At the end, "Of course we're gonna draw line". Meanwhile 19 years later Mortal kombat X.

I love how Ed ignored the MK4 question. He was always good about not leaking too much info on his products.

"Two very young, strapping, handsome, guys"

Why the f*** would you buy 18+ game for your kids And you blame the developer for the content?

Poor Ed Boon i feel sorry for the shit he went through for all of this. He's a true rebel made one of the best fighting games of all time and went through hell and back for it!

"Why do kids need more violence?" Cuz that shit's gonna sell, Bob!

It's sad to see that decades later the news and so called parents still doing the same stupid shit and the game was never aim for kids and the parents shouldn't blame the developers they should look into a mirror because the failure is all theirs

Alright Mr Boon, Mr Tobias, you're very young guys.... Boon and Tobias: Is he coming onto us?

haha the reporter at the end was all like "You're young guys. I like your thick eyebrows Ed, maybe you can show me some "finishing moves" lol

Ed is right! I remember playing MK 1 2 and 3 for the genesis when I was only 5 years old and I NEVER used violence in real life or thought killing was ok. People try to blame video games and movies for all the bad stuff in the world!

Draw the line? Hahaha mortal kombat x is calling

_“Of course we’re gonna draw the line.”_ 🤣🤣🤣 #TheLiesYouTell Ed Boon!

"There's no learning value whatsoever, it's just entertainment." AMEN~!!!

.ed BOON .john TOBIAS how the hell am I just now finding this out NOOB SAIBOT

Give the Anchor some credit he admitted there is violence in everything else not just video games.

@1:32 if I were Ed, I would say "oh, so all these mediums have violence and WE are the ones that have to stop? How about YOU stop showing violence on the news since the news is so concerned about the children". And I know that answer might come off wrong, but I legit got pissed hearing that ignorant question.

He asks questions and he doesn't listen, at all. No time for that, I figure.

If this was originally a movie and not a video game then parents wouldn`t give a f*ck.

I'm playing mk1 right now!!! Thanks plug and play!

Mortal Kombat 2 best fighting game ever miss the arcade days

lol i like how ed boon says that there will be a line to how violent it gets when the new one just came out and its arguably the most graphic and gruesome MK of them all

They're like the kids that got in trouble and now are on the principal's office.

Sure there is a line haha!

Oh my God. It's like getting called into the principal's office!!!

LOL "will you draw the line?" "of course" i love his smirk of "fuck you"

It still aggrivates me to this day that the controversy about Mortal Kombat's blood and fatallites steemed from a misunderstanding caused by parents, teachers and others who never played the game

Anyone else have no audio on this video? I thought it was just my computer, but all other videos work here.

"You're very young guys" What was the relevance of that? Yes, they're very young guys whose combined income from these games could probably have bought the entire UPN network.

6 mortal kombats later, FUCK YOU PAST YOU CANT STOP FUTURE!

i remember these days

Dang, that interviewer tried to throw them some curveballs, but they handled that like a couple of pros.

"You're very young guys, huh? You wanna hang out later?"

What year was this interview taken, someone please let know cuz I need the information for school, writing a paper about MK.

i got to say...you're right.there are videogames and movies for everyone.not just for a kind of people.

and lol at "yep that was blood flying there"

Fantastically reasonable well worded replies.

@yoe91 good point on the visuals, I can easily feel indifferent to an exaggerated character like a big gears of war guy, or an ice ninja in mortal kombat getting chopped in half, I suppose when every game looks like L.A. noire or Heavy Rain with brutal violence is when i'll cringe a little, but like you said, still fiction, look at the Saw movies or any other horror movie, still fiction, maybe in our eyes, but people will always complain...people should just have a little more trust in us!

I'm under the assumption the studio was underneath the building on La Brea.

News Guy: "You see a lot of violence on the news." 0:08

@yoe91 completely agree, I find it annoying how older people find shows/movies like The Sopranos, Scarface, The godfather, etc. to be masterpieces (which they are) but disregard that there is violence and malevolence in those movies/shows,seems hypocritical to me, some games (just like movies) have a good story with the gore, others have mindless, but fun (as it's intended to be) killing which just serves as entertainment, besides...older people hate not being in the loop of video games imo

Dang, was hoping this was going to be about the dial-a-combo mechanic

Here we are 28 years later. Still pushing strong as one of the worlds most popular fighting games

damn thats a lot of quarters XD those arcades must have been filled to the point of bursting XD

Boon and Tobias backwords makes my favorite character Noob Saibot

Violent games we're the 50s rock n, roll of the 90s

Yeah they're gonna draw the line. HAhaha Oh man that was awesome right at the end there. Ed Boon is my favorite individual.

Yep. He actually originally appeared in MK2.

is there a reason I get no audio?

Aparently the line was down the middle of a corpse after Noob Saibot and his shadow both grab a leg. :P

@91aztecking He did say they will draw a line, but he never said what that line was or that they crossed it yet. He was also not under oath here. And even if he was, people often do what they said they wouldn't do after it's been 10-20 years since that promise. Times change.

"your very young guys, hm" LOL

@sannamy Wait, so the guys that gave us Noob "Make a Wish" Saibot and Kung "I Saw You" Lao actually think there are fatality ideas that go too far?

Years later, MK9....no line has been drawn -:) MKFORLIFE

Lol if they saw mk9 they'd shit their pants

I hope critics now a days realize that kids know the difference between seeing someone get killed in a game or movie and seeing someone actually get killed right in front of them.

