yeah, I remember this game flopped in arcades, and it's no surprise when you see what other 3D games were out in 1997. Virtua Fighter 3, Tekken 3, Last Bronx, fuckin... Soul Edge came out in 95 and STILL looks better!
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN Yeap and even worst when MK Gold released for Dreamcast, people compare it to Soul Calibur which was also on Dreamcast. Soul Calibur alone makes the game feel outdated from day one.
I remember actually enjoying the PSOne port of this game. Yes, the game was not deep whatsoever but it had some charm to it and I loved the music. For me, it was better than the N64 version in terms of gameplay and audio. Dreamcast version was the best port though.
Good vid. I never played MK4, but being the right age I grew up playing Mortal Kombat in the arcade. Let's be honest here however , Street Fighter II and some of the SNK fighters were always superior
Absolutely. Mortal Kombat couldn't come close to any of the Japanese fighters.
This game is like the bridge that tie the 2D games with the 3D games. Whereas the normal sweep, uppercut, throw, dial-a-combo, and roundhouse from the 2D games are still here, you also get new 3D stable features such as side-stepping, harassment, interactive stage fatalities, cutscenes, and weapon usage. I also believe this game was the only MK game in the franchise to use live actors to portray 3D models rather than a sprite. Later 3D MK entries simply used CGi render models instead which doesn't required live actors anymore thus losing that MK charm.
Thanks, Mark!
No worries, you're welcome.
Had the chance to see both 64 and Gold side by side back then on one of those places people went to rent playtime. Even back then we could notice how much clearer Gold was, but people were so addicted to Mortal Kombat that they didn't even care which version was running
Great video, as always.
Thanks.
This game has the dubious honor of being the best fighting game on the N64.
what about the Killer Instinct port?
@@deterlanglytone Ohhhh.. maybe. Great shout. If it's not MK4, then it's KI Gold. For me, it's MK4.
@@n64fan60 same, Ki Gold good but much more technical than Ki1, which didnt help it..
Mk Trilogy was good on N64, people still play it in tournaments
@JoeyJ0J0 We badly needed a Street Fighter on N64. They gave us RE2, but not Street Fighter lol
Man, MK4 without its complex graphics engine of the arcade version really shows the game’s age, doesn’t it?
While I do admit that MK4 (ignoring the GBC port) has that late 90s-flavored jank, I still want to get my hands on every version and try it out.
I had this on Playstation, played it alot
@@JoeyJ0J0 same
Now this I've been waiting for.
Battle of the ports just getting cooler and cooler 🐉 🐲
It's always been cool 😁😎
Glad you liked the show.
I was a kid when I saw the mk 4 in the arcade and it was crazy, the arcade cabinet in that room was huge, the sound and music were wonderful. I think it stood out in the whole room.After a while I managed to get the game on Playstation and my brother and I played non-stop. It wasn't like mk3, but we still had fun. Excellent game. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷. Psd: unlike its predecessors, the characters were not as charismatic. And that was a bit disappointing. There were many characters missing. I loved Shinok and Quan Chi.
Parece que somos los únicos a los que nos gusta el juego. Recién de grande me enteré de que no lo querían. A mí me parecía que tenía mucha onda y me gustaba que había recuperado la oscuridad de Mortal Kombat 2 que se había perdido en el 3.
@jmbenetti I like it. Good point it brought back some of the darkness. But played closer to MK3 with its running and fast speed.
Many years ago, when a new store with a lot of closeout stuff opened near me, they had a whole shelf full of computer games for $5 each and I bought a bunch of them. Mortal Kombat 4 was one of those games. I never actually got around to installing it though. Sadly, that happened with quite a few of the games. I didn't want to pass them up for that price, but was just never in the mood to install and play them. They're all sitting in a big box in the basement.
I have played it through PS1 emulation though. The only Mortal Kombat game I was ever competent at was the Amiga port of the first game. I knew how to do most of the special moves and fatalities. Goro still kicked my ass every time. Seriously, every time I tried to attack him, he'd just reach out and grab me from like half a screen away!
I know just what you mean. I've bought a load of games in the past because they were being sold off cheap.
Actually, Ive just started playing Maffia 3 on my Series X. I had no idea I even owned the game. Found it in my collection while putting other games away. I must have bought it cheap somewhere.
