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Name: | Mortal Kombat |
Console: | Super Nintendo (SNES) |
Release Date: | 1992 |
Publisher: | Midway Games, Virgin Interactive, Acclaim Entertainment, THQ |
Genres: | Action, Fighting |
Mortal Kombat is an arcade fighting game developed and published by Midway Games in 1992 as the first title in the Mortal Kombat series. It was subsequently released by Acclaim Entertainment for nearly every home video game platform of the time. The game introduced many key aspects of the Mortal Kombat series, including the unique five-button control scheme and gory finishing moves. The game focuses on the journey of the monk Liu Kang to save Earth from the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung, ending with their confrontation in the tournament known as Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat became a best-selling game and remains one of the most popular fighting games in the genre's history, spawning numerous sequels and spin-offs over the following years and decades, beginning with Mortal Kombat II in 1993, and together with the first sequel was the subject of a successful film adaptation in 1995. It also sparked much controversy for its depiction of extreme violence and gore using realistic digitized graphics, resulting in the introduction of age-specific content descriptor ratings for video games. |
There are two components for playing a snes Mortal Kombat rom on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the snes OS and software.
The second component is the Mortal Kombat rom itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest snes9x – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading snes9x , extract the downloaded .rar file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the snes9x.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Mortal Kombat rom. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to snes9x and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .exe file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.
Emulator | Console | Platform | FileSize | Emulator |
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SNESDroid | Super Nintendo (SNES) | Android | 2.9MB | Download |
SnEM 0.02w | Super Nintendo (SNES) | Windows | 0.4MB | Download |
SNEeSe 0.8.53b | Super Nintendo (SNES) | Windows | 0.7MB | Download |
SuperRetro16 (SuperGNES) Lite | Super Nintendo (SNES) | Android | 8.5MB | Download |
Snes9x GX 4.3.7 | Super Nintendo (SNES) | Wii | 1.4MB | Download |