Mortal Kombat

Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway’s Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by photorealistic characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide r...

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Hovedforfatter:	Church, David
Format:	Online
Sprog:	engelsk
Udgivet:	University of Michigan Press 2023
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