Throughout history, different cultures all over the world

reference a great tournament

of champions to fight for something known

this mortal combat

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that's nerdy that is what we do now we've been locked into the Falcon and the Winter Soldier for the last six weeks

um we do an instant reaction show me in Charles Holmes with the ringer music show the midnight boys

uh we have that on friday and every Tuesday, now does the deeper dive analysis of the Falcon and the

Winter Soldier make sure that you check in with her on this Tuesday because it's the finale so she's

gonna go deep deep deep into you know her intellectual bag of tricks with a very very special guest

uh but today it's not about marvel it's about mortal okay that's it that was like that was like that was like that was like that was like that was like that was like that was like that was like that's like that was like that's what I'm glad

Nathan what happened the midnight boys we're joined by the ringer Shay Serrano to give you this special Sunday review show

focused on mortal combat now look um I'm of a certain age and so before we even get into the movie itself I'm of a certain age to where I remember what a big cultural deal this film was when it first came out Shay do you remember how big a deal mortal combat was when the video game first dropped I do I do it this is like a

head toward being a teenager so this was all I was interested in was video games I had played Street Fighter I played whatever mortal combat showed up and for me it just shut all of that shit down it was the only thing I wanted to talk about it was the only thing I wanted to do was go to HB steal a copy of electronic gaming monthly so that I could look at the pictures of the fatality and you know you know talk about this is not about the

this is like a franchise that a lot of people love and you forget sort of how big it is or how much stuff they ended up covering we're talking about through the 90s four billion dollars in sales through the early 2000s over five billion dollars in sales what are the greatest selling

video game franchises of all time total total like over 54 million copies of this thing have been sold and just for context what it what it's real thriller as an album did like 66 million or something crazy like that like we're in this ballpark we're in the same field as what thriller did that's more the mortal combat franchise but they had

video games they had the movie they had commercials they had song a song that was played on the video TV show TV show like all of the things that you could want if you love the video game were right here for you it was so much fun to watch it if you especially if you got there in the beginning and you're like

you saw the machine in the arcade for the first time everybody gathered around it what's this you walk up there they got all the little quarters on there waiting for your chance to be sub zero or scorpion or whoever and then you watch it go from that to like

the home console to part two to the movie fucking unreal unreal crazy we had a circle K where I'm from we had a circle K where I'm from as if there's only one

we had the circle K we had these circle K but strangely enough in bad Rouge we didn't have seven 11 we only have circle K that's interesting I remember we would go to the circle K to play street fighter and we went to the circle

K play street fighter one time I come back on my cousin says hey have you played mortal combat I'm like no well what is mortal combat he's like man we got to go to

Cortana so we went to Cortana mall spaceport there Cortana mall shut out to all my my spaceport crew and there are people crowded around the game just like you said looking at this and I remember

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