In a two player game, both players could not choose the same character. 
First official release of Mortal Kombat. The statue of Buddha in the background of the Palace Gates stage was actually a lawn ornament from a neighbor's yard. The heads used in the spike pit are actually those of the programmers themselves!. They were added to appease concerned operators or parental groups that there was a "blood" mode and a "less bloody" mode. In the first releases of the game, toggle switches were added at the backs of the dedicated boxes that did nothing. The use of digitalized actors, compelling characters, and gruesome graphic effects, all help to create the phenomena, that took arcades by storm. We certainly can’t imagine Mortal Kombat without it.Mortal Kombat 1 (1992) The Arcade Version Description: In 1992 Mortal Kombat changed the world of video gaming forever. And while that’s been dialled back a bit recently, it’s still an iconic image. The symbol used to figure heavily on the cover of most Mortal Kombat games. You can find the whole thread here and it’s well worth ploughing through. I designed the icon as both a symbol of our game and its fictional tournament… (thread) #MK30 /vVIDr4K9aP 
Here’s a recently discovered image of the very first drawing of #MortalKombat’s dragon icon.
They were digitised from a statue found on Midway general manager Ken Fedesna’s desk and also informed the cabinet’s dragon design. We’re glad the team dropped that title in favour of Mortal Kombat, but the dragon endured.Įqually interesting is the revelation that the golden dragons featured in Mortal Kombat 1 were real physical objects. The reason the logo is a dragon is that the game was, originally, going to be called Dragon Attack. But luckily he didn’t and it went on become one of the most enduring symbols of all time.Īs spotted by IGN, Tobias has also additional information about the bloody beat-em-up’s logo and other titbits related to the game’s creation. That, alone, was almost enough to make him ditch it. The designer and artist took to Twitter to share the origins of the Mortal Kombat logo and explained that his sister thought it resembled a seahorse. Mortal Kombat’s famous dragon logo was almost ditched, according to MK co-creator John Tobias.
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