Random: Nintendo Embraces Mortal Kombat In Stark Contrast To '90s Censorship

FATALI... No, wait... FRIENDSHIP!

If you were to go back to 1993 and tell the likes of US Senator Joe Lieberman and Nintendo of America's Vice President Howard Lincoln that Nintendo would one day host a video of Mortal Kombat that features eye-gouging, decapitation, and neck-breaking, they'd both probably break out in a cold sweat.

Yet here we are! Thirty years after the infamous Senate Hearings regarding the depiction of violence in video games - namely Mortal Kombat and Night Trap - and not only does Nintendo play host to a number of so-called "violent" video games on its flagship platform, but it is also openly advertising NetherRealm's latest fighting game, Mortal Kombat 1, on its official YouTube channel.

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