Mortal Kombat

Digitized actors and fatalities drove the console content debate that produced the ESRB.

Released 1992 Developer Midway Platform Arcade Genre Fighting Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Mortal Kombat inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

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