@@RetroCore The same store continued to have software for about a year after they opened, although it was later relegated to a table, and then a spinning rack. I managed to score a few multi-packs too. If I recall correctly, one had Serious Sam, Oni, Rune, Heavy Metal FAKK2, and some RPG. Another I think had New Crime Cities, Airfix Dogfighter, and a third game. These were just normal sized boxes, so I guess nobody realized, or cared that they had multiple games in them.
Then they had some big-box triple packs. These were the same height as a normal box, but about 2.5 times as wide. One had Majesty 1 & 2, plus something else. Another had one of the Mech Warrior games (3 I think) and a couple add-ons. I think I bought 3-4 of these. At first they had them priced at $5 like the rest, but then someone wised up and started pricing them at $10 each. Still a good price, but I don't think I ever happened to find any I wanted after that.
I bought pretty much anything that appealed to me at the moment. Outcast, Fargate, The Eden Project, Prince of Persia 3D (played and liked this one), Lode Runner 2, Gubble, Beam Breakers, Puzz3D Mansion, Inherent Evil, Mech Warrior 2: Titanium Edition, Starlancer (I think, I know it was a "lancer" game), Descent Freespace: The Great War, Hexen II, POD: Planet of Death, Test Drive ? (4, 5, or 6), Formula One Grand Prix ? (one of the Geoff Crammond games), Master Rallye, 4x4 Evo 2, Sega Rally Championship (kind of disappointed with that one), Crazy Taxi, Virtual On: Cybertroopers, and a bunch of other games that escape my memory at the moment. :)
Plus I have games I've bought elsewhere. I have a copy of Homeworld that I bought for $1.99, and I've never even opened it. I love the graphics and the idea, but I suck at strategy games. I bought a game called Torrente for a few dollars just because I liked the style of the graphics on the back of the box. It's still unopened because I later learned that you're not allowed to save during missions.
upon all my best fighting game, i guess Mortal Kombat is the 2nd behind Street Fighter series for me
i didn’t have any time having fun with game (or so i thought since i never play any of MK games)
That Gameboy Color "Port"...
Yikes!
The publisher really had guts to release that... thing.
@@31leocearasame as MK1 on Switch LMAO
Yep, it's a right mess but at least it has some peach.
One of the video games ever.
I'm more shocked this had an arcade release. I always thought it was PS1 game ported to everything else. I had fun with it back on the PS1.
I played MK4 on N64 when it came out back in the day and I remember not really liking it that much but Eurocom did a fantastic job with no fogging and it runs at 60fps but overall all the ports are good but it’s a shame that even the Dreamcast port which is the best looking port by far suffers from the floor vanishing and is based on the PS1 port. Anyway great battle of the ports as always and one I wasn’t expecting.
I'm probably one of the only Mortal Kombat players who REALLY disliked the mechanics in MK3/Trilogy to the point of near hating them, so scaling them back in MK4 (with damage caps and easier to perform combos) made it a lot more enjoyable for me. I still prefer MK2 overall, but I have a lot of love for MK4.
Actually this was the best fighting game of 90s PC era! I think they should have added more combos features, including brutalities! It suffered a lot from short timed code development. (Tekken 3 ruled in late 90s)
Not even close.
@@thefonzkiss I'm speaking about PC not console. Clearly thinking about console it was no match. But if you're thinking about other MK games on DOS, they were really bad portings.
Ah, Mortal Kombat 4. Known to many a hardcore fighting game fan as "Mortal Kombat MAXIMUM DAMAGE" or "Mortal Kombat: The One Where We Stopped Playing Mortal Kombat Games Until Mortal Kombat 2011". It's worth noting that despite looking good, Mortal Kombat Gold is a DISASTER when it comes to playing. Why? Well, Gold added several new characters. *All of these characters are unfinished and do not function correctly*.
The broken characters didn't bother me as the whole game is broken 😁
@@RetroCoreMK people pretending Gold was the only one broken when MK4 itself it's equally as...🥴
Awesome stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it
Ahh yes Mortal Kombat 4, the game that marked the beginning of the series' floundering for a good 14 years until they finally got back to basics with Mortal Kombat 9. This is not a bad game and there's lots of beefy sound effects and memorable music to draw you in but it's gameplay just completely unravels once you attempt combos and realize how weapons cheapen the fights. After you've beaten it a few times compared to the earlier games there's very little incentive to come back for more or at least that was my experience with the N64 version.
