Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Original Johnny Cage Uploads MK1 Mo-Cap Footage To YouTube
One of the many trademarks of the first three Mortal Kombat games was the use of digitized actors. Rather than following the anime-influenced look of the rival Street Fighter series, Ed Boon and his team at Midway grabbed martial artists and actors to actually play their roles in front of a camera. One of those actors was Daniel Pesina, who played the original Johnny Cage. It seems that he still has the original tapes over 15 years later, and he has started uploading them to YouTube.
So far, Pesina (who was fired by Midway after appearing in an ad for a less-successful arcade fighter named BloodStorm) has uploaded nine clips featuring Kano and Johnny Cage to his YouTube page. You can check out one example below, and the rest of them can be found here.
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
