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  2. Mortal Kombat - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Mortal Kombat (1992 video game) - Wikipedia

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    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. [8]

  4. List of Sega Genesis games - Wikipedia

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    The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive [1] in regions outside of North America, is a 16-bit video game console that was designed and produced by Sega. First released in Japan on October 29, 1988, in North America on August 14, 1989, and in PAL regions in 1990, the Genesis is Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System .

  5. 1993–94 United States Senate hearings on video games

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    The violence in video games became a concern after Mortal Kombat ' s home console release in September 13, 1993. One of Senator Joe Lieberman's former chief of staff, Bill Andresen, had been asked by his son to purchase the Sega version of Mortal Kombat for him. Andresen was appalled by the amount of violence in the game, and approached ...

  6. Sega Genesis - Wikipedia

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    By far the year's most controversial game was Midway's Mortal Kombat, ported to the Genesis and SNES by Acclaim Entertainment. In response to public outcry over the game's graphic violence, Nintendo decided to replace the blood in the game with "sweat" and the arcade's gruesome "fatalities" with less violent finishing moves. [101]

  7. Mortal Kombat II - Wikipedia

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    Mortal Kombat II is a 1993 fighting game originally produced by Midway for arcades.It was ported to multiple home systems, including MS-DOS, Amiga, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, 32X, Sega Saturn, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and PlayStation only in Japan, mostly in licensed versions developed by Probe Software (later renamed to Probe Entertainment for some ports of the game) and ...

  8. List of video games by Midway Games - Wikipedia

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    1992 – Sega Genesis 1993 – SNES Notes: Sports game; Strike Force. Original release date: 1991 ... First Mortal Kombat game to feature side-scrolling gameplay;

  9. Videogame Rating Council - Wikipedia

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    Both Sega and Nintendo ordered the game's graphic violence and blood to be toned down. However, Sega allowed the player to restore the controversial content with a secret code, announced the creation of the Videogame Rating Council, and gave Mortal Kombat an MA-13 rating. The result was that the Sega Genesis version of Mortal Kombat outsold the ...