Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat

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A, B, A, C, A, B, B. Ask anyone who owned a Genesis in 1993 and there is a good chance that sequence is still burned into memory. Entered at the code screen, it unlocked the blood and the uncensored Fatalities that Acclaim's Genesis port kept hidden by default, and it is a big reason this version won the schoolyard argument over the Super NES release, which replaced the blood with gray sweat.

Midway's arcade original, created by Ed Boon and John Tobias, used digitized actors to give its fighters a startlingly real look. The Genesis conversion, developed by Probe and released on September 13, 1993, the day the marketing called Mortal Monday, brings that roster home. Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, Kano, Raiden, Sub-Zero and Scorpion compete in Shang Tsung's tournament, with the four-armed Goro waiting near the top and the secret Reptile lurking for players who meet his strange conditions on The Pit. Spears, ice blasts and teleports became playground vocabulary almost overnight.

The Genesis visuals are a step down from the arcade and the voice samples are thinner, but the gameplay and controls hold up well, and the music, especially The Pit's theme, comes through strongly on the Sega sound chip. On a standard three-button pad, the Start button handles blocking and high punches take a directional press, while a six-button controller brings the layout much closer to the arcade.

Its significance reaches well beyond the cabinet. The violence in Mortal Kombat helped spark the 1993 U.S. Congressional hearings on video games, which led to the creation of the ESRB, and before that Sega's own Videogame Rating Council stamped this version MA-13. This is the cartridge at the center of that whole debate, and the version of the original Mortal Kombat that most 16-bit players actually chose.

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

The Genesis port of Mortal Kombat had an edge over the SNES version because it didn't have as much as censoring. For it to have a lower age rating, though, the blood is missing by default from the game, but available through the input of a cheat code. This version was given an MA-13 rating by the Videogame Rating Council.

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