If 90's parents look at MKX, they'll have a heart attack.

I got into a fight after playing Mortal Kombat, and just as the father described, I used advanced fighting techniques and ripped their heads off. True story

I like how parents blame violent video games on some of the stuff that kids do but they don't think twice about letting their kids watch R rated movies.

I would love to see these parents see MK10

"Kids might get into fights and do what they saw in the game." I remember the time when I was fighting a bully in recess and I turned into a fucking dragon and chomped the bully's entire torso off. Oh oh, what about that time when a rope dart magically came out of my hand and I stabbed the bully and pulled him over while saying, "Get over here!"

Kids aren't stupid, we knew that was FAKE!!!! I grew up watching a bald headed guy drink beer on a wrestling show and never drank a day in my life. Street Fighter, Power Rangers, etc got me into Martial Arts and made my life much better.

I like how the reporter who asked the guy about the goal, he said its just to fight. When she mentioned the fatalities, he said it is just something you do if you want to be brutal to your opponent. She immediately moved on to her own thing about how violent it is. Nice job.

If they think that was bad, imagine them reacting to Mortal Kombat X.

I tried shooting ice beams out of my hands to stop a bully once... dammit if only I had never played this game I might've punched him instead

Oh my GOSH! It's real life Tom Tucker and Tricia Takanawa!!!

Mortal kombat was the reason the ESRB was created lol... Ahh good times

I bet most people who shunned this game had silence of the lambs in there home somewhere

Yeah after I played this I ripped someone's spine out... Oh wait

Ed Boon and John Tobias were like the Trey Parker and Matt Stone of gaming.

Ahhh the arcades, and the whiny media... Man, i miss the old 90's...

I was like 5 when I first remember hearing about this game from the news. My older sisters and parents were talking about it. I don't remember if we already had it or what but I just remember us sitting around playing it, talking about the violence and how real it looked and yet it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't affected by it and my parents didn't feel the need to monitor us or take it away, my dad even used to play with us. I could see how people got their panties in a bunch over it but in the end it was basically harmless. Kids are exposed to worse stuff today and it's nothing. They may be a tad desensitized to violence in comparison but maybe that makes them better equipped to handle trauma.

Mortal Kombat was a kept secret in arcades. Thanks FOX news for publicizing it to the world with showcases of fatalities.

I'm amazed how peacefully the guy playing reacts to the reporter questions... normally if you are in the heat of a versus game you get really annoyed at any kind of interrumption.

Okay, I’ve been playing Mortal Kombat since 1994 when I was 6 and I didn’t turn out to be a serial killer! If you teach your kids the difference between fantasy and reality then you won’t have a problem.

Go back in time. Show them Brutal Doom. Watch pants be shat.

"When they get into a real fight they'll try to make this real" I would applaud a child that can rip someones head off.

Step 1: go back in time Step 2: show reporters god of war 3 Step 3: watch faces explode What do think!? It'll work!!!

This video is history in the making. Thanks for the upload.

"There's a master guy you gotta beat at the end..."

After the movie, media stopped picking on the game... They need movies to understand what this is about...

It's been 30 years! And now we Liu Kang circle back to Mortal Kombat 1.

I'm 23 and I think anyone younger than me probably watches this and thinks "I don't get it, they're all upset over some blurry red pixels!"

& what the media & parents didn't realize is that they helped the sales of MK by saying its bad & it shouldn't b out bcuz that just made ppl want to buy it more lol

I was 11 when my mom bought mk1 for me and my brother. It’s good not to have crazy overbearing parents.

This was the beginning of the end for sunshine and rainbows in the video game world. Significant story actually.

Best part of video "how do you feel about pulling his head off?" the kid says "Fun"

0:34 here, look? 0:36 OH C´MON!!!

I gotta say, with how nasty some of the Fatalities in the newer Mortal Kombat games can get, it's crazy to think that Sub-Zero's Fatality from the first Mortal Kombat is what caused all this hullabaloo back then

0:55 Reporter:How do you feel about cutting his head off Kid:It makes me tingle from my toes all the way to my head. I get a rush an unbelievable high whenever I kill my opponent in the most brutal way possible, I want to sacrifice children to Lucifer in the middle of the woods while dancing naked in the moonlight and candle light pitch dark while blood drips all over my body from the dangling corpses I will string up on the trees.

Step 1: Travel back to 1993 Step 2: Show them MK X STEP 3: Show them the MKXI trailer Step 4: their heads explode.

lol, this guy thinks I'm going to rip some guys head off in a fight? is that even possible? LOL

Step 1: Get a time machine and go back to 1993 Step 2: Show them Mortal Kombat 11 Step 3: Prepare coffin for upcoming heart attack

These people would be dramatize when they see MK 11

Before Feminist Frequency, there was... Fox News.

Imagine them seeing mk11

My dad played this when he was a kid and he did not get affected but he would not let me play it because of the blood and gore.

Wait until 2002 parents

0:55 this kid is funny asf 🤣 😂

My father who is a conservative Christian is 62 right now, and he loved MK back in the 90’s, playing MK Trilogy with my older brothers. He also loved playing the old James Bond games.

Murder? More like self defense. What would happen in the game if you did not fight?

I can still remember seeing this on TV, when I was nine years old lol

The whole time she's only interested about the fatalities so they can further their cause, he tries to explain the overall idea of the game but she only cares about fatalities watch her after he explains fatalities she got what she needed, she also misses the fatality when he does it

They complain about the violence and then broadcast the dude getting his head ripped off lol.

1:57 "Wait until they get out in a situation where they're fighting, then they'll think about this and try to make it real". Yeah dad, that's exactly what happened : I defeated my best friend in a "real" version of Mortal Kombat and then I shot fireballs out of my hands and ripped his heart out !!

