Mortal Kombat special edition images show up on GameStop.com

by Alexander Sliwinski on Dec 14th 2010 7:30PM

So, that's what Mortal Kombat's "portable fight stick" looks like, eh? GameStop has pictures of the fighting game reboot's Kollector's Edition and Tournament bundle. The fight stick features Suzo Happ parts and was designed by NetherRealm Studios.

For those who haven't seen the inside of an arcade (or seen one at all) since the early '90s, the button layout on the fight stick may appear unconventional. Former Joystiqer and arcade fighting game proponent Jared Rea explains that it's been the button layout for the Mortal Kombat series since the third iteration, with previous versions lacking the lower-left "Run" button. He notes that most players tend to navigate this layout by having their ring or middle finger hover over the middle block button, moving their whole hand for attacks.

Check out the gallery below for the Scorpion figurine, bundled with the Kollector's Edition.

Mortal Kombat (Special Editions)

Source: GameStop

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Reader Comments (46)

the arcade stick is spiffy but ill pass on that. i already own two fight sticks.
but the bookends on the other hand look stellar. worth picking up. will be great with my LBP2 bookends.

Price?

@finalstar2007
Gamestop shows $149 for the stick version and $99 for the book ends version

Wait, so the game and content hides inside the arcade stick? Assumed..

Wow thats very nice :D

My local arcades never had MK with those button layouts. Theirs were always like that of capcom fighters. I think perhaps my local arcade modded their sticks.

@The Aquacharger

Probably they just switched the machines or something. My arcade has TvC in a Mortal Kombat shell.

@Acosta02
Well it was an MK case, always was. It was just not that stick. It was the Capcom stick, except once when it was the Tekken stick and I complained about having only four buttons.

They just didn't run a dedicated cabinet, is all.

When an arcade operator buys a game, they have a choice. Buy a full, dedicated game for $2000-$30,000 (yes, games exist that high) or buy a conversion kit for much less.

If the game runs on the JAMMA or JAMMA+ standard, they can just swap some parts around. For SF2 -> MK, it could be as simple as swapping out the motherboard. For a game like Killer Instinct -> Killer Instinct 2, they just swapped the hard drive and ROM chips, as the game ran on the same hardware.

Sometimes they would get replacement side panel artwork if they decided to keep the conversion. Sometimes you will come across mixed cabinets with artwork not even related to the actual game being played.

Oh, and there are conversion cabinets that are done "professionally".

A company will take another cabinet, convert it, then completely redo the cabinet to match the game. You might get mixed sticks with that.

There are slight differences in the cabinets to tell them apart in this case.

@Drakkenfyre I can see that, and thanks for clearing it up for me. I guess they just did that then. Case looked authentic as hell though.

That looks like a great quality fighter stick, which I do not have one as of yet. The statues look awesome too

Hmmmm Ill take the Kollector's Edition..Not kicking out $150

These pictures came sooner than I expected them too. I'll definitely get the Kollector's edition.

Well, even the original MK had that layout, other than the run button. I personally found it pretty awkward, but I will be glad to play this game on my SF4 TE stick with remapped controls.

For you stoners out there, I'm sure that Stick would be great for hiding your stash.

@Volcon

Keeps them buds nice and toasty. I haven't smoked in ages, but used the vault-tec lunchbox from the CE Fallout 3.

@Youthinized
By "ages" you mean 2 years then? Yeah, I guess that would seem like a long time.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

I'm walking on sunshine here!

Totally don't care. If they're gonna tell me what moves I get based on where I buy then I'm gonna tell them you take that special edition (and any other addition) and shove it!

Damn, I want that.

$150? No thank you.

TOASTY!!!

@Mrguy you know that guy 3D!!!! (MK4 fans unite!)

What they should release is some genesis style fightpads like Capcom did. Maybe have some different styles on them like Scorpion or Sub Zero. That would be sweet.

Nothing I hate more than "situational arcade sticks". A standard 6 or 8-button stick works just fine, if not better.

That looks interesting. Looks a lot nicer than my hori EX2. Plus, I've been hearing a lot of good things about the game.

I see it now your Xbox Avatar is the Xbox Exclusive charecter! Genius! XD.....but in all seriousness, I just spent $150 on Kinect, I am not doing it again, I will buy this game at normal price thank you.

@Milkman4321 It's not like NetherRealm Studios made the Kinect. Not their problem; just yours.

Concave arcade buttons? Sold.

I'm definitely getting the arcade stick version and I'll have to buy the figure and art book separately on eBay. I'm a big-big-BIG MK fan!

Hmm, I think I could bolt that on to my Burgertime cabinet without much issue.
Other than giving up my soul, that is.

The price is absolutely ridiculous.

I love the product, but it's priced for collectors. If they charged half that,, and didn't limit availability, I suspect they would have a hit.

@Dustin F

If you consider the price of the stick itself along with the other stuff it comes it, it's very reasonably priced. It also uses authentic Happ parts so that's another plus.

(For reference, a Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition stick retails for $149.99)

Then again, to each their own. If you don't see the value in it, then don't buy it. The reality is that it is reasonably priced regardless.

@gamerkim28

true, as to 'if you don't see the value, don't buy it'.

It's their business to sell this for more than I'd pay for it.

I do think it's very clever, but it's extremely hard for me to understand what about this justifies that expense (same with the other stick you cite, to be honest).

Why do people keep falling for games like Sonic and Mortal Kombat? It's called "pattern recognition", you fools!

@A Sandwich Dude, its ok. It's different now. They totally said they weren't going to suck this time.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

I apologize to have offended, friend. It would appear that you are a man with exotic tastes.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

Sonic Unleashed wasn't good...

@Heffer Wolfe The Wii version was better than the other two.

I want!

here's my $60, just give me the game. i don't need all of this hoopla.

collector's editions are out of control.

At that price, I'd almost expect not to need a console to play it on.

I like that the kollectors edition has something actually useful instead of just a book or coins or something. It's not worth the 150 to me, but it's more valuable than other collectors editions out there.

If you look at the xbox collectors you can see on the avatar card that there is a new game mode called "king of the hill".

wow this is crazyyyyyyy. Book ends look sick.

Rating Pending? I'm sure the ESRB can go ahead and slap an 'M' rating on that box without too much thought.

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Mortal Kombat special edition images show up on GameStop.com

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