Mortal Kombat : : games of death / / David Church.
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 photorealistically rendered characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the c...
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Superior document: | Landmark video games |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2022. ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Landmark video games.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 162 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: ABACABB
- One. Ludic Precursors and Generic Innovations
- Two. Cinematic Influences and Cultural Politics
- Three. Mortal Kontroversy or, Dispatches from the Console Wars
- Four. Imitation, Derivation, and Reinvention
- Notes
- Glossary
- Mortal Kombat Ludography
- Bibliography
- Index.