I must have had the coolest mom. I was 11 when this game first hit the arcade, and I remember doing the spine rip fatality and saying to my mom look look! and she was just like "haha that's gross" but found it humorous. She didn't flip out or demand I stop playing. She knew I knew it was just a form of entertainment, and it still is.
My parents hated this game when I was a kid and if they saw me play it. It’s all just fantasy, just like movies. I knew it wasn’t real at 8 years old. I never could have MK at home, but I always played it with friends or cousins at their houses or at arcades, and I got pretty good at it.
I was just starting 7th grade when this came out and I remember my brother and I watching older kids play in the mall in Billings, MT in 1993. My Dad came to looking for us and was pissed he couldn't find us for so long, but then he saw what we were watching and just went "Did that ninja pull that guys head off!!!" He watched it with us until my Mom came to get us. My Dad was never cooler.
if you think about it fatalities are really just to rub victory in our opponents face. and its gotten to the point where its so ridiculous that its cartoony at this point.
I grew up in this era. I remember this crap and to be honest, the news & the way adults talked about it made it seem a million times worse than it actually was. Yea, kids were shocked and amazed. But it didn't make us desire to murder other people! Besides my anecdote, evidence and study has PROVEN that video games do NOT make kids (or even adults) more violent.
"Wait til they are out in the streets and fighting and they will fantasize this and it will become real." yup, that's why I have my spear with me at all times.
Funny thing is, Mortal Kombat almost gets no controversy anymore despite the fact that the fatalities have more gore in them than ever. The only games parents want banned these days are shooting games, because they think games with guns will make them more violent when games like Mortal Kombat and news reports about murders are more likely to cause it.
Only the boomer generation complains about violent video games. We never see any adults from younger generations complain. Probably because they grew up with violent video games like Doom and Mortal Kombat.
@@Patrick19833 True remember when Dungeon and Dragons came out int the eighties and the same media were saying it was a cult and devil worshiping game.
I don't think they forgot. They either were completely ignorant to it because they wanted to shock & sensationalize. Or they knew it, but lied my omission to shock & sensationalize.
@@TyDie85 It’s THIS. I was in Elementary School back in ‘93. It was mostly White Bible Thumping Uber Conservative Parents that over sensationalized MK1.
"Wait until they get out and a situation where they're fighting, and then they'll think about this and try to make it real" Ohhhh man, I remember when I was in the middle of a fight and after i knocked the guy down I tried to rip his head off his body and found out that it was really hard and couldn't do it, thats when the guy then snapped back into consciousness, and I was so tired from trying to rip his head off with my bare hands that he proceeded to kick my ass.
I admit my parents weren't happy to find out when I played this game. But then they didn't care as they new I was a good kid and I never caused any trouble. So really no game or movie was off limits. They even let me watch stuff like Child's Play was I was in about Grade 5 or 6. So I am fortunate for that.
Same here with mine. They let me watch wwf wrestling during the stone cold and Dx days when I was in middle school and let me watch movies like Terminator and Die Hard when I was a kid. They trusted me to make my own decisions and they were Baptist Christians. So they were cool about it. True my mother didn't like that stuff but she never liked wrestling calling it trash. But she never forced me to not watch it.
@@theungreatkahli I was allowed to play Mortal Kombat until a HACK Therapist told my Mom that "He shouldn't play Violent Video Games, they're bad and will make him do crazy things".
It made a lot of sense for there to be controversy at that time. People had never seen a game like that and it was only natural to get worried. Also games like MK are not supposed to be aimed for children anyway. Now as a society we know better to deal with violent games and we know there isn't need to panic or anything; parents just gotta make sure kids don't play stuff that is too above their age. No need to panic anyway. Miss the arcades tho...
A human can’t even do that stuff with their bare hands. Pop in a the quarter and everyone is back. It was being compared to hand drawn graphics at the time. And the Kano thing made people think of Indiana Jones.
