Mortal Kombat II on Game Boy is a miracle of compression—somehow they squeezed all the blood, sweat, and spine-ripping fatalities of the arcade into that tiny cartridge. The sprites are chunky, sure, but you still get Liu Kang's bicycle kick, Sub-Zero's ice blast, and all the other nonsense that made this series legendary.

First thing you'll notice? The controls feel surprisingly decent for a handheld port. You won't pull off combos as smoothly as the arcade, but nailing a fatality with those crunchy sound effects never gets old. Just don't expect the AI to play fair—even on medium, the CPU reads your inputs like a cheating psychic.

It's missing a few stages and characters from the arcade version, but having this much violence in your pocket in 1993 felt borderline illegal. Still holds up if you can handle the jank.