Imagine how they would react to Mortal Kombat 11 lol

I must have had the coolest mom. I was 11 when this game first hit the arcade, and I remember doing the spine rip fatality and saying to my mom look look! and she was just like "haha that's gross" but found it humorous. She didn't flip out or demand I stop playing. She knew I knew it was just a form of entertainment, and it still is.

I've seen a lot of adults who can't separate fantasy from reality.

The fatalities are what make MK so special back then.

if you think about it fatalities are really just to rub victory in our opponents face. and its gotten to the point where its so ridiculous that its cartoony at this point.

This is how our video game rating system was born .

And 30 years later…… I still play Mortal Kombat 😎

I was just starting 7th grade when this came out and I remember my brother and I watching older kids play in the mall in Billings, MT in 1993. My Dad came to looking for us and was pissed he couldn't find us for so long, but then he saw what we were watching and just went "Did that ninja pull that guys head off!!!" He watched it with us until my Mom came to get us. My Dad was never cooler.

Sub-zero fatality was the only one that triggered the news🤣

now, this game is almost "cute" to me. it's like GIF animations

My grandma was cool this game, hell she played with me! ...I remember having Nintendo 64..childhood success ! 🎉90'man

I can't believe it's going to be thirty years this October since this came out. In actual Arcades.

I grew up in this era. I remember this crap and to be honest, the news & the way adults talked about it made it seem a million times worse than it actually was. Yea, kids were shocked and amazed. But it didn't make us desire to murder other people! Besides my anecdote, evidence and study has PROVEN that video games do NOT make kids (or even adults) more violent.

"Wait til they are out in the streets and fighting and they will fantasize this and it will become real." yup, that's why I have my spear with me at all times.

They forgot to mention about the censorship in the SNES version

"Wait until they get out and a situation where they're fighting, and then they'll think about this and try to make it real" Ohhhh man, I remember when I was in the middle of a fight and after i knocked the guy down I tried to rip his head off his body and found out that it was really hard and couldn't do it, thats when the guy then snapped back into consciousness, and I was so tired from trying to rip his head off with my bare hands that he proceeded to kick my ass.

Funny thing is, Mortal Kombat almost gets no controversy anymore despite the fact that the fatalities have more gore in them than ever. The only games parents want banned these days are shooting games, because they think games with guns will make them more violent when games like Mortal Kombat and news reports about murders are more likely to cause it.

"wAiT uNtIL tHeY tRy It ThE ReAl WoRlD" 10yo Timmy: shoots a snake out his hand and uppercuts his teachers head off

imangine someone in the future showed them mortal kombat 9

When Mortal Kombat 2 came out……oh baby 👌👌🔥🔥

A human can’t even do that stuff with their bare hands. Pop in a the quarter and everyone is back. It was being compared to hand drawn graphics at the time. And the Kano thing made people think of Indiana Jones.

It made a lot of sense for there to be controversy at that time. People had never seen a game like that and it was only natural to get worried. Also games like MK are not supposed to be aimed for children anyway. Now as a society we know better to deal with violent games and we know there isn't need to panic or anything; parents just gotta make sure kids don't play stuff that is too above their age. No need to panic anyway. Miss the arcades tho...

Of course fox news is gonna report it...

And the ESRB was born

The great memories this brings

They don't realize video games brought people together and taught each others how to play they are happy

The first game was decent but honestly tame. MKII was the first masterpiece.

I admit my parents weren't happy to find out when I played this game. But then they didn't care as they new I was a good kid and I never caused any trouble. So really no game or movie was off limits. They even let me watch stuff like Child's Play was I was in about Grade 5 or 6. So I am fortunate for that.

Mortal Kombat was epic when it dropped. The media was soooooo scared of the violence lol.

Well if they're gonna try to use Mortal Kombat in a fight, they'll get their ass kicked. If you try to rip a guy's head off, you'll just lift him up in the air, and uppercuts don't send people 10 feet in the air and you can't throw green balls at people, it just doesn't work like that. Love the games though.

And that's how video game controversy started. The End.

Yeah I couldn't figure out how to do a Fatality until I was 31...I just turned 32

Don't you love how Fox put their token Asian reporter on the story about Mortal Kombat lol

In 2011 I was playing Mortal Kombat in Afghanistan and the navy master chief saw the game and didn’t like it at all and said he would not buy it for his kids and now Mortal Kombat 11.

the mk arcade shown was an earlier version since the knockback looked different from the final version of the game. Look at those slides from sub-zero, you see the knockback is huge when it hit or any jump kicks. Interesting that the console version was out that day.

Anyone else notice another violent game in that arcade to the left of Mortal Kombat, the one called "Lethal Enforcers'?

Cool, this was made in my neck of the woods.

News reporter trolling, Lmfao

Such an innocent time in my youth during the war on drugs and violent media. Now there are more real-life shootings then ever. Maybe we need arcades back. Hell, put them in schools.