Well if they're gonna try to use Mortal Kombat in a fight, they'll get their ass kicked. If you try to rip a guy's head off, you'll just lift him up in the air, and uppercuts don't send people 10 feet in the air and you can't throw green balls at people, it just doesn't work like that. Love the games though.
@@synkron1246 I was there in 1993. 5th Grade. MK was EVERYWHERE. ALL the Boys played it. It helped bring my classmates together, and helped suppressed the Bullying I used to get.
In 2011 I was playing Mortal Kombat in Afghanistan and the navy master chief saw the game and didn’t like it at all and said he would not buy it for his kids and now Mortal Kombat 11.
Such an innocent time in my youth during the war on drugs and violent media. Now there are more real-life shootings then ever. Maybe we need arcades back. Hell, put them in schools.
the mk arcade shown was an earlier version since the knockback looked different from the final version of the game. Look at those slides from sub-zero, you see the knockback is huge when it hit or any jump kicks. Interesting that the console version was out that day.
Hmm I’ve been in a few fights in my life but honestly never tried to rip off someone’s head with the spine attached. Something about murder and the rest of my life in prison over a dumb fight never appealed to me
It's physically impossible to rip off someone's head with your bare hands anyways! You can try, but you will just look like an idiot and end up getting your butt kicked. The violence in Mortal Kombat is pure fantasy that no way a human can do in real life.
Oh wait! Mortal Kombat II arcade unit was already out when the home versions came out. It came out in April of 1993 and the home video games of MK1 came out in September 1993. I wonder why they did not mention Mortal Kombat II which is even more violent than the original.
@@plawson8577 Yeah, I wonder why they are ignoring the fact that MKII already hit the arcades in this news report. They are acting like it's still 1992 when the original Mortal Kombat just hit the arcades for the first time, but really this was 1993 and they mention that the Home versions of MK 1 just came out. So, obviously this news report aired in September 1993.
@@franksmith613 Back in ‘93, the News Media was Puritanical and Conservative. They Sensationalized anything that was non conformist to them. They saw Video Games as “Kid’s Stuff” and were shocked that a game like Mortal Kombat existed. I was in Elementary school when it came out. I had BOTH the SNES and Genesis ports in Late 1993. Every other kid in my school LOVED MK1. And my Stepdad took me and my then 5 year old brother to the local Mall to play MK2. He loved it!
News Lady: You have to decide if you want to tear their head off or rip their heart out. Me: In the first Mortal Kombat all 7 characters only have *1* *Fatality* The only decision if you do wanna say that is do you wanna play as Sub-Zero or Kano because there's only *1* *Fatality* there's no choice! ( Also what if your Liu Kang, Scorpion or Sonya!) ( Technically Raiden and Johnny Cage rip people's heads off.)
@@cheeseattack3608You must not know how inflation works. $50 in 1993 would be the equivalent of about $100 in 2022. Video games are definitely cheaper now than they were back then. Especially considering how much more content you can fit in games these days compared to the early 90s.
Serious points they are making here. I was stomping on turtles and busting peoples brick houses / stealing coins after getting that NES. Sometimes I would eat a mushroom and imagine I was growing, but then end up being revived at the hospital.
You can tell the news reporter already played it. How did she know about fatalities? And she said it was a "thrilling" game, which isn't really a bad thing in itself. Then she was like: "We'll see what happens." But she didn't seem too worried lol
They lied because they were jealous how popular video games were then them so they tried to shut one game down because they heard about mortal kombat and the fatalities so they had to report on it to bash the heck out of it to stop getting popular then them but all they did was promote it even more for kids or teenager to want it even more
You'd think at that time parents would be more concerned about Hollywood making violent movies that kids had access to than video games with the same or similar content. I was 15 at the time so my mom had no issue with Mortal Kombat I think it was the parents who were upset about video game violence just didn't take the time to teach the younger children the difference between fantasy and reality.
