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Encyclopedia > Mortal Kombat (video game)
Mortal Kombat

Developer(s) Midway
Publisher(s) Midway
Designer(s) Ed Boon, John Tobias (creators)
Dan Forden (music / sounds)
Release date(s) 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2005
Genre(s) Versus fighting
Mode(s) Up to 2 players
Platform(s) Arcade, Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega CD, Amiga, Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega Master System, MS-DOS, PlayStation 2 and Xbox (with Mortal Kombat: Deception Premium Pack), PSP (as part of Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play), Mobile Phone, TV game
Input 8-way joystick, Buttons: 5 (HP, LP, BLOCK, HK, LK)
Arcade cabinet Upright
Arcade system(s) Midway Y Unit (up to Rev.3)
Midway T Unit (Rev.4 onwards)
Arcade display Raster, horizontal orientation

Mortal Kombat was the first entry in the famous and highly controversial Mortal Kombat fighting game series by Midway, released in arcades in 1992. It was later picked up by Acclaim Entertainment for the home version, then later returned to Midway. It centers on the first Mortal Kombat tournament and the ultimate defeat of the evil Shang Tsung by the monk Liu Kang. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links MK_character_select. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is an American video game publisher. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is an American video game publisher. ... A game designer is a person who designs games. ... 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Taglines:

  • So real it hurts!
  • Fight!
  • Means major koinage!
  • Prepare yourself (ad for the home versions)
  • Mortal Kombat is here! (ad for the home versions)

Contents

Gameplay

The game was a response by Midway to Capcom's successful Street Fighter II, which spawned a number of fighting games. However, it used a distinctly different fighting system from the Street Fighter formula, which was used in all subsequent sequels until Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. The controls consisted of five buttons arranged in an "X" pattern: a high punch, a high kick, a low punch, a low kick, and a block button, as well as an eight-way joystick. If the two fighters were standing next to each other, hitting any of the attack buttons would result in a modified strike: a low punch turned into a throw, a high punch turned into a heavy elbow, head butt, or backhand, and either kick turned into a knee strike. Crouching and hitting either punch resulted in an uppercut, which was the most damaging attack of the game. Jump kicking and crouch-kicking were executed in a similar fashion to Street Fighter, although leg sweeps and roundhouse kicks were performed by holding away while pressing the appropriate kick button. Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is an American video game publisher. ... For the original NASA meaning, see capsule communicator. ... Street Fighter II ) is a 1991 competitive fighting game by Capcom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is a video game developed and produced by Midway. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Lead hand uppercut The uppercut (sometimes also referred to as the upper), is a punch used in boxing that usually aims at the opponents chin. ...


The blocking in Mortal Kombat 1 by itself greatly changed the flow of fighting in comparison to contemporary games which used Street Fighter conventions. Characters do not block while retreating or crouching, but only block when the block button is pushed. Even then, characters take (reduced) damage from any hit while blocking. However, successfully blocking moves is simple – a crouching block can successfully defend against all moves, even aerial attacks such as jump kicks – and blocking characters give very little ground when struck rather than sliding backwards. This style of blocking rewarded dodging to avoid damage but also made counterattacks much easier after a successful block, and the ultimate result was an environment which rewards a more furtive playing style than contemporary games. A block is a technique in martial arts such as karate or Taekwon-Do that prevents an attack from making contact with the body. ...


Each of the seven playable characters move and fight in the exact same fashion, which led to complaints that the characters lacked distinction. However, each character's moves differed in their hit detection, speed, and damage, such that (for example) Kano's crouching kick dealt much more damage than other characters' crouching kicks, while Raiden's jumpkick had much longer range than other jump kicks.


The game retained a similar scoring system (based off successful hits, the Test Your Might minigame and other bonuses) to those games; this would be dropped in later entries to the Mortal Kombat series in favor of counting wins. Test Your Might is a minigame that first appeared in the arcade game Mortal Kombat as an interlude between battles. ...


