Mortal Kombat was created by a small four-person team at Midway, and they built the whole game in under a year. They used real actors and digitized the footage to give the fights a more realistic look. The team first hoped to make a game with Jean-Claude Van Damme, but when that plan fell through, they shifted to building what became Mortal Kombat, with its sharp characters and well-known finishing moves. The actors were filmed in a basic studio, and the team captured hundreds of frames that lat