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Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise originally developed and produced by Midway Games.The video games are a series of fighting games and several action-adventure games which debuted in North American arcades on October 8, 1992 with the release of Mortal Kombat, created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. [1]
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Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.. The original Mortal Kombat arcade game spawned a franchise consisting of action-adventure games, a comic book series, a card game, films, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour.
The Mortal Kombat series, particularly its "Fatalities", was a source of major controversy in at the time of its release. [note 1] A moral panic over the series, fueled by outrage from the mass media, [10] resulted in a Congressional hearing and helped to pave the way for the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) game rating system.
The game takes place in Earthrealm, where a tournament is being held on Shang Tsung's Island, on which seven of its locations serve as stages in the game.The introduction to Mortal Kombat explains that Shang Tsung was banished to Earthrealm 500 years ago and, with the help of the monstrous Goro, can seize control of the Mortal Kombat tournament in an attempt to doom the realm. [11]
Based on the video game franchise of the same name, it is the first installment in the Mortal Kombat film series. Starring Linden Ashby , Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , Robin Shou , Bridgette Wilson , Talisa Soto , and Christopher Lambert , the film follows a group of heroes who participate in the eponymous Mortal Kombat tournament to protect Earth ...
Mortal Kombat is an American series of martial arts action films based on the fighting video game series of the same name by Midway Games. The first film was produced by Lawrence Kasanoff ’s Threshold Entertainment .
Midway Games Inc. (formerly Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known simply as Midway) was an American video game company that existed from 1958 to 2010.. Midway's franchises included Mortal Kombat, Rampage, Spy Hunter, NBA Jam, Cruis'n and NFL Bl