10 Video Games That Weren't As Good As You Remember 

6. Mortal Kombat

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The great video game rivalries are what helped shaped a generation of gamers to take sides and snipe at each other from across a parapet. Rivalries like Nintendo vs Sega, Mario vs Sonic and who can forget, Busby the Bobcat vs Gex the Gecko. But there was one bitter and twisted fight that was much more overwhelmingly one-sided than you might remember: Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter II.

Although Mortal Kombat introduced the unique idea of killing people into video games, it was never really that good, as it always felt a bit slow and clunky compared to its Hadouken-throwing rival.

Mortal Kombat was much more of a marketing exercise in how to drum up enough controversy in the press and inspire enough teenagers to pester their parents to buy that game where you can tear people's hearts out of their chest. Except if you played Mortal Kombat on a Nintendo machine, where instead you would probably just heart in their tears, or something equally as fluffy and nice. Awww.

To be entirely fair to the Mortal Kombat series, it did get better. Then it got worse. Then better again. Then worse again. Then they made that Sub-Zero Mythologies game. Whatever the hell that was.

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