Finish Him Part 15: Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Game Boy Advance)

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Game Boy Advance)

I forgot that this existed.

Kenshi uses telekinesis to rip some guts out; Scorpion uses his harpoon to rip out a brain and a heart, apparently.

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Finish Him Part 14: Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Mortal Kombat: Deception

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance

This game kicked off a financially successful – yet controversial – era of Mortal Kombat, one that I think is the most interesting they’d had in a while.

Li Mei kicks her antagonist in the stomach, then kicks their head off.

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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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