Graphics:
Very good looking character models and stages. Although not arcade perfect, they surely look good enough. Arena, the company that ported Mortal Kombat 1 to the Sega Genesis, did a great job re creating everything from the arcade. The blood and gore looks great, too, as do the fatalities. But there will be no blood and gore unless you put in a certain cheat code during the, “Code of Honor” screen. Just put in A, B, A, C, A, B, B. Not only does that code gives you blood, it also lets the characters perform their original, uncut, arcade fatalities. That code alone makes the game ten times better then it normally would be.

Sound:
There aren't many voice overs in this game, but the one's that are there, however, sound good. The only words that are spoken are, “Fight!”, “Finish Him!”, “Get Over Here!”, “Come Here!”, “Excellent!”, and various grunts by the characters. None of the character's names are spoken, and the announcer doesn't even say “Fatality”! That takes off a good four points in my book. The words aren't crystal clear, but they're good enough for a sixteen bit game

man did i love this game.it was pretty cool.i am a great mortal kombat fan.and i will honnor it for always.

Playing this game back than I had no idea what I was doing it was very hard to play. None of my moves would come out. Now that I play it today I know what I'm doing but I still find it somewhat hard to play. Guess I'm not good with playing old fighters.