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  2. List of banned video games by country - Wikipedia

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    Name Reason 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 ...

  3. 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, [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.

  4. List of regionally censored video games - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  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. Talk:List of banned video games by country - Wikipedia

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    Mortal Kombat Series Banned in Japan,Grand Theft Auto Series Banned in USA,Brazil,UK, Australia,Saudi Arabia,Japan, Malaysia,Indonesia Prawira Hendrik 10:54, 9 March 2024 (UTC) No Grand Theft Auto games are banned in the UK or the USA. I cannot speak for any other countries, however.

  7. 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.

  8. When ‘Mortal Kombat’ Made America Lose Its Mind - AOL

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    via YoutubeIn 1994, Richard D. Heffner, the chairman of the Motion Picture Ratings Association of America and the creator of PBS staple The Open Mind, wrote a column for The New York Times ...

  9. List of controversial video games - Wikipedia

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    Data East USA sued Epyx, the publisher of the game in the United States (under the name of World Karate Championship) due to similarities between International Karate and Data East's Karate Champ. Although the suit was dismissed, [ 48 ] Data East was successful in obtaining an injunction to prevent further sales of World Karate Championship ...