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Mortal Kombat
- $76.99
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Few Super Nintendo cartridges carry as much history as this one. Mortal Kombat came home on September 13, 1993, a launch Acclaim promoted as "Mortal Monday," and it arrived on the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis at the same moment with two very different philosophies. Under Nintendo's content rules the SNES version traded the arcade's blood for gray "sweat" and swapped the most gruesome fatalities for tamer finishers, while the Genesis game hid its gore behind a code. The Genesis version outsold it, Nintendo took note, and the uproar over the whole affair fed into the 1993 Senate hearings on video game violence that led to the ESRB rating system.
Strip away the controversy and you still have Midway's arcade sensation on a controller well suited to it. Ed Boon and John Tobias's tournament on Shang Tsung's island pits seven digitized fighters against each other: Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, Kano, Raiden, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Every one of them rewards learning the special-move inputs, from Scorpion's harpoon to Sub-Zero's ice blast and Raiden's teleport, and the dedicated block button and punishing uppercut give the fights a deliberate, read-your-opponent rhythm unlike anything in Street Fighter II. Climb the ladder and the four-armed Goro waits as the sub-boss before the shapeshifting sorcerer Shang Tsung himself.
Acclaim's port, programmed by Sculptured Software, made its trade-off in the open. With the gore toned down, the SNES game leaned on presentation, and many players at the time felt its color, sound and digitized sprites sat closer to the arcade cabinet than the rival version did. The high and low punch and kick buttons plus block map neatly onto the SNES pad, which helps it feel like the arcade game rather than a compromise squeezed onto fewer buttons.
That history is exactly why this version is worth owning. It is the cartridge that showed Nintendo what sanitizing a hit could cost, and the reason Mortal Kombat II came to the Super Nintendo a year later with its blood intact. Play it today and you get the fighter that launched a franchise still going strong, in the form that became a turning point for how Nintendo, and the whole industry, handled mature games.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1993
- Publisher
- Acclaim Japan
- Developer
- Midway
- Genre
- Fighting
- 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).
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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