(Man, come on, FurryPile, quit being slow right now. These images are taking ages to load!)
So this is an interesting one to add to this thread, in that it's one of my favorite games, not because it's good, but because it's BAD. It's so bad it's good, you know? Mainly referring to the infamously horrible, cheesy cutscenes, really. Oh man, this game, if you haven't seen the cutscenes, go watch them on YouTube or something, they're fucking HILARIOUS. Hilarious because of how badly written they are, and how bad the voice acting is. Just...everything, man. From a gameplay standpoint, just another Mortal Kombat game, BuT iN 3D! With polygons and low resolution textures! And a mediocre character roster. This is actually probably the worst version of the game, the Nintendo 64 version, because it uses character models with less polygons than other ports, and in general the game is made for a system with not nearly as much memory as a PS1, so even the cutscenes look particularly bad. But, given how awful this game is overall, that's precisely why I want the worst version, because every bit of terribleness it can muster makes it better! It does at least have some things going for it, though, namely being the closest console release to the original arcade version (even if the arcade version wasn't great), and it does play at a fairly high framerate, and doesn't suffer the load times of the PS1 version.
So some of you may know, I'm currently piecing together a Nintendo 64, I have a bunch of different components I have coming in as I'll be assembling one, a console I never actually had at all up until now (I guess I don't own one in person yet, mine is in limbo across various trucks and depots across the country currently). Today I just got the first cartridge for the system I don't yet have - Mortal Kombat 4! A game I've always been curious about and have laughed at over the internet for countless years and made fun of. It's actually the game that made me decide to get a Nintendo 64 to begin with. It has finally arrived, but mine was in really gross shape - much worse than the picture online I originally saw. Granted, it's used (a Mortal Kombat game from the 90s, USED?? No...I'd actually be strongly skeptical of any game labeled as "new" as being fake or a reproduction...), but mine could have still certainly used some touching up, even by the big name seller that shall not be named. It's got deep scratches in the plastic, it's got tiny dent marks all over it from I don't know what, it was slightly black in places all over, it had brown...crusty...stuff on the bottom, and the contacts were really dusty and grungy. I did not take the cartridge apart to clean the inside, not having the special screwdriver, but I'm sure it's just as nasty inside. Oh well. But, with some alcohol, q-tips, and a magic eraser, I took to getting it cleaned up as best I could, and seriously, it actually cleaned up better than I thought it was going to! Pretty much everything came right off, to my surprise. Still has marks all over the plastic, but that's obviously not coming off. Now it's just an old, worn cartridge that just has random marks and general wear that shows its age. It's nothing collector grade, and I don't need it to be. I just need it to work (and I actually don't have a way to test that it DOES for the time being, but I'm semi confident it "should" work). It's at least clean now and actually looking far better than it was. I actually didn't take pictures before, and I probably should have, but as you can see, it really looks clean now. I would say "like new", were it not for the general wear and tear physically to the casing and labels. But for a used cartridge, it looks great as far as I'm concerned. I may not have taken pictures of what it initially looked like, but take a look at the q-tips, the magic eraser, and the sink! That's all nasty shit that was either on the casing or all over the contacts! Even after a couple passes with q-tips, I was still getting the faintest traces of dirt or something on the contacts. The sink tells the whole story, too. Besides what's on the q-tips and the magic eraser, there's still MORE in the sink. Bah!