My grandmother took me to rent this.

Oh wait! Mortal Kombat II arcade unit was already out when the home versions came out. It came out in April of 1993 and the home video games of MK1 came out in September 1993. I wonder why they did not mention Mortal Kombat II which is even more violent than the original.

This game maybe gory to them then. But Manhunt still to me is an amazingly grotesque and vile game, and I love it 😀

Man I wish I can travel in time and show them MK11 fatalities compilation 😂

Hmm I’ve been in a few fights in my life but honestly never tried to rip off someone’s head with the spine attached. Something about murder and the rest of my life in prison over a dumb fight never appealed to me

Thats wassup Northridge City!!

Everytime im out on the street fighting I try to make it real. Lawmakers and arcade owners failed me

The game behind the reporters, next to Mortal Combat, is almost as Violent at MK1. It happens to be a fantastic game as well!!

Who Remember Tao Feng Fist of the Lotus?.

And now some of those parents are ticked off that the franchise has become popular and has more sequels

Mortal kombat in the 90's is another world.

Serious points they are making here. I was stomping on turtles and busting peoples brick houses / stealing coins after getting that NES. Sometimes I would eat a mushroom and imagine I was growing, but then end up being revived at the hospital.

Now the kids in the video are as old as the adults in the video.

I played it with 12! My parents let me play everything thanks goodness!

Ah the P.I. days...

They don't complain about Mario stomping on turtles

NOSTALGILITY !!!

Kids in 1993 worst= mortal kombat kids. 2022 = beating old man to death with traffic cone

Kids didn't care what parents or the damn news thought they had fun playing the game and they want to take the fun away from the kids

News Lady: You have to decide if you want to tear their head off or rip their heart out. Me: In the first Mortal Kombat all 7 characters only have *1* *Fatality* The only decision if you do wanna say that is do you wanna play as Sub-Zero or Kano because there's only *1* *Fatality* there's no choice! ( Also what if your Liu Kang, Scorpion or Sonya!) ( Technically Raiden and Johnny Cage rip people's heads off.)

Yeah I got into a fight after playing MK and tried to pull off a Liu Kang bicycle kick and got my ass kicked.

It's hard to believe that games back in 93 were 50 dollars. That's high

I remember they interviewed me as a kid then lol.. I was 13

@PlasteredFingers Lol I've just noticed that :D

Good times

My older brother had played old Mortal Kombat games when he was a kid in the 90's.

2:21 So it begins..... MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

this is why the news pisses me off sometimes

Right on. I was already 30 when this came out. A lot of people my age or older were clueless reactionaries. Video Game censorship sickens me.

"That's bad that's just plain gross" lady your teeth are more gross than any fatality in this game.

What if they saw Noob Saibot's fatalities from Mortal Kombat 9 and 11. 😂

You'd think at that time parents would be more concerned about Hollywood making violent movies that kids had access to than video games with the same or similar content. I was 15 at the time so my mom had no issue with Mortal Kombat I think it was the parents who were upset about video game violence just didn't take the time to teach the younger children the difference between fantasy and reality.

2:11 games nowadays go for the same price

Fun fact this was before Karens were a thing

Well, at least we were only ''playing'' the violent games. the ,military really does it, and the governments support and stimulate people to do it.

Of course fox would be on this...

*Quickly lists a bunch of counter arguments that aren’t addressed* “I’m Carol, and this is Fox News.”

Let's put on another slasher film on right?

i was -13 years old

the dad at 1:57 has to be one of the biggest squares in history, imagine being concerned about violence in a video game, which i get this was the 90s and nothing like this has been seen before, But still id imagine people would look at these games and not think people would play them and turn into serial killers. Plain ingnorance

Better than crazy shooters killing massively

She is going to make him lose.

fast forward to gta release

Oh god, not Fox News!

What I hate about this is that they blame this game for actually violence that happens back in the 90s

ALANNNNN

Lol it’s funny to think how this used to be too much for people

Kids' parents hate Mortal Kombat.

I don't think it was the fatality that triggered the parents it was the high price!

And now? You've got a whole generation of kids who weren't allowed to play these games that grew up to be parents and helicopter even more.

They are getting free ads

Rating system failed... All these kids on cod and shit lol

Wish I had a time machine I show them last of us 2 just to watch them lose it

lmfao this is just depressing

Stop hating on the news. What fox news tried to accomplish back fired and instead was promoting the game. Haters make things famous.

None of the fatalities you see in Mortal Kombat can’t be performed in real life so I don’t see the problem.

AHAHAHAHAHA DONT LISTEN TO DEM TO DEM

I beat the game on my emulator

1:46 the kids are right chill out we trying to have fun and your ruining it

Technically it’s cold not blooded it’s hand to hand combat ... just saying

Parents 😮‍💨