7:45 No idea what's being said here, but as a kid I always thought he said "Oh, I'm gonna throw you over there!". Still sounds that way to me. Maybe it is.
No. That's actually what they're saying.
They say a lot of things in many languages and pass it off as Chinese or Japanese-que gibberish lololol
@@RetroArcadeGuy In MK2, it sounds like Liu Kang is saying "Yourerheonlyonewhosgotadildointhebutt!" when doing his bicycle kick.
I remember being very disappointed with MK4. Very, very average game at best, and it was just riding on the popularity of the series. There were a ton of 3D fighting games on the market at the time, and they mostly ate Midway's productions for lunch.
Well said.
Honestly the overall good quality of these Midway fighting game ports to the N64 makes me a bit sad about basically none of the japanese 3D arcade fighters of the time being released for it, I'd say stuff like SF EX, DOA1, Rival Schools or Bloody Roar would have been perfect on N64 even if they had to eliminate the FMV.
Eurocom did a nice job with their ports, but basing the Windows and Dreamcast ports off of their PS1 port was an odd choice. PC and Dreamcast were definitely powerful enough to mimic the arcade instead of the PS1, hell even the arcade version wasn't graphically stunning for the time. It also appears they put some blur filter in the DC/Windows ports, as everything looks less pixelated but also less defined than the PS1 version they're based on.
The Dreamcast version is an updated version of MK4 called Mortal Kombat Gold
I remember at the time the abruptness way the damage cap thing was done irked me quite a bit
earlier revisions didnt have the Dmg cap and was better for it
I was always more of a fan of the Street Fighter franchise. While I didn't dislike Mortal Kombat, I always felt it was the game made for THAT kind of 9 year old boy. The obnoxious one in class that's always bragging how his parents were permissive enough to let him watch hard R horror movies since he was 3, and he thinks it makes him hardcore, and thus he's more grown up. Someone who bought the game for shock value instead of appreciating anything else about it.
A, you mean a dip-shit 😅
Yeah, these were they type of kid who loved Mortal Kombat where I was from as well.
i was on a gaming sabbatical when this came out. but when i came back to it, i got a dreamcast and was offered a copy of this along with a ton of demos and stuff. i turned it down. glad i did
Good move.
I've only really spent a lot of time playing the PC version of this and it's pretty serviceable on an appropriate Win98 PC but not without bugs lol
Don't worry, all versions had bugs 😅
I played the N64 version the most, and even though graphically it might have been inferior, it played really really well. I laughed hard at my friend trying to pull an infinite hit glitch with Scorpion where he would grab me by the arm and hit under it, under the shoulder. The PC version would allow him to do this until the life bar was depleted. Well, in the N64 version, not anymore 🤣🤣.
The N64 is the best in my mind !!
Growing up, my friend was really into the Mortal Kombat games and really liked 4. I somewhat enjoyed the series but greatly disliked 4. As time passes I grew fondness for this entry mostly because of how batshit the audio and gameplay was and found the cheesy voices and acting to be charming. I ended up getting an N64 copy for myself and my friend and I still like to revisit it when we can.
Never understood the hate for this game
It was my go to on both 64 and Dreamcast
Liu Kang and reptile main
Many reasons why people hated this game:
1. The game looks terrible compare to other 3D games of that time.
2. It was released when arcade was dying
3. It doesn't had a unique final boss, as you know the final boss in this game is also a default character. Something MK had never done before.
4. Combos had limitation this time preventing players from doing infinite exploit.
5. The game is too easy.
6. The game had terrible voice acting.
7. The movies were terrible especially the PS1 and N64 ones.
8. The weapons and items are just generic props and are nothing unique.
9. Not all characters had projectiles, this was surprising considering every character from passed MK games before this had always had a projectile.
10. The lack of Shang Tsung and Kano kinda ruin this for some.
11. Not a lot of hidden characters, only Meat and Noob Saibot and both are basically just costume swap for the default character.
12. All the codes in the game sucks and had no redeeming values unlike the ones in MKII and MK3/Ultimate MK3, but not MK Trilogy.
Most people probably played it after already playing Soul Calibur so it never stood a chance
I have to be sincere... I quite like MK4 to this day, arguably the one in the series I think I still enjoy
For how horribly stiff, repetitive and clunky the series is known for, this one feels a bit more "free" to play, sure the run and block buttons are still stupid additions but they don't feel as bad.
