by Lyle 'Chip' Chipperson

Created on: August 07, 2010

Yes, they should.

Now, according to my Google search, this happened in 2008. It's August 2010 as of writing this article, so I suppose it is a dead issue for the whole country minus the area in where it happened, and for those who knew that poor seven-year-old child.

But I find it interesting when they refer it to "Mortal Kombat-style," and I do believe that part may of been exaggerated. The Mortal Kombat series was widely popular in the early to mid-1990s. What helped the popularity of the games in the series when it started out were the controversy it caused among parents, special interest groups and even a few politicians who wanted to tackle the subject... to get a better image for re-election. The whole series seem to fumble away from the aftermath of it's release of Mortal Kombat III. And the Tekken series that went along with the first Playstation could be to blame.

The first Mortal Kombat game had the brutality to alarm parents, but codes were needed to raise the standards on brutalization. For blood on the first Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis, you would have to input 'ABACABB.' One of Mortal Kombat's creators happen to be a fan of Genesis and the hit song in 1981, so am I. Mortal Kombat 2, though, needed no codes for the blood. And if you knew your patterns right, your character could cause a fatality to the opponent. The Mortal Kombat series is still making games to this day, but without the extreme popularity it once had in the 90s.

And in 2008, two teens are in deep trouble for killing a seven-year-old 'Mortal Kombat-Style.' The question is, were the teenagers just finishing up some games on Mortal Kombat and decided to use such moves done on the game on that seven-year-old or were they watching WWE or UFC, but a journalist with a grudge with those games wanted to put 'Mortal Kombat-Style?', or was the journalist just clueless on the fighting events (and games) the media has to offer?

But regardless of what style, what the two teenagers did was wrong and they very well should be tried as adults. Now, with WWE and as I knew it best as the WWF (the change happened in May 2002, I lost interest in WWF back in the Summer of 2001) had seen a gain in popularity in 1997 and it has stayed that way to this day, with the spike of it going up from 1999 and ahead, buying out competitors WCW and ECW. Along with the WWF's spike in popularity also came with the incidents of children killing other children using wrestling moves they had learned from popular wrestling feds. I do remember watching Court TV in 2000 and seeing an eleven-year-old boy killing his four-year-old cousin due to wrestling moves he learned about on the WWF/WWE.

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