U did it. I m from future 2k19 say hello

damn MK3 violence is nothing compared to what we have today =]

@Tikada22 no, he said "yep, with all that blood flying there" or something about those lines. Nothing about the characters

this oldschool news

my left ear enjoyed this

"sure were gonna draw the line" is what he said "no were fucking not" is what he thought and now were at mortal kombat 9 with another on the way

ed boon and john tobias owned this reporter

Bob: “Alright, Mr. Boon, Mr. Tobias, you’re very young guy, huh?” Ed/John: “Yeah.” 🙂😁 *Later* Ed/John: 🤨🤨

lol I wonder how this news reporter is reacting to the mortal kombat 9 trailer XD

@TheAustinAddiction Wow that's awesome. I didn't realize that lol

I was a kid when Mortal Kombat first came out. I admit I was infatuated with it because of the adult content that it had in it; The blood, the violence, the fatalities, all those factors are what made the game of what it is. It was around that time the people realize that the game itself was so violent the kids it spark up a huge controversy of whether they should continue selling the game or pull it from the shelves. I even remember that they were stupid out there that committed violent acts or sometimes murder and said they got the idea from Mortal Kombat. Because of that, Mortal Kombat became the Scapegoat of every of juvenile's bad decision. Sounds like bullshit right???? I already knew that is was just a game and that was it. I never took further than what it was. I'm glad that everyone has stop jumping on Ed Boon and John Tobias for there creation. Maybe there are more games out there that are getting more attention, I don't know. Who cares!!! Just play the game!!

"We see kids looking at increasingly violent movies, they see violence on the news..." Right there he should have shut his mouth.

Noob Saibot-Boon&Tobias

I hope Mortal Kombat 9 generates this kind of controversy again. And from the what i've seen so far in the game, it sure looks like it. =D

Look at my nigga Noob Saibot.....

Back in the day, I thought these guys we're the coolest people in the world.

I just learned this: In MK3 there is a character named Noob Saibot. Tobias spelled backwards is Saibot and Boon spelled backwards is Noob. They must've really liked this character if they named it after themselves.

@VikutaaChyaaruzu You may be right, but you're off topic. Here's one for you: "yeah, but Street Fighter isn't as good visually as MK is".

oh and they could run in previous MK too, i mean those ones, which was before MK4...all 2d mks...all of them had run button ...

Boon Tobias > Noob Saibot

Lol if they saw MKX they would shit their pants

I remember this. Eddie Murphy also had to put out an apology in the 80s because his 'Delirious' special had offensive language. Tropic Thunder got backlash back then as well because of the "Never go full retard" thing...Turns out people have always been offended by stuff and it isn't just nowadays.

Ed Boon looks like Syler

this is where the name noob saibot came from. (The creators names spelled backwards

News people have almost always had an agenda. If you don't like the product, don't consume the product. Parents have to parent.

you know what's more violent than video games .. a drunk uncle or father..

I wonder if Mr Jimenez has seen MK 9 gameplay

Yup they sure drew the line...MK9 is all happy and smiley! :D

@infinity34 oh yeah totally ... trust me i love all the mortal kombat games (even the failures mythologies and special forces) i especially love the new one ! :D

@4everSolidSnake Yeah man. Basically, the point is "do you feel the same way about blood on the screen as you do in real life ?" No joke, I JUST came back from a blood test, they filled up 7 tubes off my veins, felt like I was going to die. But MK fatalities leave me indifferent, as it does all kids. No controversy here.

they draw the line? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

wow, watching the news is far more gruesome and depressing than any game.

he asked if they would ever draw the line...... i wonder if that guy has seen clips of MK9 yet lol

DAMn they look young there

These guys are genius

Was I the only one more startled by Ed Boons eyebrows?

The Parent Groups and Reproters from the 90s would have rioted in the streets at the sight of games like Grand Theft Auto, the Call of Duty Series, MK9, God of War, Gears of War, Bioshock (the moral choice system) Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead

its like smoking...when you smoke too much sooner or later your body starts to feel uncomfortable about it, that you further want to belch when you see a pack of cigarettes...the same with violent games... ...but to tell you honestly i still think ts kind of personal thing...if you arent out of your mind and can control yourself, calm and concentrated...well...then no violent game can make you out of your mind...

The blood and violence can be turned off with the flick of the dips.

AWKWARD interview.... Violence itself isn't to blame. e.g.: Someone yelling at someone is "violent" to some extent. Then there's a few levels above: i.e. ripping the torso off, head off, burning body...etc. But MK doesn't desensitize; we still find it horrible in real life to see a dead body. And it never goes beyond the "limit". That limit is pretty well defined after all: no incest/rape/pedophilia/actual torture etc...

Yea sure... we're gonna draw the line

Draw the line......23 years later 🤣🤣🤣

Boon said there's a point where he'd draw a line in video game violence; obviously having two guys split a human being in half crotch up, while the victim is still alive, like a Thanksgiving wishbone is not that line yet.

See, that's an improper representation of the game: Nobody uses Sindel.

...and i'm also so looking forward MK9 , i so wish inprovement of character creation system ! ...i want to be able to create characters of any shapes and nationalities, i want to be able to give my character textures like stains veins freckles etc...(sorry if spelled wrong...) ...also i'd be nice if they could bring back all CLASSIC mk characters back and remove all that wannabe from MK armageddon, also add some characters from movies and commercials...like Taja and Siro from Conquest etc...