The silly aspect of it also helps quite a lot in my opinion, it's surprisingly charms, and I think the soundtrack of the series was honestly pretty damn good (anything prior to MK9 that is...)
So while not an award winning fighter, I feel it's one of the best in the series
Nice nostalgia trip I had watching this
The best thing I can say about Mortal Kombat 4 is that it made me a lot of money to spend on better games. Way back when, I picked up an import job lot for a pittance, in there was the US PS1 version of Mortal Kombat 4 in like new condition. It sat in storage for a decade or so until I was looking for stuff to convert into funds for a PlayAsia order. People want to pay how much for this?? Mortal Kombat 4 it's time for you to go. Mortal Kombat 4 nearly paid for the entire order just by itself.
I hope my copy at least got played and didn't get sent off for grading.
What a cool game:)
I agree MK4 has a decent PS1 port. Better than another Midway game "San Francisco Rush" that was not so hot on PS1.
Nice to know about the Windows port. I still use Windows XP. I bet it runs the disc swell.
My windows version came from GOG. I was running it on a windows 7 machine but I bet it would work fine on windows XP.
The trees in the background of the PS and Windows version look like they are high as f*ck
Probably because they don't want to be in this game 🤣
I hope you do a Battle of the Ports video of Pac in Time.
I'll add that to the to do list.
Shame the windows version was so gimped. Also, the Playstation version sounded very muffled while the PC version didnt, despite it being based on the Playstation version.
Either way, I never really liked MK4. It felt like such a step back from MK3. MK3 was just so damned good.
With the PC having more memory they could uses higher quality audio samples.
Other than the smaller characters the Dreamcast is arcade perfect. It has all of the background details that the other games are missing.
I am a big Sega fan for long long times and owned the Dreamcast and the crummy Dreamcast MK4 Gold.. you only gain high "res" textures... but have to listen to the grinding Dreamcast GD-ROM drive to load levels.. that is not better and the high res just comes off a high res PlayStation graphics which was common even if there was less glitches...
The Nintendo 64 conversion was the absolute best version... now while it is true that the N64 has it's particular specs, Eurocom were not really some ace programmers who could tap the hardware... they just like you said, made this port in eight months which no doubt means that they did not really try to dig into the hardware and they were under Midway Games who overall on N64 just made shloppy ports with no bother to truly learn or tap the N64 hardware nevermind not make rushed ports and they had a track record for using small size ROM cartridges... for MK4 they had practice cause they ported War Gods first... just like Midway arcade devs did that game to train before making MK4...
Again the N64 MK4 conversion is at least more accurate to the arcade because thanks to the ROM Cartridge format, there is NOT LOADING... just nanosecond access times and bam you can play a full match while Playstation and Dreamcast gamers are still struggling waiting for now loading screens.
Also the arcade version featured real time in engine character endings which were hilarious and the N64 preserves this accurately while PS1 gamers are stuck looking at pre-rendered CGi videos that are lame af... same for Dreamcast which also had glitches prompting many people to exchange their MK4 Gold for the "New Hot" or whatever sticker that was cooked up thanks to Sega of America's crap planning and handling of Dreamcast in North America which ultimately was what UK and Europe PAL regions got stuck with too.
I never liked Mortal Kombat 4. I always called it, "Virtual Fighter Kombat." My favorite MK game is the very first one.
aah! is always a good saturday morning breakfast when I have my BOTP dose!!!
So good!😁
I remember when this came out and it baffled me how a developer can go backwards in quality. I'm not saying that MK3 was an amazing game. But this plays much worse than any of the first MK games. This proves that all games didnt make the journey from 2D to 3D smoothly.
Mk4 was worse than MK3 and MK3 was worse than MK2.
I've never understood why MK Gold has gotten so much hate over the years.
This looked laughably bad at the time, and it hasn't aged well either!
I fully agree with you there.
I really didn't like the direction of technology that Midway headed at this time period Mark. Personally, I thought it started the demise of Midway with poor 3D graphics, repetitive movements, and clunky controls. I can't blame you for Mortal Kombat 4 not being a personal favorite Mark.
Anthony..