Another of the game's innovations was the Fatality, a special finishing move executed against a beaten opponent to kill them in a gruesome fashion. For example, one character (Sub-Zero) would grasp a defeated opponent by the head, then rip out the head and spine while the body crumpled to the ground in a pool of blood. Sub-Zero performing a Head Rip fatality in Mortal Kombat In the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games, a Fatality is a special finishing move that can be used against ones opponent at the end of the final match. ... Finishing moves in video games often involve the violent and gory death of the enemy it is performed upon. ...


Mortal Kombat also introduced the concept of juggling, an idea so popular it has spread to many games and even other genres. Juggling takes advantage of the fact that when a character is knocked into the air, that player is unable to control his or her character and is still vulnerable to other hits, until he or she lands and gets up again. The idea behind juggling is to knock the enemy into the air and then follow up with other combat moves to keep them there. Theoretically, one could juggle one's opponent to death without ever taking damage, though this was difficult to accomplish in practice. In early versions of the game, juggling was extremely easy because the physics caused characters to fly upwards when hit; by version 5.0, however, characters reacted with somewhat more realism, and also fell more rapidly with successive hits, effectively limiting juggles to 3 hits under normal circumstances.


Finally, Mortal Kombat also changed the way special moves were performed. Street Fighter (and many other fighting games) performed most special moves in fractions of circles (usually full, half or one-quarter) on the joystick followed by a button press (such as a quarter-circle forward, plus punch). Mortal Kombat was the first to introduce moves that did not require a button press (such as tap back, tap back, then forward), and only a few of the special moves required circular joystick movement.


Characters and cast

The hidden character Reptile

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Playable characters

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Boss and sub-boss

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Hidden opponent

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Arenas

There are a total of seven different backgrounds to fight on: // This is a list of arenas, also known as Kombat Zones, used in the Mortal Kombat games. ...

  • The Courtyard
  • Palace Gates
  • Warrior Shrine
  • The Pit – When an opponent is defeated on this stage, he/she can be uppercut off the bridge where they will land on a bed of spikes. Although the announcer doesn't acknowledge it, this would be the series' first stage fatality.
  • Throne Room
  • Goro's Lair
  • The Pit Bottom (Versus Reptile only)

Storyline

Johnny Cage and Raiden fighting at the Warrior Shrine

500 years ago, the annual Shaolin Tournament, the most prestigious fighting tournament in the world, was interrupted by the appearance of an old sorcerer and a strange four-armed creature, who entered the tournament and defeated the Great Kung Lao. This Shokan warrior was the half-human, half-dragon fighter named Goro, who became the ultimate fighting champion for the next five hundred years. This was all part of Shang Tsung's plan to tip the balance into chaos and help Outworld conquer the Earth Realm.[1] Image File history File links A screenshot of Mortal Kombat by me This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ... Image File history File links A screenshot of Mortal Kombat by me This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ... The Great Kung Lao as seen in multiple MK endings The Great Kung Lao is a character referenced in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series and featured in the TV show Mortal Kombat: Conquest. ... In the Mortal Kombat mythology, it is a race of half-human half-dragon warriors. ...


Liu Kang would go to the tournament with the intent to restore balance. A martial artist/movie star Johnny Cage also entered the tournament and befriended Liu when a fight broke out between himself and Kano. Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero was invited to join the tournament by Shang Tsung himself, two years earlier after his ordeal with Shinnok's Amulet.[1] (According to his MK Ending, his reason for joining the tournament was to assassinate Shang Tsung, by the request of a wealthy enemy of Tsung's. This story thread is continued with the younger Sub-Zero brother in MKII). The undead Shirai Ryu ninja Scorpion entered the tournament intending to kill Sub-Zero, believing Sub-Zero to be responsible for killing him (in Mythologies, it was also stated that Scorpion thought that Sub-Zero had murdered his family and clan as well).[1] Raiden, the God of Thunder, was also asked personally by Shang Tsung himself, and Raiden himself boasted that "all those who would oppose Raiden would be crushed." He took the form of a human in order to participate in the tournament. Liu Kang is the main character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... The Lin Kuei is a fictional faction from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Shinnok is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...


