You mean the yellow palette swap robot, or is that the red one? *snicker*
When MK1 came out large amounts of memory for character data was expensive.
The palette swapping of the ninja's (Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile) was a clever way around that limit.
By the time MK3 arrived, not only was the series well established, justifying a larger hardware budget...
But memory prices and sizes had also become more reasonable.
What I'm trying to say is at the time of MK3's release, palette swapping 3 robots (Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke) wasn't clever...
It was lazy!
Same with the entire Dial-a-Combo system.
It's a shortcut to the actual daisy-chaining of normal movies into what essentially becomes an unblockable (if performed quickly) after the first hit.
Not at all like memorizing or dialing a phone number that displays a series of pre-rendered actions on-screen.
Is MK3 a shallow cash grab? No... It was a misguided attempt to keep advancing/evolving the series.
While relying on lazy shortcuts as a means to a desired end, and I mean LAZY!
Why did 4 legs just come out of this one dude when he was killed?
Last time I checked humans only have two legs. It's almost like the developers just didn't give a fuck... Hmmmm.
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