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evildead2099
04-07-2007, 02:06 AM
Since 2D fighting games were big business in the mid 1990s, I was wondering, did Nintendo pressure the team behind Mortal Kombat 1 to censor its Super Famicom (read: Japanese) port of the game? I'm curious since some articles I recently came across suggest that it was Nintendo of America that was censorship crazy moreso than it was Nintendo as a whole (Nintendo of Japan didn't force religious imagery, partial nudity, and images of death / gore to be censored out of Japanese ports of Castlevania games, for instance) .

Was it merely the North American port of MK that Nintendo had butchered, or did the same fate befall the Japanese port (I'm assuming that there was a Japanese port, even though I don't imagine that it was nearly at hot a commodity as it was in North America).

Bloodreign
04-07-2007, 08:19 AM
The Japanese port has no blood in it, and worst of all MK 2 Japan got blood that was green, and fatalities greyed the screen. For once a game in the US wasn't censored like one overseas in Japan. The Japanese MK 1 definitely is a harder game, the US one was a foot sweepers dream come true, Johnny Cage was one fighter you could foot sweep to obivion in the US version, in the Japanese version he'll learn to block very quickly and turn the tables on you. MK 1 SFC also has a 4 or 5 continue limit, the US one has unlimited continues.

evildead2099
04-08-2007, 01:53 AM
Green blood, huh? I would have expected that from a European port (specifically, one intended for sale in Germany) but never from a Japanese port!

Were MK1's fatalities altered in the Super Famicom port?

XxHennersXx
04-08-2007, 03:37 AM
Green blood, huh? I would have expected that from a European port (specifically, one intended for sale in Germany) but never from a Japanese port!

Were MK1's fatalities altered in the Super Famicom port?

yes it was