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====== Mortal Kombat ====== | ====== Mortal Kombat ====== | ||
- | Mortal Kombat is a brawler video game series started by Ed Boon and John Tobias in 1992 with the game Mortal Kombat. [([[https:// | + | ==== Brawler video game series ==== |
+ | Mortal Kombat is a brawler video game series started by Ed Boon and John Tobias in 1992 with the game Mortal Kombat. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Mortal Kombat Was Created By 4 Developers ==== | ||
+ | Ed Boon, a programmer, and John Tobias, a comic book artist, paired up to develop a fighting arcade game that would be ready in 10 months. Artist John Vogel and sound designer Dan Forden joined Boon and Tobias' | ||
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+ | ==== Jean Claude Van Damme ==== | ||
+ | The game was based originally on Universal Soldier starring Jean Claude Van Damme. According to Tobias, the game began when Universal Soldier' | ||
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+ | ==== The Game Had No Name For Six Months ==== | ||
+ | For more than half of the production time, Mortal Kombat lacked a name; any title idea was reportedly rejected by at least one of the four creators. “Kumite” (a hand-based section in karate training), “Dragon Attack,” “Death Blow” and “Fatality” were among the names that didn't make the cut. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Only One Character Wasn't Portrayed By An Actor ==== | ||
+ | The big boss Goro (a four-armed human-dragon hybrid influenced by the lore of Sinbad the Sailor) was the product of stop-motion capture photography of a clay statue modeled by sculptor Curt Chiarelli, unlike his human-portrayed predecessors. [([[https:// | ||
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