Namco has the Tekken Museum; Mortal Kombat has Ed Boon's flooded basement! It might not be as glamorous a tourist trap, but hey, we appreciate the MK co-creators willingness to turn natural disaster into a trip down memory lane!

Followers on twitter (@noobde) have been treated to a gallery of rediscovered promotional swag, offered to the MK pubah from a wide variety of developers throughout the nineties and early 2000s. For us, it's obviously the classic Mortal Kombat curio that really catches the eye - like these... napkins?

The NetherRealm Studios Director made a significant archaeological discovery when he uncovered the original models used to animate Shokan characters in Mortal Kombat and its two digitized sequels [full story]. Goro, Kintaro & Sheeva were all realized through an animation process partly inspired by the works of the late Ray Harryhausen [John Tobias discusses...].

Napkins might not rank quite as high in terms of significance to the history of the series, but are an interesting look back at the excesses of the mid-nineties.

1995 saw the release of Mortal Kombat 3 to mass mainstream success and a few mixed reviews. While Boon himself can't quite remember what event these napkins were made for, it was probably happening right around this time.

'95 was a big year for MK! The first feature film was released in cinemas -- still regarded as a benchmark for Hollywood video game adaptations almost twenty years later! With a mid-nineties movie comes inevitable merchandise, and it was right around this time that MK was hitting its stride in the mass market of cultural awareness. Malibu were pumping out comics, toy makers were doing something or other, and the dragon logo could be found on just about anything.

Where in this orgy of exposure the red embossed MK3 logo on black napkin would've landed is, for now, anybody's guess. If you know, why not tell us on the forums? If you don't, just imagine what it would've been like to mop ice cream cake from your face, before pounding away the hours at a lock-in birthday party. Mmm, toasty!