{"id":14725,"date":"2018-10-08T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/finish-him-4\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:16:21","slug":"finish-him-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/finish-him-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Finish Him!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mortal_kombat_finish_him.png\" rel=\"lightbox[2266]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2267\" title=\"Mortal Kombat - Finish Him!\" alt=\"Mortal Kombat - Finish Him!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fdd02__mortal_kombat_finish_him-300x190.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fdd02__mortal_kombat_finish_him-300x190.png 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mortal_kombat_finish_him.png 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>October 8, 1992<\/p>\n<p>The video game <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mortal_Kombat_(video_game)\" target=\"_blank\">Mortal Kombat<\/a> is released into arcades. Now one of the most popular fighting game series in history, the original Mortal Kombat became well-known for its graphic display of blood and deadly finishing moves known as &#8220;fatalities&#8221;. As often happens in situations like these, the controversy surrounding the game only served to fuel its popularity.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the game becoming popular on the heels of Street Fighter II. I never really liked the game because I felt it was all flash and no substance. And the martial arts techniques portrayed were often really bad. But it was occasionally fun to knock someone&#8217;s head off.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/08\/finish-him\/\">Finish Him!<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/08\/finish-him\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 8, 1992 The video game Mortal Kombat is released into arcades. Now one of the most popular fighting game series in history, the original Mortal Kombat became well-known for its graphic display of blood and deadly finishing moves known as &#8220;fatalities&#8221;. As often happens in situations like these, the controversy surrounding the game only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2275],"class_list":["post-14725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-finish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}