{"id":1274,"date":"2012-10-09T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2012-10-09T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:27:25","slug":"my-top-100-72-mortal-kombat-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #72 &#8211; Mortal Kombat (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1283\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mortal_kombat_snes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1283\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1283\" title=\"mortal_kombat_snes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mortal_kombat_snes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mortal_kombat_snes.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mortal_kombat_snes-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1992 &#8211; Midway (Arcade, Amiga, Super NES, Game Boy, Genesis, SMS, Game Gear, Sega CD, PC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know this version of the game was mostly known as the weakest due to censorship, but let&#8217;s face the facts &#8211; in terms of sound and graphics, the Super NES port of <em>Mortal Kombat <\/em>was the best one out there.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let the video below do the talking, but even without the blood and gore, the animation and\u00a0sound effects from\u00a0this\u00a0version is head and shoulders above the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Sega CD port\u00a0looked\u00a0terrible in comparison!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GPV-wS6BcYg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned it before, but I never really paid attention to the hype surrounding <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em> until a couple of my friends got it the Christmas after it came out.\u00a0 Josh seemed to know all the moves, probably having\u00a0memorized them\u00a0from a prior issue of <em>EGM<\/em>.\u00a0 They were so simple to pull off, and the controls were so much&#8230;\u00a0 lighter?\u00a0 I&#8217;m still not sure how to describe it, but <em>MK <\/em>characters seemed to be much more flexible and easy to control, compared to the slow and laboured movements in <em>Street Fighter II<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all a matter of preference, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I wasn&#8217;t really aware that you could actually pull off special &#8220;finishing moves&#8221;.\u00a0 Yeah, it said &#8220;Finish Him!&#8221;, but I thought it was just so that it gave you time to end the round in whatever show-off kind of way you wanted to, using moves you already knew.\u00a0 Using Scorpion, Josh held Block and pressed Up twice, and my view of gaming changed forever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1287\" style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scorpion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1287\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1287\" title=\"scorpion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scorpion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scorpion.jpg 479w, http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/scorpion-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That blank stare&#8230; creepy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The way Scorpion TOOK OFF HIS FACE (!!!) and left his opponent as a pile o&#8217; bones&#8230;\u00a0 it quite honestly freaked me out.\u00a0 I loved it!<\/p>\n<p>Josh then showed me a few other finishing moves, the coolest being Raiden&#8217;s electrocution into a pile of ashes, and Sub-Zero&#8217;s freeze-and-shatter.\u00a0 These were absolutely brutal, and I thought about them a lot.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t say I had nightmares about them, but I definitely had a dream or two about stuff I had seen in <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As I came to find out one of those times I borrowed my cousin&#8217;s Sega Genesis, there was a whole level of brutality that I had been completely unaware of.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if it was an issue of <em>GamePro <\/em>or <em>EGM<\/em>, but I was aware of a &#8220;DULLARD&#8221; code (Down, Up, Left, Left, A, Right, Down) that would unlock a few things, including blood.\u00a0 That was somewhat of a big deal!\u00a0 If this code worked, I was in for many more messed up dreams.<\/p>\n<p>It did work, and I got to witness that pivotal moment in gaming history; the one move that single-handedly caused the creation of a video game ratings system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1286\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/subzero1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1286\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1286\" title=\"subzero1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/subzero1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/subzero1.jpg 478w, http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/subzero1-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This kinda helped me learn about bones in the human body. No joke!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it was violent, more violent than most of what we&#8217;d seen up until then; but that&#8217;s not what keeps me coming back to the <em>Mortal Kombat <\/em>series today.\u00a0 There&#8217;s always something to see that you&#8217;re not quite expecting &#8211; some random character appearing in the background, or\u00a0perhaps a\u00a0hilarious glitch that just might have been done on purpose &#8211; and it all stems from the mystery and sheer messed up-edness of that first game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I know this version of the game was mostly known as the weakest due to censorship, but let&#8217;s face the facts &#8211; in terms of sound and graphics, the Super NES port of Mortal Kombat was the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1274\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortal-kombat","category-super-nes","category-top-100"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}