Mortal Kombat X is trying to make cultural waves through violence like the original, but was the first iteration really that violent? We look back at the catalog of retro games and find out!
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The fighting genre is full of mini-games, from Street Fighter's car destruction to Tekken Ball. Here's the best Mortal Kombat mini games.
Cultured Vultures: We've gone to the trouble of ranking the Mortal Kombat games across the series' history. Special Forces is clearly number one.
My favorite is always going to be Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. I know some people didn't like the addition of the run button. But, man that game is burned into my memory from childhood, lol.
That's the one I played the most as a kid. Fun times gaming on my Sega Genesis, the memories
MK2 will always be the best in the series. Been playing a lot of MK1 lately though. Definitely enjoying it more than any other NRS era MK game.
I will always have a special place in my memory for MK 1 and 2. You had to be there during that era at the arcades. Martial arts tournament fighting movies were still popular, and MK 1 was exciting. Real life motion captured characters done well (unlike Pit Fighter). A cast of characters we all liked like Bruce Lee(Lui Kang), Van Damme(Johnny Cage), the Lightning god(Raiden) from Big Trouble in Little China, and Ninjas, gotta have Ninjas. Goro was menacing as hell. The MK arcade had some of the best speakers similar to Killer Instinct as you could hear the loud crisp and bassy sound that was distinctly different than other arcades. MK 2 improved greatly on the controls and fighting mechanics
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We need a new eternal champions.
Good article.
There were tons of violent games that made Mortal Kombat look tame back in 1991. Way more than this list mentions. What set MK apart from the pack was the digitized sprites. It looked like real people were getting their spines ripped out while screaming in agony.
But nobody mentioned these other games back during the congressional hearings because they just weren't very popular. I learned back then that career politicians (Jack Thompson, Leeland Yee, Hilary Clinton, etc.) only try to use something that is popular to force their agenda. They don't care if some obscure game is 10x more nasty, they only care about what's popular.
It still holds true today. It doesn't matter how nasty some games are, if GTA is more popular, GTA will get blamed for "harming the children" by the politicians and the media. The irony is all the violent game makers want to have the game that gets the blame because no matter how good the game is, controversy = more $$$$. I suppose it's a win-win for everyone... except us gamers get all the hate directed at us.
Give us a new Primal Rage!