Mom VS Mortal Kombat in 1992 - CENSORED VERSION 🚫

[@MyRetroLife]

Hey guys! KZbin demonetized the original upload. This is a new reuploaded version with censored images. For the UNCENSORED version click here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5qqnK2PeJZpe9k If you took the time to watch this again, I applaud you and thank you. 😁

[@harveywilliams6576]

Dam it KZbin

[@asianpussykat33]

lol I was wondering.. I’m like I know I watched this before 😂

[@KobraKai2388]

I can’t believe KZbin made you censor one of your videos. You have some of the most wholesome content on KZbin. And c’mom, a 30+ year old game that is hardly even offensive in today’s world.

[@martinseitune3787]

😢😢

[@Xx_HD_xX]

2023 & you still have to censor Mortal Kombat.

[@Zieksmythe]

Whoever put mortal kombat in that community center was a boss lol

[@robertrobert9992]

My parents were war refugees so the violence was no where near what they had experienced. They didn’t have any issues with us playing it. They gave us constant reminders to draw a line between reality and entertainment.

[@michaelcoulter1725]

And most American parents don't teach their kids that they just assume that oh it's a violent video game we need to bet it from our house rather than sit down with our son or daughter and tell them the difference between reality and fantasy well I'm not a dad myself but I am an uncle and I'm going to teach my nephew about that stuff when the time's right he's a little baby right now but when he grows up I'll teach him the difference between fantasy and reality

[@dgates8097]

Sound like you had great parents!

[@michaelcoulter1725]

@@dgates8097 yeah my parents we're real chill they weren't too strict and they weren't too loose it was just in the middle and that's how you supposed to raise kids because you don't want your kids to run all over you but then again you don't want your kids to hate you at the same time

[@Gamers_Heaven762]

They let u play any to all of the GTAs as a kid?

[@utterlybrilliant]

Mortal Kombat was next to Street Fighter 2 at my local video store. My dad would give my brother and I some coins to play after we had picked out our videos. He didn't care at all how violent it was! I got it later on the Mega Drive. Great times. R.I.P Dad.

[@BENZK-j9t]

Cool dad, and must of had a dad that liked games to buy a mega drive.$$$$ We knew a kid who had a Neo geo his dad was playing more than us.

[@leeartlee915]

I remember my mom asking me “what game are you playing all day at the arcade?” I explained it, it in gory detail. Her follow up question? “Are you winning?” She is one of a kind.

[@dcbfan1231]

I was a 7 year old second grader when this game released and my classmates and I would pretended to be Sub-Zero, Scorpion, and other MK characters pretend fighting against each other. That’s how big of an impact this game was back then. It was incredible.

[@officegossip]

Yup, this Street Fighter and WWF.

[@Docshock92]

I was born the year when this game came out (1992) and it was the first game I ever played before I was even in kindergarten

[@gurgamous]

the great thing about mk is it took the fun and camp of 80s action and martial arts flicks and pop culture (big trouble in little china, blood sport etc) and made a hard R fighting video game out of it. The novelty of digitized graphics of the time helped a ton as well. What's not to love? No wonder it became the cultural phenomena it did.

[@wetsu7648]

the OG Mortal Kombat arcade was just amazing - that F-Bomb story was just hilarious 🤣couldn't stop laughing. Great video and the tie in to Big Trouble and Little China was just the "chef's kiss"

[@mr.tie-rex9577]

Now teens and kids are f-bombing in games online these days, hearing that stuff brings me back to playing Call of Duty Black Ops back in the day.

[@skullkrusher4078]

Hats off to the guy who okay'd and/or decided to have both MK and SFII arcade cabinets installed in the community clubhouse. Dude is a legend.

[@davidbarlee4722]

A community center with swimming pool, table tennis, Arcade etc..... sounds like a great place to live !

[@thezeddy]

I think all of our moms would look on us in horror if they saw the new mortal kombats

[@trila182]

Mortal kombat 1992 it's like bible study. compared to mortal combat 11.

[@jimmybernard449]

ALL TRUE

[@joshuacruz4244]

It's only gotten far more extreme. But it's entertainment and just a game at the end of the day. No different from Hollywood.

