Finish Him Part 13: Mortal Kombat 4 (Game Boy Color), Mortal Kombat Gold

Mortal Kombat 4 (Game Boy Color)

I almost forgot about this. MK4 (GBC) is very maligned. Fighting games never did very well on Nintendo’s portable money printer, but even by that metric, MK4 got Fatalities in reviews.

This port tries to present the Fatalities from the arcade/console versions in digitized form, via a small window.

Fatality sprite sheet

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Finish Him Part 12: Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Mortal Kombat 4

Mortal Kombat Trilogy

The only brand new characters in this game are the ninjas Chameleon and Khameleon. Chameleon was featured in the PC, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn versions, but Khameleon was exclusive to the Nintendo 64 port. All in all, this info is kind of a bitch to look up, and then there’s the fact that Chameleon keeps cycling colors, which makes me feel kind of weird, so if you’re extremely photosensitive, take caution.

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