Mortal Kombat
Games of Death
$103.39
- Paperback
170 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2022
Summary
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 rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world’s most iconic fighting games, and formed a tr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780472055227 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0472055224 |
| Author: | David Church |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press |
| Imprint: | The University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 170 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Landmark Video Games |
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Critics Review
“The book captures the excitement and dynamism of actually playing Mortal Kombat while describing the game, its appeal for players, and the reasons why the establishment (parents, cultural critics, US senators) found it objectionable. Church places Mortal Kombat squarely in its sociopolitical context to introduce the game to the general reader.”
—Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware
David Church
David Church is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University.
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