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  2. Controversies surrounding Mortal Kombat - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. 1993–94 United States Senate hearings on video games

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    Mortal Kombat was highly controversial at its release: as a fighter game, the game has photo-realistic sprites of the game's characters, graphic spurting of blood on several hits, and a number of "fatalities" such as decapitation or impaling a body on spikes. Despite the game's advertising indicating the game was meant for mature audiences, the ...

  4. 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.

  5. ‘Mortal Kombat’ Director Simon McQuoid on ... - AOL

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    Director Simon McQuoid is stepping into the “Mortal Kombat” arena, bringing the video game franchise’s brutal characters and extravagant gore to the big screen. The Warner Bros. movie, which ...

  6. ‘Mortal Kombat’ Trailer Promises Plenty of Blood, Guts and ...

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    The most recent installment, “Mortal Kombat 11,” debuted in 2019 and features both new and guest characters alike. Watch the trailer for “Mortal Kombat” below. Get over here!

  7. Review: You wanted lots of blood? 'Mortal Kombat' listened - AOL

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    The first death in the “Mortal Kombat” reboot occurs less than three minutes in, which is actually pretty coy. This is a movie, after all, based on a video game where the point is bloody violence.

  8. Mortal Kombat II - Wikipedia

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    Mortal Kombat II is a fighting game originally produced by Midway for the arcades in 1993. 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 ...

  9. List of Mortal Kombat media - Wikipedia

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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]