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Mortal Kombat
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Name: Mortal Kombat Manufacturer: Midway Games Year: 1992 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Mortal Kombat Pinout Settings: Mortal Kombat Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Mortal Kombat DescriptionMortal Kombat was produced by Midway Games in 1992. Midway Games released 53 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Other machines made by Midway Games during the time period Mortal Kombat was produced include Judge Dredd, NBA Jam Tournament Edition, NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat II, Killer Instinct, Double Cheese, Super High Impact, Total Carnage, Atlantis, and Golf Champ. Mortal Kombat - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.26 (15 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThe cabinet houses a 25inch monitor and uses a black, red and gold color scheme. The side art shows Daniel Pesina as Johnny Cage doing a jumping kick.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsOn the fourth stage, The Pit, look at the moon. If there are shadows flying in front of the moon you can fight Reptile. When the shadows are in front of the moon, you must get a doubleflawless victory two perfects and do the Fatality without EMeverEM hitting block. If you beat Reptile, you will be awarded 10,000,000 points Note Reptile only appears in versions 3.0 and 4.0 and can only be fought when playing as either Sonya or Scorpion in version 4.0. His name shows as Scorpion but he wears green and can do both Scorpions spear special move or SubZeros freeze move. He is also extremely difficult to beat.ConversionThe dedicated cabinets are a favorite conversion for IMortal Kombat III, IMortal Kombat 3I or any other IMortal KombatI series game since most of these use a similar control panel layout.Game IntroductionPlayers choose one of the following fighters: Johnny Cage, Lui Kang, Sonya Blade, Kano, Raiden, Sub Zero, or Scorpion. They fight in a random realm against a human player or the computer. Another human player may jump into a player's game during competition against the computer.Use a series of special moves, including projectiles, to defeat your opponent twice in three rounds of fighting. After defeating your opponent, the fight emcee announces "Finish Him" and you have a couple of seconds to perform a special sequence of joystick positions and button combinations to have your character perform a fatality. Story lines are given for beating Shang Tsung. Game PlayFight one-on-one against other opponents up a tournament ladder until you reach the sub-boss, a four-armed mutant named Goro. After defeating him you go onto fight the boss, Shang Tsung.Every character has a different story line and ending to tell why they got involved in the Mortal Kombat tournament. This game is similar to Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition with blood and gore.
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mortal Kombat CensusThere are 11,862 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,330 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 156,091 machines (6,617 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 514 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 219 of these machines are owned by our active Mortal Kombat collectors. And of these, 89 are original dedicated machines, 21 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 109 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 7 active VAPS members with Mortal Kombat machines for sale. There are 7 active VAPS members with extra Mortal Kombat circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There are 9 active VAPS members currently looking for Mortal Kombat. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Mortal Kombat circuit board set. This game ranks a 85 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalUses DIP switches or the test mode to set game options. Within the test mode you can review the games statisics. Some board sets use Midways TUnit architecture which is also used on games like INBA JamI.TriviaDuring the fighting scenes that take place on the stone platform above the field of sharp spikes, if you look closely at the glowing moon in the background, you will sometimes see a silhouette fly past it. These shadows will either be Peter Pan and the Darling children, a witch on broomstick, a kite, a blimp, a rocket, a flying saucer, or Santa Claus in his reindeerpulled sleigh. The shadows appear about every six games.LegacyManuals
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Mortal Kombat Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for Midway Games for machines and parts. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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