Mortal Kombat

Impossible matchups No. 6 Mortal Kombat (Genesis) vs. NBA Jam (SNES) Both of these came out of the arcade with a catchphrase that everybody with a pulse could remember, whether it was a fatality or a guy catching fire from downtown. Which one was the better 16 bit game?

Impossible matchups No. 3 Star Fox (SNES) vs. Mortal Kombat (Sega Genesis) Both came out in 1993. One got called a technical miracle and the other got called a threat to children. I played Star Fox in the early 90s and nothing else on the SNES looked like it. I still think it's the best game in that series, ahead of Star Fox 64. My first time with Mortal Kombat was the arcade cabinet at my local pizza place. I thought it was awesome. Which one was the better 1993 game?

Street Fighter II or Mortal Kombat? I rented SF2 from Blockbuster so much it would've been cheaper for my mom to just buy it. What was your go-to fighting game in the early to mid 90s?

1. Mortal Kombat (SNES / Genesis) Acclaim is the reason the ESRB exists. December 1993, Lieberman and Kohl hold Senate hearings. Not because of an arcade cabinet. Because this game was now in living rooms, and Acclaim is the company that put it there. Nintendo pulled the blood. Sega left it in behind a code. Genesis outsold SNES on this game and the entire industry read the receipt. Every rating on every box you have ever bought traces back to a home port Acclaim published. No other company on this list caused federal legislation. Not Konami. Not Capcom. Not Nintendo.