@@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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Not the best sprites quality, but major colors there makes more "readable" in no backlight screen like GB Color. Ironically they screw it somehow with Reptile. Pallete color limit or something?
MKII on the original GameBoy was surprisingly good and smooth given the systems obvious limitations. Not sure how MK games that released after it turned out much worse.
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
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.
Wow. It's not even a GBC only cart! It's in a black cart that's playable on the original Gameboy. So it's not even really using the true power of the GBC console
Why does anyone hate MK4? Seriously. It was a massive leg up over the dump that was MK3. It was the first solo playable game in the series that wasn't tilted too much against you. You could actually win the game without cheesing the whole way through.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
@@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.
@@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".
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.
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.
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.
Not in a long shot. Mk4 GB is way better than MK advance. I'd rather take the bootleg Famicom/NES ports over MK advance. Also should have mentioned that the ONLY mk to get it right on GB was MK2. Not to mention the fan UMK3 gb port.
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
Honestly, I just used low punches the entire way. Worked as a charm. It's not atrocious like Mortal Kombat Advance, or MK3 for the Master System. It's awful, but not the worst.
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.
What’s troubling is the development team went ahead and released this and previous MK games on gameboy. If it were me and I saw my vision and franchise looking like this I wouldn’t have released it. It does more damage than good. It’s horrible visuals, music and gameplay, just not worth it
I could perform special moves. They just cut too many corners trying to put this on a Game Boy and the whole thing suffers for it. look at the fatalities!
When Midway released "MK-GOLD" on the DreamCast they should've held back and released a smoother ""MK-4"" on the GameBoy Advance , , , hopefully it would've looked similar to ""Tekken Advance"" oh well alas what might have been 😋😋👍
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.
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.
Reptile, having just beaten Tanya into a vulnerable state - "Welp, better go kill Johnny Cage."
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.
So the whole thing is a Johnny Cage movie. Like how Super Mario 3 is a stage play...
In fact, I think everyone's fatality involves Johnny Cage being killed.
@@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.
@@EddieSlabbif that was the logic Johnny wouldn't get killed lol
@@CrocoDylianVTit's all just special effects
How does Shinnok even work? Does he just have Spear and one other move or can he change move sets?
The fact that 8-bit games were still being made in the late 90s in kinda crazy in retrospect
If you want Handheld MK, just get the DS port of UMK3. It even has Puzzle Kombat in it!
This feels a lot like a game that should’ve waited until the GBA, the bumpers alone would’ve opened up so much more
"dead or Alive, you're coming with me" - Reptile
I always wanted you to cover MK3 on iOS it looks like such a strange MK game
A lot of ports from the 90s were just shovelware, especially the handheld ports.
How did they make Scorpio a playable character, but not Homer or James Bont?!
Left behind in beta.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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!
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.
That would be AWESOME
I need that Tanya spirit on Salty Bets asap!!!
this seems like a game that some clueless parent buys their kids when they ask for Mortal Kombat
Omg I can't believe they got Robocop in MK all the way back in 1998
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.
You should do a video on Deadly Alliance for GBA.
What about Mortal Kombat for the Tiger Electronic handheld?
This game was indeed way too much of a task to develop. They tried at least though.
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.
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
Who had the idea to make this?! Im not a game dev or a marketing expert but im pretty sure they lost a lot of money with this.
i hope the new youtube policies doesn't affect this channel too much, it would be awful to see it go away
Not the best sprites quality, but major colors there makes more "readable" in no backlight screen like GB Color. Ironically they screw it somehow with Reptile. Pallete color limit or something?
MKII on the original GameBoy was surprisingly good and smooth given the systems obvious limitations. Not sure how MK games that released after it turned out much worse.
I was suprised how easy it was to spam a roundhouse. Goodness me
Game Boy Color MK4 Scorpion = ORIGINAL Duckface!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I quite like Shinnok's cosplay for Ermac.
Awesome! I was playing this game about 6 weeks ago.
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
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.
Wow. It's not even a GBC only cart! It's in a black cart that's playable on the original Gameboy. So it's not even really using the true power of the GBC console
"Something rare was famous for back then"
Eeeeerrr, what about sea of thieves?
You know it couldn't work if Digital Eclipse can't do it
got og gb one and my god cant go past two fights never mind the boss years
Damn, the Shao Khan thing really showed how little they cared here.
Killing Johnny cage was personal
still better than the most recent MK
Why does anyone hate MK4? Seriously. It was a massive leg up over the dump that was MK3. It was the first solo playable game in the series that wasn't tilted too much against you. You could actually win the game without cheesing the whole way through.
This didn’t age well! MK1 definitely topped this as the worst almost immediately
MK4 on the GBC is simply GOATED 😤
How could they crew it op so bad? MK 2on the regular game boy wasn’t Hal’s bad.
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.
@marsbitrona, hey man, by any chance do you remember how was the combo and with which character, I'm curious. Thanks
@@Raziel_Plisken Maybe Sub-Zero? Sorry, I don’t recall the details.
I remember when this was released, even at that time, we realized how unplayable it was. This is slightly below MKadvance IMO
I remember MKA, that game was so hard for no reason lol
Emphasis on slightly 🤣
As a kid I really enjoyed MKA...
Naw. Mk advance is the worst. This is still playable.
Do we count MK mythologie Sub-Zero ?
Since it ain't a "combat" game, it sucks
Even if it's playable ig
Reptile literally looks like Robocop with a Saturday Night Fever skin.
