The Mortal Kombat / NBA Jam Crossover We Never Saw

Sub Zero running while pulling a spine rippy and windmill dunking from half court.

EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

@PuppyGuarder: Thats what I said! Great minds.

luigiman0

seems like something a modder with do.. hint hint.. SOMEONE MAKE THIS GAME AS A MOD!!!!!

that's amazing

Announcer: He's on fire! Literally!

PuppyGuarder

Lame, I was a fan of both those games back in the day. *Razzle Dazzle Fatality*

@SansSanity:

I actually thought that the mk vs dc was the best mortal kombat game since it went 3d.

diagorus

This was in one of the krypts for Mortal Kombat Armageddon.

sadisticfreak432

"Two games that, for all their success, never came together."

Actually they did. One of the versions of NBA Jam had Scorpion as Sub-Zero as playable characters, alongside all their other wacky secret characters (the Clintons, Beastie Boys, team mascots, programmers, etc).

KaneRobot

well, getting close enough, in an early revision of the arcade version of NBA Jam one could enter codes for scorpion, sub-zero and (IIRC) raiden heads.

FROM DOWNTOWN! Ugly Shot!

Never came together? There were MK characters in NBA JAM...

Shinamano

maybe they could've gone with mortal kombat jam instead - all the mortal kombat characters available to create your own teams with but none of the NBA pros or licenses.

I still would've played it

outforprophets

This reminds me of the time the makers of Thrill Kill appeared on a video game podcat I was listening too and stated that the game was initially a Mayan themed basketball game.

Flyhawk

What the heck is that deaths-head thing in the sky supposed to be? The moon? Is this also a Majora's Mask crossover?

gamegrump

Maybe they should have made Mortal Kombat Jam.

@luigiman0: You're not the only one. I secretly hope that Raw Thrills hires Mark Turmell and Sal DeVita away from Midway... I mean, Warner Bros. Games Chicago, and teams up with 2K Games to make a 2-on-2 arcade basketball game.

twinturbo2

@verrius: You're correct, and the NBA freaked out over that and told Midway to take them out over fears of the ESRB freaking out.

There were going to be a few MK characters in the original NFL Blitz, too, but they were removed for similar reasons.

twinturbo2

Basketball minigame in MK9 confirmed?

twinturbo2

A game like Shaq Fu gets made but this doesn't see the light of day?!

Well....I wouldn't have purchased NBA Jam anyway, but this existing would have made the world a better place.

@IamNinja: I at least remember being able to play as Sub-zero..and I think Scorpion...in both the original and Tournament Edition NBA Jam games for the SNES....and Genesis...

verrius

Not sure what the big deal was considering Mortal Kombat characters were previously included in NBA Jam.

Weren't there secret MK characters in a Jam game or two, or was that just Blitz?

@Mister Jack Wants Blazblue Challengers: Does Aliens Vs Predator Count? Please check out the new game coming.... When Sega release it...

@SansSanity: Tatsunoko vs Capcom says hello.

Mister Jack Wants Blazblue Challengers

@hk458: Super Smash Bros. The beauty of the cross over at its finest.

Oh and almost forgot. Battletoads and Double Dragon. Aaaaaahhhhh.....

luigiman0

@SansSanity:
Yes but the power of imagination concerning what might have been is far more entertaining and positive than fully realized crossovers.

But I for one like most if not all cross overs.

@spannu: Agreed. Every game could use a cross-dressing rabbit/giant rooster with dynamite. Boy, I say, I say boy!

luigiman0

I must say it's a bit funny that we dream about potential crossovers of yester year that never were, but when we do hear of a developer coming up with a crossover, we expect the game to suck and pin them as moneygrabbers

SansSanity

@luigiman0: Did NBA Street have giant roosters with dynamite? Gamebreakers are nothing compared to cross-dressing rabbits.

spannu

Would anyone else here love to see a new NBA Jam game? Or am I the only one who thinks that would be awesome? Just think about it...

luigiman0

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: Wasn't that called NBA Street?

luigiman0

One can dream no? One can dream...

Shame they didn't make some mashup Basketball game with the MK characters instead, a la Mario Tennis/Sega Tennis, whatever

samwise227

He's on fire!!! OH SHIT HE'S ON FIRE!!!!

luigiman0

It would have been awesome, if we could use that head as a ball

SansSanity

Space Jam.

With Fatalities.

Oh come on. That would've been cool. They were both arcade games, people would be seeing them in the same place anyways.

Invisible-Echidna

This unholy union would've made 12 year old me cream my pants.

Kanji08