91. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Creator: Midway
Genre: Fighting
Year: 1995
Platforms: Arcade, Sega Saturn, Genesis, Super NES, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, iOS
Mobygames link
Available through: gog.com
This is a video of my nephew after he learned some secret moves for the Mortal Kombat game we have. It's 2, not 3, but this is life after the death of games journalism:
I asked my friend Drew what the best fighting game was, and he said UMK3. He is vision-impaired but is able to successfully play competitive video games competitively. So his opinion matters. He is going with Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, so so am I. I thought the best one was MK2, which is why we have one in my garage. I think; we had a mudslide last week and some of the mud slid into the garage, so it is very possible that the thing is under ten feet of silt, mud and rock. That would be a nice Pompeii-like unveiling for future historians. Instead of people going, "lol look at these gaybois" they can just slur me.
We get Nightwolf in MK3 and I am not here to comment on whether or not Nightwolf is a painful stereotype, because most Indians I have met are among the most chill people I've ever met. They do not need me to fight their battles. I do want to drop this quote though:
Ed Boon described him to Video Games & Computer Entertainment magazine in April 1995 as "a very nontraditional Indian. He doesn't swing an axe that he's always holding, like Chief Thunder from Killer Instinct." Nightwolf uses a mystical set of weapons (a tomahawk and a bow and arrow) in battle.
Nice work, Ed. Nightwolf is very nontraditional, he doesn't EVEN scalp guys as part of his fatalities, but we did include a special move that turns him 50 feet tall and scream inuk chuk.
Okay, I started up gog to get this screenshot and as I was sending it over to Photoshop, Kano defeated Stryker, and then somehow threw Stryker into the path of a subway car, where he got run over and gibbed. Jesus! Sometimes I worry whether or not a listed game should really be in this list before I hit the POST! button, so I appreciate UMK3 eliminating all debate.
