Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- Arcade · DOS · Amiga
- Mode
- Single player · Multiplayer
- Age rating
- ESRB M
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- None
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Mortal Kombat is a side-scrolling fighting game. Fighting is set as one-on-one combat, allowing each player to perform a variety of punches, kicks, and special moves in order to defeat their opponent. When the opponent faces their second round loss, the winner can perform a finishing move called a "Fatality" on the loser. The Fatality is a move unique to each fighter that graphically kills the loser in a blood-soaked finale.
- Action
- martial arts
- bloody
- gravity
- ninja
- death
- hand-to-hand combat
- skeleton
- special forces
- teleportation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Players
- 69 / 100 · 295 players
- Critics
- 83 / 100
- Developer
- Midway Games, Midway
- Publisher
- Midway Games, Midway, Acclaim Entertainment, Virgin Interactive Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
