Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat

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Grey sweat. That is what flew when fighters traded blows in the Super Nintendo version of Mortal Kombat, and it turned this cartridge into a lightning rod in 1993. Midway's arcade sensation had stunned players with digitized actors, brutal finishing moves and plenty of blood, and when Acclaim brought it home on “Mortal Monday” that September, Nintendo's content standards meant the SNES edition shipped with the gore stripped out and several Fatalities reworked into tamer finishers.

What survived the edit is a handsome port of the original tournament. Seven fighters step onto Shang Tsung's island: Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Kano, Raiden, Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Sonya Blade, each with a handful of special moves built around the series' dedicated block button and its devastating uppercut. Beat the field and you face the four-armed Goro, then the sorcerer Shang Tsung himself, who borrows the forms of the fighters you have already defeated. A secret showdown with Reptile, unlocked only under specific conditions on the Pit stage, sent players hunting for clues long before the internet could settle the argument.

Graphically and sonically the SNES version sits close to the arcade, with big sprites and crisp voice samples, while the rival Genesis release offered a blood code but rougher presentation. That split became one of the defining console-war debates of the decade. The wider uproar over Mortal Kombat's violence reached Congressional hearings that helped lead to the ESRB ratings system in 1994, and the reaction from SNES owners pushed Nintendo to let the blood back in for Mortal Kombat II.

That history is exactly what makes this cartridge worth owning. It is a playable artifact of the moment video game content became national news, and a fascinating companion to the bloodier ports. It is also still a fun two-player fighter, simple enough to learn in a minute, with Scorpion's spear and Sub-Zero's ice blast every bit as satisfying to land as they were in the arcade.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1993
Publisher
Acclaim Japan
Developer
Midway
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

The SNES version of Mortal Kombat was censored due to Nintendo's policies on violence, removing a lot of what the game was known for in the Arcades and other ports (such as the Genesis version).

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