History of Mortal Kombat GamesRaffi Minasian

About Mortal Kombat

One of the best selling fighting genre of all time

Came out with numerous sequels Main Publisher was originally Midway

Games but is now Warner Brothers Known for its Fatalities

Systems you can play it on

Game BoyPS2PS3

PS4Sega CDSega Game GearSega GenesisSega Master SystemSuper Nintendo Entertainment SystemTV gameXboxXbox 360

Xbox One

The Original Mortal Kombat

Originally an Arcade game Came out in 1992 2D fighting style Mortal Kombat II comes out a year later Mortal Kombat III comes out two years

later Eventually you can play on consoles

Mortal Kombat: Trilogy(1996) An expansion of Mortal Kombat III First game to originally come out on a

console Came out on the Ps1, N64, and Sega

Saturn The highest rated game with an 8.8/10

and the best seller

Mortal Kombat 4 (1997)

The first 3D game of the series Mortal Kombat Gold is updated version Sequel is Mortal Kombat: Deadly

Alliance(2002) It was the first game to have special

weapons for each character Sequel to Deadly Alliance was Mortal

Kombat: Deception(2004) Deception was the start of a long trend of

games for Playstation and Xbox

PS2 and Xbox series

Mortal Kombat: Deception (2004) Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks(2005) Mortal Kombat: Armageddon(2006)

Mortal Kombat Armageddon(2006)

The biggest Character Selection in this game than in any other Mortal Kombat- 63 fighters

First game where you could create your own fighter

Choosing your own fighting style and stances

Warner Brothers Purchase

Midway Games is $240 Million in debt and is now bankrupt

Selling the rights of the series to Warner Brothers

Since the purchase of the series they changed the fighting style of the game making it 2.5D

Mortal Kombat(2010)

The new feature “super meter” holds three charges

Charge 1: A more enhanced version of the characters special attack

Charge 2: Used to be able to interrupt a combo attack and give you the opportunity to counter

Charge 3: A series of attacks that shows an internal view of a character being attacked and showing you their bones and/or organs being broken or ruptured “X-Ray move”

Mortal Kombat X

Comes out April 14th 2015 Set to have 20-30 Characters

including: Cassie Cage, D’Vorah, Erron Black, Ferra/Torr, Jacqui Briggs, Mortal Kahn, Kung Jim, Takeda, and Tremor

Conclusion

Midway games owning the rights:

Almost the same thing every time

Just adds new fighters each game

After Midway Games sells it to Warner Bros.:

Made it more unique

Adds the Super Charge

Made it look more 3D