Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection May Set New Standards for Fighting Game Collection
Blog Andrew Joseph 17 Jun , 2025 0
One of the biggest problems in fighting games is saving. How good the game is, or how great its influence, or whether it's classic or flash or anything in the middle. It's hard to play old fighting games on modern hardware. If you want to get 7 iron fists ahead of time, it's better to connect an old console. Soulcalibur? I hope you have a switch 2 and/or a wonderful reissue or physical disc. Best version of Street Fighter III: The third strike? Still stuck on the Xbox 360 and PS3. It keeps going. Some people do better than others (the role of CAPCOM, SNK, ARC systems), but the reality is that many of the best and most important fighting games of the past are lost, either trapped on old hardware, or stuck with old hardware, or bad ports, which makes them essentially unplayable in the worse and most flawed situations. This is the best case scenario. Those who were burned or disappeared? You may not be able to play them legally at all. Rest in peace for Teras Kasi fans.
This is the case with the digital eclipse, about to be introduced with the live kombat heritage Kollection, a compilation of Mortal Kombat’s glorious days from the early days. If a digital eclipse seems to be the right studio for such products, it may be because they have a lot of history that makes Tetris forever, Atari 50: Anniversary Collection, and my personal favorite Teenage Stumage Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga Collection: Cowabunga Collection. They know what they do here; the only problem is execution.
Of course, the most important thing is the game itself. Classic works are all here: Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat 4. But it's not just an arcade game. The console and handheld versions are here too. If you prefer the SNES release of the original deadly fighter, that's for you. If you prefer Gory Genesis games, that's here too. I, I'm an arcade purist, but I'm glad there are some options here, or just want to see a different version of each.
But we are not limited to the Klassic (sorry) version played by everyone and their mom. Weird things are here too. This means the prepaid version of Mortal Kombat: The Deadly Alliance for Game Boy, as well as the 32X version of Mortal Kombat II and the Game Boy and Game Gear version of Primitive Mortal Kombat. I don't even know them Made The game boy version of the original mortal Kombat, but it's here if you want.
Additionally, every game in Legacy Kollection will support online multiplayer through Rollback NetCode provided by GGPO, one of the best rollback solutions in the business. This version will mark the first online game for most games in the series. This means a lot of extra work for a digital eclipse (adding online games to a fighting game that you haven’t owned yet is a well-known hard job), but if they can do it right, it’s a huge achievement.
However, online gaming is not the only new deal in this package. Digital Eclipse can unlock every secret through the touch of a button. This means characters, game settings, hidden developer menus, whole tortillas. If you'd rather do something like unlocking reptiles normally (seriously, look up the process in the original MK to remember the madness of some of the arcade secrets of MK), then you can do it. But if you don't want to get into trouble, every secret is within reach.
But what I'm most looking forward to is the tendency of digital Eclipse to work on archives, which will appear in the legacy Kollection. That means interviews with the likes of Ed Boon, John Tobias, Dan Forden, John Vogel, and many, many more – but also archive stuff, like footage of the actors that was scanned into the game and the Mortal Kombat prequel comic book, written and illustrated by Tobias himself, that you could send away for by mail and is, like all collectors items, now prohibitively expensive to acquire. Put into a series timeline that traces the history of each character and stories of MK in various fields, and it sounds like the traditional Kollection will have everything Oldhead MK fans (and young guns who want to learn the history of the series) want. As someone who grew up in arcades with these games, I’m glad they can offer it to everyone. I'll see you online on UMK3.