On March 31, 1994, Mortal Kombat, with the exception of the Game Boy version, was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. Johnny Cage is missing from the Game Boy version. For Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, however, a new playable character called Ermac was created. Midway put a scrambled message in the sequel Mortal Kombat II, which appears at the bottom of the screen after beating the game: "CEAMR ODSE NTO EXITS" (an anagram of "Ermac does not exist"), and the hidden character Jade randomly appeared right before a match with the message "Ermac Who?". ERMAC actually is short for "Error Macro", and no such character appears in Mortal Kombat. This led players to believe there was a hidden character called Ermac. On the diagnostics screen of the first arcade version of Mortal Kombat, there was a listing in the audit menu for "ERMACS". According to John Tobias, the team decided to shorten it. The original name for the character Goro was going to be Gongoro.The original name for the character Johnny Cage was going to be Michael Grimm.The name was taken from the Midway game programmer John Carlton, who worked for the NBA Jam arcade series. Johnny Cage's real name is John Carlton (according to the game's storyline).The original name for the character Sub-Zero was going to be Tundra.According to Ed Boon in statements to EGM Magazine, the original Mortal Kombat was created by four people in just eight months from start to finish.The original data files for Johnny Cage still bear the name "vandamme". Moreover, Cage's split punch is directly taken from a move Van Damme does in the movie. Johnny Cage's clothing is almost identical to that of Van Damme's character's from the 1988 movie Bloodsport. Jean Claude Van Damme was originally slated to play the part of Johnny Cage, but the deal fell through due to Van Damme being busy with his movie work.Since then, even with the ESRB, video games have actually increased in violence. The investigation caused SEGA to develop the Video Game Council, which would later evolve to the Entertainment Standards Review Board (ESRB). Mortal Kombat was one of the games Senator Joseph Lieberman centered his arguments on during the 1993 investigation by the United States Congress on extreme violence in video games. This is backwards history has proven that Johnny Cage is the most frequently chosen, while Sonya is the least. The manual states that "arcade machine statistics show that Johnny Cage is the least played character, while Sonya Blade is the most frequently chosen". Mortal Kombat appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott. Visual technique / style: Digitized sprites.Video games turned into board / card games.Germany Criminal Code confiscations (ยง131: Excess Violence).Games with manual lookup copy protection.It is notable for its use of digitized actors to represent the game's fighters, as well as its use of copious amounts of blood during gameplay. Mortal Kombat began its life as a 2-player arcade title. The Fatality is a move unique to each fighter that graphically kills the loser in a blood-soaked finale. When the opponent faces their second round loss, the winner can perform a finishing move called a "Fatality" on the loser. Fighting is set as one-on-one combat, allowing each player to perform a variety of punches, kicks, and special moves in order to defeat their opponent. Mortal Kombat is a side-scrolling fighting game. As the last tournament required draws near, Raiden, Thunder God and protector of the Earth Realm, enacts a plan to tip the scales in the humans' favor, Seven fighters step into the arena on Shang Tsung's mysterious island: Shaolin warrior Liu Kang, Special Forces operative Sonya Blade, the mercenary thug Kano, fame-seeking actor Johnny Cage, the ice-wielding Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero and his undead adversary Scorpion, and Raiden himself. Goro has been reigning supreme as the undefeated fighting champion for five hundred years now. Knowing that if ten tournaments in a row were won by the Outworld champion, the Earth Realm would be conquered by evil and fall into darkness, Shang entered Goro in the tournament and had him defeat the great Kung Lao. Shang was accompanied by Prince Goro, a warrior of the Shokan race (a four-armed half-human / half-dragon). Five hundred years ago, an ancient and well respected Shaolin fighting tournament, held every 50 years, was corrupted by an evil and elderly sorcerer by the name of Shang Tsung.
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