I was born in 1976 so I grew up with gaming, I was the prime age/audience for Mortal Kombat and while I played the SNES Mortal Kombat that weekend for the time I rented it, I never bought it or went back. The sweat was just too much - adjusted fatalities and such made it feel like an alternate entry in the series.
I was always a bigger fan of Street Fighter II though so Mortal Kombat without the blood or familiar fatalities was already at the bottom of a steep hill with me.
Mortal Kombat II was a pre-paid purchase for me. I enjoyed it, partly because my mom was a HUGE fan of Jax and his fatalities but she was too sick to play. I recorded all his fatalities I could perform on a VHS tape so she could watch them whenever she wanted to. Fighting cancer left her in weird states of consciousness so anything we could do to help her we did.
I know a lot of people enjoy many of Acclaims 32-bit and later releases but by then, I had already moved on from the company. I never played Shadowman for instance, I was never a sports fan so I never touched those by any company outside Sega and their World Series Baseball on Saturn (Home Run Derby was my mode).
For what the original Acclaim did, they deserve kudos for changing gaming like they did. I just hope the new Acclaim is able to thrive and some gamers have fond memories of their titles too and someday, gamers are discussing their portfolio like we are here, reminiscing and enjoying memories of past times.