Gta3 was a lot worse then the first Mortal Kombat take a look at the RUclips video gta3 on the news and you will know what I’m talking about good video games 2:28
the dad at 1:57 has to be one of the biggest squares in history, imagine being concerned about violence in a video game, which i get this was the 90s and nothing like this has been seen before, But still id imagine people would look at these games and not think people would play them and turn into serial killers. Plain ingnorance
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Imagine how they would react to Mortal Kombat 11 lol
Took the words right out of my mouth lol. I was just wondering the same thing.
LOL 😂 IF THEY WERE TO TIME TRAVEL TO THIS AGE!!!!!!!! OH BOY HOW THEY’LL REACT!!!!!!!!!!!
All those boomers who complained would have heart attacks
They would crap they're pants so hard it'd restart the timeline
They'd faint, especially seeing Dvorah's fatality and Noob Saibots.
I must have had the coolest mom. I was 11 when this game first hit the arcade, and I remember doing the spine rip fatality and saying to my mom look look! and she was just like "haha that's gross" but found it humorous. She didn't flip out or demand I stop playing. She knew I knew it was just a form of entertainment, and it still is.
Wow, if only more people had this mature mindset.
@@theoldfartnugget6251 Right? Thanks!
My dad turned off the blood code when his mom was around
@@Cage820 Wow it’s been nine years how’s it going now?
I've seen a lot of adults who can't separate fantasy from reality.
Yes, they're called Christians
@@linger4605 The first ones I've meet were actually South Park fans.
@@linger4605 True, but I've had more personal experience with South Park fans.
@@godzillavkk than you really haven't experienced
My parents hated this game when I was a kid and if they saw me play it. It’s all just fantasy, just like movies. I knew it wasn’t real at 8 years old. I never could have MK at home, but I always played it with friends or cousins at their houses or at arcades, and I got pretty good at it.
The fatalities are what make MK so special back then.
I was just starting 7th grade when this came out and I remember my brother and I watching older kids play in the mall in Billings, MT in 1993. My Dad came to looking for us and was pissed he couldn't find us for so long, but then he saw what we were watching and just went "Did that ninja pull that guys head off!!!" He watched it with us until my Mom came to get us. My Dad was never cooler.
And 30 years later…… I still play Mortal Kombat 😎
Same here. 👍🏾
Same bro
hell yeah brother
and it's finally being censored.
if you think about it fatalities are really just to rub victory in our opponents face. and its gotten to the point where its so ridiculous that its cartoony at this point.
now, this game is almost "cute" to me. it's like GIF animations
This is how our video game rating system was born .
Sub-zero fatality was the only one that triggered the news🤣
My grandma was cool this game, hell she played with me! ...I remember having Nintendo 64..childhood success ! 🎉90'man
I grew up in this era. I remember this crap and to be honest, the news & the way adults talked about it made it seem a million times worse than it actually was. Yea, kids were shocked and amazed. But it didn't make us desire to murder other people! Besides my anecdote, evidence and study has PROVEN that video games do NOT make kids (or even adults) more violent.
I can't believe it's going to be thirty years this October since this came out. In actual Arcades.
"Wait til they are out in the streets and fighting and they will fantasize this and it will become real." yup, that's why I have my spear with me at all times.
Funny thing is, Mortal Kombat almost gets no controversy anymore despite the fact that the fatalities have more gore in them than ever. The only games parents want banned these days are shooting games, because they think games with guns will make them more violent when games like Mortal Kombat and news reports about murders are more likely to cause it.
Only the boomer generation complains about violent video games. We never see any adults from younger generations complain. Probably because they grew up with violent video games like Doom and Mortal Kombat.
@@Patrick19833 True remember when Dungeon and Dragons came out int the eighties and the same media were saying it was a cult and devil worshiping game.
They forgot to mention about the censorship in the SNES version
I don't think they forgot. They either were completely ignorant to it because they wanted to shock & sensationalize. Or they knew it, but lied my omission to shock & sensationalize.
I don't think the home console was released yet, I think they mentioned in the video they were coming out.
@@latinonerdo9904 Yeah, they were! They mention that the home versions came out the same day as this news broadcast.
