The Fatalities were featured in ScrewAttack's "Top 10 OMGWTF Moments" due to the competition it gave to other games including Street Fighter II and how it popularized the arcades,[REF] as well as in machinima.com's
By 1996, "Fatality" had become a generic gaming term for a lethal finishing move,[REF][REF] including the official termed Fatals in the Killer Instinct series.