Topic: Mortal Kombat World Record?

I saw this as one of the world records for the Mortal Kombat series:

Earliest one-on-one fighting game to use digitized sprites: The 1992 launch of Mortal Kombat offered something that no other beat-’em-up had. In addition to ultra-violence and killing moves, it presented a brand new level of realism through the use of digitized sprites. Rather than using hand-drawn animation characters, the sprites used were based on graphics created using digitized footage of real actors.

Uh, no. This isn't the first one-on-one fighting game to use digitized sprites. This honor goes to Pit Fighter, which came out in 1990. Tell me if I'm right or not or what you think of this.

One of the many reasons I laugh at the "credibility" of Guiness when it comes to video games.

wtf, didn't Prince of Persia use rotoscoping? i'm pretty sure that'd count, and it came out in '89. lol disregard that, for some reason i missed the 'one-on-one fighter' part of the description :3

Well it does say "one-one fighter" - Pit Fighter was three players and not of the taditional Street Fighter style (since you can move around Final Fight style) so I suppose that's what they're getting up. Prince of Persia was definately not a one-on-one fighter and rotoscoping is different to digitising in that the Prince of Persia's character was filmed then drawn over. Mortal Kombat puts the original footage straight into the game without re-drawing it. Rotoscoped films include Snow White and A Scanner Darkly - Mortal Kombat is more like just filming any film with a camera instead.

Also, to be fair, Pit Fighter and Mortal Kombat were both made by the same company.

i think, with world records. it`s all to do how the title is worded.
"first digitized sprites in a video game" would be different to "first digitized sprites in a one on one fighting game".
all the sub categorising can lead many people scratching there heads sometimes, including myself.

@weird - like madgear said, they get away with it by using kind of a strange definition for what it was first at.

@tbd - rotoscoping isn't quite the same thing and it wasn't a one-on-one fighter. Out of This World/EuropeanTitleICan'tRemember (Interplay game for Mac/PC/SNES/Genesis) came out around '89 too and also used rotoscoping.

I suppose it doesn't really matter that Mortal Kombat controlled and looked like complete . It was first....to something.

The European title is Another World - and that's the original title too since it's a European game

And Mortal Kombat was the first to something - age rating for a video game. Or did Night Trap beat it to it?

That's it. Was right on the tip of my mind-tongue.

Atari games made Pit Fighter, not Midway.

Regarding the rotoscope discussion, didn't Karateka use it? It came out several years before the other two games mentioned did.

No, Mortal Kombat (specifically the Genesis version, with its gory mode hidden behind a not-secret-for-very-long code) and Night Trap were the two games that collectively made the feds demand a rating system.
Right, Pit Fighter and Mortal Kombat were made by different companies, that only merged many years after the games were made.

If You want real Mortal Kombat records, Just go to Twin Galaxies... You big dummy.

Yea, I thought about this to. I wasn't sure though that Pit Fighter counted as a one-on-one fighter. By the way, Pit Fighter was made by the old Atari, and Mortal Kombat was made by Midway, although I guess they are the same company now.

Actually Atari Games, an independent spin-off company from Atari. Wikipedia says its because Warner only sold the computer/home rights and kept the arcade rights, though. Others say the feds told Atari they were too large and had to split.