Mortal Kombat is a 1992 arcade fighting game created by Ed Boon and John Tobias and published by Midway, notable for its use of digitized footage of live actors for its character animations and for the extremely graphic finishing moves, known as Fatalities, that players could perform against a defeated opponent. The game's violent content provoked significant public controversy in the United States and was cited directly in 1993 congressional hearings on video game violence, contributing to the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board industry rating system. Mortal Kombat is widely regarded as one of the most commercially and culturally significant fighting games of the early 1990s and a lasting influence on debates over video game content regulation.
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Mortal Kombat is a 1992 fighting game developed and published by Midway for arcades.
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Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.
The original Mortal Kombat arcade game spawned a franchise consisting of action-adventure games, a comic book series, a card game, film series, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour.
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