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For Armageddon, fighting styles were reduced to a maximum of two per character (generally one hand-to-hand combat style and one weapon style) due to the sheer number of playable characters. Goro's fighting styles, for example, are designed to take advantage of the fact that he has four arms.

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While most of the styles used in the series are based on real martial arts, some are entirely fictitious.

Few exceptions to this arose in Mortal Kombat, such as monstrous boss characters like Moloch and Onaga who would have only one fighting style. Beginning in Deadly Alliance and until Mortal Kombat, the characters would have three fighting styles per character: two unarmed styles, and one weapon style. Also the combination of the moves changed from the old Mortal Kombat games and this was done by differentiating characters' normal moves and even giving them multiple fighting styles. Mortal Kombat 4 also tried to introduce the 3D system but it wasn't worked properly due to old system mechanics. Mortal Kombat was the first Mortal Kombat game which the character could move 3D like. Through the 1990s, the developer and publisher Midway Games would keep their single styled fighting moves with four attack buttons for a different array of punches, kicks and blocks. Characters in the early Mortal Kombat games play virtually identically to one another, with the only major differences being their special moves. Mortal Kombat 3 and its updates added a sixth 'run' button. The first two of them were played in the arcades with a joystick and five buttons: high punch, low punch, high kick, low kick, and block. The original three games and their updates, Mortal Kombat (1992), Mortal Kombat II (1993), Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), and Mortal Kombat Trilogy (1996), were styled in a 2D fighting fashion. Mortal Kombat II arcade cabinet's control board Entertainment and turned into NetherRealm Studios. 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 graphic violence, including, most notably, its Fatalities (finishing moves allowing the player to finish off their defeated opponent). Mortal Kombat has become the most successful fighting franchise in the history of video games and one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

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Lawrence also produced the second movie, animated TV series, live-action TV series films, the first one million platinum-selling album and a live-action tour.

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Film producer Lawrence Kasanoff licensed the rights to the game in the early 1990s and produced the first hit movie ever made from a video game. The original game has spawned many sequels and spin-offs consisting of several action-adventure games, as well as a comic book series and a card game. Mortal Kombat was the first ever fighting game to introduce a secret fighter, reached if the player fulfilled a set of requirements. 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 fantasy-themed fighting game was created instead, nonetheless paying homage to him with nut-cracking movie star character Johnny Cage, whose initials and personal style echo Van Damme's.

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