Mortal Kombat

Video Game
1992
M

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Dark Fantasy Martial Arts Action Fantasy

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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Top cast10

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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)

Directors
- Ed Boon
- John Tobias
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User reviews23

Featured review

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.

EasternZZ
Jul 20, 2019
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Trivia
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 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 Les Aventures de Jack Burton dans les griffes du Mandarin (1986).
Sonya was loosely based on martial arts star Cynthia Rothrock.
The Sorcerer Shang Tsung, is based on Lo-Pan, the primary antagonist from Les Aventures de Jack Burton dans les griffes du Mandarin (1986).
Reptile, Scorpion, and Sub-Zero, the ninjas, are based on the American ninjas from L'Implacable Ninja (1981), American Warrior (1985) or Ninja Ryû Ken-den (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.