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Mortal Kombat is iconic. It started life as an arcade game attempting to do the impossible. Take on Capcom’s Street Fighter II machine which had been ruling arcades. The key to the success of Mortal Kombat was the imagery and match endings. Ed Boon and John Tobias knew they had to stand out and stand […]
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Mortal Kombat Sees Super Nintendo Sega Genesis and More Ports – September 13th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
September 12th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, News, Nintendo, Portables, Sega, Super Nintendo 
Tags: acclaim, censorship, Digitized Graphics, fighting, mortal kombat, one on one fighting, Play It Loud, port 
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Super Nintendo Mortal Kombat Finally Bleeds
May 21st, 2018 Carl Williams Back in the day Nintendo had this weird knack for censoring games. On the 8-Bit Nintendo Entertainment System this was not all that much of a problem. Sure, we had a few questionable games slip through Nintendo’s weird censoring program, such as Monster Party which featured bleeding skulls and other imagery that NES games were […]
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7 Cool Streets of Rage 2 Hacks
June 16th, 2016 Carl Williams Streets of Rage 2 is one of those titles that fans simply will not allow to die. That is great because the game is quite good. While the original is good, fans have taken the character selection a few steps beyond what Sega ever thought of. Buckle up sunshine, this is going to be a […]
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Streets of Rage 2 Continues the Beat Down – December 20th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
December 19th, 2015 Carl Williams There is no denying that the Streets of Rage series is one of Sega’s most popular outside of Sonic. It is a tragedy of gaming that they have not kept SoR updated on newer platforms like they have Sonic. Streets of Rage 2 continued the beating up of multiple enemies that started with the original […]
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Fatalities Expanded in Mortal Kombat II – Today in History – September 9th, 1994
September 8th, 2014 Carl Williams It is pretty much accepted fact that Nintendo’s censorship policy literally gave the Sega Genesis a slight upper hand when the original Mortal Kombat was released on home consoles. Acclaim was between a rock and a hard place as far as the Super Nintendo version of the bloody brawler was concerned. History shows they went […]
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Last Battle Brings Hokuto no Ken Drops to Sega Genesis – August 14, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
August 14th, 2014 Carl Williams Last Battle was a unique entry for the Sega Genesis at launch. Sega wanted more titles available to compete with the looming Turbo Grafx-16 launch. Competing with the Nintendo Entertainment System was a concern as well. Sega would not license Hokuto no Ken. Instead they edited some of the in game graphics to make a […]
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