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English: Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise developed by Midway Games' Chicago studio. In 2011, following Midway's bankruptcy, the Mortal Kombat development team was acquired by Warner Brothers, and turned into NetherRealm Studios. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment currently owns the rights of the series.
The development of the first game was originally based on an idea that Ed Boon and John Tobias had of making a video game starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, but as that idea fell through, a science fantasy-themed fighting game titled Mortal Kombat was created instead and was released in 1992. The original game has spawned many sequels and has been spun off into several action-adventure games, films (animated and live-action with its own sequel), and television series (animated and live-action). Other spin-offs include various comic book series, a card game and a live-action tour. Along with Capcom's Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat has become one of the most successful and influential fighting franchises in the history of video games.
The series is known for its high levels of bloody violence, including, most notably, its Fatalities—finishing moves, requiring a sequence of buttons to perform, which, in part, led to the creation of the ESRB video game rating system. The series name itself is also known for using the letter "K" in place of "C" for the hard C sound, thus intentionally misspelling the word "combat", as well as other words with the hard C sound within later games in the series. Early games in the series were especially noted for its realistic digitized sprites (which differentiated it from its contemporaries' hand-drawn sprites) and an extensive use of palette swapping to create new characters.
Português: Mortal Kombat é uma franquia criada por Ed Boon e John Tobias, sendo originalmente uma série de jogos eletrônicos desenvolvida pela Midway Games. O primeiro título da série foi Mortal Kombat, lançado em 1992. A maior parte da série é formada por jogos de luta, mas devido ao seu grande sucesso, a série se expandiu para outras mídias como filmes, séries de TV e quadrinhos.
Os quatro primeiros jogos e suas atualizações, inicialmente, foram lançados nas máquinas de arcade. Depois os jogos de arcade eram convertidos para consoles caseiros pela Acclaim Entertainment. A partir de Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, a Midway Games criou seus jogos exclusivamente para consoles caseiros, o que ocorre até o jogo mais recente, Mortal Kombat. Após a falência da Midway, a franquia foi comprada pela Warner Bros. em julho de 2009, fazendo parte da Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Mortal Kombat: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat
Mortal Kombat: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat
English: Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise developed by Midway Games' Chicago studio. In 2011, following Midway's bankruptcy, the Mortal Kombat development team was acquired by Warner Brothers, and turned into NetherRealm Studios. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment currently owns the rights of the series.
The development of the first game was originally based on an idea that Ed Boon and John Tobias had of making a video game starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, but as that idea fell through, a science fantasy-themed fighting game titled Mortal Kombat was created instead and was released in 1992. The original game has spawned many sequels and has been spun off into several action-adventure games, films (animated and live-action with its own sequel), and television series (animated and live-action). Other spin-offs include various comic book series, a card game and a live-action tour. Along with Capcom's Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat has become one of the most successful and influential fighting franchises in the history of video games.
The series is known for its high levels of bloody violence, including, most notably, its Fatalities—finishing moves, requiring a sequence of buttons to perform, which, in part, led to the creation of the ESRB video game rating system. The series name itself is also known for using the letter "K" in place of "C" for the hard C sound, thus intentionally misspelling the word "combat", as well as other words with the hard C sound within later games in the series. Early games in the series were especially noted for its realistic digitized sprites (which differentiated it from its contemporaries' hand-drawn sprites) and an extensive use of palette swapping to create new characters.
Português: Mortal Kombat é uma franquia criada por Ed Boon e John Tobias, sendo originalmente uma série de jogos eletrônicos desenvolvida pela Midway Games. O primeiro título da série foi Mortal Kombat, lançado em 1992. A maior parte da série é formada por jogos de luta, mas devido ao seu grande sucesso, a série se expandiu para outras mídias como filmes, séries de TV e quadrinhos.
Os quatro primeiros jogos e suas atualizações, inicialmente, foram lançados nas máquinas de arcade. Depois os jogos de arcade eram convertidos para consoles caseiros pela Acclaim Entertainment. A partir de Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, a Midway Games criou seus jogos exclusivamente para consoles caseiros, o que ocorre até o jogo mais recente, Mortal Kombat. Após a falência da Midway, a franquia foi comprada pela Warner Bros. em julho de 2009, fazendo parte da Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Mortal Kombat: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat
Mortal Kombat: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat
