Your birth year
2006
Mortal Kombat
1993Fighting
Mortal Kombat is 13 years older than you
It's from 1993, before you were born.
- Developer
- Midway
- Genre
- Fighting
- Debut
- Arcade (1992)
- Creators
- Ed Boon, John Tobias
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About
As of 2026, it's 33 years old.
Mortal Kombat arrived in 1992 with digitized actors, buckets of blood, and 'Fatalities' so over-the-top that it personally helped get the entire video game ratings system invented. Concerned parents, meet your villain.
Beyond the moral panic, it was a genuinely great fighting game with a secret-move culture so intense that 'Toasty!' and the cheat codes spread by playground whisper network.
Brutal, bloody, and historically important for reasons its creators probably didn't intend, Mortal Kombat is the fighting game that was so violent it accidentally regulated an industry.
