{"id":7343,"date":"2022-09-23T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/random-mortal-kombat-logo-was-nearly-scrapped-after-being-mistaken-for-a-seahorse\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:15:47","slug":"random-mortal-kombat-logo-was-nearly-scrapped-after-being-mistaken-for-a-seahorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/random-mortal-kombat-logo-was-nearly-scrapped-after-being-mistaken-for-a-seahorse\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Mortal Kombat Logo Was Nearly Scrapped After Being Mistaken For A Seahorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thank goodness it wasn&#8217;t!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Mortal Kombat<\/strong> logo is arguably one of the most recognisable in all of gaming: the silouetted dragon swooping around to resemble the Yin and Yang symbol is stunning in its sheer simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>It almost wasn&#8217;t to be, however, if co-creator John Tobias had listened to a comment from his sister, who mistakenly thought that the original sketch of the dragon was actually a seahorse (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/mortal-kombat-iconic-logo-dragon-seahorse\">IGN<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/random-mortal-kombat-logo-was-nearly-scrapped-after-being-mistaken-for-a-seahorse\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Random: Mortal Kombat Logo Was Nearly Scrapped After Being Mistaken For A Seahorse<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank goodness it wasn&#8217;t!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Mortal Kombat<\/strong> logo is arguably one of the most recognisable in all of gaming: the silouetted dragon swooping around to resemble the Yin and Yang symbol is stunning in its sheer simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>It almost wasn&#8217;t to be, however, if co-creator John Tobias had listened to a comment from his sister, who mistakenly thought that the original sketch of the dragon was actually a seahorse (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/mortal-kombat-iconic-logo-dragon-seahorse\">IGN<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/random-mortal-kombat-logo-was-nearly-scrapped-after-being-mistaken-for-a-seahorse\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}