Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Why wasn't Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 3?

Ever wonder why Midway excluded the very popular character of Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat 3, the last game in the series to feature digitized graphics of real-life people? That’s because Daniel Pesina, the martial artist who portrayed Cage in the first two games, appeared in a magazine ad in 1994 for the incredibly crappy fighting game BloodStorm developed by Incredible Technologies. Not only that, but Daniel was wearing a costume very similar to Johhny Cage’s from MKII, with shades and everything. His employers at Midway were so pissed they fired him. That must have hurt worst than a split punch to the groin. BloodStorm was supposed to be a Mortal Kombat-killer, but it did so poorly it killed itself and made Incredible Technologies go out of business. Fatality! Since he was fired, Midway hired Chris Alexander to play Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

Daniel Pesina's brother, Carlos, played Raiden in MK and MKII. He remains working at Midway and has been involved in producing the most recent titles in the series for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.

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Anonymous said...

I guess I either never cared enough to think about it, forgot about it, or didn't think about it once my brother got MK Trilogy, where he was in. Or at some point eventually, it was each of these. :P

I don't think I ever even heard of Bloodstorm before. There was a game called 'Bloodstorm' on The Simpsons once though. This spoiled kid was buying BoneStorm, an obvious MK parody, and the kid's mother says 'Don't you already have this game?' And the kid says 'No, Mom, you idiot! I have Bloodstorm, BoneSquad, and BloodStorm II, stupid!' Yeah, that kid was a brat. :P

Anonymous said...

Whoa!

Incredible Technologies is hardly out of business! Our flagship product, Golden Tee Golf will celebrate its 20th anniversary this September.

You can read about us and our games at www.goldentee.com; www.silverstrikebowling.com; and www.targettosspro.com

--Gary Colabuono
Marketing Director

Shin Lord said...

Well I'll be damned, Incredible Technologies is in fact still in business with their golf, bowling and bag-grabbing arcade games. They even have a MySpace page with over 300 friends! That's great, Moondog. You're what, 56 years old now? Were you working at IT when BloodStorm was released? It must have been sweet meeting Daniel Pesina. Thanks for stopping by and keep tossing them bags.

forever said...

Actually, it was the publisher Strata that went out of business.