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Successful, but not as successful.
Mortal Kombat was a sucess because fighting games were big at the time but many were horribly unoriginal. MK was a fighting game in the tradition of SF2 and Fatal Fury, but instead of just ripping them off like many fighting games of that era they had a few things that set them apart...
-Use of live-actors instead of the anime graphics of it's contemperarys.
-Different controls: High and Low attacks instead of Weak and strong attacks, simpler special-move commands, and a seperate block button instead of using the joystick to block.
-A character that can freeze people and another that shoots a spear from his wrist.
-Excessive blood and gore
Even without that last one MK was still a unique game, and would still have a following. But, I don't think it would be the runaway hit it was without the hype about the bloody violence.
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