History of Mortal Kombat Games Raffi 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 Boy PS2 PS3 PS4 Sega CD Sega Game Gear Sega Genesis Sega Master System Super Nintendo Entertainment System TV game Xbox Xbox 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 14 th 2015  Set to have 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