Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition · RAWG · Courtesy of RAWG
Game data
Metacritic 82- Released
- 2013-07-03
- User rating
- 4.12 / 5
- Genres
- Arcade, Fighting
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- ESRB
- Adults Only
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Game details · IGDB
Mortal Kombat is a side-scrolling fighting game. Fighting is set as one-on-one combat, allowing each player to perform a variety of punches, kicks, and special moves in order to defeat their opponent. When the opponent faces their second round loss, the winner can perform a finishing move called a "Fatality" on the loser. The Fatality is a move unique to each fighter that graphically kills the loser in a blood-soaked finale.
- Released
- 1992
- Genres
- Fighting
- Platforms
- Arcade, DOS, Amiga
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Franchise
- Mortal Kombat
- Developer
- Midway Games, Midway
- Publisher
- Midway Games, Midway, Acclaim Entertainment, Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Key facts
- Developer
- Midway
- Publishers
- Midway Consoles NA / EU : Acclaim Entertainment MS-DOS NA : Acclaim Entertainment EU : Virgin Interactive Entertainment Amiga , Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Plug-and-play TV game , Jakks Pacific
- Designers
- Ed Boon , John Tobias
- Programmer
- Ed Boon
- Artists
- John Tobias, John Vogel
- Composer
- Dan Forden
- Series
- Mortal Kombat
- Platform
- Arcade Game Boy , Game Gear , Genesis/Mega Drive , Super NES , Master System , handheld electronic game , Sega CD , MS-DOS , Amiga , plug-and-play TV game
- Release
- August 1992 Arcade August 1992 Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis/Mega Drive, Super NES NA / EU : September 13, 1993 Master System PAL : September 13, 1993 Sega CD NA : April 1994 EU : July 1994 MS-DOS NA : May 25, 1994 EU : 1994 Amiga EU : 1994 Plug-and-play TV game NA : 2005
- Genre
- Fighting
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
- Arcade system
- Midway Y Unit (Revision Prototype 4.0–Revision 4.0), Midway T Unit (Revision 4.0T–Revision 5.0T)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mortal Kombat is a 1992 fighting game developed and published by Midway for arcades. It is the first main installment in the Mortal Kombat franchise, and was subsequently released by Acclaim Entertainment for nearly every home platform of the time. The game presents a martial arts tournament in which ten characters (including a choice of seven player characters) contend with the fate of Earth at stake. It introduced many key aspects of the Mortal Kombat series, including the unique five-button control scheme and gory finishing moves called Fatalities.
Mortal Kombat is considered by critics to be one of the greatest video games ever made. It spawned numerous sequels and spin-offs, beginning with Mortal Kombat II in 1993. Both games were the subject of a film adaptation in 1995. However, it also sparked much controversy for its depiction of extreme violence and gore using realistic digitized graphics and, along with the home releases of Night Trap and Lethal Enforcers, prompted the formation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), a U.S. government-backed organization that set descriptor ratings for video games.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mortal Kombat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.