retro saturdays and mortal kombat trilogy

This was the hottest mortal kombat game and fighting game when it was released simply because it brought out the little kid in us. Yes mortal kombat games had T and M ratings but it was mostly for the (nowadays) tame gore. As a kid it was the coolest fighting game in existence among with killer instinct. Down to it's core, mortal kombat trilogy is mortal kombat 3 or umk3 but with a lot more characters and backgrounds and a flimsier story and it's the 3rd game using the mk3 engine hence the name trilogy even if it's not the 3rd game in the series

Ok onto the good stuff, for the 1st time ever you can play as the sub bosses goro and kintaro(although goro was in gameboy mk1 but eh) on a home console without cheats and motaro and shao kahn also without cheats although this was only in the playstation and sega saturn versions. The nintendo 64 version is considered the inferior port because it only has shao kahn and motaro or the classic versions of some mk2 characters and less stages and less music and less sub zeros(only one), The ps1 and saturn ports have all the bosses/subbosses, mk2 versions of jax and kung lao, mk1 versions of raiden and kano although if you really wanted to be picky(and people are) then they could have used the versions of characters in previous games such as mk 1 reptile and mk 2 scorpion. Because this is the internet, someone already made a homebrew game like that using all the characters from all the mortal kombat games ok onto mkt

When I first played it I was blown away at the huge roster. I had a hard time picking a character and I immediately wanted a ps1 and this game. Happily that moment would happen some years later. i loved everything about it except for the long loading times that can drag on at times. There was a new hidden character called chameleon on the ps1 version and khamelon on the n64 version. They are semi transparent ninjas that use the abilities of the female and male ninjas.

This game is worth playing despite it's loading times as it had the biggest roster of any mortal kombat game to date(mortal kombat armegeddon would surpass it)  and it brings out the inner little kid in you