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Some random stuff has recenty been added, false/fake stages and an incredibly false story. I deleted the two (with others that had been added but not shown in the article) stages and the whole story section. The story section is/will be easier to just rewrite instead of trying to correct the gross inaccuracies within it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.109.162 ( talk) 02:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Created from Mortal Kombat, which sorely needed to be split into separate game and series articles. Basically just copy-pasted stuff here, so it now needs extensive reorganizing/reformatting. I've left the Mortal Kombat page the way it was for now, so if there's anything you think needs to go back in here, just grab it. In a week or so I'll rewrite that page to point to Mortal Kombat (series). Virogtheconq 04:06, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I recently added screenshots for title screen, select screen and the game to match it's quality to MK2 and 3 articles... Anyone, please provide correct arcade machine information, and some trivia things, that were many for this game...
This article fails to mention the recent Jakks Pacific TV Game. Dessydes
This article has an anti-"censorship" bias. The SNES outsold and outdid Sega in every respect right down to the end so I hardly doubt the "success" of the Genesis version led them to allow more senseless blood and mindless violence. They relented only because the ratings system allowed them to be lazy and let someone else do their job. Feh on Sega and it's more "mature" attitude toward games. And feh on the shallow morons who can only "enjoy" a game if it's bloody and miserable. - Anon
Daniel Pesina was fired by Midway, but MK: Deception features a port of this game on it. Is Pesina in Deception, even though he was fired? If he is or isn't, I think it'd be noteworthy in the article. Dr. Furball 02:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
And I also removed the tag for the trivia section having too much trivia. I hope it makes the article better organized.-- Iamstillhiro1112 11:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Why, oh, why does MKI have a point system? What does the point system do exactly? What does it mean?
I prepose we move this article from Mortal Kombat (arcade game) to Mortal Kombat (game), as the article itself is not specific to the arcade version of the game. Comments? ≈ The Haunted Angel ( The Forest Whispers My Name) 00:17, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Wasn't the ESRB created because of this game's gruesomeness? I think there should be something in the article about how controversial this game was. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.115.255.165 ( talk • contribs).
It was one of the reasons. Not THE reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.17.179.2 ( talk) 02:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
It still should be mentioned. I'd say that's a pretty significant tidbit about the reception of the game and it's content. Minnesota cold ( talk) 03:46, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
first off, the game gear controls are just as responsive as any other port of the game. the article says "Because of the 8-bit capability of the Game Gear, gameplay was hampered...and game responsiveness was lower. This made special moves and fatalities harder to perform". that's BS. 8-bit relates the graphics, not the controls or even the speed of the game.
secondly, "Sega Master System (1993) - Identical to the Game Gear Port". also false. they were not identical at all, because the characters were much smaller on the master system version. on the GG, your character sprite practically took the whole screen from top to bottom
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Shouldn't the image showing Reptile in the Amiga version be replaced with the original Arcade version image? Paul 1953 03:06, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to be pedantic, but this is surely not correct:
Actually DULLARD is an acronym of "down - up - left - left - A - right - down", not the other way round. The cheat code ("down - up -...") is almost a backronym, although DULLARD is not really an existing abbreviation. 62.56.68.184 21:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
HEY MC is for NES!
http://tabmok99.mortalkombatonline.com/mkfamicom1.html
regs-- Comicspiotrus ( talk) 01:06, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
What is classed as an "unplayable character"? The list currently includes Ermac, but surely this should not be so. The term Ermac appeared as a phrase in early diagnostic menus for MK, but there was never any actual character. As a character (playable or not) Ermac had to wait until MK3 before he became reality. By this extension if Ermac is to be included in the list, so should every other character - Kintaro & Jade for example - which does not make sense. a_man_alone ( talk) 16:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
I was looking for a clip of the September 2, 2004 episode of "Icons" labeled "Mortal Kombat". Here is a brief overview of the episode coming from the G4TV website itself.
http://g4tv.com/icons/episodes/3446/Mortal_Kombat.html
One of the first sentences makes a mention that Boon and Tobias originally wanted to make a Van Damme game. Originally seeking to make a title based on a Jean-Claude Van Damme film, the developers decided to continue their plan of action even after the deal to use the film license fell through, even basing one of their characters on Van Damme.
Unfortunately due to my lack of skills with Wikipedia, I have no idea how to add this reference. Could someone please add it in my proxy? Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 17:58, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
P.S. Does anyone have a recording of this episode in its entirety?
