Mortal Kombat (SEGA Genesis)

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            Series : Mortal Kombat
Original Developer : Midway
    Port Developer : Midway
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             Music : Matt Furniss, Shaun Hollingworth
             Genre : Fighting games
          Graphics : Digitized Graphics
            Themes : Ultraviolence
                     Ninjas
        Other Tags : 6-Button Control Pad
           Port of : 
Mortal Kombat (1992 Arcade) 

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The home ports of Mortal Kombat came out during the First US Console War between Sega and Nintendo. The blood effects from the Arcade game were disabled per default on both the Super Nintendo and the Genesis, but the widely known Genesis cheat code ABACABB re-enabled them, a code possibly inspired by the 1981 Genesis album 'Abacab'? The Super Nintendo had no such code, making it the 'tame' version of Mortal Kombat. Of course, the Amiga version that I played as a 17-year old, always had blood. No code required, no censorship on the Amiga.
The Genesis version has very good music by Matt Furniss and Shaun Hollingworth. Furniss was well-known for making really great and fun Amiga game music.

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Image source: segaretro.org

Passwords / Cheat Codes

  • Blood Code: During first bootup (not after reset), there is a screen of text with the word 'CODE'. Press ABACABB here, and the text will turn red and Ed Boon says: 'GET OVER HERE'.



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