Kano, the Black Dragon's most diabolical thug, was being chased by a U.S. Special Forces Unit, led by Lt. Sonya Blade, when he managed to get onto the boat heading for the tournament; his goal in the tournament was to loot Shang Tsung's Palace (where the walls are rumored to be made of gold). Once Sonya and her men arrived, Shang Tsung's personal army ambushed them. The Special Forces Unit was captured in the surprise attack, so Sonya had no choice but to take part in the tournament in order to save them. Thus the tournament was set. Kano is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... The Special Forces is a fictional Government organization within the Mortal Kombat universe. ... Sonya Blade is a video game character from the Mortal Kombat fighting games series. ...


With Outworld already having won nine tournaments in a row, the heroes would have to avoid handing Earth Realm its tenth loss, or all of humanity would crumble into the darkness of the Outworld (the "ten tournaments in a row" detail was added in Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and had previously been a key plot point in the film adaptation of the original Mortal Kombat).[1] Johnny Cage performing his shadow kick while MK1-Raiden sends a lighting bolt Mortal Kombat Trilogy is a fighting game developed and produced by Midway. ... Mortal Kombat is a 1995 action movie, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. ...


Bosses

Mortal Kombat featured two bosses. One was a sub-boss, which was a four-armed Shokan warrior named Goro, a half-human, half-dragon beast. Goro was a great deal stronger than the other characters, and was impossible to grab. Upon Goro's defeat, the player would then face the game's main boss, Shang Tsung. Despite the sorcerer's old age, he moves with incredible speed and summoned skull fireballs at will. Shang Tsung's darkest magic empowered him to steal the souls of fallen adversaries. Due to this sorcery, he also had the ability to morph into any character of the game, including Goro, and assume their appearance and their special abilities. Upon defeat, the many warrior souls that Shang Tsung used during battle would leave his body and then he would be engulfed in flames. Flag Ship from the video game Gorf A boss is a particularly challenging computer-controlled enemy in video games. ... This page discusses the multiple species and/or subspecies/races found in the Mortal Kombat game universe. ... Goro is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Shang Tsung (last name pronounced sung or soong) is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...


Ports

The 1993 launch of Mortal Kombat for video game consoles by Acclaim was the largest video game launch of the time[citation needed] . A "Mortal Monday" TV campaign featured a flood of TV advertisements, and all four home versions of the game were made available for sale on the same date. A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or electronic device that manipulates the video display signal of a display device (a television, monitor, etc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... “TV” redirects here. ...


Versions of the original Mortal Kombat game appeared on several different formats, notably the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Nintendo's SNES. At the time of the game's SNES release in North America, Nintendo of America had a strict "Family Friendly" policy. This required the removal of graphic violence, religious imagery, and mentions of death from all game content. The SNES version, therefore, had characters that sweated upon injury instead of bleeding, and most of Fatality moves were toned down. As of Mortal Kombat II, however, Nintendo decided to retain the gore from the original arcade version intact.


Ports:

  • Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis (1993) – The Mega Drive/Genesis version was censored, but entering a secret code (a-b-a-c-a-b-b) restored the full gore and fatalities from the arcade version. This version was given an MA-13 rating by the Videogame Rating Council.
  • Sega Mega-CD/Sega CD (1993) - The Sega CD version of the game was released with a grainy version of the famous Mortal Monday commercial and loading times. This version did not require a code to be entered and thus was given an MA-17 rating. While this port was technologically inferior to the better-looking SNES port, it resembled the arcade version more faithfully in actual gameplay.
  • Amiga (1993) – This version is famous for being able to perform all moves in the game using just one button on a joystick. This was required because most Amiga joysticks of that time only had one button. The Amiga port of the second game in the series included a Two Button option.
  • Game Boy (1993) – Due to technical issues the Game Boy version was severely cut down from its arcade counterpart. It suffered from laggy controls and a limited button layout. It also ommitted Johnny Cage, Reptile, and the bloodier fatality moves. By Game Boy standards, the graphics were impressive.
  • IBM PC (1993) – The IBM PC version is the most faithful port of the arcade version. Mortal Kombat II would also see a PC port, with a similar result.
  • Sega Game Gear (1993) – Like its 16-bit brother, the game was censored unless a cheat code had been entered (2, 1, 2, down, up at the third code screen). Featured fewer characters and had only 2 levels.
  • Sega Master System (1993) - similar to the Game Gear Port, but with more screen space.
  • SNES/Super Famicom (1993) – This version contained censored grey blood, to appear as sweat. Additionally, several fatalities (now called "finishing moves") were altered or changed completely. Some critics overlooked the fact that the game played differently to the original arcade version. The venerable uppercut counter to air attacks was missing, and the combo system also differed from the arcade version. The graphics and sound, however, are superior to those of other console versions.
  • Famicom - The game has been ported illegally in Asia. It has appeared in several multicarts in China.The game was published by Yoko in 1995.
  • ZX Spectrum – Two unfinished but playable unofficial versions exist, one created in Ukraine in 1997 and the other in Russia, both uses converted graphics. One unoffical full version exists too (1996), this one uses only characters and setting of original game, and has its own graphics.
  • Microsoft Xbox/Sony PlayStation 2 - In 2004 a new port was included with the Mortal Kombat Deception Premium Pack.
  • Jakks TV Games - In 2004, Jakks Pacific released their version of Mortal Kombat as part of their TV Games lineup. The game was released as a Joypad shaped like a Mortal Kombat cabinet. 2 player mode is also possible with a 2nd joypad and a link cable. This version of Mortal Kombat is graphically similar to the Sega Genesis version. The game sounds similar to the Genesis version, but with different midi-like music, and retains the original arcade voices. This port, however, lacks a scrolling background layer, so moving objects - such as the clouds on the pit stage - instead remain static.

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Port screenshots

Easter Eggs

  • In the SNES version of Mortal Kombat, if the player performed Raiden's finishing move on the final endurance match, a glitch would occur in which a "metallic" Goro would appear to fight.
  • The Sega Genesis version of the game features a code to enable blood (a-b-a-c-a-b-b at the fighting code cutscene). It is a deliberate reference to an album released by the band Genesis in the 1980s. The MK team would go on to make other musical references like this in the franchise, most notably the name of a purple-clad character named Rain in reference to Prince (Purple Rain).
  • A cheat code can be used on the Genesis and Sega CD versions, would unlock an entire menu in the main screen called "Cheat Enabled". The code is "down - up - left - left - A - right - down", an acronym for DULLARD. It could only be performed at the main title screen. In the menu a player could turn on and off certain aspects of the game, such as having shadows always crossing the moon during The Pit stage, alternate shadows (high score initials and Acclaim staff member Fergus McGovern's head), infinite continues, or being able to choose the material for the Test Your Might stage.
  • The Mega CD/Sega CD version also had a "Dads" cheat option, which renamed all the fighters as characters from the classic BBC sitcom, Dad's Army.[2]
  • The cheat code system for the Amiga version of the game required a particular word or phrase be typed in at the Main Menu, however the game only required that these letters be typed in that particular order and did not consider letters typed in between. Therefore it is possible to unlock the Cheat Menu (labelled "Diagnostics") by typing in the entire alphabet once. This "flaw" carried over to the Amiga port of MK-II where typing the entire alphabet three times unlocks the Diagnostics Menu.
  • Reptile could be fought by executing a Fatality after fighting on The Pit stage, assuming a shadow flew over the moon in the background, without taking any damage or pressing the block button in the winning round (initially, this meant that Sonya and Scorpion could not fight him at all, as both their Fatalities required the block button to be pressed, but this was fixed in later versions). Reptile, a merge between Sub-Zero and Scorpion, is fought on the Pit Bottom. Later, in Mortal Kombat II, Reptile was developed into a full character with his own special moves and would be available from the outset.

