As decreed by the Gods of Timeliness, this week we take a look back at the very first Mortal Kombat. Not the original arcade release from 1992 but the home console versions released the following year on the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive, on what was dubbed "Mortal Monday". And, only one of these two home versions of Mortal Kombat actually has blood. Can you guess which?

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If you cast your mind back to the early ‘90s, there was an overall consensus that the violence depicted in the Mortal Kombat series was a big deal. The fact that outside of blood being sprayed every time someone got hit, the game introduced a finishing move at the end of each bout where players were able to pull off a Fatality – a move that essentially killed their opponent in the most inventively gruesome way possible. For many this became the defining aspect of the series, and in a lot of ways it’s what drew the crowds to local video stores, milk bars, and arcades around the country. Any place that had a Mortal Kombat cabinet also had a group of teenagers and kids watching, and playing the game.

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