![]() ![]() Following Midway's bankruptcy, the Mortal Kombat development team was acquired by Warner Bros. Early games in this series were also noted for their realistic digitized sprites and an extensive use of palette swapping to create new characters. Controversies surrounding Mortal Kombat, in part, led to the creation of the ESRB video game rating system. The series has a reputation for high levels of violent content, including, most notably, its Fatalities (finishing moves, requiring a sequence of button inputs to perform). ![]() Along with Street Fighter and Tekken, Mortal Kombat has become one of the most successful fighting franchises in the history of video games and one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The original game has spawned many sequels and spin-offs consisting of several action-adventure games, films (animated and live-action with its own sequel), and television series (animated and live-action), as well as a comic book series, a card game and a live-action tour. 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 horror-fantasy themed fighting game titled Mortal Kombat was created instead. Meanwhile Kenshi continues his itinerant ways, occasionally helping out his friend General Blade as a consultant to the Special Forces.Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise originally developed by Midway Games' Chicago studio in 1992. Together father and son would hunt down the boy's mother's murderer. Kenshi promised Hanzo he would return one day to reclaim Takeda. The boy's mother's murder led Kenshi to entrust his son to Hanzo Hasashi, the former Scorpion, to raise as a warrior. Years later he learned the woman had been murdered - leaving their eight-year-old son in Kenshi's care. In his post-war travels he met and fell in love with a young Thai-American woman.Įventually Kenshi's wanderlust returned and he departed. He served Earthrealm admirably in its conflict with Netherrealm. Humbled but with a new sense of purpose, Kenshi vowed to rid the realms of despicable creatures like Shang. When the sorcerer Shang Tsung duped him into retrieving the enchanted sword Sento from the Well of Souls, the result left Kenshi sightless. Bio: The swordsman Takahashi Kenshi spent his early adulthood searching the world for worthy opponents. ![]()
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