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| What company developed Mortal Kombat? |
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| What two Martial Artists did Williams approach to star in their fighting game? |
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| Steven Segal, Jean Claude Van Damme |
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| What game was Mortal Kombat made in response to? |
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| Who was Johnny Cage a play on? |
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| What lesson did Mortal Kombat learn from street fighter II? |
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| The importance of hidden moves |
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| What did the name Mortal Kombat likely refer to? |
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| The background story about mortals entering a fighting tournament with beings from another dimension. |
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| What did critics say Mortal Kombat was named for. |
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| Why were fatalities created? |
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| Because the designers hated being the guy who was dizzy but loved being the guy who got to walk up and beat up the dizzy guy, the fatalities kept the benefits of the dizziness but the fight was over at that point so it didn't really matter. |
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| What are two examples of fatalities? |
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Tearing someones heart out
Ripping someones spine and skull out |
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| Who was the last minute hidden character in Mortal Kombat |
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| What game was an instant hit and eclipsed Street Fighter II in popularity in American Arcades? |
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| Who had the exclusive rights to the home console rights for Williams arcade games? |
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| What was the difference between the NES and Sega versions of Mortal Kombat? |
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| No fatalities in the NES version |
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| How many Mortal Kombat cartridges were sold? |
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| How did the Sega sails compare to the NES sails? |
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| Who is often times rumored to have been behind the senate hearing on video game violence? |
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| What is the official story on the start of the video game hearings? |
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| Joe Liberman became concerned when he heard about Mortal Kombat from a staffer. |
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| What two games did Senator Liberman see that made him concerned about video game violence? |
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| Mortal Kombat and Night Trap |
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| What did the video game industry not have that made the senate hearings difficult. |
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| Their own lobbying organization |
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| What was Liberman's response to allegations that Nintendo encouraged him to investigate video game violence. |
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| He insisted that Nintendo never contacted him. |
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| Who held a press conference a week before the senate hearings on video games that started them off on a strange note. |
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| Bob Keeshan A.K.A. Captain Kangaroo |
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| What did several large game manufactures do just hours before the start of the hearings. |
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| Announce that the industry had decided to endorse a rating system. |
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| What were the two panels of witnesses during the senate hearing. |
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| Expert Witnesses and Industry Professionals. |
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| What issues was at the forefront of the hearings over video game violence? |
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| Concern about realistic depictions of human characters. |
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| What game was mentioned most during the question and answers section with the expert panel and what was funny about it. |
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| Night Trap, it was clear from the way thy talked about it that no one had ever actually played it. |
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| What happened when the industry panel got its turn? |
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| A strange battle took place between Nintendo and Sega. |
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| What was Nintendo's argument in the hearings? |
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| That they were innocent because they self regulated their games and edited out the violence in titles like Mortal Kombat |
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| What was Sega's argument during the hearings? |
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| That they were already using a rating system and that the video game market was more mature now than it had been in years past. |
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| Who really escalated the fight between Sega and Nintendo and how? |
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| Howard Lincoln and Nintendo. He told the hearing that Sega was lieing, that the market hadn't matured, and said that sega had just adopted the ratings after Night Trap started to cause controversy. |
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| How did Sega respond in the senate fight? |
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| They showed a video of violent NES games and argued that Nintendo's self regulation didn't go far enough. |
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| What two organization were formed after the senate hearing and what were there purposes? |
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IDSA: Interactive Digital Software Association. served as a lobbying group for the game industry.
ESRB: Entertainment Software Rating Board. Served as a ratings organization. |
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| What year did the first senate year on video game violence take place? |
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| What new feature was added to Mortal Kombat 2 as a direct response to the senate hearing? |
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| The friendship option in addition to the usual fatalities. |
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| What was different between Mortal Kombat II for the SNES and the Genesis? |
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| Nothing, with ESRB, Nintendo no longer felt they needed their internal censorship so the Nintendo version was identical to the sega version. |
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