17 Smashing Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'Mortal Kombat'

Midway Games enlisted the help of developer Ed Boon, once 27, as well as comic book writer John Tobias, still 22, in 1991 to come up with a combat arcade machine that would have been available in ten months. Artist John Vogel, as well as production designer Dan Forden, completed Boon and Tobias' team.

Mortal Kombat has become a videogame icon years well after its multi-system introduction. Mortal Kombat has been one of Nintendo's most famous titles, with over a dozen games, multiple theater movies, and an unlimited extended world of comic book fiction. Just how do you know about the history and facts of the greatest tournament in combat games?

If you were a kid or a teen in the early 1990s, you probably recall the first time you saw Mortal Kombat and exclaimed, "Whoa!" Mortal Kombat came along after Street Fighter made fighting games a thing, grabbed us, and uppercut into us a vision of what the genre could be. Do you want to learn more about the origins of this historic game? Well, better start reading these wild examples: