“ just under a year after its arcade release,” Lizzy Finnegan of Escapist Magazine writes, “ Mortal Kombat was ported to nearly every available console of the time.” Some systems maintained the original arcade format, but others like Sega opted for a bloodier version, introducing the “Blood Code” command that would, as the name suggests, allow players to choose a much gorier game play. With its ground-breaking graphics and even more ground-breaking content, Mortal Kombat helped take video games out of the arcade and into families’ living rooms. With realistic backgrounds, characters, and blood and violence, the game quickly grew to immense popularity, especially among the young arcade-goers looking for the next level of gaming. Developed with the intent to provide more sophisticated visuals and a straight-forward plot-based narrative, Mortal Kombat got players involved in a way that no other arcade game had done before. One of the first fighting games specifically developed to incorporate more realistic graphics, Mortal Kombat was introduced to the arcade scene in 1992.
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