@@TyDie85 It’s THIS. I was in Elementary School back in ‘93. It was mostly White Bible Thumping Uber Conservative Parents that over sensationalized MK1.
"Wait until they get out and a situation where they're fighting, and then they'll think about this and try to make it real" Ohhhh man, I remember when I was in the middle of a fight and after i knocked the guy down I tried to rip his head off his body and found out that it was really hard and couldn't do it, thats when the guy then snapped back into consciousness, and I was so tired from trying to rip his head off with my bare hands that he proceeded to kick my ass.
Really? That happened to me 4 weeks ago, when I tried to throw ice on the ground against a guy I got into a fight with.
I admit my parents weren't happy to find out when I played this game. But then they didn't care as they new I was a good kid and I never caused any trouble. So really no game or movie was off limits. They even let me watch stuff like Child's Play was I was in about Grade 5 or 6. So I am fortunate for that.
Same here with mine. They let me watch wwf wrestling during the stone cold and Dx days when I was in middle school and let me watch movies like Terminator and Die Hard when I was a kid. They trusted me to make my own decisions and they were Baptist Christians. So they were cool about it. True my mother didn't like that stuff but she never liked wrestling calling it trash. But she never forced me to not watch it.
Good parents.
@@theungreatkahli I was allowed to play Mortal Kombat until a HACK Therapist told my Mom that "He shouldn't play Violent Video Games, they're bad and will make him do crazy things".
Of course fox news is gonna report it...
To be fair that's just a local doc affiliate. We didn't have 24 hour news stations except for cnn back then
Mortal Kombat and video games was more popular then them and they were jealous
imangine someone in the future showed them mortal kombat 9
or mk x
Or mk11
It made a lot of sense for there to be controversy at that time. People had never seen a game like that and it was only natural to get worried. Also games like MK are not supposed to be aimed for children anyway. Now as a society we know better to deal with violent games and we know there isn't need to panic or anything; parents just gotta make sure kids don't play stuff that is too above their age. No need to panic anyway. Miss the arcades tho...
The first game was decent but honestly tame. MKII was the first masterpiece.
They don't realize video games brought people together and taught each others how to play they are happy
A human can’t even do that stuff with their bare hands. Pop in a the quarter and everyone is back. It was being compared to hand drawn graphics at the time. And the Kano thing made people think of Indiana Jones.
And the ESRB was born
Well if they're gonna try to use Mortal Kombat in a fight, they'll get their ass kicked. If you try to rip a guy's head off, you'll just lift him up in the air, and uppercuts don't send people 10 feet in the air and you can't throw green balls at people, it just doesn't work like that. Love the games though.
lmao they wont even be lifting them in the air. No kid can lift another by his neck unless he's much bigger and stronger.
The great memories this brings
When Mortal Kombat 2 came out……oh baby 👌👌🔥🔥
"wAiT uNtIL tHeY tRy It ThE ReAl WoRlD"
10yo Timmy: shoots a snake out his hand and uppercuts his teachers head off
Also Timmy: Fires ice and shatters his opponent
@@synkron1246 I was there in 1993. 5th Grade. MK was EVERYWHERE. ALL the Boys played it. It helped bring my classmates together, and helped suppressed the Bullying I used to get.
And that's how video game controversy started. The End.
Mortal Kombat was epic when it dropped. The media was soooooo scared of the violence lol.
No this was Hollywood they stay lying because video games was more popular then them and they got jealous
Yeah I couldn't figure out how to do a Fatality until I was 31...I just turned 32
This game maybe gory to them then. But Manhunt still to me is an amazingly grotesque and vile game, and I love it 😀
Don't you love how Fox put their token Asian reporter on the story about Mortal Kombat lol
Oh the irony 🤣
Good to see that Fox has never changed over the years.
In 2011 I was playing Mortal Kombat in Afghanistan and the navy master chief saw the game and didn’t like it at all and said he would not buy it for his kids and now Mortal Kombat 11.
Such an innocent time in my youth during the war on drugs and violent media. Now there are more real-life shootings then ever.
