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Previous Mortal Kombat coverage:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-games-to-play/msg7198/#msg7198

Fortunately, MK had minimal influence on non-Western fighting games, which completely ignored it and continued to revolve mainly around the Capcom vs SNK rivalry. A good indication of this is that MK never got crossovers with either of these (but only much later with DC), whereas the Capcom-SNK crossover was literally done to celebrate the turn of the millennium in the most festive way possible, starting with card games:



and then the main event of fighting games:



Those were the days 

On the subject of festivity, MK stages utterly lacked such feeling:





Contrast with Capcom or SNK stages which deliberately evoked it:









This also reflects the difference between Western and non-Western conceptions of what the tone of a fighting game should be.