Mortal Kombat #33 Between our world and Outworld

Get ready for the ultimate battle! When the brutal fighting contest known as Mortal Kombat erupts once again between our world and Outworld, a dark land of evil monsters and darkness, you have to prepare for the battle of the lifetime as you fight through the tournament to try and prevent the dark beings of Outworld from claiming Earth for their next domain. Choose from a variety of fighters and prepare for the ultimate fighting game challenge as you must face the demonic opposition in brutal deathmatches as you climb the ranks to the tournament, searching for victory and the protection of your Earth itself.

Shang Tsung, an evil wizard, is intent on taking over Earth and turning it into a Shadow Realm but in order to do so he must fight against Earth’s best fighters in a tournament to the death.

Five Hundred years ago, an ancient and well respected Shaolin fighting tournament, held every 50 years, was corrupted by an evil and elderly sorcerer by the name of Shang Tsung. Shang was accompanied by Prince Goro, a warrior of the Shokan race (a four armed half-human/half-dragon). Knowing that if ten tournaments in a row were won by the Outworld champion, the Earth Realm would be conquered by evil and fall into darkness, Shang entered Goro in the tournament and had him defeat the great Kung Lao. Goro has been reigning supreme as the undefeated fighting champion for five hundred years now. As the last tournament required draws near, Raiden, Thunder God and protector of the Earth Realm, enacts a plan to tip the scales in the humans favor, Seven fighters step into the arena on Shang Tsung's mysterious island: Shaolin warrior Liu Kang, Special Forces operative Sonya Blade, the mercenary thug Kano, fame-seeking actor Johnny Cage, the ice wielding Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero and his undead adversary Scorpion, and Raiden himself.

Mortal Kombat is a side-scrolling 1 on 1 fighting game. Fighting is set as one on one kombat, allowing each player to perform a variety of punches, kicks, and special moves in order to defeat their opponent. When the opponent faces their second round loss, the winner can perform a finishing move called a "Fatality" on the loser. The Fatality is a humiliation move that graphically kills the loser in a blood-soaked finale.

Mortal Kombat began its life as a 2-player arcade title. It is notable for its use of digitized actors to represent the game's fighters, as well as its use of copious amounts of blood during gameplay.

Cheats

10 credits

In the Japanese version, press Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up when Goro appears at the Acclaim logo. A sound will confirm correct code entry. The game will now start with 10 instead of 4 credits.

Fight as Goro

Successfully complete the game. When "The End" message appears, quickly hold Up/Left + Select + A until the title screen appears. Press Start to began a new game.

Fight as Reptile

Select any character and defeat Shang Tsung. When he releases all the fighters souls, hold L + R when Sub-Zero appears. Keep holding L + R until the title screen appears. Start a new game. At the fighter selection screen, Reptile's face will be at the top middle of the fighter selection screen.

Fight against Reptile

Play the game until reaching the Pit. Achieve a double Flawless victory without blocks and perform a fatality to end the match.

Alternate introduction sequence

Hold L + R before the Acclaim logo appears. Continue holding the buttons until it disappears.

Move players off the screen

Start a two player tournament battle with any of the fighters. Fight until one of the characters is one throw away from defeat. Allow the time run down until one second is remaining. Finish off the fighter with a throw (stand next to the opponent and press B). In the next round, either character may be moved off the edge of the screen.

Motionless opponent

Start a one player match with any fighter (Cage or Liu Kang work the best). Repeatedly jump over your opponent and kick without hitting him. Continue doing this until the CPU blocks. Then, jump back over your opponent once more time, without kicking. After landing, wait and do not press any buttons. The CPU opponent will remain motionless until hit.

Leave opponent standing

Use Sub-Zero to defeat an opponent in the first round. During the second round, run your opponent's power meter all the way down without the "Finish Him" appearing on the screen. Use the Freeze move to ice the opponent until "Finish Him" flashes. Then, execute the finishing move. Sub-Zero will shatter the ice but leave the opponent standing.

Easy special

This trick allows you to perform any special move that ends with pushing an attack button by pressing only that button at the beginning of the second or third round. Finish your opponent in round one (or two) by using a special move. When the next round begins you can continue to use that same special move by only pressing the final attack button as long as you do not press any other buttons or move the fighter using the D-pad. For example, use Liu Kang's fireball to defeat the opponent in round one. At the beginning of round two, you can repeatedly throw fireballs by pressing only HP.

Johnny Cage: Fatality

Stand next to your opponent and press Forward, Forward, Forward, Y. Johnny will kick through the opponent.

Johnny Cage: Special move

Wait until "Finish Him" appears. Stand close to your opponent, then press L + R + B at the same time to get a surprise. Note: Make sure the opponent is not Sonya.

Kano: Fatality

Stand next to your opponent and press Back, Down, Forward, B. Kano will rip out his opponent's heart.

Liu Kang

Stand anywhere and hold Block, then rotate the D-pad in a full circle towards your opponent. Liu will do an uppercut.

Raiden: Fatality

Stand next to your opponent and press Forward, Forward, Back, Back, Back, Y. Raiden will electrocute the opponent.

Scorpion: Fatality

Stand about three characters spaces away and hold Block, then press Up, Up. He will then burn his opponent.

Scorpion: Easy victory

Select Scorpion and keep repeating his "Harpoon" move.

Sonya: Purple Rings

To do Sonya's purple rings press Away(2), B.

Sub-Zero: Fatality

Stand four character spaces apart and press Forward, Down, Forward, Y. Sub-Zero will freeze the opponent and break him to pieces.

Keep punching after victory

When "Finish Him" appears, punch your victim down. When he or she goes down, keep pressing B. Your character will still be punching.

Star Fox reference

In the courtyard, the statues behind the fighters will be Fox McCloud with his pistol.

Glitch: Night fighting

Two players are required for this trick to work. First, choose any two characters. Then, start a match against one another. Each character, first one player then the other, should perform a flying jump kick (Up/Toward + Kick). After performing one of these each, back away and let the time run out. It should be counted a draw. In the next match, do the same thing, letting the time run out. In the third and final match, one character must get a flawless victory. At the end of this round, regardless of the fact that no one has a win, the game will prompt for a "Finish Him". Do your fatality or whatever. Then, whoever lost the match when prompted to continue, should press Start. The match will restart with the same characters, but the screen will be dark as if going for a fatality.

Glitch: Frozen Reptile

Play against the CPU or another human player. Have both players be Sub-Zero. Have the lighter Sub-Zero (player one) freeze the darker Sub-Zero (player two). Notice that Sub-Zero is wearing green, and it looks like Reptile has been frozen.

Glitch: Free hit

Play as Sub-Zero against Goro. If you freeze him when he tries to grab you, he does not actually grab you, but notice your health meter shows unnecessary damage.