Mortal Kombat Celebrates 30 Years Of Fatalities, Friendships And Flawless Victories

Played quite a bit of MK 1, 2 and 3 in college. Don't remember what we played 1 and 2 on, but we played a ton of 3 on my SNES (which I still have, boxed even). MK3 is still my favorite after all these years.

@TheBoilerman

I’ve played those same games, as well. See, I’ve played all the MK games until Armageddon on PS2.

For the next Mortal Kombat I hope Ed Boon can pull of something really cool. Tbh I miss John Tobias’s art direction. He was really good at that. Gave the characters a lot of life and projected well on the screen.

I have played extremely little Mortal Kombat back then on the SNES and I never really felt compelled to actually own it myself. Cool to see it having survived all these years though!

How about a new game or a collection of MK games (arcade, home and portable).

@GameOtaku Goodoldgames.com recently just put MK Trilogy on their store page. I personally didn’t get it yet, but it’s on my wishlist along with the remake of system shock 1.

Gonna need that Kombat Kollection, and one that’s given the same treatment as seen in the Cowabunga Collection.

Every single arcade, console, and portable version of all the 90’s/early 00’s games. Scans of every manual, flattened scans of all game box art, design documents, advertisements, etc. Online play.

That’s literally all I’d want to see from this 30th anniversary celebration. Do this, and it’s an instant day one buy.

My first one was the first game on SNES, I was probably like five or six. Though the one I really put a lot of time into as a kid was the Gamegear version of 2.

That said I could kind of take or leave porting the original trilogy. I'd a lot rather have 9 ported to modern consoles. Maybe also Shaolin Monks and Deception.

Wow since I didn’t play until I was 17 I didn’t realize the series came out when I was that little. Never did much for me. I have a few of the newer ones to play with friends, but my mom made sure I was hooked on street fighter and SNK games. Good looking out mom.

That's all well and good but where's my compilation? They should have been preparing to release one in time for the anniversary. On a side note I'd just like to say I've enjoyed this series since day one of the original arcade release. I was just 13 when the first game came out and luckily my mom didn't care what i was playing. She never tried to stop me even if it was a violent game. My mom couldn't have cared less about my video whatsit machine. i remember going to a friend's house to play it on his Sega genesis. I was a Nintendo kid until he showed me how much cooler it was on sega! All the blood and gore completely intact with the Abacab cheat of course! I was so used to playing on snes i didn't even know the game had blood and guts intil he showed me. I was like woah dude awesome! Been an MK fan ever since i saw my first fatality!

Would be nice to finally play these 30 years worth of MK contents on modern hardware that is not a PC or some kind of cheap Chinese emulation device.

Happy 30th anniversary MK! Looking forward to the next game.

Yes!! A Kollection would be gold!

Even just MK1, 2, 3, UMK3 and Trilogy bundled on current gem systems. Given cowabunga treatment would be so good too!

That was awesome! MK 1, 2, and 3 on arKades and SNES plus the 90s movie were HUGE parts of my childhood. Also...HOW IS THIS SERIES 30 YEARS OLD? lol 😭

Can the Klassic ones come to Switch now for the anniversary? Haha

@90sRetroGaming I would pay an unholy amount of money for that Kollection! Haha

I don't get it. NOBODY CARES for history YouTube trailers and concept art. You now how to celebrate 30 years of history? Finally release games from the Mega Drive and PlayStation era digitally on all modern platforms!!! And also change Sonya Blade to how she is supposed to look in MK11. How did they make such an iconic character look so dump?

Anyway I saw the above trailer in my PlayStation feed and I literally thought they announced a retro collection for PS4. You can guess the disappointment...

The only modern digital store that classic MK are available is GOG and they play via dos box? I don't really know, they look inferior to the PlayStation versions. There were also on Steam but I think they were delisted. There are workarounds you have to do to make them play in a modern windows system and they obviously don't work on Steam Deck.

Mortal Kombat 2 on the SNES. The tv-series was great. Too bad it wasn't in this trailer.

I was amazed by the blood and gore in the original arcade game.

The last one I played was probably the one with "...Toasty!", which was spurt-milk-out-your-mouth funny at the time.

Id love a massive klassic kollection release of 1,2,3 ,ultimate mk 3, trilogy, 4 & gold Mythlogies and shaolin monks, ,deadly alliance, deception a,armageddon and MK9. Throw in special forces even just for a laugh even.

Had 1 - 3 on Super NES, Trilogy was the first PlayStation game I got. I later got 4, which I know plenty didn't like it but I loved it at the time. Didn't get another until 11, which is fantastic.

Played a lot of MK on the SNES/Mega drive era.
Then on the N64 as well.
After that I haven't played any of the games until MK11 on the Switch.

I played so much MK back in the day. Still play the newer ones from time to time, but it’s the older ones that will always have a special place in my heart.

I grew up in the 90s, and fighting games at the arcade were my jam. Just that feeling of discovering moves and secrets and choosing to share them or guard them with other players was a really unique time and place. When MK2 hit the SNES, I was absolutely hooked. I played it for hundreds of hours, for years. I played all of them, for 3 decades, but dropped out at MKX. I won't be begged for money when I'm playing my games, and MK is gross with that stuff. After the perfection of MKIX, it especially sucked. Used to be my second favorite franchise (just behind DOOM, which is still my fave), now I just roll my eyes at any announcements and wait to see how the game will try to screw me over...whether it's begging me to buy more characters on the TITLE SCREEN, requiring online for progress in any SP mode, begging me to buy MKXI on XL's title screen (even when XI is installed), rebalancing in game rewards after reviews hit to milk more money out of players....yeah no MK is done to me.

Oh the money I spent on MK 1 at the arcade/fish & chip shop as a kid. Was blown away at the time and I’m pretty sure the muscle memory/RSI from playing that is why I have munted meat-platter hands now.

@belmont i liked the video on the tweet idk

@BloodNinja okay. I don't know what that means.
Oh nvm I read your comments. Ignored.

Happy 30th Anniversary MK. My first experience with the franchise was being dropped off at the mall which had an arcade. I was wandering around trying to decide what to play when I saw a bunch of kids at a new cabinet and heard the famous words FATALITY and took a look. MK 1 was the coolest, most violent videogame I had ever played at that time. I tried out Sonya Blade.

@GameOtaku We need an mk arcade collection for the Switch.
I think their next project is that dark superhero thing? Unless it already came out.