Mortal Kombat was created by game designers Ed Boon and John Tobias , working at the Chicago-based studio Midway Games in the early 1990s.

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  • The original Mortal Kombat arcade game (1992) was co-created by programmer Ed Boon and artist/story lead John Tobias as a new kind of digitized, violent fighting game.
  • They developed it at Midway Games with a small core team of four people handling programming, art, graphics, and sound.
  • The wider Mortal Kombat series is generally credited to Boon and Tobias as co-creators, with Ed Boon continuing as the long‑time creative lead on the franchise.

“Mortal Kombat creators Ed Boon and John Tobias have stated that Midway Games tasked them with developing a ‘combat game’ for release within a year” — development notes on the 1992 game.

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