Midway was a major American publisher and developer whose roughly 83-game catalogue on GameScrobbler spans arcade classics and controversial blockbusters alike. The studio is perhaps best known for the Mortal Kombat franchise, including Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II, which redefined fighting games and ignited debates about video game violence in the early 1990s. Later titles like Stranglehold showed the company's ambition in action gaming before it ceased operations in 2009.