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After pong, several games were created to explore different markets. There were fighting games, adventure games, puzzles, and many more. The fighting video games ranged in violence from no-blood games like Street Fighter, to the famous Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat was unique. It was the first game to feature major violence. When a fight was finished, the winning character could perform one of many gruesome "fatalities" such as ripping out the loser’s spine, eating the loser, decapitations, and several others. These game shocked parents who bought it for their kids expecting a less violent game. This image shows one of the "Kombatants," as they are called in game, known as Subzero freezing the face of the Kombatant known as Reptile.