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Ed Boon reveals rig used to animate Goro in original MK photo

Ed Boon is making quite the splash on Twitter. Two days ago the Midway Games head honcho and brain behind the Mortal Kombat series confirmed the next Mortal Kombat wouldn’t carry a girlie rating. Earlier yesterday, the man shared the below gallery image with all his followers. It’s Goro. A tiny Goro, that is.

As our friends at Giant Bomb and Ed Boon note, this is the stop-motion rig that Midway used to make Goro spring to life in the original Mortal Kombat.  It’s cute and frankly, it freaks us out. Games used to be made this way, man. Talk about a time warp.


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Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 06/21/2009 05:04
Well, they did use digitized actors for the rest of them. I'm not exactly surprised that this is how they got Goro in the game.
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Kalmah at 06/21/2009 05:38
What are you talking about? All they had to do was find a giant 4-armed man to act the role of Goro. Shouldn't have been too hard :\
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Jaffacakelover at 06/21/2009 05:46
I never really thought about how they made Goro: Just assumed they'd put a guy in a rubber suit, the copied and pasted another pair of arms on. Didn't they do that for the later 4-armed people?
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Vrynix at 06/21/2009 06:38
Is it me or is there a lot of a mortal kombat news lately?
Maybe it's a sign that the next podtoid commentary is drawing near.
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lastSKYsamurai at 06/21/2009 07:30
But the combat is soooooo CHUNKY! Chunky I tell you! MK Deception on Xbox was my first & last. It's hard to think that last one sold so well....

- Hey, I've got an idea. How about the internet just ignore any MK info for a year or two. ,just to see what would happen.... Come-on, it could be fun!
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The Young Scot at 06/21/2009 08:33
I would pay cash monies for that Goro model
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mrplow8 at 06/21/2009 08:59
I've known this since I was a kid.
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007 at 06/21/2009 09:24
That's some high-tech stuff right there. Years ahead of their time...
zod000's Avatar
zod000 at 06/21/2009 09:29
MK Deception on Xbox was my first & last.

Fail

Any MK made after Mortal Kombat 3 was not representative of the series at all.
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DaedHead8 at 06/21/2009 10:28
Hey, that's pretty cool! Any chance we'll see it on ebay some day?
Los255's Avatar
Los255 at 06/21/2009 11:13
It would sell for a shit ton I bet.
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Kuma XL at 06/21/2009 13:42
WOW that's actually really neet. :)
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mr spooky at 06/21/2009 14:10
Goro kept falling apart sometimes.
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mudkip5000 at 06/21/2009 16:42
Ever since I was a child I wondered how they animated Goro.

Now I know. And knowing is half the battle..

the other half is "Rockets are badass".
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BattyAdroit at 06/21/2009 17:03
I knew it would look something like this. Awesome, awesome stuff. <3
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CrocBox at 06/21/2009 18:23
Thats really awesome!
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Rammstein at 06/21/2009 19:55
"MK Deception on Xbox was my first & last."

"Fail"

This ^

Also, I saw his post on twitter the other day, didn't think I would see it on front page, lawl, twitter.
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Artemus at 06/21/2009 21:13
That is why Mortal Kombat is kool...
Right?
Kome on!
Faubio's Avatar
Faubio at 06/21/2009 23:30
LOLZ, I have that same cookie tin.
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