Mortal Kombat Creator Breaks Silence on 30-Year-Long Street Fighter Feud After All the Trash Talk

Since 1992, Mortal Kombat has gone from a hit video game series to a vast multimedia empire fueled by the franchise's groundbreaking (and controversial) violence and fatalities. The '90s franchise was such a phenomenon when it first came out that it even inspired a hit feature film just 3 years later, and a pretty damn good one at that. With incredibly fun special effects, an unforgettable villain performance from the late great Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and one of the best theme songs of all time, it's no wonder why the ahead-of-its-time action movie grossed over 6x its reported budget.