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Mortal Kombat is a computer game from the beat-'em-up genre, which was designed by programmers and designers Ed Boon John Tobias and developed by the American software company, Midway, and first appeared in arcades in 1992. Mortal Kombat was developed as a response to the popular Capcom game Street Fighter II. It contains some extremely brutal violence, some of which led to the founding of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), and for indexing. It appeared several successors, as well as movies, cartoons, TV series and merchandising products.
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In 1991 the Williams arcade machines manufacturers a fighting game decided in competition with the then very successful Street Fighter II to bring to the market. Ed Boon and John Tobias led the project team during the ten months of development.

To stand out from the multitude of other Street Fighter II imitations decide themselves Boon and Tobias at the outset for an unusual at the time game graphics: instead of sprites, with the fighters and their movements will be shown in play, draw by hand leave, digitized pictures were taken in the game. At the same time the size of the characters has been maximized, the playability was just ensured. The technology for digitizing at Williams was already in place and before the games NARC (1988) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (first-person light gun shooter, 1991) was used.

From the model of the popular Street Fighter II Special attacks that are triggered by certain undocumented shortcuts and find out it was taken over. In addition, the Fatalities were mentioned, secret moves from the following observation: In many other fighting games were the fighters for a short while drowsy when they had suffered a "direct hit". For a moment they were then a further blow to the enemy defenseless, before they could again intervene actively. Mortal Kombat In this mechanism has been moved to the end the fight. At the end of the last round when the winners were identified, came to call him the "Finish him!". If he knew the combination for the Fatality, he could kill his already beaten opponent. Ed Boon says the emergence of Fatalities that came out of the development team's proposal "to do something cruel." As a result, each fighter has a different designed Fatality: Kano pulls his opponent around the heart from the chest and Sub-Zero rips off his head along with the spine. That is precisely the Fatalities would make the game so popular, was unaware of the developers. It was assumed that the necessary combinations would be too complicated and would be uncovered only by a few players. In addition to the kämpferbezogenen Pit Fatalities Fatalities also were installed in the game: some arenas offer the option properties of the environment for the killing of the defeated enemy to use.

There were also Geheimcharaktere and Easter Eggs.

The home implementation of Mortal Kombat was released in 1993 with an unusually elaborate video game marketing strategy in which we sent in the Mortal Monday campaign an avalanche of television ads. All console versions came on the same day in the shops.
First reactions

The Fatalities ensured as well as for those days very realistically depicted characters for controversial discussions. For a player who knew the secret combinations, this meant prestige in public arcades. The general discussion of Mortal Kombat was for sales of the vending machine game very favorable: the immediate onset of Mortal Kombat success surpassed even the very popular Street Fighter II
Violence discussion

The implementation for home consoles in the U.S. led to a wave of outrage among parents and politicians, because video games had previously been associated mostly with almost violent games such as Super Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog. This led eventually to the fact that the conservative Senator Joe Lieberman in a speech to the congress called to let games like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap ban seen as controversial by the Constitution.
Evolution

With Mortal Kombat 4, the digitized 2D actors were replaced by polygonal figures, bringing the series to enter into the 3D era began. Appeared in 2002 with "Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance" is the first Mortal Kombat, which was kept completely in 3D and also with a completely new fighting engine, presented based on the following components.

Co-Creator John Tobias left Midway Games 1998 after the development of Mortal Kombat 4 and during the development of spin-offs "Special Forces". His partner, Ed Boon continues to work as project manager and programmer in the series.
Play action

As the forces of Outworld to make the earth kingdom subject to, led the Elder Gods, the one mortal Kombat tournaments. Before the warrior of Outworld have not won ten tournaments in a row, they are an invasion of the earth is not allowed (for this reason does Shao Kahn, ruler of Outworld, in the history of Mortal Kombat III for a list to still make an invasion attempt to can). Since each character has its own story, including his own guy has and they can contradict each other to some extent, remain only parts of the course of action given in the following section.

