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To politicians and parents Mortal Kombat was a menace to society To gamers it was a way of life From dedicated hustlers who put thousands of miles on their odometers driving coast to coast to challenge the top players in arcades to fans who devote their free time to collecting action figures setting world records and plumbing the depths of its lore the Mortal Kombat franchise has topped sales charts for thirty years and its popularity shows no signs of waning

But before Mortal Kombat offended politicians and sold over 12 million units and counting executives at Midway saw it as fillera stopgap between more promising games like NBA Jam

Cocreators Ed Boon and John Tobias felt differently But not even they could have imagined the phenomenon Mortal Kombat would become when it hit arcades in October 1992 or the controversy that would follow in its wake

Based on extensive interviews Long Live Mortal Kombat Round 1 chronicles the arcade era of the video game industrys most infamous fighting series the creative and technical hurdles its team had to clear and the personal stories of the fans whose passion has made Mortal Kombat a pillar of popular culture