Humans of Mortal Kombat

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This episode explores the creation of Mortal Kombat, the strange reality of early video game digitization, and the landmark 1990s lawsuit that decided who legally owns a human body once it becomes pixels. 

Episode Music

• Jay Opie / Nihilore, CC BY 4.0
  • Tricks
  • Failures of Infinity
• Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) by The Immortals via Luminous Ambition 

Additional Reading

• Pesina v. Midway Mfg. Co., 948 F. Supp. 40 (N.D. Ill. 1996). https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/948/40/2098879/
• Strata. (1994, July). [Advertisement for the arcade game BloodStorm]. EGM 2. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Daniel-Pesina-who-starred-as-Johnny-Cage-in-Mortal-Kombat-has-switched-to_fig11_357487546
• C-SPAN. (2013, November 27). 1993 Senate committee hearings on video game violence [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwM3ZMTCR0

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