Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat
Genre(s)	Fighting Action-adventure
Developer(s)	Midway Games Avalanche Software Eurocom Just Games Interactive Midway Studios Los Angeles Other Ocean Interactive Point of View NetherRealm Studios
Publisher(s)	Midway Games Williams Entertainment Warner Bros. Games
Creator(s)	Ed Boon John Tobias
Platform(s)	List Amiga Android Arcade Dreamcast Game Boy Game Boy Advance Game Boy Color GameCube Game Gear Game.com iOS Windows Master System MS-DOS Nintendo 64 Nintendo DS Nintendo Switch PlayStation PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 PlayStation Portable PlayStation Vita R-Zone 32X Sega CD Sega Genesis Sega Saturn Super NES Stadia TV game Wii Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
First release	Mortal Kombat October 1992; 32 years ago
Latest release	Mortal Kombat 1 September 19, 2023

Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.

The original Mortal Kombat arcade game spawned a franchise consisting of action-adventure games, a comic book series, a card game, films, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour. Mortal Kombat has become the best-selling fighting game franchise worldwide and one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

The series has a reputation for high levels of graphic violence, including, most notably, its fatalities, which are finishing moves that kill defeated opponents instead of knocking them out. Controversies surrounding Mortal Kombat, in part, led to the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) video game rating system. Early games in the series were noted for their realistic digitized sprites and an extensive use of palette swapping to create new characters. Following Midway's bankruptcy, the Mortal Kombat development team was acquired by Warner Bros. Entertainment and re-established as NetherRealm Studios.