![]() Here’s my earliest icon doodle recently found by while poking around an old sketchbook in my office. I used the dragon from my cabinet side panel sketch to inform the look of the dragon icon as our symbol… (7/9) /EV2NNQaXDg I had been thinking of creating an icon to represent the fictional tournament, but also to brand the game with a symbol… like Superman’s “S” or Batman’s bat symbol. Here’s a frame from that footage… (5/9) /QTOQ3q6YLx John borrowed it to digitize for use in our game’s backgrounds. The inspiration for the dragon icon’s design started when John Vogel saw a golden dragon statue on the desk of Midway’s general manager, Ken Fedesna. The inspiration to use a dragon as the fictional tournament’s symbol came from “Dragon Attack,” which was in contention as our game’s title before and I changed it to “Mortal Kombat.” Here’s my rough marker sketch of the marquee logo… (3/9) /g3UY2X2boX 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. Take a look at John Tobias’ thread outlining the origin of the iconic Mortal Kombat dragon logo below. The eventual icon design was an attempt at replicating the yin yang symbol, which represented balancing of the furies- a core part of MK’s early fiction.” I used the dragon from my cabinet side panel sketch to inform the look of the dragon icon as our symbol…Here’s my earliest icon doodle recently found by while poking around an old sketchbook in my office. “I had been thinking of creating an icon to represent the fictional tournament, but also to brand the game with a symbol…like Superman’s ‘S’ or Batman’s bat symbol. I used the colors described in the lyrics of that song on our eventual coin-op cabinet design.” “The inspiration to use a dragon as the fictional tournament’s symbol came from ‘Dragon Attack,’ which was in contention as our game’s title before and I changed it to Mortal Kombat… The name ‘Dragon Attack’ came from love for the band Queen and their song of the same title. The statue was originally borrowed to be scanned as an asset to be used in a stage and drawn from the game’s original title “Dragon Attack.” Tobias reveals that the dragon was inspired by the gold four-toed Chinese dragon statue on the desk of Midway Games’ General Manager Ken Fedesna. ![]()
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