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If you’re a fighting game fan hoping to play the Super Nintendo versions of Mortal Kombat again, you may want to hang on to your old cartridges. Any hope that the Nintendo-specific versions might eventually appear on the Virtual Console seemed to disappear this weekend. A fan asked series creator Ed Boon on Twitter about the likelihood of the Super Nintendo versions of Mortal Kombat 1-3 appearing on the service and Boon put it at a blunt “0.0%” chance. While this originally seemed to indicate that no version of the titles would appear, Boon later clarified his comments, stating that he’d rather have the Sega Genesis versions available on the service.
Midway’s franchise hasn’t had the best relationship with Nintendo systems, and it all started with the original Mortal Kombat. The Super Nintendo port is quite infamous for the many edits enforced by Nintendo, such as tamer fatalities (yanked out chest-hair, for example), the replacement of blood with “sweat,” and an overall lack of the gore that the franchise is now famous for. While Nintendo relented and allowed an unedited port of Mortal Kombat II to appear on the Super Nintendo, the damage was clearly done. One could likely pinpoint that moment as the start of Nintendo’s perception as a “kiddie” option for gamers. While Nintendo has done much to fight against that perception, it’s certainly something that has plagued the company ever since.
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Source: Nintendo Life
