The plot is still the same with Shao Kahn being a jerk and invading Earthrealm, blah blah, we’ve heard that before. The UMK3 port became Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and by this point the MK3 engine was starting to get rather creaky.
Midway was considering an Ultimate MK3 port for the PlayStation, but the team figured that since there was so much space on the CD, they might as well throw in all of the MK and MKII assets and let Avalanche Software (the guys behind the UMK3 ports for SNES and Genesis) do whatever they wanted with them while Boon and co.
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A new movie and live action TV show were in the works, so it didn’t seem like MK was going to become old news anytime soon. Yes, Mortal Kombat was still considered kind of cool after all that nonsense.
That wasn’t such a bad idea on paper since Mortal Kombat was extremely popular with kids who weren’t supposed to play the games but did anyway, but the show was all kinds of terrible and was cancelled after the first 13 episodes) and the ludicrous Mortal Kombat live tour, which featured people in bad MK cosplay outfits doing goofy martial arts shows for kid audiences. By the end of 1996, Mortal Kombat and 2D fighters in general were starting to get overshadowed by 3D fighting games, although MK was still going strong and remained a popular franchise despite the failure of the Defenders of the Realm cartoon (Yes, of course they made a Saturday morning cartoon about Mortal Kombat.