[@vision821k4]

I don't know, people can grow. My mom was the same way, now she plays The Division, Red Dead 2, Mad Max, etc. I think a lot of people have realized video games do not make a monster, if anything, the violence in video games actually turns me off to real violence. It makes me think about people who have sadly had to deal with a lot of these situations in real life.

[@svenwald9199]

@@vision821k4 how old is your mom?

[@mjdf122]

What A Time I’ve Been Blessed To See All Of Gaming From 1980-Now

[@bildo1977]

“Buy me BoneStorm or go to hell!” lol

[@KnickKiller]

My parents had gotten MK for my brother and I on Game Boy. We went to my grandparents one time and brought it with us and played it that night. The next morning the game was gone and neither of my grandparents knew where it went. I’m pretty sure either they or my parents got wind of the violence in the game and threw it out. Never did get 100% confirmation on that even though I asked years down the road.

[@manamedia]

Mortal Kombat changed the face of Beat Em Up games forever! It was one of the first games to come with a PG R Rating on the home console, and it was the only game in the Arcade in Australia that had a curtain draped around it! It is still, to this day, my ultimate favourite game of all time.

[@MrKywildman]

I turned 7 after that summer..i had 2 older cousins that i played games with..they got me into it..but when it came out to SNES i couldnt tell you how many controllers we went through..i mean during the weekend it was all out war..i can still see the 2 milk crates in front of my bedroom tv lol.. these stories and videos bring back so many good memories.. thanks for sharing

[@Squiggles95]

Always a great day when we get a new My Retro Life video!

[@zombl337og]

still my favorite fighting game to date, and MK1 looks super crisp and dope

[@shaggymcdaniel3216]

I remember my local Pizza Hut had a Mortal Kombat 2 arcade cabinet. And my mom bought me the game for SNES. It wasn’t until after the 2nd one that I saw the 1st at my babysitters house, on SNES. The sweat instead of blood thing turned me off.

[@cleetusvandame]

The good old simple days where anything went. A slice of pizza and pop for $3, still leaving a few quarters to play MK with greasy pizza hands lol. Oh man how I miss those days. I own all the MK arcade machines and the original MK is still the one I play the most. It's partner in crime SF2 HF sits right beside it and one I play frequently. These games are not just games, they are memories etched in our minds forever. Thank you for sharing, really enjoyed this!

[@christopherwhite2223]

I was 11 in 1992 when mortal kombat came out in arcades. I played a lot of street fighter before that and I saw mortal kombat not knowing what it was and of course I lose to subzero and the computer ripped my head off and I never stopped playing. I'm 41 now and still play mortal kombat and look forward to the next one. About the only game I play anymore lol

[@ryankowalski3670]

I was in my teenage years when this came out. i remember it vividly watching the screen in awe about how could the graphics look so realistic, and so violent! i was obsessed

[@opo3628]

My mom never said anything about it -- she couldn't have cared less about video games and had no opinion on them one way or the other. My dad fluctuated between, "I *never* want to see you playing this filth!" and "It's OK if you play it...just keep in mind that it's all fantasy." -- it really depended on his mood.

[@191desperado]

These stories are like opening a time portal that only stays open for a few seconds and then closes. Those few seconds are really really awesome though.

[@Rotary_Phone]

Mortal Kombat was a true phenomenon. You'd have to have lived it to understand the hype at the time. I think about those "good ol days" every day! Now I'm 40 years old, and wondering where all the time went.

[@phylozix11]

I'm surprised your parents didn't say "Get over here" and whip you with a belt like mine did when saying a bad word I didn't know at the time.

[@plotskosisii312]

It may look dated now but in 1992-1993 with Mortal Kombat and its digitized graphics it was pretty shocking. I was only 8 years old at the time. I remember walking into a time-out at the mall and seeing MK 2 in the wild for the first time. No internet back then so I didnt even know there was a new Mortal Kombat. Its a core memory for me.

[@CaptAwesumNo1Zone]

From what I remember my Mom didn't have a problem with me playing the game, I think she realized early on what it was, I was the lucky few, I knew too many Mom's that said "NO!"

