While that might sound crazy to some of you out there, even the console versions of Mortal Kombat didn’t include pause features. This tasks the Game Gear buttons “1” and “2” with punching and kicking, and believe it or not Start is used to block. The control scheme is somewhat the same even though the Game Gear has only 2 action buttons, the console ports of Mortal Kombat only used 3 buttons: one to kick, one to punch, and one to block.
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I wouldn’t have a problem accepting these omissions if it had seemed like something had actually been done better because of them, but one look at this title will tell you it’s not the case.Īs far as I know (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong), all special moves and fatalities are intact when it comes to the characters that are present. The backgrounds aren’t such bad translations I suppose, oh but wait, there are only 2 backgrounds for the entire game! (The Pit and Goro’s Lair, I think.) Also absent is Kano (which confused me to no end when I played as a child) and Reptile and anything relating to Reptile has been stripped as well. You can tell who you’ve selected obviously but faces are all but obscured, and smaller details such as Shang Tsung’s garb and Sonya’s patterned outfit melt into indistinction.
The Game Gear port takes that slight grainy and muddy quality of the characters and turns it up to 11, maybe even 13 or 14. I realize that even on the 16-bit systems of the day Mortal Kombat didn’t look great (however it is absolutely wild to see how much better it looked on the SNES than the Genesis), but the digitization added a welcome sense of realism opposite the hand-drawn Street Fighter series. With a little bit of practice this game can become playable, but exactly how much fun anyone will be able to have with it is entirely speculative. Instead of working with the limited power of the Game Gear to create an enjoyable experience, they just cut the balls off the 1992 smash hit and slapped a label on. Hell, at least on the Game Boy Goro is accessible as a playable character! This truly is an awful game and the perfect example of how badly video game companies want to cash in.
Does anyone remember playing any Mortal Kombat game on any handheld? I can’t say I’ve tried too many, but I can’t imagine anything much worse than the Sega Game Gear port of the original Mortal Kombat.
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