Mortal Kombat

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 r...

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Main Author:	Church, David
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Michigan Press 2023
Subjects:	Mortal Kombat, video game, fighting game, martial arts, fatality, violence, ratings, controversy, Easter eggs, Chinese cinema, wuxia, Orientalism, Midway, Netherrealm, transmedia, 16-bit, Street Fighter, Sega, Nintendo, kung fu, home console, adaptation, media effects, reception, ESRB, motion capture, pixilation, Ed Boon, John Tobias, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tsui Hark, Bruce Lee, Shaolin Temple, arcades, death, Hong Kong, Joseph Lieberman, Herbert Kohl, Night Trap, Lethal Enforcers, Capcom thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UD Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides::UDX Computer games / online games: strategy guides
Online Access:	OCN: 1268276251
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