Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat (commonly abbreviated MK) is a popular series of fighting games created originally by the Midway Games company. Mortal Kombat began as a series of arcade games, which were picked up by Acclaim Games for the home console versions. more...

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Now Midway exclusively creates home versions of Mortal Kombat. It is especially noted for its digitized sprites (which differentiated it from its contemporaries' hand-drawn sprites), and its high levels of blood and gore, including, most notably, its graphic fatality killing moves. These were so extreme that they, in part, led to the founding of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).

Overview

Brief history

The original Mortal Kombat was developed as a reaction to the popular Capcom fighting game Street Fighter II, with digitized graphics of real game actors as opposed to animated cartoon graphics. The Mortal Kombat storyline and gameplay were conceived in 1989 , but not released into arcades until 1992. Critics said the game's graphic violence was gratuitous and was only included in order to generate a public outcry and controversy that would gain publicity for the game. Although highly controversial, the mix of realism and violence propelled Mortal Kombat to widespread and historic renown.

Throughout the series, the game was known for its over-the-top violence which included fatalities, uppercuts that sprayed blood and launched players into the air, its theatrical special moves, as well as a tendency to replace instances of the hard c sound with the letter "K" in its written lexicon.

Legacy

Midway has created six direct sequels for the arcade and home systems. Mortal Kombat 4 brought the series into 3D, replacing the digitized fighters of previous games with polygon models, while Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance dropped the generic fighting style of previous games, in favor of giving each character a number of different fighting styles. This was the first MK game to include a "Konquest" mode, which would be developed for later titles into a story-based adventure mini-game. Deadly Alliance was the first game in the series to skip arcades altogether and go directly to consoles, a symptom of the U.S. arcade market's dramatic decline. The following installment in the series, Mortal Kombat: Deception (named Mortal Kombat: Unchained for the Sony PSP) also featured several new gaming modes, such as a Puzzle Fighter-like puzzle game and an Archon-like chess game. The latest release of the series, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, attempted to wrap up the current story continuity, featured almost all of the characters that have appeared in the series so far, and included a new Mario Kart-like racing mini-game called Motor Kombat

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