Mortal Kombat is a 1992 fighting game developed and published by Midway for arcades. In 1993 ports for the SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Boy and Game Gear were released, all of them made available for sale on the same date, the "Mortal Monday". 🗓️While the SNES version's visuals and audio were more arcade accurate than those of the Genesis version, it has less precise controls. Due to Nintendo's "family friendly" policies, on the SNES...🧵1/2#RetroTrivia #retrogaming #gaming #games

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

...the game had the blood recolored gray in an attempt to pass it off as sweat, and the various Fatality moves were graphically changed to be less gruesome. 🩸The game was developed with digitized sprites based on real actors, filmed with the personal Hi-8 camcorder of one of the developers. The final arcade game used eight megabytes of graphics data, with each character having 64 colors and around 300 frames of animation. 📹🧵2/2#RetroTrivia #retrogaming #gaming #games

Two round fight Scorpion vs. Sonya in Mortal Kombat on SNES.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    @repeatro Seems like I recall they had cheat codes or something to make the blood red. I forget if it had anything for the modified fatalities or not, but maybe? Been a while.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    @nazokiyoubinbou Based on my quick research there only was a blood code for the Sega version. The SNES port didn't had such a cheat but there was a workaround via a Game Genie code.Don't quote me on that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    @repeatro It's entirely possible I am thinking of the Genesis/MD version now that I think of it.

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