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[game announcer yelling]
Duration
4 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:58:10
Uploaded
May 31, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games (Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, and others) of all time.
John Tobias - The home versions of the early Mortal Kombat games - Insert Coin 00:05
John Tobias - The home versions of the early Mortal Kombat g...
- I remember seeing TV ads for the games - Insert Coin 00:17
- I remember seeing TV ads for the games
- I think parents felt there was a revolution - Insert Coin 00:07
- I think parents felt there was a revolution
That somehow their kids were involved in this weird thing, - Insert Coin 00:11
That somehow their kids were involved in this weird thing,
- You know, the home games, when they came out, - Insert Coin 00:08
- You know, the home games, when they came out,
- Actually, when I think back - Insert Coin 00:05
- Actually, when I think back
- [Reporter] After a $10 million advertising campaign, - Insert Coin 00:17
- [Reporter] After a $10 million advertising campaign,
- So now moms and dads are looking at their kids - Insert Coin 00:13
- So now moms and dads are looking at their kids
- I'm sure moms were walking through the living room - Insert Coin 00:19
- I'm sure moms were walking through the living room
I think that humor was essential to its success, - Insert Coin 00:10
I think that humor was essential to its success,
It was the latest thing for the previous generation - Insert Coin 00:11
It was the latest thing for the previous generation
And that is exactly what-- - Insert Coin 00:12
And that is exactly what--
- The game narrator instructs the player to finish, - Insert Coin 00:17
- The game narrator instructs the player to finish,
- I personally delighted in it, - Insert Coin 00:17
- I personally delighted in it,
And if we happened to have something in the arcade, - Insert Coin 00:07
And if we happened to have something in the arcade,
- And we hope very much that you step ba - Insert Coin 00:14
- And we hope very much that you step ba
- Then you had the issue of Nintendo and Sega. - Insert Coin 00:06
- Then you had the issue of Nintendo and Sega.
- We were starting to encroach - Insert Coin 00:05
- We were starting to encroach
And one of the reasonswas that we were appealing - Insert Coin 00:06
And one of the reasonswas that we were appealing
And part of that older age appeal became Mortal Kombat - Insert Coin 00:06
And part of that older age appeal became Mortal Kombat