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Mortal Kombat is one of those gaming franchises that should have been an easy fit for a movie. Somehow this has not happened even after two, three, attempts now. I blame the first one’s failure to connect with fans on that MPAA rating – PG-13. Seriously? It was like they made the movie based on […]
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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 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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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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Atari 2600 Homebrew Ports Push Hardware Limits
August 25th, 2020 Carl Williams The Atari 2600 is a classic console. There is no argument there. Where there is argument is the games. I am not going to try and tell you that the games chosen here are graphically impressive. They are not. That is just how these games look, there is only so much you can do within […]
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Mortal Kombat Invades Streets of Rage 2 Part 1
May 30th, 2020 Carl Williams While Streets of Rage 4 is still riding high on fan support, other fans have been keeping an earlier entry alive. Part of that effort is adding new characters to Streets of Rage 2, released on Sega Genesis in the early 1990’s. One of the more interesting hacks I have discovered adds Mortal Kombat characters […]
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Posted in Genesis, News, Sega Tags: bandit gaming, brawler, fighting, mortal kombat, rom hack, streets of rage 2 No Comments »
Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath Official Friendships Video Released
May 18th, 2020 Carl Williams Mortal Kombat 11 is the latest entry in the popular fighting game franchise. As the number there suggests, this is the eleventh entry in the main series. At this point I am sure the spin-off games are probably not considered canon. Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath is the upcoming expansion that is bringing plenty of extras. […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo, Playstation 4, Sony, Switch, Windows, Xbox, Xbox One Tags: fatalities, fighting, mortal kombat, Mortal Kombat 11, Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath, NetherRealm Studios, one on one, warner bros No Comments »Scorpion the Undead Ninja Assassin’s History
March 15th, 2020 Dash The Bomber Anger, sadness, and murderous fury fuel the character known as Scorpion. A beacon of fear and terror this anti-hero is one of the coolest things to ever come out of the ’90s. He’s arguably the most iconic character in the Mortal Kombat fighting series. The mere sighting of his image invokes the thought of his […]
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Mortal Kombat 11 Celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day
March 12th, 2020 Carl Williams Fans of St. Patrick’s Day and Mortal Kombat 11 will be thrilled to know that the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment fighter likes the festivities too. How, you may be asking yourself, can you celebrate fun and drinking in a game about beating others up in gruesome ways? Little details and plenty of free, for a […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo, Playstation 4, Sony, Switch, Windows, Xbox, Xbox One Tags: Downloadable Content, fighting, Kombat Pack, mortal kombat, Netherrealm, St Patrick's Day, warner bros No Comments »
Mortal Kombat: Movie reboot to start filming in South Australia, September, 2019.
May 15th, 2019 CPC4EVA (In screaming voice) “MORTAL KOMBAT !!!” With the release of the first Mortal Kombat movie, in 1995, “MORTAL KOMBAT” was a chant i was addicted to saying with my gamer friends for a decent chunk of that year. Three years earlier in 1992, i, like many other gamers, were glued to playing the legendary arcade […]
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Streets of Rage 2 and Five More Hacks You Don’t Know About
January 4th, 2019 Carl Williams Streets of Rage 2 by Sega is viewed as one of the best brawlers ever to be released. If the support from fans is any indication, this could be pretty accurate. Anyone that has been a fan of RGM for a while has probably seen one of my other Streets of Rage 2 articles. Well, […]
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Mortal Kombat Murders Competition on Sega CD – May 26th, 1994 – Today in History
May 26th, 2018 Carl Williams Mortal Kombat was the one title that did something no other title in history could. It forced Nintendo to change their staunch censoring policy. Prior to Mortal Kombat appearing on the Super Nintendo it was almost unheard of to see blood and guts in a game on a Nintendo platform. Nintendo even censored the Game […]
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