Back in the early 90's Mortal Kombat was king of the arcades. I was a huge fan owning a dedicated MK2 for many years. With Bally/Williams/Midway all under the same roof, would have been a popular licence that they already owned. Some of the same designers that work on our favorite pinball machines also worked on the MK games. This is the one game that could have given TFTC a run for its money with gory DMD animations. We were given a Raiden cameo in WCS94, awesome "Toasty" and "Fatality" quotes in Medieval Madness and some MK3 codes on Johnny Mnemonic. While these are all very cool, I feel Bally / Williams missed a golden opportunity here.

Wow, sounds like it was close to a reality. If there is truth to this, would be awesome if an ex Bally / Williams employee could chime in on this post with more details. How far along did this idea get? Why was it changed to a diff machine or scrapped all together? Would be fun to know what Bally / Williams was thinking at the time.

If MK would have taken the spot of "No Fear", we could have had a MK Steve Ritchie design. Imagine Steve doing some custom Shao Khan (pinball) speech. Dan Forden who did the music / sound on "No Fear" also did the music / sound on the MK games. Could have been awesome.