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Smoke started out as a human in the Lin Kuei ninja clan. After failing to escape with his partner Sub-Zero, he was transformed by his clan into a cyborg ninja who eventually killed his ex-partner. Smoke's first appearance was in Mortal Kombat 2, randomly appearing before matches to give hints on how to fight him. In Mortal Kombat... more »
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is the fifth main release of the Mortal Kombat fighting games. It was released in 2002 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance. Deadly Alliance resuscitated the franchise decline from over release of multiple versions of the same series releases and numerous relatively unsuccessful... more »
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As magical as they seemed in the 1970s and '80s, arcade games operate on the same basic principles as today's home consoles. While our preferred casings have changed over the years, there's still a motherboard inside, controlling all the action.
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The "Mortal Kombat" series includes classic fighting video games. Ever since its debut, the Mortal Kombat franchise has taken on a life on its own... more »
The Mortal Kombat franchise began as a video game in 1992. Since then, in addition to more video games in the series, it has spawned four movies,... more »
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero is a side-scrolling adventure video game, designed for the Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo 64 and first... more »
Mortal Kombat: Deception is the sixth game in the Mortal Kombat series. It has the classic fighting style of previous Mortal Kombats and there... more »
Released in 2006 on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, with a 2007 Wii release, Mortal Kombat Armageddon is the epitome of the fighting franchise.... more »
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Mortal Kombat is a best-selling series of fighting games created by Ed Boon and John Tobias in 1992. Mortal Kombat began as a series of arcade games, which were picked up by Acclaim Entertainment for the home console versions. Then Midway Games exclusively created home versions of Mortal Kombat. The series was then sold to Warner Bros. in July 2009."latimesblogs.latimes.com"/>
It is especially noted for its digitized sprites (which differentiated it from its contemporaries hand-drawn sprites), and its high levels of blood and gore, including, most notably, its graphic fatalities—finishing moves, requiring a sequence of buttons to perform, which, in part, led to the creation of the ESRB. The series itself is also known for using the letter "K" in place of "C" for the hard C sound, thus misspelling the word "combat," as well as other words with the hard C sound within later games in the series.
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The Mortal Kombat characters played virtually identically to one another (with the exception of unplayable bosses and hidden characters). Whereas other fighting games had characters with considerable differences in speed, range, height, normal moves, strength of normal moves, walking speeds, jumping heights and distances, and so on; characters in Mortal Kombat differed mostly in their special moves and finishing moves. Essentially this led to increased importance placed on special moves, as they were the only unique part of most characters. In an interview with Computer and Video Games video game magazine, Ed Boon stated, " since the beginning, one of the things thats separated us from other fighting games is the crazy moves weve put in it, like fireballs and all the magic moves, so to speak."
In any case, the games after Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance changed this by finally differentiating characters normal mo read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal+Kombat
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