Mortal Kombat (SEGA Genesis)
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Mortal Kombat
SEGA Genesis 1993
            Series : Mortal Kombat
Original 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.

Other Mortal Kombat games:

Other games by Midway:

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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'.

Log entries

    2014-05-14
  • Just received a *bunch* of games from eBay. The Mortal Kombat title music sounds pretty awesome.
  • I did Scorpion's fatality! And it wasn't even hard.
    • 2014-05-16
  • Completed the game with Scorpion on Easy (1/4) difficulty. This wasn't as hard as I expected, even Goro and Shang Tsung seemed to fall for my primitive spear, uppercut, jump kick 'strategy'. I feel bad for Scorpion, being murdered by Sub-Zero and never being able to see his family again. Poor hell-ninja.
    • 2014-05-18
  • Jeppe N and I played with all the characters. MK1 seems a bit stupid compared to later greater MK games.
    • 2023-09-10
  • Completed the game with Scorpion on Very Easy (1/5) difficulty (MiSTer).
  • Completed the game with Sub-Zero on Very Easy (1/5) difficulty (MiSTer).
    • Scorpion and Sub-Zero
  • Completed the game with Johnny Cage on Very Easy (1/5) difficulty (MiSTer).
    • 2023-09-11
  • Completed the game with Liu Kang on Very Easy (1/5) difficulty (MiSTer).
  • Completed the game with Kano on Very Easy (1/5) difficulty (MiSTer).
    • Liu Kang and Kano
  • Completed the game with Sonya on Very Easy (1/5) difficulty (MiSTer).
    • Cage and Sonya
  • Completed the game with Raiden on Very Easy (1/5) difficulty (MiSTer).
    • Raiden

videos

2023-09-10
Scorpion and Sub-Zero
2023-09-11
Liu Kang and Kano
2023-09-11
Cage and Sonya
2023-09-11
Raiden

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