10 Mortal Kombat Rip-Offs You Won't Believe Got Made

4. Shadow: War Of Succession - Tribeca Digital Studios (1994)

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Tribeca Digital Studios

If you think the Jag was hard up for a Mortal Kombat game in the 90s, Panasonic's 3DO was certainly in the runner-up spot.

Shadow: War of Succession was one of a pair of MK clones developed for the hardware in 1994, the gimmick with this one being that nobody else really seemed to be combining gangsters with fighting games. Hey, we're just glad a powerful interdimensional entity isn't holding a tournament to determine the fate of the universe.

Sadly, critics claimed the control was so poor and the ability to spam a single projectile over and over to beat the whole game was such that it wasn't just poor, it bordered on broken.

Next Generation magazine went on to say: "Use the disc as a coaster for your coffee mug - you'll get more use out of it and enjoy it more."

While it would be the last MK clone we'd get from Tribeca Digital Studios, it would not be the last one for the 3DO.

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Jason Russell has been working in video game journalism since the early 1990s before the internet existed, the term "fanzine" had meaning and sailors still debated as to whether or not the earth was flat. The first time. More recently he has been the guy responsible for the Retrospective column for Old School Gamer Magazine, pens up a Game Skinny column on a plethora of video game topics. He's somehow managed to author nine novels, writes and runs the blog CG Movie Review, is co-founder of the science fiction publishing house Starry Eyed Press, and sometimes, when the planets align and the caffeine has fully left his system, it's rumored he sleeps.