The show starts out with telling that.....................

• Ed Boon helped program a football game called High Impact Football.
• Tobias help work on Smash TV
• Boon and Tobias were/are fans of Kung Fu movies.
• While in the late 80s Boon and Tobias got together to do a fighting game with digitized graphics.
• At first wanted to do Van Damn the video game, but couldn’t since Van Damn made a deal with Sega first.
• Tobias’s friends just so happened to be into martial arts helps do motion capture for the game.
• With the success of Street Figher Midway greenlights MK1
• MK1 staff Vogal did backgrounds, Tobias did characters, Boon programming, Dan Fordan sounds.
• MK1 storyline was influenced by movies like Enter the Dragon.
• Cage was influenced by Jean Claude Van Damn's character from bloodsport the movie.
• Rayden- Was Influenced my the lighting dude from Show Down In Little Tokyo .
• Liu Kang s’ influenced was a combination of Bruce Lee and other “famous” martial artists
• Kano was influenced by The Terminator pilling skin
• Sub-Zero is a result of stretched memory. MK team wanted to get two characters from amount of memory.( **Scorpion was first created**)
• When MK was shown to Midway’s CEO at the time , he suggested a female character should be added to the game thus Sonya was born.
• Ed Boon says MK’s fatalities were influenced by Street Fighters “dizziness” when a fighter in Street Figher was hit multiple times to become dizzy.
• Alcclaim comes up with Mortal Kombat’s marketing. 10 million dollars acclaim rolls out to promote Mortal Kombat. Also created Mortal Monday idea
• MK1 sells 6 million copies
• In 3 weeks the home version of MK1 sells 3 million copies.
• Acclaim comes up with idea with the sweat in the Snes version.
• Genesis version of MK1 outsold the snes version 3 to 1.
• Of course one of the games that started the ratings system( the IDSA).
• Steve Beran discusses the improvements of MK1 to MK2
• Snes version of MK2 keeps the blood.
MK1 the movie grossed 23 million dollars ( 2nd biggest August opening at the time)
• Ed Boon expresses how MK3 had the toughest time out of MK1 and MK2, also why they added new features such as the run button. As well as amazingly falsely stated that Sony had exclusive rights for MK3 on home systems.