http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/bonusround/409?ch=1&sd=1_hd Wow, Fatalities came about from just taking the dizzying sprite and putting it at the end of the round and someone saying, "Wouldn't it be cool if you could pull out his heart?" Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 22:16, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Wow been a while since I added to this page (or anyone for that matter...), here's a tweet regarding Ed Boon doing the announcer voice for MK1 and Steve Ritchie for MK2 - MK3. http://twitter.com/#!/noobde/status/110182739059286016 Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 00:46, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
It would be appreciated if people could find some more references for this page. I've been adding as many as I could find in my spare time but I need more people working on it. Any and all help will be appreciated. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 20:05, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Whether illegal or not, the unofficial ports are notable and should be included. Given the hardware limitations of the ZX Spectrum a port is noteworthy regardless of legality. Wikipedia contains a multitude of pages dedicated to illegal shenanigans, and hardly shies away from such matters:
There's also irony in that the section entitled "Unofficial ports" is being deleted whilst the "Hacks" section survives - the hacks section is based on code modifications to Midway code, and is just as illegal. a_man_alone ( talk) 18:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Things being illegal isn't a reason to exclude them from Wikipedia, and as User:A man alone says, there are endless articles about illegal things. It's simply a judgement call by the editors of this article on whether these other versions of Mortal Kombat are worth mentioning in this case. I restored them as they were removed on grounds of being illegal and non-notable, and notability has no bearing on article content, only on the subject's right to an article of its own. It also seemed to be perhaps rather a hasty edit due to the "Hacks" section being left, which contains info on far more legally dubious reverse-engineered versions of the official arcade version than the fan-made versions/interpretations that were removed. I don't really know whether any of it should be included or not, though I would say that the fact that versions were produced on such comparatively weak hardware says more for the wide ranging popularity of the game than the fact that a few hacks of the arcade version were made. Miremare 21:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, what's your reason to think there were two PC ports, instead of those being two names for the same thing? MS-DOS is the operating system IBM PCs ran at the time, you know? -- uKER ( talk) 11:32, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Didn't Bruce Lee's The Game of Death influence the Mortal Kombat video game? If so, this needs to be in the article. Cmguy777 ( talk) 03:03, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
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This quote is false: "The introduction to Mortal Kombat II explains that Shang Tsung was banished to Earthrealm 500 years ago". In Mortal Kombat 1 Shang Tsung was only mentioned to be a sorcerer. There is no mention of "Earthrealm" in the game, there is no reference to other worlds at all. That was retconned/added in Mortal Kombat II. There is not even hinted that Shang Tsung might have someone above him. I would erase any mention of "Earthrealm" from the story section, unless it's referencing the retcon of later games. 80.98.184.139 ( talk) 09:58, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
According to the infobox, the game was originally released on October 8, 1992. This is not mentioned -- let alone sourced -- in the body. The date is also impossible: The body already states that "RePlay reported Mortal Kombat to be the second most-popular upright arcade cabinet in September 1992". In mews clippings, I found that it was already announced in early September, and it was advertised by or for arcades in Australia, Texas, and New York in early August. There is also one article from early September clearly showing the game being played. Someone with better insight please advise. IceWelder [ ✉] 19:57, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
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Some random stuff has recenty been added, false/fake stages and an incredibly false story. I deleted the two (with others that had been added but not shown in the article) stages and the whole story section. The story section is/will be easier to just rewrite instead of trying to correct the gross inaccuracies within it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.109.162 ( talk) 02:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Created from Mortal Kombat, which sorely needed to be split into separate game and series articles. Basically just copy-pasted stuff here, so it now needs extensive reorganizing/reformatting. I've left the Mortal Kombat page the way it was for now, so if there's anything you think needs to go back in here, just grab it. In a week or so I'll rewrite that page to point to Mortal Kombat (series). Virogtheconq 04:06, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I recently added screenshots for title screen, select screen and the game to match it's quality to MK2 and 3 articles... Anyone, please provide correct arcade machine information, and some trivia things, that were many for this game...
This article fails to mention the recent Jakks Pacific TV Game. Dessydes
This article has an anti-"censorship" bias. The SNES outsold and outdid Sega in every respect right down to the end so I hardly doubt the "success" of the Genesis version led them to allow more senseless blood and mindless violence. They relented only because the ratings system allowed them to be lazy and let someone else do their job. Feh on Sega and it's more "mature" attitude toward games. And feh on the shallow morons who can only "enjoy" a game if it's bloody and miserable. - Anon
Daniel Pesina was fired by Midway, but MK: Deception features a port of this game on it. Is Pesina in Deception, even though he was fired? If he is or isn't, I think it'd be noteworthy in the article. Dr. Furball 02:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
And I also removed the tag for the trivia section having too much trivia. I hope it makes the article better organized.-- Iamstillhiro1112 11:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Why, oh, why does MKI have a point system? What does the point system do exactly? What does it mean?
I prepose we move this article from Mortal Kombat (arcade game) to Mortal Kombat (game), as the article itself is not specific to the arcade version of the game. Comments? ≈ The Haunted Angel ( The Forest Whispers My Name) 00:17, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Wasn't the ESRB created because of this game's gruesomeness? I think there should be something in the article about how controversial this game was. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.115.255.165 ( talk • contribs).
