When the now 60-year-old British director was breaking into the film industry in the early 1990s, he would take a five-hour train ride from northern England down to London to meet with various movie producers in an effort to get his first project off the ground. In between those meetings, Anderson killed time at a nearby arcade, pouring coins into a Mortal Kombat machine and mastering the moveset of the game’s iconic poster boy.

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