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Mortal Kombat: Banned because of excessive violence and cruelty. [234] Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory: Banned for portraying military and political actions against North Korea, ban was lifted in 2007. [235] Homefront: Banned because of its negative portrayal of a unified Korea under Northern rule. [234] Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
According to John Tobias, co-creator of Mortal Kombat, these friendships were added due to response from the Congressional hearings. [12] When the home console versions were released, after the establishment for the ESRB, Nintendo did not take issue with the amount of violence in the game, and allowed it to release without any changes on the SNES.
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.
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe – In order to ensure a T rating in North America, two Fatalities in the game were censored. [30] [31] In the United Kingdom version, both the Joker and Deathstroke's first Fatality feature them each finishing their opponent with a gunshot to the head, with each respective shot shown uncut from a distance. However ...
A significant turning point was the rejection of an indexing of Mortal Kombat X and the granting of an 18+ rating by the USK. [27] [28] Mortal Kombat X was the first part of the series to receive approval from the USK in Germany; until then, many titles in the series had been indexed or even confiscated.
Use of the phrase "Turn the train spastic! Make this ticket tragic!" by the character Kamek caused controversy in the United Kingdom, where the word spastic is considered offensive (which is the same issue that Mind Quiz raised). This led to a recall of the game; it was later re-released with the word changed to erratic. [136] 2008: Spore: PC ...
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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.