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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 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 ...

  5. List of controversial video games - Wikipedia

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    [7] [13] Postal 2 was banned in New Zealand and Australia. [14] In Germany, Postal, [15] Postal 2 [16] and Postal III [17] were added to The List of Media Harmful to Young People as adult only. 2003–2007: Manhunt: PS2, PC, Xbox, Wii, PlayStation Portable: Rockstar Games (Rockstar North) (Take-Two Interactive) Excessive violence and gore.

  6. 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.

  7. List of video games notable for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    Of all the Mortal Kombat games, Special Forces is considered by some to be the worst. Its sales were so low that Midway placed the series on hold in preparation for Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (2002). [90] Ed Boon stated: "The game had a pretty bumpy development ride and the game didn't turn out very good at all."

  8. Video game controversies - Wikipedia

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    On 22 November 1997, Noah Wilson, aged 13, died when his friend, Yancy, stabbed him in the chest with a kitchen knife. Wilson's mother, Andrea Wilson, alleged her son was stabbed to death because of an obsession with the 1995 Midway game Mortal Kombat 3; that Yancy was so obsessed with the game that he believed himself to be the character, Cyrax, who uses a finishing move which Wilson claims ...

  9. Category:Obscenity controversies in video games - Wikipedia

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    Mafia II; Manhunt (video game) Manhunt 2; Mario Party 8; Mass Effect (video game) Menace Beach; Mercenaries 2: World in Flames; Miss Bimbo; Mortal Kombat (1992 video game) Mortal Kombat (2011 video game) Mortal Kombat II; Muslim Massacre (video game) American Multiple Industries

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