Mortal Kombat

Video Game
19921992
MM

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Seven martial artists from Earth must battle in sorcerer Shang Tsung's super secret tournament.Seven martial artists from Earth must battle in sorcerer Shang Tsung's super secret tournament.Seven martial artists from Earth must battle in sorcerer Shang Tsung's super secret tournament.

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8.0/10

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Writers
- Ed Boon(designer)
- Nikko De' Lozada
- John Tobias(designer)
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Daniel Pesina

Johnny Cage…

Richard Divizio

Kano

Carlos Pesina

Raiden

Ho-Sung Pak

Liu Kang
(as Ho Sung Pak)
…

Elizabeth Malecki

Sonya Blade

Kyle Wyatt

Mob Leader
(voice)

Ed Boon

Scorpion
(voice)
(uncredited)

Peg Burr

Sonya Blade
(voice)
(uncredited)

Jon Hey

Raiden
(voice)
(uncredited)

John Vogel

Masked Guard
(uncredited)

Writers
- Ed Boon(designer)
- Nikko De' Lozada
- John Tobias(designer)
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According to Ed Boon, the main characters are all caricatures of some of their favorite characters from martial arts and sci-fi movies:
Kano, with his infra-red eye, is based on Arnold Schwarzenegger's make-up in The Terminator (1984).
Liu Kang is, obviously, the likeness of Bruce Lee.
Johnny Cage is based on Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Raiden, the electric God of thunder, is based on a lightening-wielding character from Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
Sonya was loosely based on martial arts star Cynthia Rothrock.
The Sorcerer Shang Tsung, is based on Lo-Pan, the primary antagonist from Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
Reptile, Scorpion, and Sub-Zero, the ninjas, are based on the American ninjas from Enter the Ninja (1981), American Ninja (1985) or Ninja Gaiden (1988).

Goofs
When you select Sonya Blade for the "Test Your Might" stage for the Sega Genesis, her grunt is a man's grunt.

Quotes
Scorpion: Come here!

Alternate versions
The character name "Raiden" was changed to "Rayden" in the home versions due to legal troubles Midway was having; the spelling of the name "Raiden" had already been used in another game.

Connections
Edited into The Babadook (2014)

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6/10

Important to video game history but aged badly

This game is very important to the evolution of video games and it has its spot in gaming history. Mortal Kombat is known for violence and this game was the most violent game back in the day. These days this game has aged pretty bad though.

The graphics still look good if you are playing the arcade version. The characters are extremely big though and take up a lot of space on the screen. They are very detailed.

The negative thing is that the speed is very slow, the fighting is very clunky, the music is annoying, the grunts are also very annoying, and fatalities are kinda difficult to perform because you have a very short amount of time to do them.

Anyways, maybe back in the day it would had been a 9/10 but now this game is a 6/10 at best.

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EasternZZ
Jul 21, 2019

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