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Mortal Kombat

Description

Five Hundred years ago, an ancient and well respected Shaolin fighting tournament, held every 50 years, was corrupted by an evil and elderly sorcerer by the name of Shang Tsung. Shang was accompanied by Prince Goro, a warrior of the Shokan race (a four armed half-human/half-dragon). Knowing that if ten tournaments in a row were won by the Outworld champion, the Earth Realm would be conquered by evil and fall into darkness, Shang entered Goro in the tournament and had him defeat the great Kung Lao. Goro has been reigning supreme as the undefeated fighting champion for five hundred years now. As the last tournament required draws near, Raiden, Thunder God and protector of the Earth Realm, enacts a plan to tip the scales in the humans favor, Seven fighters step into the arena on Shang Tsung's mysterious island: Shaolin warrior Liu Kang, Special Forces operative Sonya Blade, the mercenary thug Kano, fame-seeking actor Johnny Cage, the ice wielding Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero and his undead adversary Scorpion, and Raiden himself.

Mortal Kombat is a side-scrolling 1 on 1 fighting game. Fighting is set as one on one kombat, allowing each player to perform a variety of punches, kicks, and special moves in order to defeat their opponent. When the opponent faces their second round loss, the winner can perform a finishing move called a "Fatality" on the loser. The Fatality is a humiliation move that graphically kills the loser in a blood-soaked finale.

Mortal Kombat began its life as a 2-player arcade title. It is notable for its use of digitized actors to represent the game's fighters, as well as its use of copious amounts of blood during gameplay.

Alternate Titles

• "真人快打" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "Mortal Kombat Complete" -- Japanese Sega CD title
• "MK" -- Common abbreviation
• "モータルコンバット" -- Japanese spelling

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• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Games made into comics
• Games made into movies
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• Mortal Kombat series

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User Reviews

A near-perfect translation of the arcade game.	Trixter (8865)
Better known as "Mortal Kash Kow"...or "Horse Rubbish"!	Satoshi Kunsai (1852)
The first game of a very good series of fighting games, but not the 1 which should be called the best in the series	Steve . (131)
Fun to play, but stupid none-the-less.	Tomer Gabel (4476)
A perfect conversion of a defining moment in arcade history.	Zovni (9138)	unrated
An overhyped, poorly executed game.	Robyrt (51)
Kick ass fighting action, but compared to Street Fighter 2 it falls short in gameplay.	ROFLBLAH (355)

The Press Says

Top Secret	Feb, 1994	9 out of 10	90
Svenska Hemdatornytt	Mar, 1994		83
Abandonia	Mar 11, 2004	4 out of 5	80

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Trivia

Because the original code was written in C, the PC port is a flawless conversion in terms of gameplay. The same bugs and tricks in the arcade coin-op are applicable in the PC version, since it was built with the same source code.