Tobias also attached a rough marker sketch of the marquee logo and explained that it was originally Ed Boon’s idea to name the game Dragon Attack because of his intense love for the song by the same name by Queen.
“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”.” Tobias shared with his followers that Mortal Kombat was not the only idea for the name of the game and that the logo was inspired by the other option. Many fans have always wondered why the artists would opt to use a dragon as the symbol for the game. RELATED: Mortal Kombat 12 Is About To Change The Franchise Forever Story Behind the Logo
Without giving much insight into why they made the choice they said, “We chose facing right and it’s been that way ever since.” The dragon logo had originally faced both left and right, however, when it came time for the release of Mortal Kombat II on console, they were asked to choose one or the other for trademarking purposes. I used the dragon from my cabinet side panel sketch to inform the look of the dragon icon as our symbol…” September 22, 2022. “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. Tobias shared that the design was planned to have been used for the game’s coin-op cabinets but ended up inspiring the logo itself. I designed the icon as both a symbol of our game and its fictional tournament.” – September 22, 2022.
“Here’s a recently discovered image of the very first drawing of #Mortalkombat’s dragon icon.
John Tobias on Twitter) recently revealed the original hand-drawn dragon logo that he created for the first ever Mortal Kombat game which was then digitized by Mortal Kombat artist John Vogel by tracing over the sketched image with pixels. I designed the icon as both a symbol of our game and its fictional tournament… (thread) #MK30 /vVIDr4K9aP- John Tobias September 22, 2022 Here’s a recently discovered image of the very first drawing of #MortalKombat’s dragon icon.
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