[@cdawg441906]

But I didn’t say fudge…. I say THE word… the Queen Mother of dirty words… the F dash, dash, dash word 😂

[@The90sGamingGuy]

Great story of your exposure to this iconic game. When Mortal Kombat came out i was six years old. I played the Genesis version first without blood, then SNES and in 1993 i played the non sanitized arcade version. Still an excellent game to this day. I would play the game with my dad in 1995 and in my mid 20s.

[@VanJR.]

I was 5 years old when I was exposed to the original MK. I was at a Mexican restaurant with my cousins and uncles. I see this arcade cabinet and my cousin tells me”this is the new MK” (he was 9 y/o) and ever since I’ve been hooked.

[@someonejust5062]

Honestly as a parent I can’t blame your mom for feeling that way because during that time video games were portrayed for kids and MK original was the original Pioneers of Blood and gore

[@remakeyourself]

Man, remember when every mom in the neighborhood had an opinion on Mortal Kombat? Our neighbor across the street told ALL the neighborhood parents that her kids weren't allowed to play Mortal Kombat at our houses if any of us had it (all of us had it). My mom turned to me, an 8 year old, and said "Okay. You can play it, but listen to me (most sarcastic voice possible) - I better never hear of you ripping someone's heart out of their chest at recess, ok?". It wasn't desensitization, I think her mocking the game and how over-the-top it was made me realize it wasn't something worth mimicking. The mom who banned MK in our neighborhood is still to this day a crazy religious person who constantly conflates political views she disagrees with as opposing religious views. Guess I dodged a bullet in the Mom lottery :)

[@markvandermolen7181]

Watched the initial video already, watching this again to support your great channel!

[@stevethebeast150]

Great video as always keep up the hard work. Love the video keep them coming

[@MyRetroLife]

Thanks! Will do!

[@TedDiabetes]

With "Enter The Dragon" being the most obvious influence, "Big Trouble in Little China" was the other. Ed Boon and John Tobias jave talked about it in numerous interviews.

[@rogerkreil3314]

Mortal Kombat got us a couple months without being able to rent a Super Nintendo. And then the next time we rented a Super Nintendo, we could only rent Street Fighter II. We took Mortal Kombat to our family Christmas gathering and got in trouble.

[@georgecole2448]

I remember my Dad wouldn’t let me play Mortal Kombat as a kid. When I got older, he didn’t mind.

[@samyb4566]

At what age did he let you play the game?

[@georgecole2448]

Well it did have a reputation of concern when it originally came out with parents how it can influence kids in real life. With me I knew that that wouldn’t happen as I got older and even told him once when I was 13 and he even asked my older Brother about it who was also familiar from playing it back in the day when he was younger and he mentioned how it wasn’t as bad of a game as my parents thought so since, he didn’t mind me playing it.

[@jeffrielly]

"Mom, what does F*** mean???" Lol

[@akoww1000]

I was 19 when MK came out, I remember the first time I saw the game at my local arcade. There was a crowd of people around it all night, so I didn't get to play it. The next day I came in early to check it out and I ended up playing against the Acrade owner lol He kicked my ass pretty fast, but I loved it. He told me he hasn't had a game so popular and made him so much money since Dragons Layer came out. a couple weeks after summer ended he ordered a 2nd machine and still after school hours and the weekends there was a very long line to play it. By the end of 1992, he had three machines and kids would skip school to play it. Parents complained so much that the police would visit arcades that had the game during school hours. I saved a lot of money once it was released on Sega but it was never as good as the arcade version

[@zekarou7831]

My first introduction to MK was in middle school in the 90s. I joined a computer course and my teacher had it (MK1 - DOS version) installed on his PC. He would let us playing it after we finished our task. I knew Street Fighter before but MK was something else. I was hooked instantly and became a die hard fan until now. 🙂

[@Dogecoinmuskelon]

Hey man this video really made my day brings back so many memories you nailed it with this upload got all these chills and vibes. Thank You Sir.

[@JXC98]

My step grandmother worked for midway in the 80s making pinball machines! Blew my 25 year old mind finding out Midway was established in my hometown. I was born at the wrong time 😢

[@LouieGMDesign]

I still enjoy the Mortal Kombat franchise. I remember going go the arcade as a child to watch the grown ups playing the game. This game was certainly not for children to play. As I grew older, I played more of the game especially the first, second, and third one.

