Tattoo Assassins is emulated.
Taken from mame32dat:
Tattoo Assassins (c) 03/1995 Data East Pinball.
Nine Tattooed Assassins were ordered by Mullah Abba to defeat Koldan and his minions in this fun rip-off of "Mortal Kombat".
- TRIVIA -
This represents one of the most tragic tales in game design - one of the few examples of games to be dismissed by the programmers themselves. The idea started out simple enough - use Data East graphics hardware to produce a take-off of "Mortal Kombat". However, the hardware was not particularly up to the task, so the game needed gimmicks in the form of extra features etc. Bob Gale (producer of 'Back to The Future') came up with the story and concept, while it was up to Data East Pinball (Now Stern Pinball) to code the game. A preliminary test version was made, but already the programmers were getting depressed. Still there's nothing like a good show test to motivate programmers. They got nothing like a good show test - the game was heralded at that point as a disaster. At this stage all motivation departed, both programmers and artists were relying on each other to salvage the game. However, depsite recruiting the Data East animators to the job, most of the effort went into improving the video source for the digitised characters - Data East were apparently unaware that the original Mortal Kombat spent a long time in post production to correct video noise, which apparently was kept to a minimum by using cardboard costumes! As it was, Tattoo Assassins was never released for good reasons. The 'official' reason for Tattoo Assassins being cancelled was that 'It did not compare favourably to "Killer Instinct"' - Rumour had it that the beta testers had to be supervised to ensure that they kept playing Tattoo instead of the latest pinball fixtures.
Echoing "Mortal Kombat II" and its intellectual fighters, Gretchen Stockdale (Hannah Hart) gave up modelling to become a fully qualified attorney.
Carlos and Daniel Pesina from Midway's MK series worked in TA. After that, Midway didn't want them to work with them in "Mortal Kombat 3", so they killed Johnny Cage (the only Daniel Pesina character that didn't wear a mask) and excluded Raiden (Carlos Pesina).
Maurice Travis (as A.C. Current in TA) became World Champion muay thai fighter just starred in Hong Fight film called The Champion. Won The Superbrawl extreme fighting Championships in Hawaii. Maurice character Zolar Become a kids WB 2 hour movie (The first live action at the KIDSWB).
TA is the only fighting game where you can kick while you block. And it's also the only fighting game where you see a man undressing to fart, and a woman farts too... I don't think the Bloodstorm ad alone did Johnny Cage in. It was that combined with his involvement in this game that Midway didn't seem to like. Also I believe that this is why Raiden isn't in MK3 as well. Midway probably told Carlos to sit out for a game.
More info on "Tatoo Asassins" at
http://www.bunnyears.net/tattoo/
