Mortal Kombat - Midway

Developer:  Midway

Year:  1992

Genre:  Fighting

Game Play

Fight one-on-one against other opponents up a tournament ladder until  you reach the sub-boss, a four-armed mutant named Goro. After defeating  him you go onto fight the boss, Shang Tsung.

Every character has a different story line and ending to tell why they got involved in the Mortal Kombat tournament.

This game is similar to Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition with blood and gore.

There are several bonus stages:
- Wood 100000 points. It appears when you win 3 fights
- Stone 200000 points. It appears when you win 6 fights and you've passed the 1st bonus stage.
- Steel 500000 points. It appears when you win 9 fights and you've passed the 2nd bonus stage.
-  Ruby 1 million points. This appears when you win 12 fights and you've  passed the 3rd bonus stage. You must play at least once against another  player.

Finishing moves

One of the most notable features of the Mortal Kombat series is its brutal and gruesome finishing moves, known as "Fatalities". The basic Fatalities are finishing moves that allow the victorious characters to end a match by murdering their defeated, defenseless opponent. Usually Fatalities are exclusive to each character, the exception being Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, which instead features Kreate-A-Fatality, a feature that allows players to perform their own Fatalities by conducting a series of violent moves chosen from a pool that is common to all characters.

Other finishing moves in the various Mortal Kombat games include Animalities (introduced in Mortal Kombat 3), in which the victor turns into an animal to violently finish off the opponent; Brutality (introduced in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3) which consists of bashing the opponent into pieces with a long combo of hits; and Stage Fatalities/Death Traps (introduced in the original Mortal Kombat Pit Stage where the victor can uppercut their opponent off of the platform into a bed of spikes below, later made more difficult in Mortal Kombat II by requiring a character-specific button sequence) utilizing parts of certain stages to execute a lethal finishing move (such as a pool of acid). Mortal Kombat: Deception added the Hara-Kiri, a move that allows the loser to perform a suicidal finishing move, giving way to a potential race between both players to see if the winner can finish off their opponent before they can kill themselves.

There are two non-violent finishing moves in the series, which were introduced in Mortal Kombat II as a satire to controversies surrounding Mortal Kombat: Friendship moves, which result in a display of friendship towards the enemy instead of slaughter and Babalities, which turn the opponent into a baby.