I wonder what parents would say now a days if they actually saw the game-play trailer for Hatred

Nowdays parents are playing Mortal Kombat with their kids

2019 - mk 11 looks nastier in some ways than X.

It’s funny seeing this now back then compared to what games are out there today

Playing Surgeon Simulator doesn't make me want to become a doctor. Playing Minecraft doesn't make me want to go cut down trees. Playing Madden doesn't make me want to play football. Playing Phoenix Wright doesn't make me want to become a lawyer. Why would playing a violent video game make me want to become a murderer?

If those parents can see what we have now.... We have such sights to show you

If 90s parents think that mk1 is violent wait until they look at mk11

Would love to see their faces if they were playing MK9 now :')

yeah I was totally playing man. I did watch it and even after all of my gaming of the Resident Evil series, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and much more, I was still pretty blown away by how crazy violent MK9 is. I think I'll pick it up though as a celebration to all of my past years of MK gaming. ;)

MK the orignal reason for ESRB as well video game controversy . Thanks for posting this. Brings back memories of my mom refusing to buy this for me.

Lol, they'll play the game and when they get in a fight in real life they'll do what they did in the game? I feel pretty confident saying that if you try it you'll see that ripping a man's spine and head straight off of his body is a bit harder than the game makes it look. Silly 90's parent.

I don't remember "chopping" anybody's head off in MK 1 :/

@LawlessLaw Nintendo wanted to avoid any controversy, hence why they cut the gore out. Because of the Blood Cheat, the Sega Verson, though inferior in graphics and sound effects when compared to the SNES verson, outsold the Nintendo Verson, it still agrivates me that a misunderstanding led to Nintendo's decision to censor MK's blood and change some of the fatalities, if you want a near arcade perfect port of MK 1, the Sega CD verson's the most intact, except for long load times

1:23 "advanced technology" I'm sorry I couldn't help but laugh. . .

MK1 is NOTHING to what the franchise has grown into.

Yes I've been in a real fight! The father is right, after the second round of fighting my opponent, he got on his feet and dangled his head. I then began to morph into a dragon to eat him. Watch out parents!

Aaahhh, so Carol Lin made this seem like the arcade is like a movie theater where the product is shown off first, then the product is later released on various formats for home viewing (or playing).

"Parents wonder if kids can seperate fantasy from the real thing" Yeah, lets see Parents realise a violent game isn't going to make Timmy a serial killer or a plumber jumping down pipes.

Wait till those parents see the new MK1. Their brain will immediately melted off.

Nowadays, the controversial topics are SuperMarioLogan and Fortnite.

can you imagine how these people from 1993 reacted if they were shown some of the things you could do in Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal?

I love how he pointed at the arcade screen and smiled but she wasnt looking 😂

“…there’s a master guy you gotta beat at the end.”

DORKLY SENT ME BECAUSE I AM A STUPID SHITHEAD

I like how there was a Total Carnage machine right next to Mortal Kombat.

When i have kids, they can play whatever. Just teac them not to kill people!

I remember these KTTV (channel 11 in Los Angeles (L.A.) news people. ;)

@ThePhantom2K9 Out of curiosity, what would you show them?

I remember when i was playing MortalKombat Trilogy on a PC when I was in school in my sophomore year. It was free time. I was playing the game, and in the process of playing it, the "assistant" teacher came by and yelled at me for playing it, like I was some sort of psychopath. I simply responded with, "It's fake." She said nothing after that. But thinking about it now made me mad.

Ahhhh I remember being in these arcades!!!

“How do you feel about cutting his head off?” “Fun :D” Based kid I hope he’s doing well.

Just wondering if any of you done a fatality move on someone because of playing on a game? I tried copying Echo the dolphin and drown... -_-

Now imagine them reacting to MK11 Johnny’s fatality or sub zeros

I was shocked when I this back in the day and loved it

@snakes3425 Strange, Nintendo censors MK, DOOM, and Wolfenstein 3D. But, they don't censor Conker's Bad Fur Day. Which is more vulgar than those games put together.

Mortal Kombat X makes this look like Teletubbys

They’ll make a big deal on violent video games like Mortal Kombat that is far from realistic, but they ignore violent movies with real actors in it, by the way I don’t have anything against violent movies, they’re all for entertainment.

good times indeed

Fifty dollars for a new game? That's unheard of!

Haha that news reporter is such a troll...

These newspeople are crazy. The only way it would be too violent if they are just babies

@1337d0od Actually the blood code is :ABACABB. The code you speak of however does open a cheat menu with a lot of stuff.

I've played Mortal Kombat since I was 8, I didn't pull off a fatality until I was 28...I'm 29 now

The old days 30 years ago

"...if kids can separate fantasy" Heh, back then this was the real deal, videogames couldn't be more realistic. Oh Fox news, being full of shit since the 90's

I can't help but imagine this guy losing it and screaming at the reporter after losing a fight.

Love the Total Carnage cabinet on her left. Almost poetic.

@ssjcmc82 yep. the good ol days.

Haha, thought so :P You should, I've had it since it came out and I keep coming back to it, there's loads of stuff to keep you entertained, but I guess as a fan you'd want to play it anyway :)

So, it's all right to have somebody rip a person's heart out in Indiana Jones Temple of Doom, which came out before this game, but when Kano does it (bearing in mind that you have to know the move) the game should be banned?

Well now, it's funny to see how evolved the industry is. And by evolved, I mean the game's industry - Fox is still stuck in the past, broadly labeling all video games as a source of violence. I love how they say that the technology used for games "makes it seem real." Man, 1993 would flip if they saw the kind of things video games do nowadays.