To the anonymous user who added this:
Why do you say it is outdated? It is still up and running. If it has old content, well that is the nature of the web. :-) We can't go about the whole 'pedia updating the status of all the websites we link to. Anyway, thanks for adding the link. — Frecklefoot | Talk 22:20, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
Just a suggestion for the characters list, but I think it'd be a good idea to add which games the characters appeared in next to their name. Right now, it looks like all the characters appear in every game, which, of course, isn't the case. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:35, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
What happened to the characters list? Was it moved to its own page?
The MK page from the arcade history database seems to ontain text from the Wikipedia page. If you look at the history, it is quite clear that wikipedia's text is the original.
Is it just me or the Movies and television section has some bad POV issue? – Kaonashi 01:47, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I created the list of sequels and I intentionally left off MK Gold because I thought it was merely the home version of MK4. Is that not the case? Are they different games? -- Feitclub 21:08, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
You missed Ultimate Mortal Kombat WaveNet - Net work version of MK very rare There is some inside info hear http://www.vpforums.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32236&highlight=Ultimate+Mortal+Kombat+WaveNet
This paragraph is not neutral.
There is a open source mortal combat clone in production [1] Mitsuhama
I know for certain that Smoke is a hidden character in MKI arcade because about 9 years ago after years of play, a year of trying, and a year of starting to doubt the rumor, I did finally get to fight against him. To get to him you must do a double flawless victory (maybe without block too, I also did this but it might not be a requirement) on the stage with the witch crossing the moon and execute your fatality just at the witch crosses the moon. It's very tough because I thought I did everything right a couple of times before it actually worked (the timing of the witch must be very sensitive). Now arcade games get software updates. It may be that he's only in later versions of the software. Somebody else will have to figure that out. Jason Quinn 20:41, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
reptile? Have you lost your mind it is Smoke that you unlock on MK3!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.96.65.241 ( talk) 03:48, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure these things are even partly responsible for the success of the game. I would point to the failure of MK1 on the SNES as evidence that most people were not playing it because of the actual gameplay. I also wonder how many people actually liked juggling (which I would guess wasn't intentionally designed/programmed) and irregular move commands. My own opinion -- and I realize it's just my own, but I'm sure I'm far from alone in it -- is that Mortal Kombat would have been a failure, or at least not as successful, if it didn't have the blood and gore it was known for, but that last sentence seems to suggest otherwise. So I think this may need a small bit of NPOV work. - furrykef ( Talk at me) 20:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Re: Furrykef Mortal Kombat for SNES was quite a different game compared to the sega version. There was also a bug with it that had to do with energy meters I believe or something of that sort. The game just didn't 'feel' or 'play' right on the SNES. It might have been a combination of the controler, laggy game feel, and the different processing method the chip in the SNES used. I remember playing it on the SNES and really hated it and it almost seemed like it wasnt really ever designed for the SNES and thus was bound to run strangley. The game came out on sega first I believe.
no no no,reptile only happens when u get to the pit level w/ no mistakes,then u get a double flawless,and boom!whalla!there's reptile! 67.185.245.4 20:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
The Mortal Kombat page should only talk about Mortal Combat I. Alot of the the other information about the series itself and subsequent games should be moved to a page called "Mortal Kombat Series." When I came to this wiki page I wanted to read all about Mortal Kombat I, not the subsequent games...yet at the same time this article starts off 'acting' like it is going to be only about Mortal Kombat I. -confused subzero fan
Added an Easter Egg section to the MKII page, moved the MKII eggs off. Not much, but it's a start. - Virog - 15 Sept 2005
"Street Fighter (and many other fighting games) performed all special moves in variations of circles on the joystick followed by a button press (half circle back, half circle forward, forward then half circle forward)."
What is the deal with the that pops up in MK II and make a weird sound? Is it a glitch or some kind of in-game joke
I believe there should be a picture of the kombat column (the column your player moves up as he wins rounds.) Anyone have a pic?
