David Church
Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway’s Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by photorealistic characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world’s most iconic fighting games, and formed a transmedia franchise that continues to this day.
Part of the University of Michigan Press' "Landmark Video Games" series.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
English | Hardcover | | 9780472075225 | 2022 | 170 |
English | Paperback | | 9780472075227 | 2022 | 170 |
English | eBook | | 9780472902620 | 2022 | 170 |
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Authors/Narrators: #DavidChurch
Publishers: #UniversityOfMichiganPress (University of Michigan Press)
Languages: #English
Format: #Paperback #Hardcover #eBook
Accessibility: #TextToSpeech #ScreenReader #EnhancedTypesetting
Year: #Year2022
Genres: #GameStudies #GeneralHistory
Companies:
#Midway (Midway Games, Inc.)
#NetherRealmStudios (NetherRealm Studios)
Public Figures:
#EdBoon (Ed Boon)
#JohnTobias (John Tobias)
Games:
#MortalKombat (Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Mortal Kombat: Deception, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, Mortal Kombat X, Mortal Kombat 11)
Misc:
#LandmarkVideoGames (Landmark Video Games)
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