Maybe we need arcades back. Hell, put them in schools.
the mk arcade shown was an earlier version since the knockback looked different from the final version of the game. Look at those slides from sub-zero, you see the knockback is huge when it hit or any jump kicks. Interesting that the console version was out that day.
Right on. I was already 30 when this came out. A lot of people my age or older were clueless reactionaries. Video Game censorship sickens me.
oh, the days before the ESRB. so cooL!
Hmm I’ve been in a few fights in my life but honestly never tried to rip off someone’s head with the spine attached. Something about murder and the rest of my life in prison over a dumb fight never appealed to me
It's physically impossible to rip off someone's head with your bare hands anyways! You can try, but you will just look like an idiot and end up getting your butt kicked. The violence in Mortal Kombat is pure fantasy that no way a human can do in real life.
I played it with 12! My parents let me play everything thanks goodness!
Oh wait! Mortal Kombat II arcade unit was already out when the home versions came out. It came out in April of 1993 and the home video games of MK1 came out in September 1993. I wonder why they did not mention Mortal Kombat II which is even more violent than the original.
MK2 didn’t hit Consoles until September 12,1994.
@@plawson8577 The arcade came out on April 3 1993 though.
@@franksmith613 Correct.
@@plawson8577 Yeah, I wonder why they are ignoring the fact that MKII already hit the arcades in this news report. They are acting like it's still 1992 when the original Mortal Kombat just hit the arcades for the first time, but really this was 1993 and they mention that the Home versions of MK 1 just came out. So, obviously this news report aired in September 1993.
@@franksmith613 Back in ‘93, the News Media was Puritanical and Conservative. They Sensationalized anything that was non conformist to them. They saw Video Games as “Kid’s Stuff” and were shocked that a game like Mortal Kombat existed. I was in Elementary school when it came out. I had BOTH the SNES and Genesis ports in Late 1993. Every other kid in my school LOVED MK1. And my Stepdad took me and my then 5 year old brother to the local Mall to play MK2. He loved it!
News Lady: You have to decide if you want to tear their head off or rip their heart out.
Me: In the first Mortal Kombat all 7 characters only have *1* *Fatality* The only decision if you do wanna say that is do you wanna play as Sub-Zero or Kano because there's only *1* *Fatality* there's no choice! ( Also what if your Liu Kang, Scorpion or Sonya!) ( Technically Raiden and Johnny Cage rip people's heads off.)
Mortal kombat in the 90's is another world.
Anyone else notice another violent game in that arcade to the left of Mortal Kombat, the one called "Lethal Enforcers'?
My older brother had played old Mortal Kombat games when he was a kid in the 90's.
Wow
@@NONTypicalGamer54 old classic Mortal Kombat 1 game is 3 years younger than my brother and 2 years older than I was born.
@@jonasbrothersrockist awesome!
@@NONTypicalGamer54 And you?
@@jonasbrothersrockist I am posting mortal kombat videos on my channel
Kids didn't care what parents or the damn news thought they had fun playing the game and they want to take the fun away from the kids
I remember they interviewed me as a kid then lol.. I was 13
Now you are as old as those parents in the video lol
@@cheeseattack3608 My grand granddad was 13 in the 1917 , now he is a skeleton
The game behind the reporters, next to Mortal Combat, is almost as Violent at MK1.
It happens to be a fantastic game as well!!
It's hard to believe that games back in 93 were 50 dollars. That's high
What do you mean? That's much cheaper than now. Games cost $60-$70 dollars now!
@@cheeseattack3608You must not know how inflation works. $50 in 1993 would be the equivalent of about $100 in 2022. Video games are definitely cheaper now than they were back then. Especially considering how much more content you can fit in games these days compared to the early 90s.
My parents paid $70 for my SNES copy of Ultimate MK3 in 1996 😶
News reporter trolling, Lmfao
And now some of those parents are ticked off that the franchise has become popular and has more sequels
Cool, this was made in my neck of the woods.
