Mortal kombat was the first ever combating game to introduce a secret fighter, reached if the player fulfilled a hard and fast of necessities. The improvement of the first game become at the start based totally on an idea that ed boon and john tobias had of creating a online game starring jean-claude van damme, but as that idea fell via, a fable-themed fighting game become created as an alternative, however reminiscent of him with nut-cracking film superstar individual johnny cage, whose initials and personal style echo van damme's. Mortal kombat is an american media franchise targeted on a sequence of video games, at the start evolved by means of midway video games in 1992.