It was one of the reasons. Not THE reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.17.179.2 ( talk) 02:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
It still should be mentioned. I'd say that's a pretty significant tidbit about the reception of the game and it's content. Minnesota cold ( talk) 03:46, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
first off, the game gear controls are just as responsive as any other port of the game. the article says "Because of the 8-bit capability of the Game Gear, gameplay was hampered...and game responsiveness was lower. This made special moves and fatalities harder to perform". that's BS. 8-bit relates the graphics, not the controls or even the speed of the game.
secondly, "Sega Master System (1993) - Identical to the Game Gear Port". also false. they were not identical at all, because the characters were much smaller on the master system version. on the GG, your character sprite practically took the whole screen from top to bottom
81.155.246.173
00:43, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the image showing Reptile in the Amiga version be replaced with the original Arcade version image? Paul 1953 03:06, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to be pedantic, but this is surely not correct:
Actually DULLARD is an acronym of "down - up - left - left - A - right - down", not the other way round. The cheat code ("down - up -...") is almost a backronym, although DULLARD is not really an existing abbreviation. 62.56.68.184 21:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
HEY MC is for NES!
http://tabmok99.mortalkombatonline.com/mkfamicom1.html
regs-- Comicspiotrus ( talk) 01:06, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
What is classed as an "unplayable character"? The list currently includes Ermac, but surely this should not be so. The term Ermac appeared as a phrase in early diagnostic menus for MK, but there was never any actual character. As a character (playable or not) Ermac had to wait until MK3 before he became reality. By this extension if Ermac is to be included in the list, so should every other character - Kintaro & Jade for example - which does not make sense. a_man_alone ( talk) 16:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
I was looking for a clip of the September 2, 2004 episode of "Icons" labeled "Mortal Kombat". Here is a brief overview of the episode coming from the G4TV website itself.
http://g4tv.com/icons/episodes/3446/Mortal_Kombat.html
One of the first sentences makes a mention that Boon and Tobias originally wanted to make a Van Damme game. Originally seeking to make a title based on a Jean-Claude Van Damme film, the developers decided to continue their plan of action even after the deal to use the film license fell through, even basing one of their characters on Van Damme.
Unfortunately due to my lack of skills with Wikipedia, I have no idea how to add this reference. Could someone please add it in my proxy? Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 17:58, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
P.S. Does anyone have a recording of this episode in its entirety?
http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/bonusround/409?ch=1&sd=1_hd Wow, Fatalities came about from just taking the dizzying sprite and putting it at the end of the round and someone saying, "Wouldn't it be cool if you could pull out his heart?" Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 22:16, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Wow been a while since I added to this page (or anyone for that matter...), here's a tweet regarding Ed Boon doing the announcer voice for MK1 and Steve Ritchie for MK2 - MK3. http://twitter.com/#!/noobde/status/110182739059286016 Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 00:46, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
It would be appreciated if people could find some more references for this page. I've been adding as many as I could find in my spare time but I need more people working on it. Any and all help will be appreciated. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 20:05, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Whether illegal or not, the unofficial ports are notable and should be included. Given the hardware limitations of the ZX Spectrum a port is noteworthy regardless of legality. Wikipedia contains a multitude of pages dedicated to illegal shenanigans, and hardly shies away from such matters:
There's also irony in that the section entitled "Unofficial ports" is being deleted whilst the "Hacks" section survives - the hacks section is based on code modifications to Midway code, and is just as illegal. a_man_alone ( talk) 18:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Things being illegal isn't a reason to exclude them from Wikipedia, and as User:A man alone says, there are endless articles about illegal things. It's simply a judgement call by the editors of this article on whether these other versions of Mortal Kombat are worth mentioning in this case. I restored them as they were removed on grounds of being illegal and non-notable, and notability has no bearing on article content, only on the subject's right to an article of its own. It also seemed to be perhaps rather a hasty edit due to the "Hacks" section being left, which contains info on far more legally dubious reverse-engineered versions of the official arcade version than the fan-made versions/interpretations that were removed. I don't really know whether any of it should be included or not, though I would say that the fact that versions were produced on such comparatively weak hardware says more for the wide ranging popularity of the game than the fact that a few hacks of the arcade version were made. Miremare 21:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, what's your reason to think there were two PC ports, instead of those being two names for the same thing? MS-DOS is the operating system IBM PCs ran at the time, you know? -- uKER ( talk) 11:32, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Didn't Bruce Lee's The Game of Death influence the Mortal Kombat video game? If so, this needs to be in the article. Cmguy777 ( talk) 03:03, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
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This quote is false: "The introduction to Mortal Kombat II explains that Shang Tsung was banished to Earthrealm 500 years ago". In Mortal Kombat 1 Shang Tsung was only mentioned to be a sorcerer. There is no mention of "Earthrealm" in the game, there is no reference to other worlds at all. That was retconned/added in Mortal Kombat II. There is not even hinted that Shang Tsung might have someone above him. I would erase any mention of "Earthrealm" from the story section, unless it's referencing the retcon of later games. 80.98.184.139 ( talk) 09:58, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
According to the infobox, the game was originally released on October 8, 1992. This is not mentioned -- let alone sourced -- in the body. The date is also impossible: The body already states that "RePlay reported Mortal Kombat to be the second most-popular upright arcade cabinet in September 1992". In mews clippings, I found that it was already announced in early September, and it was advertised by or for arcades in Australia, Texas, and New York in early August. There is also one article from early September clearly showing the game being played. Someone with better insight please advise. IceWelder [ ✉] 19:57, 11 October 2022 (UTC)