Mortal Kombat has become the best-selling fighting game franchise worldwide and one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Mortal Kombat, the original game, spawned a franchise with several action-adventure game, a comic book series, a card game, films, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour. Mortal Kombat is a media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.
