
Further scratches make up the sound effects, but the music tends to drown these out. There are a couple of tracks that play during the main game which are just as bad. Some other Game Boy games may have music that's beepy or a bit whiney, but it usually maintains a kind of charm. A distorted combination of scratches, whines, beeps and ringing come together to create a truly awful audio experience. Enjoy the peace and quiet, because soon “Midway Presents” appears on screen and the horrific noise begins. Switch your system on and the first thing that you see are some logos accompanied by silence. It’s the same for all the special moves in the game, an irritant that’s just one of the many problems found in this Game Boy port of Mortal Kombat. Forget the quick tapping that you’d expect for a beat ‘em up, this is something with which you must take your time. That’s the command that you need to enter to perform Scorpion’s spear move – but you have to do it slowly.
