Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launches on PS5, PS4 this year

At Digital Eclipse, we specialize in restoring historic games for modern consoles, giving legendary classics the respect they deserve. As you might imagine, we get a lot of requests from fans, and for many years now, the overwhelming number-one request has been…

“MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAT!”

That’s why we were so excited to reveal in today’s State of Play that we’re partnering with our friends Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to bring Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 later in 2025.

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launches on PS5, PS4 this year

With multiple 90s and 2000s games from the early days of this groundbreaking fighting game series, Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection will also provide a comprehensive, detailed look at the franchise’s history ever assembled.

We’ll take you back to the glorious 1990s, the days of arcades and tokens, of hidden Fatalities and secret characters, with the original versions of Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

But we’re not stopping there – many of the home versions of these games from vintage 16-bit consoles and, yes, even handheld systems are also included. And the arcade and console games can all be played online with rollback netcode.

Want to enter in the “blood code” and challenge a friend to throw down in the Genesis version of Mortal Kombat, online? You’ll be able to. (And we’ll even enter in the blood code for you, in case you don’t remember.)

Here’s a list of the playable games we’ve announced so far – with more on the way.

Mortal Kombat – 1992: Arcade, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear
Mortal Kombat II -1993: Arcade, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, 32X
Mortal Kombat 3 – 1995: Arcade, SNES, Genesis
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 – 1995: Arcade, SNES
Mortal Kombat 4 – 1997: Arcade
Mortal Kombat Advance – 2001: Game Boy Advance
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance – 2002: Game Boy Advance
Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition – 2003: Game Boy Advance
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What’s next? Well, Mortal Kombat is all about secrets, so we hope you don’t mind if we keep a few of our own for now…

The full history

If you’ve played our other products, like Tetris Forever or Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, you know that Digital Eclipse doesn’t just stop at the games. We produce full “interactive documentaries” that give you all the behind-the-scenes information about how these legendary games were created.

Earlier this year, Digital Eclipse traveled to Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to interview Mortal Kombat co-creators Ed Boon and John Tobias alongside literally dozens of other developers, actors, industry luminaries, fans, and Mortal Kombat experts.

We’re excited to say that, following our partnership on Tetris Forever, we are once again working with the incredible filmmakers at Area 5 (Grounded II: The Making of The Last of Us Part II) to make these documentary videos shine.

We’re also doing a deep dive into the history of Mortal Kombat to find design documents, early prototype materials, motion-capture sessions, concept art, and much more, some never before seen. You’ll be able to step through our interactive timelines as if you were walking through a Mortal Kombat museum, watching videos, playing games, viewing photo galleries, and more as you travel through the early history of the franchise.

Remember fighting the elusive green ninja Reptile? Entering a Kombat Kode to transport yourself to Noob’s Dorfen? Pulling off an Animality to transform into a dragon and eat your opponent’s torso?

Mortal Kombat games are full of secret content – some gruesome, some downright silly. In the 1990s, finding these secrets meant buying physical strategy guides, tying up the phone line while connecting to America Online, or relying on unreliable rumors heard at recess.

We will give you open access to everything in these games without need for hidden codes or memorization.

How will we do that? Uh… that’s still a secret. But it won’t be for long. We’ll have much more to say about Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection later this year.

Prepare yourself!