Is this section even necessary? It sounds mostly like POV and really doesn't add anything to the content of the page. Virogtheconq 21:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
There needs to be a MK Series article and an article for the first video game. This page is looking sloppy the way it is now. Buzda 19:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
If nobody objects in the next day or two, I'll split this page into Mortal Kombat (series) and Mortal Kombat (video game). Virogtheconq 19:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Virogtheconq 04:13, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I've been working on this for a very long time & now that i figured it out, at least most of it, i don't want all this hard work i did to go to waste, so please merge it, and much thanks to Ricky for his help, i thought i should add more, to help with my statment, i believe it should be, four the reasons, Meat is apart of the MK Universe as i stated before, he has been in a few of the games so far, and was playable in MK4, made cameo appereances in MK:D & MK:SM & soon will be playable again, in MK Armageddon, so please think it over then get back to me.~~ Lil'Layzie-One
Becky Gable - truly obsessive vandal keeps reverting to my own error (I one copy/pasted the data from Katalin Zamiar), really repeatedly, for many months (see history).
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Becky_Gable&oldid=137287145 - good version, lock this please (pernamently, because this is all what can be found on her). -- HanzoHattori 18:29, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
How has this tag come up? All that is in the few paragraphs there is in game information and a statement that post John Tobais leaving the company, endings were done slightly differently, nothing controversial about something that is actually within the source material. Madslocodemente 05:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Mortal Kombat redirects to THIS talk page. That should NOT be happening, since these are two different articles, with two different discussions. One discussion page about two articles can get out of hands, and you COULD think that someone is discussing List of media in the Mortal Kombat franchise when they are in fact discussing the page Mortal Kombat, please fix it.
I'm not doing a thing, because I don't want to screw up anything. TheBlazikenMaster 12:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but should there be SOME thing on this page referring to the type of controversy this game made when it first came out, since it was basically the FIRST game to fire up the entire "violence in video games" talk in the first place for its fatalities and blood in the game? This article needs to bring it up somehow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkpower ( talk • contribs) 08:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
There are currently two MK media pages:
The navbox points the the latter. TH1RT3EN talk ♦ contribs 19:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
To the anonymous user who added this:
Why do you say it is outdated? It is still up and running. If it has old content, well that is the nature of the web. :-) We can't go about the whole 'pedia updating the status of all the websites we link to. Anyway, thanks for adding the link. — Frecklefoot | Talk 22:20, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
Just a suggestion for the characters list, but I think it'd be a good idea to add which games the characters appeared in next to their name. Right now, it looks like all the characters appear in every game, which, of course, isn't the case. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:35, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
What happened to the characters list? Was it moved to its own page?
The MK page from the arcade history database seems to ontain text from the Wikipedia page. If you look at the history, it is quite clear that wikipedia's text is the original.
Is it just me or the Movies and television section has some bad POV issue? – Kaonashi 01:47, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I created the list of sequels and I intentionally left off MK Gold because I thought it was merely the home version of MK4. Is that not the case? Are they different games? -- Feitclub 21:08, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
You missed Ultimate Mortal Kombat WaveNet - Net work version of MK very rare There is some inside info hear http://www.vpforums.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32236&highlight=Ultimate+Mortal+Kombat+WaveNet
This paragraph is not neutral.
