Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat is a series of fighting video games. It is known for having a very high level of violence, blood, and gore. The first game was so violent and bloody compared to other video games at the time that it was one of the games mentioned in the 1993 congressional hearings on video games. This later led to the ESRB rating system. Unsurprisingly, most games in the series are rated M for Mature, which means that the game cannot legally be sold to anyone under the age of 17 in most stores in the United States.

Mortal Kombat
Genres	Fighting (main series)
Developers	Avalanche Software Eurocom Just Games Interactive Midway Games Midway Studios Los Angeles Other Ocean Interactive Point of View, Inc. NetherRealm Studios
Publishers	Midway Games Williams Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Creators	Ed Boon John Tobias
Composers	Dan Forden Allister Brimble (Amiga, Game Boy, Game Gear and Sega Master System ports of Mortal Kombat 1 and Amiga port of Mortal Kombat II)
Platforms	List Amiga Android Arcade DOS Dreamcast Game Boy Game Boy Advance Game Boy Color GameCube Game.com IBM PC compatible iOS Microsoft Windows MS-DOS Nintendo 64 Nintendo DS Nintendo Switch PlayStation PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 PlayStation Portable PlayStation Vita R-Zone Sega 32X Sega CD Sega Game Gear Sega Genesis Sega Master System Sega Saturn Super Nintendo Entertainment System Stadia TV game Wii Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series X and Series S
First release	Mortal Kombat October 8, 1992
Latest release	Mortal Kombat 11 April 23, 2019

Guest fighters

Starting with the 2011 video game, well-known characters serve as guests for the games. Due to legal constraints, they only appear only in one game. There are two guests in MK9, four guests in MKX and five guests in MK11.

• Kratos (God of War/MK9 PlayStation ports)
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street/MK9)
• Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th/MKX)
• Predator (Predator/MKX)
• Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/MKX)
• Alien (Alien/MKX)
• The Terminator (Terminator/MK11)
• The Joker (Batman/MK11)
• Spawn (Spawn/MK11)
• RoboCop (RoboCop/MK11)
• John Rambo (First Blood/MK11)