Ports were made for home consoles, and a sequel, In Your House, was released a short time after. The Undertaker batters Razor Ramon with a cartoon tombstone in WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. For example, rather than The Undertaker’s tombstone being a finisher where the opponent’s head would explode on impact, it was a literal cartoon tombstone that the Deadman would batter his opponents with. The game was less of a wrestling simulator and more of a traditional arcade fighter, with wrestlers’ moves being heightened and reinterpreted to fit the Mortal Kombat style.īy that, we don’t mean adding a tremendous amount of gore. It was a style defined as Midway’s signature look, later being utilized for the NBA Jam series and eventually their own WWF fighter, WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. Yes, somehow there was more than one season), you can watch the show on youtube, and it is as gloriously ridiculous as you imagined.Īside from all the fireball throwing, spine ripping, and dick punching, another thing that made Mortal Kombat stand out was its photo-real digitized fighters. Hosted by Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon (for the first season at least. Renamed the WMAC Masters, the premise was that the World Martial Arts Council would kayfabe batter each other about for the legendary Battle Star trophy. WMAC Masters was an American live-action television show featuring choreographed martial arts fights. WWF pulled out of the project, but a year later, the show, or at least one similar in design, would see the light of day without the federation backing it. They decided to do their best Hacksaw Jim Duggan impersonation by refusing to do the job for anyone, despite the possible money from live shows and merchandise. "The idea was to create a studio, and have an indoor arena, and you would take these great karate fighters from around the world, and pit them against each other culminating in a tournament and a champion at the end of the season."Īccording to Bruce, the show never happened due to the fighters having bigger egos than the WWF superstars. "The idea was to produce a Saturday morning, half-hour, ‘battle art’ show, for lack of a better term," Prichard began. Bruce Pritchard confirmed the rumors during episode 25 of Something To Wrestle. In late 1993, there were rumors that Vince McMahon was potentially starting a new Saturday morning show, one that was inspired by video games such as Mortal Kombat, which blurred the lines of fantasy and reality in the same way as professional wrestling. The Mortal Kombat Inspired Vince McMahon Saturday Morning Show that Never Was That’s what we’re here to talk about today. No, wrestling may not have inspired Mortal Kombat (at least not until later on anyway), but Mortal Kombat as sure as Goro’s balls has inspired wrestling. Street Fighter has the ravishing Russian Zangief, Tekken has the jaguar (not Tiger) masked King, and Dead Or Alive has the physic defying and ridiculous bounciness of Tina. Strangely enough, off the top of my head, I can’t think of a single "wrestler" Mortal Kombat character. The pro wrestling fighting game and a Mortal Kombat movie are like cousins on the same side of the family tree." "Fighting games became taking pro wrestling moves out of the ring and putting it back into a real-world setting. It can happen five nights a week, ad nauseam. He continued, "If somebody gets powerbombed in real life, chances are they’re not getting back up from that. "If you think of what pro wrestling is," Excalibur explained, "it’s real-life taken to an extreme." The two hold many similarities, a sentiment AEW commentator Excalibur had when promoting the new Mortal Kombat movie in an interview with. Colorful and varied characters competing against each other using moves that would kill a person in real life? Sounds a bit like pro wrestling and the legendary Mortal Kombat video game franchise! "GET OVER HERE!!!" was a familiar sound that emulated from arcades and homes across the world in the early ’90s. A special gift from us awaits after signing up! Mortal Kombat and Its Influence on Professional Wrestling Sign up to receive our five most popular pro wrestling stories, plus subscriber-exclusive content each week. We have hundreds of great Pro Wrestling Stories, but of course, you can’t read them all today. Here are eleven times the video game franchise rocked the world of sports entertainment, for better, and in some cases, for worse! AJ Lee and Glacier Mortal Kombat inspired artwork. Mortal Kombat has inspired professional wrestling tremendously since the ’90s.
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