Information:  - A or was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, assassination and guerrilla warfare. Their covert methods of waging irregular warfare were deemed "dishonorable" and "beneath" the samurai-caste, who observed strict rules about honor and combat. The "shinobi" proper, a specially trained group of spies and mercenaries, appeared in the 15th century during the Sengoku period, but antecedents may have existed in the 14th century, and possibly in the 12th century (Heian or early Kamakura era).  - Midway Games was an American video game developer and publisher. Its titles included "Mortal Kombat", "Ms. Pac-Man", "Spy Hunter", "Tron", "Rampage", the "Cruis'n" series, "NFL Blitz", and "NBA Jam". Midway also acquired the rights to video games that were originally developed by Williams Electronics and Atari Games, such as "Defender", "Joust", "Robotron 2084", "Gauntlet", and the "Rush" series.  - Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 ("UMK3") is a fighting video game in the "Mortal Kombat" series, originally developed and released by Midway Games to arcades in 1995. It is an update of 1995's earlier "Mortal Kombat 3" with an altered gameplay system, additional characters like the returning favorites Kitana and Scorpion who were missing from "Mortal Kombat 3", and some new features.  - Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (born 18 October 1960), professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme and abbreviated as JCVD, is a Belgian actor, martial artist, screenwriter, film producer, and director best known for his martial arts action films. The most successful of these films include "Bloodsport" (1988), "Kickboxer" (1989), "Lionheart" (1990), "Double Impact" (1991), "Universal Soldier" (1992), "Hard Target" (1993), "Street Fighter" (1994), "Timecop" (1994), "Sudden Death" (1995), "JCVD" (2008) and "The Expendables 2" (2012).  - The original console in the series was the first video game console to ship 100 million units, 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch. Its successor, the PlayStation 2, was released in 2000. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling home console to date, having reached over 155 million units sold as of December 28, 2012. Sony's next console, the PlayStation 3, was released in 2006 and has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013. Sony's latest console, the PlayStation 4, was released in 2013, selling 1 million consoles in its first 24 hours on sale, becoming the fastest selling console in history.  - A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, or lampoon) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original workits subject, author, style, or some other targetby means of satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon puts it, "parody  is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Another critic, Simon Dentith, defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music (although "parody" in music has an earlier, somewhat different meaning than for other art forms), animation, gaming, and film.  - The is an 8-bit handheld video game device with interchangeable cartridges developed and manufactured by Nintendo, which was first released in Japan on , in North America on and in Europe on . It is the first handheld console in the Game Boy line and was created by Satoru Okada and Nintendo Research & Development 1. This same team, led by Gunpei Yokoi at the time, is credited with designing the Game & Watch series as well as several popular games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Redesigned versions were released in 1996 and 1998 in the form of Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Light (Japan only), respectively.  - John Tobias (born August 24, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American comic book artist, graphic designer, video game designer and writer. Tobias is best known for creating the "Mortal Kombat" series along with Ed Boon.  - Karate developed on the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was brought to the Japanese mainland in the early 20th century during a time of cultural exchanges between the Japanese and the Chinese. It was systematically taught in Japan after the Taish era. In 1922 the Japanese Ministry of Education invited Gichin Funakoshi to Tokyo to give a karate demonstration. In 1924 Keio University established the first university karate club in mainland Japan and by 1932, major Japanese universities had karate clubs. In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from ("Chinese hand" or "Tang hand") to ("empty hand")  both of which are pronounced "karate"  to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style. After World War II, Okinawa became an important United States military site and karate became popular among servicemen stationed there.  - Martial arts film is a film genre. A subgenre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous martial arts fights between characters. They are usually the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often are a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently featured in training scenes and other sequences in addition to fights. Martial arts films commonly include other types of action, such as hand-to-hand combats, stuntwork, chases, and gunfights.  - Acclaim Entertainment (stylized as A«laim) was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance, PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Xbox, personal computer systems and arcade games. They also released video games for the Master System in Europe.  - Mortal Kombat II (commonly abbreviated as MKII) is a competitive fighting game originally produced by Midway Games for the arcades in . It was later ported to multiple home systems, including the PC, Amiga, Game Boy, Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and various PlayStation consoles, mostly in licensed versions developed by Probe Entertainment and Sculptured Software and published by Acclaim Entertainment.  - Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners.  - The is a 32-bit fifth-generation home video game console that was developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe as the successor to the successful Sega Genesis. The Saturn has a dual-CPU architecture and eight processors. Its games are in CD-ROM format, and its game library contains several arcade ports as well as original titles.  - A fighting game is a video game genre in which the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent, which can be either an AI or controlled by another player. The fight matches typically consist of several rounds and take place in an arena, while each character has widely differing abilities but each is relatively viable to choose. Players must master techniques such as blocking, counter-attacking, and chaining attacks together into "combos". Since the early 1990s, most fighting games allow the player to execute special attacks by performing specific input combinations. The fighting game genre is related to but distinct from beat 'em ups, which involve large numbers of enemies against the human player.  - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES, and commonly shortened to Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America. In Japan, the system is called the , or SFC for short. In South Korea, it is known as the Super Comboy (  "Syupeo Keomboi") and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics. Although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent the different versions from being compatible with one another. It was released in Brazil on September 2, 1992, by Playtronic.  - Daniel Pesina ( born March 31 , 1959 in Chicago , Illinois , USA ) is an American martial arts expert and a former employee of Midway . He is the actor who played Johnny Cage and ninjas Sub-Zero , Scorpion , Reptile , Smoke , and Noob Saibot in the video games Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II. His younger brother Carlos , whom he worked with on the first two Mortal Kombat titles , remained with Midway until the company 's closure . Daniel Pesina appeared as one of Shredder 's foot soldiers in the 1991 movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II : The Secret of the Ooze . In 1994 , Daniel promoted BloodStorm ( a rival fighting game to the Mortal Kombat series ) in an advert , dressed up as Johnny Cage . He had already parted from Midway at this time , so his characters were played by different actors in subsequent installments : the ninja roles were taken over by John Turk in Mortal Kombat 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 , while Johnny Cage would be played by Chris Alexander in Mortal Kombat Trilogy . Pesina and his brother Carlos also secretly worked on Tattoo Assassins , another competing game to Mortal Kombat . In the 2003 martial arts movie Book of Swords , which also starred fellow MK actors Zamiar , Ho - Sung Pak and Richard Divizio , he played a hitman whose task was to take out the film 's leading man . Daniel and Carlos also appeared in a videogame - based comedy film entitled Press Start , which was released to DVD on September 25 , 2007 . Daniel 's character is called Sasori , which is Japanese for Scorpion . As of 2004 , Daniel is a teacher at the Chicago Wushuguan School .  - The Sega Genesis, known as the in most regions outside North America, is a 16-bit home video game console which was developed and sold by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. The Genesis was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System. Sega first released the console as the Mega Drive in Japan in 1988, followed by a North American debut under the Genesis moniker in 1989. In 1990, the console was distributed as the Mega Drive by Virgin Mastertronic in Europe, by Ozisoft in Australasia, and by Tec Toy in Brazil. In South Korea, the systems were distributed by Samsung and were known as the Super Gam*Boy, and later the Super Aladdin Boy.  - Sculptured Software Inc. was a video game developer in the Salt Lake City, Utah metropolitan area. They specialized in porting games to different platforms, especially from arcade games to home console games.  - Edward John "Ed" Boon (born February 22, 1964) is an American video game programmer and director who had been employed for over 15 years at Midway Games and since 2011 works for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in its subsidiary company NetherRealm Studios. Boon is best known for the widely popular "Mortal Kombat" series, which he created with John Tobias.  - Noob Saibot is a fictional character from the "Mortal Kombat" fighting game series. He debuted as an unplayable hidden character in "Mortal Kombat II", in which he was a black silhouette of the game's other male ninjas, and made his first selectable appearance in the console versions of "Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3". His name consists of the surnames of "Mortal Kombat" creators Ed Boon and John Tobias spelled backwards.   - Johnny Cage is a fictional character from the "Mortal Kombat" fighting game franchise. He debuted as one of the series' original seven characters in the first "Mortal Kombat", and has since become a staple of the series. Created as a parody of martial arts actor and famous karate practitioner Jean-Claude Van Damme, Cage is a cocky and overconfident martial arts film actor who provides the comic relief of the franchise. He became a more layered character in "Mortal Kombat X", which introduced his and Sonya Blade's daughter Cassie Cage.  - Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise originally developed by Midway Games' Chicago studio in 1992. Following Midway's bankruptcy, the "Mortal Kombat" development team was acquired by Warner Bros. and turned into NetherRealm Studios. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment currently owns the rights of the franchise and rebooted it in 2011.  - General Sonya Blade is a video game character from the "Mortal Kombat" series. Debuting in the original "Mortal Kombat" game from 1992, she was a late addition to the game as developers decided deep into the development cycle that the game needed a female character. In the series canon she is the commanding officer of the United States Special Forces and later of a specialized U.S. government agency. Her goal in most of the games is to pursue and capture Kano, as well as eliminate his criminal syndicate, the Black Dragon. In later games she is joined in this effort by her comrade Jax and her daughter Cassie Cage.    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Answer:
martial artist