Mortal Kombat (video game): Difference between revisions

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* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: Compared to the more family-friendly games that then dominated the market.

* [[Bowdlerise]]: In the SNES port of the first game, Nintendo edited out all the blood, replacing it with an unidentifiable opalescent fluid (<s>sawdust</s> sweat); the [[Finishing Move|Fatalities]] were also toned down considerably to fit Nintendo's censorship policies. The Genesis port was similarly [[Bowdlerized]], but one could unlock the violence with a special code. Sales of the SNES version tanked, and the Genesis version was a success, so when the second game was ported, the blood and carnage was left intact.

** One funny thing is that one of the cleaned-up Fatalites, which involved Sub-Zero breaking his opponent's body into pieces after freezing him, was pretty brutal anyway. It was turned into one of his Fatalities in the second game.