The film adaptations attack while back on the events of the game series, however, diverge in some cases considerably different. Thus, for example, Liu Kang, a monk of the White Lotus Society, in the film series as a descendant of the 500 years before the action of the first film and play by the Shokan-prince Goro dead Kung Lao (around which the series Mortal Kombat: Conquest turns given) , although this is true in the game in the series only in the movies are not represented and also of the White Lotus Society accompanying Kung Lao.
Mortal Kombat

Since the Shokan Prince Goro 500 years ago, defeated the great Kung Lao, he is the current champion. The various reasons, partly owned by pressure (Lt. Sonya Blade in a well on the incoming criminal Kano scheduled special unit, whose other members of Shang Tsung are kept in captivity and compete for their freedom, they have) or at the invitation of the sorcerer Shang Tsung incoming fighters have a tenth victory Goros and Shang Tsung prevent. Some of the fighters but want to take out of curiosity or other.
Mortal Kombat II
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After his defeat, Shang Tsung begs his master Shao Kahn, ruler of Outworld to spare his life, and proposes to him, another tournament, to which an invitation can not be cut off to hold. This should take place in Outworld, a victory would mean the permission to invade Earth. Kahn agrees and represents Tsung youth restored.

After the warriors have emerged of the Earth realm in Mortal Kombat again victorious, be Shao Kahn, a 10,000-year-old plan to implement: It leaves its earlier, to revive a young age late Queen Sindel, but not in Outworld, but on the Earth realm to enter this may they recover and launch an invasion. Here, the earth kingdom to a part of Outworld. Only the chosen warriors whose souls are protected from Raiden survive. But since it is in Outworld at which the Earth Empire is now, has no power, he can not support these fighters. To destroy these fighters Shao Kahn sends out troops, against which they must defend himself, since Raiden's protection is solely beschränkt.Raiden their souls to help themselves to mortals for his allies and to win against Shao Kahn.

In Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat Trilogy are revised versions of Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat 4

Shao Kahn's defeat two years after the necromancer Quan Chi has allied with the thousands of years ago by Raiden to Netherealm exiled god Shinnok and those exempt. With the help of a traitor from Edenia they reach the sky and kill the gods, which they find there. Only Fujin and Raiden escape and seek warriors together for another Mortal Kombat.

In Mortal Kombat Gold is an enhanced version of this game.
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance

When Quan Chi from Scorpion flies from the depths of Netherealm, he discovered a grave, which contains the mummified remains of the army of Onaga. When he learns that the army would be invincible in the revived state, he decides to bring those warriors souls to make them "can get real" life and make it manageable. To this end, he offers a Shang Tsung Alliance (which refers to the title) and as a price for its cooperation immortality. They then kill the two most dangerous people for them, namely Shao Kahn and Liu Kang, and subsequently entered Outworld in order to win souls for their army. Meanwhile, Raiden and unite the warriors of the earth kingdom to again compete in Mortal Kombat.

For the Game Boy Advance, there were two reactions, each contained only portions of the original game. The second is the name Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition is available.
Mortal Kombat: Deception

Nachdems Raiden's warriors in the fight against the Deadly Alliance, have fallen, this occurs contrary to the instructions of the Elder Gods, but it is also subject. Then (without the death of Raiden) fight Shang Tsung and Quan chi, at Onagas amulet, which Quan chi emerge as victors and must watch how Onaga, the Dragon King and brought back to life. This calls back his amulet. In the battle against Onaga to ally Quan Chi, Shang Tsung and Raiden to defeat the new enemy. They fail miserably, in a desperate attempt to solve Raiden from a large explosion which destroyed the entire palace. But the Dragon King remains unchanged. In possession of Kamidogu, six artifacts that he had needed for his return from damnation, he does now to conquer the kingdom. The fighters who were not killed by the Deadly Alliance, must sit down now to defend against Onaga. The Game Cube version with Shao Kahn and Goro includes two additional characters.

In Mortal Kombat: Unchained is an advanced version of this game with four additional characters (Frost, Kitana, Jax and Blaze) for the PSP handheld console from Sony.
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
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Because the Warriors have become too strong and pose a threat to the balance, Argus can a pyramid from the ground outgrown that draws the attention of the warriors of all the parties up. At the top of the pyramid Wait Blaze, who defeated him get beyond the powers of the Elder Gods.

The game is complying with all 61 characters (Khamelion is only in the Wii version included) from the voherigen parts.