[@cgimovieman]

I think you’re about 5-6 years younger than me, but around 1988 to 1996 was the very peak of my gaming obsession. I had a NES, a SNES, a Genesis, a Sega CD and a Game Gear. In addition to playing games in arcades at times. I was always more of a Street Fighter II fan, but I also liked Mortal Kombat. And I absolutely acknowledge it’s cultural significance. It essentially created the rating system for games. And it stirred such controversy. There was just nothing quite like it at the time. I was never very good at MK, but it used to be fun for me to just watch other people play it at arcades. I never actually owned a copy of it on a home console, but I rented it sometimes for my SNES. And I saw the live action movie in 1995. Which at the time, I really did like. Even though today it looks very dated.

[@terrydavis1331]

My mom didn’t know I was next door playing MK😂 I had the ultimate Mortal Kombat for the Super Nintendo a couple years later. One of my favorite games back then

[@Dreamy1894]

When I was 4 yes we were all talking about MK and having MK themed fights every recess it was a phenomenon we all became like possessed, and I was a ninja for like 3 Halloweens straight.

[@sonic-bb]

What's crazy is, I had mk2 on Sega when I was a kid. And was not bothered by the gore at all. I really didn't think anything of it at the time. Killer instinct used to scare me tho

[@_mytopfive]

Really enjoying your channel. I remember bringing home Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for SNES and leaving the box on the counter. My dad or mom put a bookmark on it that said something like "I have more fun than violent video games, I read books". Being a rebellious child, I of course put the box over their well intentioned bookmark. Fortunately, I loved to play video games AND read, so it wasn't so bad for them 😆

[@pancake3576]

my dad was a big fan of james bond movies, which lead my dad to allow me to play more mature rated games, since both my dad and i loved playing 007 mp and mortal kombat 4 together.

[@HKIEF511]

Dude I thought you were going to say “fatality” to your mom not that lol.

[@mrfishmon5517]

Im 43. I love your videos for the 90’s fashion, oversized spectacles, perms and poodle haircuts. Good times 👍🏻

[@InfernoD26]

I liked hearing your back story on mortal kombat. My parents were fans of mortal kombat I remember they use to play and so did I we had every single mortal kombat game that came out

[@Supersmallchibiwolf]

It sucks that they censored the original video. KZbin puts ads on horror game gameplay why would they take ads away for simple game violence. KZbin is weird. Cool video. ^_^

[@billycausey4277]

youtube shows ads with decapitations in them for horror films.. I don't get this.

[@mariokart8715]

It has gotten worse since 2020.

[@Supersmallchibiwolf]

@Billy Causey I also saw weird ads on KZbin. Sometimes it's weird but funny because it's on KZbin. ^_^

[@Supersmallchibiwolf]

@@mariokart8715 I know It does get weirder and sometimes worse every year. ^_^

[@binho2224]

For some weird stupid reason, the media does not treat video games as other form of entertainment and art. It is ok to watch horror violent movies; It is fine to listen to violent hard music talking about murder. But a video game? Oohhhhh no, it will turn us into true cold bloody murderers or violent people. Most of us played MK at young age at the time and we are not violent at all, we all turned out ok at least. This treatment and attempt to "censor" video games still happens to this day, to some extend.

[@Raging_Red_Bulls]

They should see today’s video games !!!! Cammy 🍑 😂

[@Aragorn7884]

Imagine if MK11 fatalities existed in 1992 🤯🤣

[@MyRetroLife]

Oh my gosh I think my Mom would have killed me for playing it

[@Aragorn7884]

@@MyRetroLife 🤷😁😂

[@vangk0]

I'm glad you had a great retro game childhood. even though I was never given the luxury gaming experience like you and your family, but watching your videos allow me to experience it with you...and I rather have that than buying all the retro games to make up lost times. Because of your videos, I can now move on to other amazing things in life, like reading or history. You are consider a mature gamer to me because of your childhood gamming experience and how you are dealing with it now. You are a rare retro gamer because most retro gamers are still seeking closer either by, collecting or reliving it. You are content with it and that is rare, I only seen 3 people like you....and your the 3rd.

