Midway Games initially launched Mortal Kombat as a 2D fighting game in 1992.
Mortal Kombat, released by Midway, launched in arcades on October 8, 1992, and soon became a big coin-op sensation. Scorpion, Johnny Cage, Sub-Zero, and Sonya Blade became household names - at least among the children of families. And it pioneered a new degree of bone-crunching, spine-tearing graphic realism in computer games that had never been seen before, resulting in lots of financial success but also much of criticism. While Mortal Kombat arose in the aftermath of Street Fighter II's massive global popularity in 1991, it wasn't Capcom's amazing one-on-one World Warrior release that had had the most effect.
Related On This Day
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Raaj Kumar, a Hindi cinema actor, was born in Loralai, Balochistan, British India, in 1926.
Rekha, a Bollywood actress, was born in Madras, India, in 1954.
In 1975, former US President Bill Clinton marries future US Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham in their home room in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in a Methodist ceremony.
Christopher Reeve, an American actor, died in 2004 at the age of 52 as a result of an allergic reaction to an antibiotic.
The Indian Air Force was founded in 1932.
In 2011, Jagjit Singh, an Indian musician and ghazal maestro, was awarded the Padma Bhushan.
James Franklin Hyde, the American inventor who invented silica, died in 1999 at the age of 96.
Captain James Cook arrived in New Zealand at Poverty Bay in 1769.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentine Marxist revolutionary and surgeon, was killed in Bolivia in 1967 at the age of 39.
In 1945, a civil war broke out in China between the Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong's Communist Party.
Amitabh Bachchan, an Indian actor, was born in Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1942.
Guru Dutt, an Indian Bollywood actor and one of the finest film directors of all time, died of an accidental overdose in 1964 at the age of 39.
In 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a women's rights and education campaigner was shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she attempted to board her school bus in the Swat area of northwest Pakistan.
In 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, an atomic endeavor.
In 1793, at the age of 56, John Hancock, an American businessman and statesman who was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, died.
R.K. Narayan was born in 1906, a Madras-born Indian writer.
Peter Gene Hernandez, better known as Bruno Mars, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 8, 1985.