FINISH HIM! Mortal Kombat arrived in the arcades in early 90s and proved to be an almost immediate sensation, with its digitised graphics of real actors performing their moves and headline-grabbing, controversy-courting, deliberately over-the-top gore.Īlongside Sega CD game Night Trap, Mortal Kombat was the catalyst for the formation of the ESRB in America, the organisation which sets the advisory age ratings for video games.
