I remember when the first Mortal Kombat game came out for the first time. I was about 11 years old walking through the Lafayette Square Mall here in Indianapolis. We were walking past the arcades and I saw the Mortal Kombat coin-op. My first thought was like, "Whoa, there are real people in a video game!" I couldn't believe it. I said to myself, "How in the world did they do that?" That was my first experiece of a motion capture video game. I was so amazed that I just had to play.
Of course I didn't know any of the moves but it was just so fun to play. Back then it was a different take on fighting games too. This game was crazy violent for its time. The game was very bloody and gory. They even added fatalities to the end of matches. This was before the days of Super Combos and finishing moves that most games have now. It was the first of its kind. The Street Fighter series didn't really follow suit until a couple years later.
Before I knew it Mortal Kombat had exploded into a near 20 year franchise. It's one of the biggest fighting game franchises to date. It's amazing with Ed Boon and company did with just a few actors, some camera work, and hacking out lines of code to make Mortal Kombat one of the biggest games of all time. Mortal Kombat 3 was probably my favorite game out of the three games of the trilogy. They added a run dash, weapons, and a really significant combo system that rivaled that of Street Fighter II at the time. It was really a great game.
Now Ed Boon and the NetherRealm crew are rolling the trilogy into one huge bundle for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, and PC via Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, and the internet. You'll be getting the bundle just for 9.99. Now how sweet is that deal? I just hope that all three games will allow for online play. Look for this download bundle to drop tomorrow! Check out the video.
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