When the world of video games exploded, one of the most popular options fanatics could find was Mortal Kombat. This utterly famous story was released in 1992 as a form of competition to another famous video game, the Street Fighter. To gain its public, the Mortal Kombat’s revolution relied on the fact that the characters were digitalized forms of human beings that acted the different scenes, on a different way to Street Fighter in which characters were simply animated cartoons.
Mortal Kombat is definitely one of the best selling video games in history, having the privilege to be ranked number 20 in the top twenty ranking alongside with other famous video games such as Mario Bros, Pokémon, The Sims, Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto, Street Fighter, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, James Bond and Donkey Kong.
The story develops among different tournaments, the models of fights in which the characters encounter and develop their skills and abilities. Different arenas and scenarios are where those tournaments take place, and these have varied, as well as characters, as the video game released new episodes. Some of the features that have contributed to that popularity are the extreme violence and gore with which characters face the fighting enemy.
The killing fatalities (secret movements that give each character different abilities and killing methods) that have become famous with this video game are a sample of that aggressiveness that was later taken up by various posterior video games.
Mortal Kombat has developed more than ten different episodes in which the number of characters and their personalities have been increased and perfected correspondently. This has allowed its creators to maintain the regular audience and fans and attract new generations of children that are eager to become part of this terrific invention. Due to its high success, Mortal Kombat has also been taken to Hollywood, with more than one movie and with important response among fanatics of the video game.
In the last version of it, the one that is named Mortal Kombat: Armaggedon, released in October of 2006, players have the possibility not only to create their own characters, but also to create scenarios and even fatalities, generating a completely unique plot and game in each house where the video game has been acquired. As a fighting game, Mortal Kombat has gained its place after good quality, creativity and constant innovation.
It is said that one of the most important things of video games is their capability to last in time while technological advances are generated, and in this sense, Mortal Kombat can gladly say “We did it!”