For sure. Their 3D arcade hardware was very bad compared to Sega's hardware at the time. Namco, Capcom and Konami were using PlayStation based hardware for their 3D arcade games which always looked bad in an arcade cabinet.
if Dreamcast MK4 is a proper port not a lazy port based on the PSX version it would get my vote
Did Netherrealm lose the source code for this game? Cuz with all the caveats with the console releases, you'd think there'd be a market for a Mortal Kombat 4 remaster that targets the arcade version's graphical fidelity with the home versions' quality of life features, albeit with the real-time cutscenes
27 years and still no arcade perfect port of MK4. Weird. Maybe they don't want us to find out about "something". DEUS BENEDICAT TIBI.
Have you been watching Event Horizon? 😉
I recall NintendoComplete loving Mortal Kombat 4 the most of the 90s games, preferring it over 2 and 3, and mentioning how the combo system feels more natural compared to MK3’s Dial a Combo system (which I wasn’t too fond of either).
As for the ports, it seems the N64 and Dreamcast ports are the best and the GBC port is… ouch.
Probay because it was the only fighter on the N64 worth playing.
N64 version is so underrated. Such a blast to play.
Can i suggest Rampart for a future episode?
I'll add it to the list of future shows 👍
Is a shame the real arcade zeus hardware has not been properly emulated in mame, as it shows in the video missing poligons and other glitches.
Yep, it is a shame. I'd like to see what this game should look like.
I think you should have set the difficulty to easy so you could do a run of each version, because you forgot to say that the ending cinematics change in the Dreamcast version.
Won't lie, even in its best form, MK4 is the weakest entry in the franchise's mainline. It had none of the charm or nuance of the first three games. It took multiple hardware generations before 3D MK titles felt like anything but gimmicky crap. Compared to Namco and Sega's 3D fighters, Mortal Kombat never had the depth or fluidity to be a top tier experience. It still doesn't, tbh. Give me Tekken or Soul Calibur over MK any day.
I admire 4. It has the move sets of the games before it. So anyone who is good at MK3 will be good at MK4.
When MK moved to PS2 even Sub Zeros freeze move changed button inputs. Had to re-learn everything which was a drag until I got use to it.
MK4 retains all the speed and fluidity of MK3 yet manages in 3D and adds weapons.
I enjoyed it alot at the time in the arcade and N64 and the slightly enhanced MK Gold for Dreamcast.
But for 3D fighters indeed Tekken 3 got more love from me.
I prefer it to MK3, I intensly dislike the mechanics in that game and feel they were refined a fair bit in MK4 for the better. I know I'm in the minority and many people LOVE MK3 for some reason, though.
@@forcedfeedbackclassicgamer5499 100% agree. mk4 is utter trash
@@TromaDogg I didn't like MK3 that much either, which may be giving bias to my opinion on MK4.
@@forcedfeedbackclassicgamer5499 word. MK3 felt like a rushed game and it looked worse than MK2 in many aspects. To this day I still can't believe how crappy the dedicated fatality sprites were in MK3 and its expansions.
I really like this one, but the ps2 era Mortal Kombat games were dissapointing. The N64 port of 4 is excellent, and it was even fully PAL optimised. (for people who don't own a NTSC N64 for some odd reason ;) )
Pal optimised as well? Eurocom really did pull out all the stops for the N64 version.
@@RetroCore Eurocom was very talented with N64 hardware. It usually felt like they didn’t even care about the PS1. Hydro Thunder is the only Eurocom game I can think of that runs slower in PAL format. The NTSC version of that game has a weird bug where the entire game slows down ro PAL speed if you have a rumble pak inserted.
It’s moot when the game is so bad in the first place.
Even to this day the 64 is harder to emulate in some ways than the ps3.However saturn takes the cake on emulation
In retrospect: Mortal Kombat games main selling point was shock value. Nowhere near good as Street Fighter II games.
I did enjoyed MK 3 very much though. At least they implemented proper combo moves here.
I thought that back in the day. I've never liked Mortal Kombat.
PC?
when MK4 on GBC looks inferior to MK2 on GB you have to start to ask yourself some questions
That's digital eclipse for you. They suck although everyone nowadays think they're Awsome because they can emulate old stuff on very powerful consoles.
Hot take: Street Fighter had a better transition to 3d than Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter EX2 is actually a pretty good game.
SF used the Fighting Layer engine MK was from the ground up if I’m not mistaken
@@BRockin25 EX was before fighting layer.
