Mortal Kombat
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 Mortal Kombat facts

• Following Midway's bankruptcy, the Mortal Kombat development team was acquired by Warner Bros
• and turned into NetherRealm Studios
• Warner Bros
• Interactive Entertainment currently owns the rights of the franchise and rebooted it in 2011
• 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-horror themed fighting game titled Mortal Kombat was created instead
• The original game has spawned many sequels and has been spun off into several action-adventure games, films (animated and live-action with its own sequel), and television series (animated and live-action)
• Other spin-offs include comic book series, a card game and a live-action tour
• Along with Capcom's Street Fighter and Bandai Namco's Tekken, Mortal Kombat has become one of the most successful fighting franchises in the history of video games
• The series has a reputation for high levels of bloody violence, including, most notably, its Fatalities (finishing moves, requiring a sequence of button inputs to perform)
• The Fatalities, in part, led to the creation of the ESRB video game rating system