Mortal Kombat is defined by its brutality, goofiness, lots of blood, disgusting fatalities and, yes, also by its fighters with digitized graphics.




Digitized sprites, popularized in the early 90s, were a form of graphics that used footage of real actors, Stop-motion frames of a figure/clay model or 3D renders of characters that were then made digital and put into the game. This technique had been used in games prior to Mortal Kombat, but it was Mortal Kombat that popularized it. As many of you know, the fighting games craze may have been fully underway by 1992, but it’s safe to say no title spawned as many clones, knock-offs, rip-offs, cheap imitators and expensive failures as Mortal Kombat did.

In a five-year span, video gamers in arcades and their homes were overrun by fighting games that followed the same format: battles to the death, often organized by some supernatural being; a sinister announcing voice commanding players to execute a helpless opponent; gratuitously brutal finishers that seemed designed to provoke outrage and controversy, secret moves with inside-joke meanings, and also digitized sprites.

Here is a timeline of 20 unapologetic Mortal Kombat graphic ripoffs. It’s noteworthy how many of them had launches that were scrubbed, and how many are linked to a platform’s demise in the late 1990s.

In this video you will find:

• A game curation showcasing 1990s fighting games that used digitalized sprites like the Mortal Kombat franchise
• A game curation showcasing 1990s fighting games that used digitalized sprites like the Mortal Kombat franchise
• Information related to each game such as release date, developer company, game genre and system it was released on.
• Official game box arts with a 3D presentation.
• Educative and/or critical comments on the importance of the video game and why you should play it

Intro and Outro Music

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0:00 Intro
00:13 Pit-Fighter
00:38 Dino Rex
01:02 Blood Warrior
01:28 Survival Arts
01:53 Tattoo Assasins
02:18 Kasumi Ninja
02:41 Primal Rage
03:06 Twin Goddesses
03:31 Way of the Warrior
03:56 Shadow: War of Succession
04:21 Matsumura Kunihiro Den
04:46 Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire
05:11 WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game
05:37 Ultra Vortek
06:01 Battle Monsters
06:27 Jackie Chan The Kung-Fu Master
06:51 Street Fighter: The Movie
07:16 Gokuu Densetsu: Magic Beast Warriors
07:41 WWF In Your House
08:06 Outro

⚠️ All gameplay recording, game curation and opinions included in this video, as well as editing is completely done by me

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Curation isn't just about digging up neat games, but it's also about preservation, interpretation, and using one's knowledge to make it relevant to people. With my videos I want older gamers to look back and remember the influence of video games on their lives, and new gamers to understand the larger context of the series they're playing for the first time today.

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