Play Mortal Kombat (Europe) Online

Mortal Kombat on SNES was brutal, flashy, and completely different from anything else at the time. Instead of cartoony sprites, you got these digitized actors throwing punches that looked almost real—until someone’s spine got ripped out, anyway. The blood was toned down from the arcade version (thanks, Nintendo), but the fatalities still felt shockingly violent for a 16-bit system. Scorpion’s spear-to-face move never got old.

It wasn’t just the gore, though—the controls had this weird, stiff charm, and Sub-Zero’s ice blast was stupidly satisfying to land. The AI would absolutely wreck you if you didn’t learn the cheap tricks, but that just made beating Goro feel like an actual achievement. Still holds up if you can handle the jank.