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After a $10million advertising campaign, Mortal Kombat, debutingin home video today, is...

[Reporter] After a $10
million advertising campaign, Mortal Kombat, debuting
in home video today, is expected to sell two
million copies at $50 a pop, a horrifying
possibility for parents who can't believe the game
makers are fantasizing about decapitation and murder

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- [Reporter] After a $10 million advertising campaign,
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Mortal Kombat, debuting in home video today,
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is expected to sell two million copies at $50 a pop,
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a horrifying possibility for parents
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who can't believe the game makers are fantasizing
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about decapitation and murder.
Duration
17 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:59:19
Uploaded
May 31, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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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.
- 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
- the Nintendo version was very neutered - Insert Coin 00:06
- the Nintendo version was very neutered
So I thought that was a silly thing to do - Insert Coin 00:13
So I thought that was a silly thing to do
It had the A-B-A-C-A-B-B, the main blood code, - Insert Coin 00:10
It had the A-B-A-C-A-B-B, the main blood code,
And yeah, so the Genesis version was the version, - Insert Coin 00:09
And yeah, so the Genesis version was the version,
We wanted to make the point that we weren't - Insert Coin 00:07
We wanted to make the point that we weren't
- Sega used the slogan like, we do what Nintendon't. - Insert Coin 00:04
- Sega used the slogan like, we do what Nintendon't.
And there's something like - Insert Coin 00:13
And there's something like