There is a open source mortal combat clone in production [1] Mitsuhama
I know for certain that Smoke is a hidden character in MKI arcade because about 9 years ago after years of play, a year of trying, and a year of starting to doubt the rumor, I did finally get to fight against him. To get to him you must do a double flawless victory (maybe without block too, I also did this but it might not be a requirement) on the stage with the witch crossing the moon and execute your fatality just at the witch crosses the moon. It's very tough because I thought I did everything right a couple of times before it actually worked (the timing of the witch must be very sensitive). Now arcade games get software updates. It may be that he's only in later versions of the software. Somebody else will have to figure that out. Jason Quinn 20:41, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
reptile? Have you lost your mind it is Smoke that you unlock on MK3!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.96.65.241 ( talk) 03:48, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure these things are even partly responsible for the success of the game. I would point to the failure of MK1 on the SNES as evidence that most people were not playing it because of the actual gameplay. I also wonder how many people actually liked juggling (which I would guess wasn't intentionally designed/programmed) and irregular move commands. My own opinion -- and I realize it's just my own, but I'm sure I'm far from alone in it -- is that Mortal Kombat would have been a failure, or at least not as successful, if it didn't have the blood and gore it was known for, but that last sentence seems to suggest otherwise. So I think this may need a small bit of NPOV work. - furrykef ( Talk at me) 20:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Re: Furrykef Mortal Kombat for SNES was quite a different game compared to the sega version. There was also a bug with it that had to do with energy meters I believe or something of that sort. The game just didn't 'feel' or 'play' right on the SNES. It might have been a combination of the controler, laggy game feel, and the different processing method the chip in the SNES used. I remember playing it on the SNES and really hated it and it almost seemed like it wasnt really ever designed for the SNES and thus was bound to run strangley. The game came out on sega first I believe.
no no no,reptile only happens when u get to the pit level w/ no mistakes,then u get a double flawless,and boom!whalla!there's reptile! 67.185.245.4 20:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
The Mortal Kombat page should only talk about Mortal Combat I. Alot of the the other information about the series itself and subsequent games should be moved to a page called "Mortal Kombat Series." When I came to this wiki page I wanted to read all about Mortal Kombat I, not the subsequent games...yet at the same time this article starts off 'acting' like it is going to be only about Mortal Kombat I. -confused subzero fan
Added an Easter Egg section to the MKII page, moved the MKII eggs off. Not much, but it's a start. - Virog - 15 Sept 2005
"Street Fighter (and many other fighting games) performed all special moves in variations of circles on the joystick followed by a button press (half circle back, half circle forward, forward then half circle forward)."
What is the deal with the that pops up in MK II and make a weird sound? Is it a glitch or some kind of in-game joke
I believe there should be a picture of the kombat column (the column your player moves up as he wins rounds.) Anyone have a pic?
Is this section even necessary? It sounds mostly like POV and really doesn't add anything to the content of the page. Virogtheconq 21:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
There needs to be a MK Series article and an article for the first video game. This page is looking sloppy the way it is now. Buzda 19:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
If nobody objects in the next day or two, I'll split this page into Mortal Kombat (series) and Mortal Kombat (video game). Virogtheconq 19:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Virogtheconq 04:13, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I've been working on this for a very long time & now that i figured it out, at least most of it, i don't want all this hard work i did to go to waste, so please merge it, and much thanks to Ricky for his help, i thought i should add more, to help with my statment, i believe it should be, four the reasons, Meat is apart of the MK Universe as i stated before, he has been in a few of the games so far, and was playable in MK4, made cameo appereances in MK:D & MK:SM & soon will be playable again, in MK Armageddon, so please think it over then get back to me.~~ Lil'Layzie-One
Becky Gable - truly obsessive vandal keeps reverting to my own error (I one copy/pasted the data from Katalin Zamiar), really repeatedly, for many months (see history).
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Becky_Gable&oldid=137287145 - good version, lock this please (pernamently, because this is all what can be found on her). -- HanzoHattori 18:29, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
How has this tag come up? All that is in the few paragraphs there is in game information and a statement that post John Tobais leaving the company, endings were done slightly differently, nothing controversial about something that is actually within the source material. Madslocodemente 05:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Mortal Kombat redirects to THIS talk page. That should NOT be happening, since these are two different articles, with two different discussions. One discussion page about two articles can get out of hands, and you COULD think that someone is discussing List of media in the Mortal Kombat franchise when they are in fact discussing the page Mortal Kombat, please fix it.
I'm not doing a thing, because I don't want to screw up anything. TheBlazikenMaster 12:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but should there be SOME thing on this page referring to the type of controversy this game made when it first came out, since it was basically the FIRST game to fire up the entire "violence in video games" talk in the first place for its fatalities and blood in the game? This article needs to bring it up somehow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkpower ( talk • contribs) 08:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
There are currently two MK media pages:
The navbox points the the latter. TH1RT3EN talk ♦ contribs 19:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)