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Mortal Kombat, 1995
Mortal Kombat revolutionized gaming with its realistic character sprites rendered from live actors and its unprecedented levels of blood and gore. The lurid special effects and bloody finishing moves called "fatalities" attracted millions of loyal fans, setting the franchise up perfectly for a Hollywood adaptation. Mortal Kombat features Robin Shou, right, as the warrior monk Liu Kang, who, along with several other representatives of Earth, fights in the Mortal Kombat martial-arts competition in order to save the planet from the denizens of a dimension called Outworld.

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