
Following Midway's bankruptcy, the Mortal Kombat development team was acquired by Warner Bros.

Early games in this series were also noted for their realistic digitized sprites and an extensive use of palette swapping to create new characters. Controversies surrounding Mortal Kombat, in part, led to the creation of the ESRB video game rating system. The series has a reputation for high levels of violent content, including, most notably, its Fatalities (finishing moves, requiring a sequence of button inputs to perform). Along with Street Fighter and Tekken, Mortal Kombat has become one of the most successful fighting franchises in the history of video games and one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The original game has spawned many sequels and spin-offs consisting of several action-adventure games, films (animated and live-action with its own sequel), and television series (animated and live-action), as well as a comic book series, a card game and a live-action tour. The development of the first game was originally based on an idea that Ed Boon and John Tobias had of making a video game starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, but as that idea fell through, a horror-fantasy themed fighting game titled Mortal Kombat was created instead. Among the novelties were completely new special moves for some well-known characters, which first appeared in MKT.Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise originally developed by Midway Games' Chicago studio in 1992. A new exit mode called "Brutality" has also been added. When this "aggression indicator" is full, the player's character becomes stronger and faster for a short time. The novelty of MKT is the so-called "Aggressor bar", which is filled during the fight. You can play as Kano, Reptile, Mileena, Kung Lao, Shang Tsung, Sindel, Sketor, Stryker, Nightwolf, Sheeva, Kitana, Scorpion, Sonya, Smoke (Cyber Ninja), Rain, Jade, Baraka, Johnny Cage, Ermac, Noob Saibot, Sub-Zero (Unmasked), Sub-Zero (Classic), Jax, Rayden, Cyrax, Liu Kang, Smoke (Human), Kabal, Goro, Kintaro, Motaro, or Shao Kahn. So it follows the same story as MK3, but contains all the characters and most of the arenas from the previous parts. This is an improved version of Mortal Kombat 3, which contains everything that could be seen in previous parts of the trilogy, or in the game Ultimate Mortal Kombat. There have been a large number of sequels, although the name Mortal Kombat Trilogy suggests that this is the third part, or a compilation of previous titles, this is not the case.

Mortal Kombat is a very well-known term to everyone who played fighting games on old computers.
