

Another of the game's innovations was the Fatality, a finishing move performed against a defeated opponent to execute them in a gruesome fashion. The idea became so popular that it has spread to many other games. Mortal Kombat further introduced the concept of "juggling", knocking an opponent into the air and following up with a combination of attacks while the enemy is still airborne and defenseless.

However, the dedicated block button allows users to defend against attacks without retreating and blocking characters lose very little ground when struck, thus making counterattacks much easier after a successful block. The game's blocking system also distinguished itself from other fighting games, as characters take a small amount of damage from regular moves while blocking. Unlike previous one-on-one fighting games, few moves require circular joystick movement. Most special moves were performed by tapping the joystick, sometimes ending with a button press. All player characters have a shared set of attacks performed by holding the joystick in various directions, such as a leg sweep and an uppercut the latter attack knocks the enemy high into the air and causes a large amount of damage. Attacks can vary depending on the player's distance from the opponent. Mortal Kombat uses an eight-directional joystick and five buttons, including two punch and two kick buttons, each further differentiated between high and low. If a game was in progress at the time, the winner continues it alone if not, the winner begins a new game. Two players can start a game together, or a second player can join in during a single player's game to fight against them. Each round is timed if both fighters still have health remaining when time runs out, the one with more health wins the round. The fighter that completely drains the opponent's health bar first wins the round, and the first to win two rounds wins the match. Mortal Kombat is a fighting game in which players battle opponents in one-on-one matches. Screenshot of a fight between Johnny Cage and Raiden government-backed organization that set descriptor ratings for video games. However, it also sparked much controversy for its depiction of extreme violence and gore using realistic digitized graphics, and, along with the home release of Night Trap, prompted the formation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), a U.S. Both games were the subject of a successful film adaptation in 1995. Mortal Kombat is considered one of the greatest video games of all time by critics and audiences in 21st century and became a best-selling game and remains one of the most popular fighting games in the genre's history, spawning numerous sequels and spin-offs over the following years and decades, beginning with Mortal Kombat II in 1993, which is also considered one of the greatest video games of all time. It introduced many key aspects of the Mortal Kombat series, including the unique five-button control scheme and gory finishing moves called Fatalities. The game focuses on several characters of various intentions who enter a martial arts tournament with worldly consequences. It is the first entry in the Mortal Kombat series and subsequently was released by Acclaim Entertainment for nearly every home platform of the time. Mortal Kombat is an arcade fighting game developed and published by Midway in 1992. Midway T Unit (Revision 4.0T–Revision 5.0T)

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