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Mortal Kombat 4 - Japanese Title

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Manufacturer: Midway Games
Year: 1997
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Fighting
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: JAMMA

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Competitive
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 6 [High PunchLow PunchBlockRunHigh KickLow Kick]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
     Game is equiped with 2 speakers, but both c

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
 Mortal Kombat 4


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Mortal Kombat 4 Description

In this continuation of the series, 15 fighters battle each other. You are presented with five towers, each containing enemies to battle against. Once these enemies have been defeated you will become the champion.

Midway Games, the Mortal Kombat 4 maker, released 45 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972.

Other machines made by Midway Games during the time period Mortal Kombat 4 was produced include Off Road Challenge, NFL Blitz, Rampage World Tour, Hyperdrive, Bio Freaks, Cruis'n World, NBA Maximum Hangtime, War Gods, NBA Hangtime, and Killer Instinct 2.

Cabinet Information

The cabinet is black with black t-molding. The side art shows Quan Chi one of the selectable fighters with a fire filled background.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Character Towers: On a one player game, after highlighting a tower with the joystick, press the start button. The tower will rotate, giving you a different set of opponents to face. Goro and Shinnok are the only enemies that won't change.

Goro's Lair Stage Fatality Secrets: Opponent slide off spikes: Hold D To hear Dan Forden say "Toasty": Hold BK To perform both: Hold D BK

Play as Meat: To play as the hidden bloody skeleton character called Meat, choose Group Mode in a two-player game and keep choosing it until you have played as all 15 regular characters, then you will then be able to play as Meat until you lose with him. He uses the moves of the character you choose.

After defeating Shinnok with the secret character "Meat", the game crashes and restarts.

Game Introduction

A fighting game like the previous Mortal Kombat games except this time its gone 3-D!

Game Play

Use the joystick to move the chracter and your buttons to kick, punch, pick up objects, and even draw weapons. Defeat all the opponents to win the game.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mortal Kombat 4 Census

There are 7,305 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 6,170 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 97,494 machines (4,936 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 54 known instances of this machine owned by Mortal Kombat 4 collectors who are active members. Of these, 42 of them are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 10 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 6 active VAPS members with Mortal Kombat 4 machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Mortal Kombat 4. There are 3 active VAPS members looking for Mortal Kombat 4 board sets.

This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 21 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

This game is powered by Midway's elusive ZEUS chip, no other game has used this exact hardware, but ZEUS 2 has been developed and is used in games such as Midway's Cruis'n Exotica.

This game contains many revisons:



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