Tag: Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat was one of the most popular games in the arcade back in the day. It seemed like every time I went I ended up standing in line to play. I can also remember entering lots of cheat codes on the Super Nintendo version, I still remember one cheat code as up, down, left, right, left, right, A,B, B, A – but I forget what game it was for.

Video games are a bit like comic books in the sense that at some point most gamers have sat around talking about who would win if a fight broke out between characters from this game and that game.

I was always perplexed by the gibberish that came out of the mouths of the fighters in Mortal Kombat. Thankfully, everything they said as they pull of their combo moves has now been explained.

Finish off your outfit with the Abstract Mortal Kombat tee by Infinite Continues: I can’t figure out who the black and brown block is supposed to be. Ah crap. This is going to keep me up all night.

Few things can rile up a crowd more than watching a heads-up competition, as in boxing, fencing, chess. Well, maybe not chess but you get the point. Inspired by the spirit of such spectacles, David Hindman of New York University wrote a thesis about controlling Mortal Kombat using real guitars.

Why can’t fighters resolve their conflicts using more constructive means? Can’t they just all get along? How awesome would it be to see Reptile and Raiden baking instead of dismembering each others’ limbs?

Back in 1993, one of the animators working on Mortal Kombat 2 pitched a fourth finisher to programmer Ed Boon. The latter asked him to “Get Over Here.” The poor dude, now throatless, is cashing in on his idea in the form of a shirt design:

Horror news website Bloody Disgusting “received word that Warner Bros. Pictures has been looking to redo Mortal Kombat“. I was a die-hard fan of the first game, simply because it was so ridiculous. I didn’t like the movie though, as young and devoid of standards as I was back then.