


Two players can start a game together, or a second player can join in during a single player's game to fight against them. Each round is timed if both fighters still have health remaining when time runs out, the one with more health wins the round. The fighter that completely drains the opponent's health bar first wins the round, and the first to win two rounds wins the match. Mortal Kombat is a fighting game in which players battle opponents in one-on-one matches. Screenshot of a fight between Johnny Cage and Raiden government-backed organization that set descriptor ratings for video games. However, it also sparked much controversy for its depiction of extreme violence and gore using realistic digitized graphics, and, along with the home release of Night Trap, prompted the formation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), a U.S. Mortal Kombat is considered one of the greatest video games of all time by critics and audiences in 21st century and became a best-selling game and remains one of the most popular fighting games in the genre's history, spawning numerous sequels and spin-offs over the following years and decades, beginning with Mortal Kombat II in 1993, and together with the first sequel was the subject of a successful film adaptation in 1995. It introduced many key aspects of the Mortal Kombat series, including the unique five-button control scheme and gory finishing moves called Fatalities. The game focuses on several characters of various intentions who enter a martial arts tournament with worldly consequences. It is the first entry in the Mortal Kombat series and subsequently was released by Acclaim Entertainment for nearly every home platform of the time. Mortal Kombat is an arcade fighting game developed and published by Midway in 1992. Midway T Unit (Revision 4.0T–Revision 5.0T) Midway Y Unit (Revision Prototype 4.0–Revision 4.0)
