LGR - Mortal Kombat - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Selim
I first played this game on a 386sx without a sound card. I had to set it to low detail, the game was in slow motion and the sound was attrocious BUT I STILL LOVED IT, I pkayed it a lot and thougt it was the coolest thing ever (ok, I admit it, I was 9 back then and was very impressionable. When I upgraded to a AMD 5x86 with a sound card man was I impressed, it was totally day and night. I had an arcade machine at home.
A little trivia. In the version of the game I had, the voices seemed to be switched. Liu Kang had the american sounding voice and grunts and the other guys sounded like Liu Kang. I wondernif you noticed the same thing.
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I first played this game on a 386sx without a sound card. I had to set it to low detail, the game was in slow motion and the sound was attrocious BUT I STILL LOVED IT, I pkayed it a lot and thougt it was the coolest thing ever (ok, I admit it, I was 9 back then and was very impressionable. When I upgraded to a AMD 5x86 with a sound card man was I impressed, it was totally day and night. I had an arcade machine at home.
A little trivia. In the version of the game I had, the voices seemed to be switched. Liu Kang had the american sounding voice and grunts and the other guys sounded like Liu Kang. I wondernif you noticed the same thing.
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Daniel
The pc version was great! i remember it was so much like the arcade! i remember once seeing a guy using a bug? on the arcade to get 2 heads out of the oponent with johnny cage's fatality, and then trying it at home on my pc and it worked! i was so amazed by that! Also i remember i had the same box but mine came with a gamepad that had like a little stick that you could screw in the pad so it would be more like an arcade (didnt really work afaik. overall, great times and a great game!
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The pc version was great! i remember it was so much like the arcade! i remember once seeing a guy using a bug? on the arcade to get 2 heads out of the oponent with johnny cage's fatality, and then trying it at home on my pc and it worked! i was so amazed by that! Also i remember i had the same box but mine came with a gamepad that had like a little stick that you could screw in the pad so it would be more like an arcade (didnt really work afaik. overall, great times and a great game!
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Matt
Amiga versions of MK games graphics were stripped down due to system requirements. MK and MKII worked on 1MB A500 and PC version required 4MB of RAM. MKII was working slower on a stock A500 samples were worse quality than on a stock A1200. Also there was disk swapping during fatalities. The Amiga versions could be better of course, but it was just another case of sloppy arcade port Amiga was famous of. The music was excelent though.
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Amiga versions of MK games graphics were stripped down due to system requirements. MK and MKII worked on 1MB A500 and PC version required 4MB of RAM. MKII was working slower on a stock A500 samples were worse quality than on a stock A1200. Also there was disk swapping during fatalities. The Amiga versions could be better of course, but it was just another case of sloppy arcade port Amiga was famous of. The music was excelent though.
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Raven
This port was so much better than the Amiga, Sega CD, Mega Drive (Genesis) and SNES ports that it's not even funny. Infact this was the only port with fully uncensored violence and almost Arcade-perfect visuals and sound (CD-ROM version had the full Arcade music. Shame about the SFII PC port though, that felt like a massive disappointment, although the Super Turbo version fixed a bit of the sour taste it left.
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This port was so much better than the Amiga, Sega CD, Mega Drive (Genesis) and SNES ports that it's not even funny. Infact this was the only port with fully uncensored violence and almost Arcade-perfect visuals and sound (CD-ROM version had the full Arcade music. Shame about the SFII PC port though, that felt like a massive disappointment, although the Super Turbo version fixed a bit of the sour taste it left.
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Kova
I've only recently managed to get my GOG version of the MK games working (or rather, figured out how to get DOSBOX to work properly, and that version seems to be a port of a CD version, as it has Arcade perfect music, (albeit downsampled and compressed quite a bit. But yeah, I was surprised how close this game is to the Arcade version. Too bad I don't have that sweet box or the temp tattoos, lol.
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I've only recently managed to get my GOG version of the MK games working (or rather, figured out how to get DOSBOX to work properly, and that version seems to be a port of a CD version, as it has Arcade perfect music, (albeit downsampled and compressed quite a bit. But yeah, I was surprised how close this game is to the Arcade version. Too bad I don't have that sweet box or the temp tattoos, lol.
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Fuzzy
I know you're joking but you have no idea how much money I accidentally spent on software for carrots because I assumed it was for the PC and the box didn't state one way or the other. You were supposed to just know (although I guess reading the system spec could have helped as it did specify number of flowers your carrot required.
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I know you're joking but you have no idea how much money I accidentally spent on software for carrots because I assumed it was for the PC and the box didn't state one way or the other. You were supposed to just know (although I guess reading the system spec could have helped as it did specify number of flowers your carrot required.
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The
I had this game on PC, it was a pretty good port and IMO looked better than the SNES version. though I still preferred playing on game consoles due to the ease of the controllers, whereas I didn't have a good PC gaming controller, so I played on the keyboard. It was fine for playing solo but got really crowded for 2 player.
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I had this game on PC, it was a pretty good port and IMO looked better than the SNES version. though I still preferred playing on game consoles due to the ease of the controllers, whereas I didn't have a good PC gaming controller, so I played on the keyboard. It was fine for playing solo but got really crowded for 2 player.
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Parker
When I was a kid, my friend let me borrow the disks and I had to call him on the phone everytime to play in order to tell me the copy protection words from the manual, lol.
I remember the PC version's graphics, animations, and sound FX were far superior to the console versions, but the SNES port had the best music.
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When I was a kid, my friend let me borrow the disks and I had to call him on the phone everytime to play in order to tell me the copy protection words from the manual, lol.
I remember the PC version's graphics, animations, and sound FX were far superior to the console versions, but the SNES port had the best music.
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TBurianOnline
Too bad they strayed away from the digitized video look of the game (which I liked better) and went for the cartoony 3D, but that's what they gotta do to keep stay in, I guess.
Btw, where in all the hells did you manage to get the arcade cabinet! Man, stuff like that can only happen in the USA.
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Too bad they strayed away from the digitized video look of the game (which I liked better) and went for the cartoony 3D, but that's what they gotta do to keep stay in, I guess.
Btw, where in all the hells did you manage to get the arcade cabinet! Man, stuff like that can only happen in the USA.
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lazygamereviews
Back then and now people crap on the SNES version so much, but it was far superior to the Genesis version.
Sure, it didn't have blood, and some of the Fatalities were changed, but from a pure audio and visual standpoint, the SNES port outclassed the Genesis version in every conceivable way.
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Back then and now people crap on the SNES version so much, but it was far superior to the Genesis version.
Sure, it didn't have blood, and some of the Fatalities were changed, but from a pure audio and visual standpoint, the SNES port outclassed the Genesis version in every conceivable way.
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