10 Controversial Video Games Your Parents Never Wanted You To Play
2. Mortal Kombat
The over the top violence and gore of the Mortal Kombat games has long made them the fighting games you hid away from your parents, a tradition that no doubt still continues. While most parents are probably at least a little bit unsure about letting their young child play any fighting game, Mortal Kombats appetite for shock makes it acceptable only for the most liberal of parents.
This is a series that relishes in brutality and goes out of its way to be as offensively gruesome as possible, which has always been part of their appeal and what separates them from other fighting games. Fans love laughing and cringing at the increasingly inventive ways to maim your opponent, and kids are naturally drawn to their taboo subject matter, which makes a parents attempt to keep them away from their child all the more difficult.
Time has only made the Mortal Kombat games even more bloodthirsty, to the point where the originals that made so many parents so upset, look quaint in comparison. This may make parents pull their hair out in frustration, but those who love MK wouldnt have it any other way.