Though some may bemoan the game as one of the unlucky ones that inspired a rating system designed to limit the access of explicit games to minors, the controversy created cash, as the famous saying goes.
A large percentage of video game fans have likely heard of and/or experienced the period in which the ultra-violent fighter helped usher in the birth of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) back in 1994 as a response to the game’s bloody content.
Mortal Kombat was once among the hottest and most controversial commodities in the video game community and for how much the franchise has grown since its inception, the implications surrounding its roots feel forever understated.
