If you find him and somehow defeat him, you’ll get a ton of bonus points. However lurking about is a hidden character called Reptile, who pops in occasionally to give clues on how to find him. If you can get past three Endurance matches, you get a shot at Goro, and finally Shang Tsung himself. But that’s not all should you beat your clone, you must now go through Endurance matches, where you have to take on two fighters with one life bar. If you defeat them, you have to face a double of yourself in a mirror match. First you take on the other six fighters in a series of one-on-one matches. The one player mode follows a ladder-like system. Each character has their own special moves and abilities. The original seven are: Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Raiden, Sonya Blade, Kano, Sub Zero and Scorpion.

When you begin the game you (and a second player) get to choose from seven different characters. Can one of them go all the way and defeat Goro and Tsung? Now seven warriors have been brought to the tournament, each with a different reason for fighting. For 500 years Tsung ruled the tournament with the aid of his pupil Goro, a four-armed monster who has reigned as Grand Champion all those years. In the past few years the tournament was corrupted by the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung, who feeds on the souls of warriors he defeats. The setting is the Shaolin Tournament, a once-honorable fighting competition. MK1 may have been great back then, but is it still good now?įor those of you who may have never played the first Mortal Kombat title, here’s a quick rundown of the storyline. The following year, Mortal Kombat hit the home systems on September 13, 1993, aka “Mortal Monday.” While both the Super NES and the Genesis systems received ports, everyone flocked to the Genesis version for obvious reasons.

It played similar to Street Fighter II, except it featured digitized characters, an interesting mythology, and lots of blood and gore. Way back in 1992, a new fighting game hit the arcades called Mortal Kombat.

Yes, folks, this is the game that started it all: the video game ratings system, the debates on video game violence, the only GOOD game-based movie, and a series of fighting games that stands tall today. Genre: Fighting Developer: Probe Software Publisher: Arena Players: 1-2 Released: 1993

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