[@majorlooks8702]

You is funny 😂the story about the “teenager’s saying the “F” word had me rollin 🤣🤣

[@211inprogress]

You don't normally Get Mom and Mortal Kombat in the same sentence.

[@gregoriocruz4530]

My mom never kept us from playing violent video games or watching violent movies. We were actually the first to rent MK on SNES at our local rental place. They were barely going to put it into their system.

[@skullkidgames7404]

My parents bought me one of those personal hand held Mortal Kombat games in the 90’s from Tiger, I cried when I accidentally left it in a restaurant. I’ll never forget that.

[@ogre706]

Gotta love the soccer moms of mainstream news talking about stuff they think they know anything about.

[@adventureisoutthere.3857]

And here my 9 year old. Is loving MC 11 😂. And is super hyped for 1lol

[@sicproductions7911]

Well said great video 👍🏼my first experience was running into it at a arcade area at a six flags fiesta Texas was in shock watching older kids play it to watching a hearing them talk about the moves and fatalities 😮i was hooked a fighting game with blood and gore😮 and to add so much mysteries to the games secrets it truly was a special time in fighting games history I always thought that too about big trouble in little china and Mortal Kombat 💪🏼✌🏼

[@bencox5994]

Awesome memory dude! Just found your channel, really enjoy it.

[@claytonjones8358]

Thanks for mentioning Big Trouble...I used to tell all my friends that's where Rayden came from.

[@Riz2336]

I find it funny how mortal kombat was such a controversial game where now a days it’s pretty tame

[@Rob-rx3jw]

I was 8 when this came out. My mom was pretty hip to know that I was old enough to understand fantasy vs. reality, so she let me play.

[@ElricSowrd]

My first real experience with Mortal Kombat was when my older brothers played Mortal Kombat II on Genesis owned by our neighbor. The Super Nintendo Version of Mortal Kombat 1 was the censored version from what I've heard.

[@Frate2112]

This may be my new favorite channel

[@joelyjowell3]

Your dad was a top G for not banning you lmao

[@grgmj1980]

When MK1 came out in arcade’s I was 12 years old. There was a Biker Bar a few hundred feet from my house and the owner was cool enough to let us in and play MK1. My friends and I were the only ones playing the game. So it was nice having a MK1 arcade just a few steps away from home.

[@AndresCruzBass]

I thought you were going to ask your mom "What does FATALITY means?"

[@ArahabakinoKami]

MK also has come to my attention back when I was 6-7 years old (between 94-95). Not sure if my dad played it first on our SNES or if I saw it at the arcade. But I never got in trouble for a very simple reason: it terrified me. I was a very impressionable child, so violent stuff, even cartoony, scared me a lot. So I was always more of a Street Fighter person, haha.

[@sub-negrodacryomancer7372]

I started gaming with Ultimate MK3. My mother played it with me & bought every MK that was released. She is a gamer just like me. 💙

[@78zappaf]

I remembered in the mid 80's this commodore 64 game which you could win by decapitation (almost like an Atari/Coleco graphic style Mortal Kombat). It was shocking then when seeing it. Who knew years later this would come out in the arcades.

[@LooseGooseGamer]

i remember talking about mortal combat 4 in 3rd grade and realizing my childhood was different from other kids. i got exposed to things very early.

[@gilius2k156]

Nice footage you archived! In the UK we only have one similar photo to show for our arcade history.

[@shortbus1127]

MOM didn't fuck around 😂😂💯💯💯👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@cadecrusader]

This is funny lol 😂 especially when your mom stops the car and got mad about saying the F word.

[@erfolgsbegleiter149]

People today can no longer imagine what was said about video games back then. My father was always someone who trusted what was in his newspapers. It said: video games make you stupid. violent. disobedient. Video games make you regress, and so on and so on. And that's exactly what I was constantly confronted with: "Don't play for too long or you'll become stupid!" The bottom line is: a friend of mine was even encouraged by his parents to do this and now has a big KZbin channel where he talks about games, among other things, and earns a lot of money. For me, video games still have negative connotations, but it's different from what my father thought of video games: what could I experience if I spent my life outside? Or learn something? These are my thoughts when it comes to video games.

[@seekeroftruth101]

You're a great story teller and sounds like you had awesome parents and a wonderful, memorable childhood. Keep up your great work. Fyi, I grew up as a kid in the 80s too, so we share nearly the same age. Great times!