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"ERMAC"

Main article: Ermac

In the arcade version of Mortal Kombat, a glitch was rumored to cause Scorpion or Sub-Zero to morph into a red ninja, named "ERMAC" (short for "error macro"). This rumor spread like wild-fire when Electronic Gaming Monthly published a mockup image of this glitch that was supposedly sent in by a reader claiming he had taken the photo after discovering the glitch. However, some players still believed that there was another secret character. Due to the rumors surrounding the glitch, Midway did eventually include a red ninja character named Ermac as an official character in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and he has subsequently appeared in other Mortal Kombat games, such as Deception, and as a secret character to fight in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. Mortal Kombat character. ... arcade, see Arcade. ... Glitch City, a Pokémon programming error that creates a jumble of tiles. ... Electronic Gaming Monthly (often abbreviated to EGM) is an American video game magazine. ... A secret character (not to be confused with an unseen character) is usually a playable character (although not always) in a video game that can only be played (or in some cases fought) by completing some task in the game. ... Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is an American video game publisher. ... Mortal Kombat character. ... Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series, released in arcades in 1995. ... Mortal Kombat: Deception is the latest game in the controversial and bloody Mortal Kombat video game series by Midway. ... A secret character (not to be confused with an unseen character) is usually a playable character (although not always) in a video game that can only be played (or in some cases fought) by completing some task in the game. ...


Trivia

  • The disembodied heads and remains of various Midway employees like MK creators Ed Boon and John Tobias as well as MK sound programmer Dan Forden can be seen impaled on the bottom of The Pit stage.Jim Carrey's head rests on a spike near Ed Boon's head.
  • Notable fans of the game during its heyday included Ice-T, Jon Stewart, and Shaquille O'Neal. An MK machine was seen in O'Neal's game room while MTV filmed him playing NBA Jam with his cousin and then-MTV VJ Bill Bellamy in early 1993.
  • A carving of Pac-Man eating a pill, along with a ghost from Pac-Man, can be seen on the right wall of the Palace Gates stage.
  • The original concept of Mortal Kombat was modeled after the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Bloodsport, which is a cult classic martial arts film. The character of Johnny Cage is directly modeled after Frank Dux, Van Damme's character in the movie. [citation needed] Cage's split punch was originally seen in Bloodsport during the fight against the Sumo wrestler. Midway was unable to get Van Damme for the game because he was involved in a project for the Sega Genesis and declined. That game, however, was never published.
  • Another rampant rumor spread with the Genesis version of an African American kick-boxer named Nimbus Terrafaux. This was simply a magazine hoax.
  • Steve Ritchie (voice actor of Shao Kahn and announcer in MK and MKII) claimed in an interview for the Australian publication Arcade and Flipper Pinball Review (December 2001 & March 2002 issues) that he came up with the name of Mortal Kombat, which was simply called "Mortal" before.
  • Mortal Kombat was the first versus-fighting game to feature a secret character (Reptile).

Ed Boon, on a G4TV interview Ed Boon (born March 30, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois), along with John Tobias is a co-creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... John Tobias (born August 24, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois) was one of the creators (along with Ed Boon) of the groundbreaking Mortal Kombat fighting game series for Chicago-based Midway. ... Dan Forden saying Toasty! in Mortal Kombat II. Daniel Warren Forden (born September 28, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sound programmer, music composer, and the lead on several high-profile arcade and pinball games. ... Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958)[1], better known by stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, rock musician, author, former United States Army soldier, and actor. ... Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz on November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. ... Shaquille Rashaun ONeal (pronounced shak-keel) (born March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey), frequently referred to simply as Shaq, is an American professional basketball player, generally regarded as one of the most dominant in the National Basketball Association (NBA). ... NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game created by Midway in 1993. ... Bill Bellamy (born April 7, 1965 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. ... Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution by Midway Games in 1979. ... Jean-Claude Van Damme (born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Sint-Agatha-Berchem, in the Brussels-Capital Region, on October 18, 1960), is a Belgian-born martial artist and actor who is best known for his large catalogue of action movies. ... A blood sport is a sport involving bloodshed or the killing of animals for food, pest control, or entertainment. ... Frank Dux is the founder of an amalgamated martial art form with the acronym FASST, also called Dux Ryu Ninjutsu. ... This is a list of minor characters from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Steven S. Ritchie is an acclaimed pinball and video game designer. ...

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d This information became available in future Mortal Kombat games; it was not mentioned in the original.
  2. ^ http://www.angelfire.com/sd/scaifsal/mk/pp17.html

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