MK
MK2
MK3
MK4
MKDA
MKD
MKA
MKvsDCU
MK9

(The rest are updates/ports..)

Apparently you have no taste..

But they are different games. I seriously hope you don't think of MK3 and MK Trilogy as the same game. Even story wise, they are different titles. Look at Capcom. They recognize the difference between SF2 and SSF2 Turbo, going so far as to release collections that include the separate games because the fans have preferences over the different titles. It's like saying there have been only 4 Capcom SF fighting games.

This ordinal number issue has been thoroughly turned over last year. The rest are updates or strongly base on an earlier game (MKTE). Mortal Kombat Trilogy differs from these nine other installations by the fact that it doesn't bring any new grand threat or big issue to the table and it would be irrational to count it as Mortal Kombat 4 when there is a separate game with the same name. We could bring more factors in as well, but I hope this implies the necessary information.

My only argument is that they are separate fighting games, and should be regarded as such.

MK3 is a different game than MK Trilogy. Same with MK4 and Gold. They were marketed and sold separately, and are different games.

Thereupon you should consider MK Trilogy as Mortal Kombat 3.5.

Either way, it gives us more than 9 MK fighting games. What it boils down to is...if there are more MK fighting games than MK1-4, DA,D,A, vs. DC, and MK9, then there are more than 9 MK fighting games. The existence of these separately marketed/sold "updates/ports" as you call them is proof there are more than these 9. That's all I'm arguing.

It does, but that doesn't contradict with my previous answer.

It does, because, by definition, MK3 differs from MK 3.5...unless you think they are the same. Is it the same, or different? Is MK3 the same as Trilogy, or is it different? Logic dictates that it can't be both.

Yes, they are separate things. Just as Mortal Kombat 3 PAL version differs from Mortal Kombat 3 NTSC version.

Region code isn't what we're talking about. Were talking about substantial updates involving new characters, new backgrounds, radical gameplay changes, and the like. Good god...wtf Sigh...why do I even bother...?

No, but I wrote it as an example. Yes, MK3 and MKT are different things.
Don't worry.

Just forget it. I'm sorry I even brought it up.

No problem, man. I just wanted to see if there would be any proper holes in the ordinal number system that you would bring up and in the same time enlighten you with how it works, as you wondered about it.
P.S. Alice In Chains is currently developing a new album. The newest album, Black Gives Way to Blue, with the new singer worked pretty well, so I'm happy that there will be new production. According to my radio.

AIC isn't the same without Layne Staley.

Amen.

Everytime I hear "new" AIC I always change the station because it just doesn't feel right, also all their lastest singles have been played on the radio a million times.....annoying.

Layne Staley was remarkable, may he rest in peace, but the current composition makes a good band as well. Sort of like a new band that sounds surprisingly much like AIC and even carries the same name but develops (good) music of its own. I can understand if one doesn't like the new AIC though, it differs notably and Layne Staley was no ordinary singer.

I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ol' pile of them bones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsucxjYnlTA

But my wings have been so denied...

I love that lyric.

Coincidence or not but I had just listened to Down in a Hole and Them Bones, along with Would? and a few others from Alice In Chains. At the moment I'm listening to Mastodon - Stargasm (turned radio off after commemorating AlC a little). It's another spectacular band by the way.
Can you find Them Bones from Dry Bone Valley? Creature Lives.

Street Sharks is now on Netflix.......need I say more.