[@nukeboynez3648]

Oh Dude, My mom was just like yours when Mortal Kombat came out, it was all over the news and got a bad rep, people were talking about the brutality of it and how it influences kids in a bad way. My mom freaked out and forbade me playing it or watching the movie.

[@Reason4Termination]

Pretty sure the guy that installed Mortal Kombat in your daycare was trolling so hard haha

[@GIBALLS]

For as violent as the game was considered at the time, I remember there being one right in the middle of my local Pizza Hut where everyone in the place could see it while they were eating. And I guess no one ever complained because it stayed there for at least a year and a half or more.

[@adewilson132]

@ToeTagACommie what are you talking about? Plenty of parents back then wanted the game banned and there were government meetings about banning violent video games. There were parents back then who wanted to ban arcades all together and some successfully did that in their towns. There were also parents back then who wanted heavy metal banned and hip hop as well.

[@The_Norse_Gael]

I’m around the same age you and I remember asking my mother to let me have a copy back in the 90s. Thing was my mother didn’t really care at all what I played/watched as long as I was quiet. I was watching Robocop, Aliens, Total Recall and all that good stuff back then so she was instantly like “yeah whatever ya want”. Probably not the best parenting choice but I turned out ok! But it probably helped me become the gory horror-movie loving metalhead guy I am today, and still playing MK! 🤘🏻 😆

[@Silem2006]

I had SNES at my dad's and Sega Genesis at my mom's and I remember playing MK on the Genesis and my mom walked in and saw the blood and had to have a discussion with me haha; "You need to know this is just a game, it's not real. We don't do things like this in real life."

[@marcrisa6352]

I remember getting Street Fighter 2 when asking for Mortal Kombat, guess they thought SF2 was a less violent version of the same type of game. But ended up loving street fighter all the same.

[@bud9450]

Tyler- Maah, what does Fuck mean??... Mom- 'What the FUCK did YOU just SAY?!?!?...'

[@aestheticstorm]

MK was banned in my house. But I secretly played it anyway on Genesis when mom wasn't home (I got it from the "school marketplace"). When MK3 came out on PS1, I was old enough to buy it with my own money. Soon after, my friend called the house. My mom answered and called for me to pick up the phone (in the ancient times of one land line per house). When I picked up, my friend immediately exclaimed "Did you get it!?" -- Of course my mom was still listening and that peaked her interest to listen longer. As you might guess, I was immediately arrested without bail.

[@franzfleur7472]

You reminded me how I picked up much of my lesser speech from watching the older kids at the arcade lol For me it was when Street Fighter first showed up =] The first time I ever played MK was when it arrived at Albertsons, the grocery store my grandparents always went to, kind of shocking to find it there but there it was in all its glory lol

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

I need to ask! Was “House of the Dead” a part of your gaming life? I would love to relieve the nostalgia of that game!

[@mentholmind]

Youtoob vs. MK in 2023 pixels are raal?

[@raheelsiddiq1057]

I would have been terrified like hell during my childhood.

[@WarPigMCC]

Lol. I asked my grandma the same question about the same exact word and I remember it well. Funny. She said after a second, "it means to go up inside someone". LOL! LMAO! How weird

[@blastkillskank]

The ptsd I have from my mom not letting me play Mortal Kombat made me dress up as Scorpion for like 5 halloweens straight... I couldn't own a MK game until I was 18 lol. It came out when i was like 10.

[@Moyanskiondaspatyoriskiyow]

I remember seeing this the first time in my neighbor's house. Very wild game back in the day

[@MyRetroLife]

Unlike anything else at the time!

[@Cadeho3]

I missed out on the arcade, but I had both MK and SF2... I remember the fuss over Mortal Kombat and talking about it in middle school. I got it for both the Gensis and SNES.

[@dontreadtoomuchintomycomment]

It's so interesting when you realize that not everyone grew up dirt poor.

[@seanlavelle344]

My brother bought Diablo two, but my Dad wouldn't let him play it. The store refused to refund the money due to the game box being opened. Mortal Kombat flew under radar since we didn't bring it up that we played it at friends house after the Diablo 2 experience.