Ah. . .The good ol’ 2d days, sprites ruled the vast infinite, Mario, Metroid, and virtually 99% of Snes and Sega games were sprites, no matter how real or 3D they. . .felt. Mortal Kombat was one of the first to go the extra mile and make it even more real, not like Pit-Fighters (Which in my opinion is a kick-ass game, too!), in which you had much lesser animation sprites, making players seem more like photo cardboards hitting each other.

Mortal Kombat was a pioneer for a lot of stuff: One of the first, if not THE first game on the SNES to receive a Mature ESRB rating because of Excessive blood and gore. I remember when I went to the arcade, Mortal Kombat machines were always crowded with older guys pulling fatalities and then laughing “Whooooa dude, look at all that bloooood. . .”, and even though we knew that all the subsequent Mortal Kombats would have recolored sprites of Scorpion and Sub-Zero, we always wanted to try that new ninja. . .

Here is a video by Devouring1 showing us the fatalities of MKII, enjoy! (try to lower the volume of your speakers, don’t want the neighbors to know you’re on a killing rampage).