Arika basically STARTED with the first EX
@@ronaldbooher9622 well I’ll be damned
No new BOTP today???
No, sorry. I'm too tired this week.
dont get me wrong im glad you made this video, like all your videos... but god damn i hate this game.. i think this was maybe the fifth n64 game i played , and after that it basically insured i was done with both mortal kombat and n64.. of course now, years later, i have discovered and come to love a modest number of n64 games and maybe the mortal kombat games have gotten better (no, clue still havent gone back), this was the game that set me on this path..
Hey, no worries. I hate this game too. Playing it for all these versions not fun. Actually, this video was supposed to be released a month ago but I kept putting it off because I didn't want to play the game.
@@RetroCore well, we appreciate your work..
the MK black sheep almost no one played Note this is the first non akklaim ported game this game flopped so hard midway put a bunch of them in semi trucks and went to places like shopping malls and such and called it "MK on tour"but it came out at the worst time as arcades had hit rock bottom fighting games were sort of on their way out of favor and when you still had ultimate mk 3 which had all the characters for the first 3 games plus bosses and and hidden characters VF with blood and weapons just didn't cut it
I played this for a bit on the ps1 and the n64 back in the day andthough I'd rather play one of the 2d games. It is a shame the ports are ps1 derivatives...
I guess it was easy to use the PSX version as they'd already ported that once and could easily build the other versions up on it.
Not gonna lie I frigin hated this game lol. Despite it borrowing elements from MK3 and playing somewhat snappy and responsive, the issues with the AI and the lack of extras really made the 4th entry feel so pointless. MKgold was decent enough as it addressed the lack of content, but yeah. Only thing worth sticking with the game for was the endings for each character..just like the previous games. Meh game overall.
Why on earth did the developers get lazy and just port the PS1 code over to Dreamcast & PC, 2 far more capable systems. I really thought this practice died out with the demise of the European home micros
Easy money I guess. The same thing happened with the Dreamcast port of Nightmare Creatures. It's just the PlayStation game complete with the low resolution textures and low polygon models.
@@RetroCore The Grinch of Dreamcast did that too.
What's funny is that game, PS1 and DC, were made by Konami as well
Allright 😂
Always hard to compare when not displayed in the targeted hardware
Eh? Only the Arcade version was emulated on this video. All other versions were running on original hardware.
@@RetroCore "displayed" as in showed in old crt monitors
Mortal kombat 4 is the best mortal kombat i playing,no cheated cpu fighters like the previous games,using weapons and more
well done! you truly do suffer for your art ;-)
DC version doesn't look half bad, though i wouldn't play it for money!
This was the transition of MK which was for the worse unfortunately... My personal favorite will always be MK II (Aracde) and Trilogy (PS)
It's trying too hard to be a violent Virtua Fighter or Tekken. It's a huge missed opportunity.
Wtf is MK4 of Game Boy Color?
Some "interesting" music there on the GBC...
Interesting is correct but I think "music" is questionable 😅
@@RetroCore Might work better on an alarm clock!😵💫
Ah, Mortal Kombat 4. A series rough transition to 3D (or 2.5) and a guilty pleasure during my PlayStation 1 days. Definitely not the best of the original Midway games (that honor goes to Mortal Kombat II), but damn it it was fun to play.
Nowadays, the only redeeming factors from the fourth mainline game are the laughable character endings (regardless of version). Still in my eyes, MK4 is the series' "diamond in the rough."
I didn't play this one back then- I had decided I wasn't into MK after the 3rd game- when you take away the digitized graphics, I feel like it comes off a lot less interesting
I decided after MK1 😅. I mean, I played it but never enjoyed it.
I still cannot get why people like Mortal Kombat so much. Violence and fatalities grow old so quick.
I have only played the Dreamcast version. That was pretty rough. It looked dated at the time. I hated it at first... Later on I could see some appeal, but I am not a Mortal Kombat fan at all.
MK2 was brilliant, the rest are fine but just not made for me.
Too sad arcade version still not perfect today.
Yes, very. I doubt it will be fixed any time soon as well.
@@RetroCore MAME developers is pretty much a ghost team at this point sadly
You used broken arcade emulation footage. Doesn't mean much. Arcade had the best graphics by far
There is no arcade perfect emulation solution for this game.
what a complete piece of garbage, this GBC demake. I barely could believe my eyes and ears