Lmaooo John travolta cosplaying as reptile
Rowdy Roddy reptile
@@windebiesteultima3317 *insert Scientology joke that gets me assassinated here*
I'm sure with either Rollback netcode or an EVO slot, this game could find an audience...
With a MiSTer FPGA you can at least run local setups with the 2P GameBoy cores lol
i can't wait to see competitive mk4 gameboy gameplay at evo 2023
@@trashcan7594 actually I could watch it out of curiosity
Rollback cures all that ails
Hey sailor Moon s did
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.
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.
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.
@@davion4777Or maybe just limitations of its time
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
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.
@@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
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.
Now tell Matt McMuscles to cover this for The Worst Fighting Game.
"This is revenge for putting me through MKA!!"
"WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!"
The worst is "dangerous streets "
Blue Quan chi was my favorite character from og mk4. The perpetual screaming facial expression was always classic
Credit where credit is due the fatalities here got more justice than in mortal kombat advance lmao
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😂
I bet this game was like an anchor in your raft tho lol
@@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
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.
@@KaoruMzk get that common sense stuff outta here! That’s it, no more PlayStation!
@@KaoruMzk the problem is that our U.S. education is in flux and what worked decades ago won't work today.
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.
They've
E talked about mugens before
@@memehierarchy6226 MUGEN is a freeware engine that has some MK fangames on it. Bootlegs are unlicensed games made by amateurs for consoles.
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.
4:00 Reptile's camoflague seems to be pretty effective on some stages!
9:30 I guess that’s _one_ way to fit his invisibility in!
MK4 for GBC is not the worst, that title goes to MK Advance lol 😆 MK4 for GBC sealed is also worth a lot on ebay. Cool video.
Can we play mk4 at the arcade?
Mom: we have mk4 at home.
The mk4 at home:
Lmao
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...
Tell me more
@@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.
@@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.
@@vahlok1426 wow I didn’t peep until you said something smfh
Guys, guys! I think I finally get it now, it's all starting to make perfect sense!
He really likes Mortal Kombat!
this makes me appreciate Street Fighter Alpha gameboy color port more and more. Outstanding port for the system, all things considered.
One reason why I appreciate MK4 for the GBC is because of how much speculation and wild mass guessing Reiko's ending caused
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?
@@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".
@@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.
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.
Yep
Ill buy this game
You gon learn
Reptile in this port be like : you know what? I'mma kill cage instead of sub zero
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.
Sooo are you gonna do a character tier list on this one?
The GBC port also rendered two names wrongly with Scorpion being rendered "SCORPIO" and Lui Kang rendered "LIUKANG"
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.
When absolutely still, the sprite work on Tanya isn't terrible. She's very recognizeable and the colors are right.
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.
And fatal fury on game gear
UMK3 was ported on GBC by Z80artist, and it is very impressive! The best MK on GB!
The newest beta isn't available for download though. The A.I. of the original is even more broken than the MK: Advance one.🙄
This almost feels like an old AVGN video lmaoo
This game looks even sadder when you look at what was done to the Street Fighter Alpha port for the same system...
PLEASE MORE COMPETITIVE HISTORY!! KITANA NEXT 💕🙏🏻💕🙏🏻🥹
Mortal Kombat Advance: I-I thought I was the worst… 😢
Not in a long shot. Mk4 GB is way better than MK advance. I'd rather take the bootleg Famicom/NES ports over MK advance. Also should have mentioned that the ONLY mk to get it right on GB was MK2. Not to mention the fan UMK3 gb port.
It's not good or bad but its more playable than The arcade port of Mortal kombat 2
I remember picking this up ONLY because MKA was sold out at the time. I was sick when I first played it 😭
Ok, yeah, it's terrible, but...
Speedrun when?
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
I had the exact same thoughts
tbf its impressive that they managed to do something that runs on a Gameboy
You say that because you haven't seen MKII or MK3 on Game Boy. They're bad, but a million times better than this.
Mfs made Reptile purple. How do you mess that up?
How easy you were shown up by the NES bootlegs of Mortal Kombat of all things.
Honestly, I just used low punches the entire way. Worked as a charm. It's not atrocious like Mortal Kombat Advance, or MK3 for the Master System. It's awful, but not the worst.
I honestly really enjoyed GBC MK4 as a kid. It was actually possible to win, unlike the earlier games :D.
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.
What’s troubling is the development team went ahead and released this and previous MK games on gameboy. If it were me and I saw my vision and franchise looking like this I wouldn’t have released it. It does more damage than good. It’s horrible visuals, music and gameplay, just not worth it
“When I said, aim low, I didn’t mean for them to excavate the tar pits!” - Al Bundy
I never liked Mortal Kombat 4. I always called it, "Virtual Fighter Kombat."
I could perform special moves. They just cut too many corners trying to put this on a Game Boy and the whole thing suffers for it. look at the fatalities!
Man those fatalities... what the heck are those?? So bad! I feel bad for anyone who had mk4 on Gameboy color 😂😂
SNK portable games for GB are awesome.
When Midway released "MK-GOLD" on the DreamCast they should've held back and released a smoother ""MK-4"" on the GameBoy Advance , , , hopefully it would've looked similar to ""Tekken Advance"" oh well alas what might have been 😋😋👍
You guys should play MK2 on the Gameboy. It is surprisingly good.
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.
Mk4 on gameboy, Mk advanced, and mk special forces are the worst in history of gaming
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.