After a while of inactivity continue with more games that marked a milestone in history. previously talked of a series of fighting games that are won with great success, Street Fighter . However, it was not the only one that caused a stir. From Street Fighter were many games poor quality that tried to imitate without success. So Midway, looking to get into the market for fighting games, decided to create a game in a style very different from Street Fighter to establish jurisdiction. Thus, in 1992 created a saga that, while now ever popular, in time we can say that the break. So, I talk about Mortal Kombat.
The first game of the series drew much attention in the arcade for several reasons. The most important is that imposed digitized images of the engraved characters with real actors, in comparison with the sprites used in Street Fighter and SNK in certain games that were also popular and high quality.
The second striking feature of the saga was the tremendous violence that spilled over to the games of the season. Large amounts of blood, wild movements and famous and fatalities each character incorporating, as a special auction to shatter opponents defeated. The direct consequence of this level of violence was a massive scandal in the family, especially in the USA, causing paranoia about violence in video games. Whenever I see in the media when they fill their mouths on the subject, I think what hypocrites they are, we know that even before the violence seen on television is much worse than this. It also brought queue when home systems conversions but speak it in a while ...
This controversy also caused the creation of a system in the U.S. age rating for games a couple of years later, and by then the sequel came out.
Technically the game is very good in all respects, and his control was somewhat different from those seen in the games like Capcom SNK, incorporating for example a button defense. Their movements secret and some mistakes led to various rumors, some exploited in later games in the series.
Several of the game's characters became icons of fighting games and endured in one form or another throughout the series, such as Sub-Zero and Scorpion. Of course, there are merchandising, comics or movies. About
conversions came from the hand of Acclaim, censorship obviously did his job in the first issue, which most of the blood and conversion deleted other details, at least at first sight. Interestingly, the PC version turns out to be the most faithful to the arcade and retaining all the features of the original game, above those reported for 16-bit consoles, then dominant in the game market. Version was made for Mega Drive, Master System and Sega Game Gear, which allowed unlock the original blood and fatalities with a secret code [obviously no longer a secret pretty fast]. The Super Nintendo was very similar to the Mega Drive, but do not enable blood and altered some fatalities due to the well known Nintendo's censorship policies. There is also a Game Boy version but due to limitations the result was not a good conversion. Also a version for Amiga, which was characterized by power play with just one button. Until there is an illegal conversion for 8-bit Famicom, which was obviously not of Acclaim.
A curiosity in this game was that the actor JC Van Damme would do himself in the game, but there was no agreement. So the idea of \u200b\u200bmartial artist actor led to Jhony Cage.
Soon more of this popular series on a next installment! Related
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