Mortal Kombat II (SNES)

Mortal Kombat II
Also known as: Mortal Kombat II: Kyuukyoku Shinken (JP) Developer: Sculptured Software Publishers: Acclaim Entertainment (US/EU), Acclaim Japan (JP) Platform: SNES Released in JP: November 11, 1994 Released in US: September 9, 1994 Released in EU: October 1994 This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

After the massive controversy about how Nintendo's content guidelines took out half the point of the first game and proved that "Genesis Does What Nintendon't", the go-ahead was given for more violent games to appear on Nintendo platforms. As such, the SNES Mortal Kombat II was practically arcade-perfect, except you didn't have to shove coins into your cartridge slot every ten seconds when fighting the ever-cheap bosses.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Regional Differences

The Japanese version is unique in that it has...censorship. Blood is recolored green, and the game palette fades into greyscale when a Fatality begins (except for The Bridge's Stage Fatality). Although Japan is generally more tolerant of violence in the media than other cultures, it is much less tolerant toward the graphic dismemberment of humans, which is probably the reason why this was changed. It's notably the only Japanese release of the series to feature any edits; all other versions of Mortal Kombat II released there (including the Japanese-exclusive PlayStation port) as well as subsequent titles in the series (the few they got, anyway) were not edited in any way.

Revisional Differences

• The original US release (v1.0) does not show the fighting demonstration during the intro. This was added in v1.1 and carried over to the Japanese and European releases.
• Also added in the v1.1 release is the animated Sculptured Software Inc. screen on startup. However, in both European versions (the Japanese version is unaffected), the animation has no sound.