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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, [6] resulted in a Congressional hearing and helped to pave the way for the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) game rating system.
"We Have Explosive" is a song by The Future Sound of London, released in 1997. It was the band's most successful single, getting to number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in 1997. It features prominent sampling of the Run-DMC album Tougher Than Leather .
John Tobias is an American comic book artist, graphic designer, video game designer and writer. Tobias is best known for creating the Mortal Kombat series along with Ed Boon, to whom he pitched the game concept.
"We Have Explosive" was used in the second game in the "wipE'out"" series, wipE'out" 2097, for the original PlayStation. The song was also used in the film Mortal Kombat Annihilation. The vocals on "Everyone in the World Is Doing Something Without Me" were performed by Canadian opera singer Rebecca Caine. "My Kingdom" prominently features:
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]
On April 11, 1995, [4] New Line Home Video, Turner Home Entertainment and Threshold Entertainment released a tie-in animated film on VHS and Laserdisc, titled Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins. Serving as a prequel to the in-development 1995 feature film , it follows the protagonists Liu Kang, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade as they travel on a ...
Mortal Kombat was nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA Golden Reel Award.It won the BMI Film & TV Awards BMI Film Music Award. [citation needed] The soundtrack went Platinum [2] in less than a year reaching No. 10 on the Billboard 200, [3] and was included in the 2011 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition as the "most successful video game spin-off soundtrack album". [4]