Number 100
(54 points)
Mortal Kombat
1994: 27 (44.4)
1995: 89 (9.6)
No Street Fighter II in this list (with good reason) but Mortal Kombat fared rather better on the Amiga.
Based on the arcade game, Mortal Kombat retains all the characters, moves and fatalities of the original, but with a control scheme to accommodate the single-button joysticks that the vast majority of Amiga owners used. If you have a two-button controller, you can use it to perform high kicks, which does make the control a lot easier, but converting a five-button game down to two buttons, or even one, is inevitably going to involve a trade-off. This is less of a problem in two-player mode, as both players are equally handicapped, but for the time, Amiga owners would have been relatively pleased nonetheless.
Now then, if you really wanted to play Mortal Kombat (and really, there are better games in the MK series than the first offering), the Amiga is hardly going to be your first choice, but you know this yourself. If you must play it, however, make sure you've either got the WHDLoad version, or at least two disk drives: the loading and disk swapping between fights gets old very quickly. One for historical purposes, nothing more.
Recommended TOSEC disk(s):Mortal Kombat (1993)(Virgin)(Disk 1 of 3)(Boot)[cr FLT]
Mortal Kombat (1993)(Virgin)(Disk 2 of 3)(1)[cr FLT]
Mortal Kombat (1993)(Virgin)(Disk 3 of 3)(2)[cr FLT]
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