Mortal Kombat

This article treats first play of the series; to see also the article on the series '' Mortal Kombat ''.

Mortal Kombat (commonly shortened MK) is a Video game of Midway left on Borne arcade in 1992, famous for its violence, its brutality and its side gore. The history is centered on the first Tournament Mortal Kombat organized by the Shaolins monks and the ultimate defeat of malefic the Shang Tsung vis-a-vis Liu Kang. It gave rise to a series whose second shutter is Mortal Kombat II .

Gameplay

The play is a response of Midway to Capcom and its play of combat to success Street Fighter II: The World Warrior , which generated many sets of engagements. However, it employed a system of distinctly different combat, which was employed besides in all the following plays until Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance .

Contrary to Street Fighter and of its drawings to the hand , the animation of Mortal Kombat is made up of digitalized images (starting from sequences filmed actors carrying out the various movements) what gives one made rather unusual: the graphics of the characters is very fine, their animations are fluid but are not connected always perfectly (defect inherent in the technique used). Only the animation of the under-Boss required the recourse to the technique called Stop-Motion.

The player lays out, in addition to a multidirectional cross of 8 directions, 5 buttons of action: High Kick, Low Kick, High Punch, Low Punch, and Block (blow being used to avoid). Contrary to Street Fighter, to block a blow inflicts damage with the blocker nevertheless. If the two characters are with the body with body, face to face, the actions are different; for example, a Low Punch is transformed into small brush/projection. The same applies with the other blows. The special blows are done by maintaining a direction while pressing a button of attack. It is in this manner that certain blows like the Uppercut are realizable, the most powerful blow. The specific blows require as for them a combination of blow carried out quickly. Handling, just like the produced effect, differs for each character.

The play maintained a system of score similar to the other plays of combat, namely a system based about the successful blows, the mini play Test Your Might and other no-claims bonus.

Another of the great innovations of the series are the Fatality : At the end of the second round gained by a player, the inscription “ Him Finish! ” or “ Her Finish! ” (literally “Stop le/la! ”) appears and the victorious player can then carry out a handling starting a Fatality , put at violent death of the adversary intended to complete it more macabre manners.

History

It there has 500 years, the tournament annual of Shaolins, eager to represent the tournament of the most prestigious combat in the world, was stopped by an old wizard and a strange creature equipped with four arms which entered the tournament and overcame large the Kung Lao. This warrior Shokan was half-human, half-dragon. Called Goro, he became the ultimate champion during the five next centuries. It was the plan of Shang Tsung to break balance between the good and the evil and to plunge the world in chaos to help the kingdom of Outworld (translated by " In addition to-Monde" in films) to conquer Earthrealm (Kingdom of the Earth).

Liu Kang fell under the tournament with the intention to restore balance. A famous actor fan of martial arts, Johnny Cage, also presented himself to the tournament and attracted himself the sympathy of Liu Kang when a combat burst between him even and Kano. The warrior of Flax Kuei, Sub-Zero was invited to join the tournament by Shang Tsung itself. The spectrum ninja Scorpion as took share with the tournament to him, with like intention to kill Sub-Zero, thinking as this last responsible for its characteristic had died. Raiden, god of the thunder, was also required by Shang Tsung itself, and the god answered him that “all those which would be opposed to Raiden would be crushed. ” It took the form of human in order to take part in the tournament.

Kano, the most diabolic gangster about the black Dragon was pursued by a unit of special forces of the United States, carried out by the lieutenant Sonya Blade, when he managed to go up in a driving boat to the tournament; its goal in this last was to plunder the palate of Shang Tsung, where the rumor tells that the walls are made of gold. Once arrived Sonya and its men, Shang Tsung attracted them in an ambush established by its personal army. The unit of special forces was made imprison, and Sonya had other choices to only take part in the tournament in order to save its team.

Thus the tournament took place.

Characters

Playable characters

Not-playable characters

Goro (Under Boss)
Shang Tsung (Boss)
Reptile (hidden Character)
Ermac (bug, to see low)

Zones of combat ( Kombat Zones )

There are on the whole seven grounds of engagements:

The Courtyard
Palace Spoil
Warrior Shrine
Throne Room
Goro' S Lair
The Pit
The Pit Bottom (Only against Reptile)

Note that when a player loses in the training course The Pit , if the winner inflicts to him an uppercut, the unhappy tomb of the bridge and finished impaled in a bed of blades.

Ports

The main ports were launched at the time of the Mortal Monday , in October 1993, where Midway will make of it promotion in particular with spots TV, rather rare thing at the time. Moreover, all the bearings left at the same time, in 1993. It will be noticed that it is impossible - just like on the terminal of arcade - to put the play in pause!

Megadrive : This version was censured, but a secret code restored blood and the fatality of the version arcade. Graphics were however of less quality, just like the sound environment.
Mega-CD: Almost identical to the preceding one, except an improvement on the level of the sound.
Super Nintendo: This version it was also censured, but without means of circumventing this censure (blood was transformed into yellowish sweat, and the Finish Him were edulcorated). It is the port which had most beautiful graphics.
Game Boy: A limited port, because of the low capacities of the console. It will be noted that Cage was withdrawn from this version.
Range GEAR and Master System: Even notices, except that this time Ci, it is Kano which was withdrawn.
Commodore Amiga (Computer): This version was famous for its control system with a joystick and a single button, which brought appreciably different Gameplay.
IBM PC (Computer): It was the bearing nearest to the version acarde.

a new bearing was carried out in 2004, on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the Mortal Kombat Deception Premium Pack .

Around the play

There were 5 revisions (rev 0.9 until rev 5.0).
a bug was deferred in the version arcade. It was about a new character, Ermac, which combined Scorpion and Sub-Zero in a red costume. It holds its name of Macro Error. It will be integrated by the developers in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and in some opus following.
In the versions Megadrive ( Sega Genesis with the the United States), the secret code (a-b-a-c-a-b-b) is a reference to the album Abacab of the group of progressive Rock Genesis , left in 1981.
In their album 2D, the group of Québécois music the Denis Drolet refers to the fact that one cannot take Reptile, but which one can fight against in the pit.
This first version of the play is from now on free and in free remote loading since January 25th, 2007 (past in Abandonware).

Development team

Design and software : ED Boon
Design and graphics: John Tobias
Music and sound: daN Forden
Decorations: John Vogel
Executive producers: Neil Nicastro, Ken Fedesna
Senior hardware technician : Sheridan Oursler
Cabinet designer : Ray Czajka
character design of Goro: John Tobias
Models Stop Motion : Curt Chiarelli

Casting

Below the actors who allowed the creation of the characters according to the technique of the digitalized images:

Daniel Pesina : Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile
Richard Divizio : Kano
Carlos Pesina : Raiden
Ho Sung Pak : Liu Kang and Shang Tsung
Elizabeth Malecki : Sonya Blade

External bond

Official site

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