Well, at least we were only ''playing'' the violent games. the ,military really does it, and the governments support and stimulate people to do it.
Serious points they are making here. I was stomping on turtles and busting peoples brick houses / stealing coins after getting that NES. Sometimes I would eat a mushroom and imagine I was growing, but then end up being revived at the hospital.
Who Remember Tao Feng Fist of the Lotus?.
Ah the P.I. days...
Now the kids in the video are as old as the adults in the video.
My grandmother took me to rent this.
Everytime im out on the street fighting I try to make it real. Lawmakers and arcade owners failed me
2:21 So it begins..... MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
You can tell the news reporter already played it. How did she know about fatalities? And she said it was a "thrilling" game, which isn't really a bad thing in itself. Then she was like: "We'll see what happens." But she didn't seem too worried lol
this is why the news pisses me off sometimes
They lied because they were jealous how popular video games were then them so they tried to shut one game down because they heard about mortal kombat and the fatalities so they had to report on it to bash the heck out of it to stop getting popular then them but all they did was promote it even more for kids or teenager to want it even more
Of course fox would be on this...
Yea from Hollywood
They don't complain about Mario stomping on turtles
Man I wish I can travel in time and show them MK11 fatalities compilation 😂
Kids in 1993 worst= mortal kombat kids. 2022 = beating old man to death with traffic cone
NOSTALGILITY !!!
Thats wassup Northridge City!!
You'd think at that time parents would be more concerned about Hollywood making violent movies that kids had access to than video games with the same or similar content. I was 15 at the time so my mom had no issue with Mortal Kombat I think it was the parents who were upset about video game violence just didn't take the time to teach the younger children the difference between fantasy and reality.
What I hate about this is that they blame this game for actually violence that happens back in the 90s
Good times
1:51 "video game's a video game." 🗿
@PlasteredFingers Lol I've just noticed that :D
2:11 games nowadays go for the same price
Let's put on another slasher film on right?
What if they saw Noob Saibot's fatalities from Mortal Kombat 9 and 11. 😂
"That's bad that's just plain gross" lady your teeth are more gross than any fatality in this game.
Better than crazy shooters killing massively
Kids' parents hate Mortal Kombat.
@Elijah Steeby Yes.
*Quickly lists a bunch of counter arguments that aren’t addressed*
“I’m Carol, and this is Fox News.”
Fun fact this was before Karens were a thing
And even a man is throwing fits at this. Men are just as likely to be Karens as women. There really needs to be a term for a male Karen.
Rating system failed... All these kids on cod and shit lol
Gta3 was a lot worse then the first Mortal Kombat take a look at the RUclips video gta3 on the news and you will know what I’m talking about good video games 2:28
lmfao this is just depressing
fast forward to gta release
i was -13 years old
Stop hating on the news. What fox news tried to accomplish back fired and instead was promoting the game. Haters make things famous.
the dad at 1:57 has to be one of the biggest squares in history, imagine being concerned about violence in a video game, which i get this was the 90s and nothing like this has been seen before, But still id imagine people would look at these games and not think people would play them and turn into serial killers. Plain ingnorance
Oh god, not Fox News!
ajzeg01 fuck fox news
Lol it’s funny to think how this used to be too much for people
None of the fatalities you see in Mortal Kombat can’t be performed in real life so I don’t see the problem.
Yeah really. It's impossible to rip off someone's head with your bare hands. lol
It wasn't the game that they was worried about it was that high price $60
I don't think it was the fatality that triggered the parents it was the high price!
She is going to make him lose.
And now? You've got a whole generation of kids who weren't allowed to play these games that grew up to be parents and helicopter even more.
Wish I had a time machine I show them last of us 2 just to watch them lose it
They are getting free ads
These were all bullshit it's entertainment I was a kid in the 90's and well hahaha it's funny violence is who we are gas or oil .
1:46 the kids are right chill out we trying to have fun and your ruining it
Hello, I’m from the future to deliver this message, this games get 1,000 times worst. Ok gott go back to the future #Backtothefutur #MichaelJFox