Team would like to do a Sega Saturn fighting game collection in the future
If you’re curious why the handheld versions of Mortal Kombat are being included in the upcoming Legacy Kollection, the developers at Digital Eclipse have weighed in on the matter.
“One of the things that became clear to me early on is that everybody has their version of Mortal Kombat,” says content editor Dan Amrich, who was talking with GamesIndustry.biz along with other staff members who are working on the collection.
While Amrich grew up playing the Genesis version of the game, he spoke with someone who gave a passionate defense of the Game Boy port, which they spent hours playing in the back of a car on family trips.
“It’s not the best version of Mortal Kombat, but there are people out there that have very vivid and strong love and memories for specific versions,” said Amrich.
People can still get upset about including handheld ports however, like the Game Boy version. “It’s an affront to them for some reason. I’m like, just because you didn’t grow up playing it, someone else did,” said Digital Eclipse’s Stephen Frost.
Digital Eclipse isn’t just stopping with just the handheld and console versions of the first four games in the Mortal Kombat series, as they said more content will be announced in the future.
“There are always cases with these collections where there’s potential issues with rights, or from a scope perspective, trying to get something up and running in a timely manner, but in this case, it’s more about keeping that air of mystery, because Mortal Kombat has always been about secrets,” Frost stated.
“The other idea, because I’m a fighting game fan, would be to do a Sega Saturn-based fighting game collection,” Frost noted. “So all the fighting games from the Sega Saturn: the Virtua Fighters, Fighting Vipers, all that stuff in a collection. I think that would be really popular,” he concluded.
You can also check out the system requirements for the collection on PC and Steam and how it’ll feature in-game developer menus.