Ed Boon says Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter ran into a road block

“The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry” – famous words by poet Robert Burns. Ed Boon of Midway can probably identify with that. The father of the Mortal Kombat series had always wanted to make a crossover game. Thing is, his original idea didn’t quite come to pass. Find out why in the full article after the jump.

Road blocks. We run into them from time to time in this game called life. When that happens, we often just change course. Such was the case with Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon. He had originally wanted to make a Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter game, but he ran into…you guessed it: road blocks.

Boon said that he had tried contacting Capcom about working on a crossover game involving the two fighting franchises. Even then, the distance problem (Capcom is in Japan) made for a bit of a  communication gap. Ultimately, thing’s didn’t quite pan out.

Despite the disappointing turn of events, Boon is still very much excited about the Midway crossover game that will be pushing through: Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. As he put it:

I’ve always wanted to cross MK over since about MK4, or something like that. I’m a big fan of all of the other fighting games, Street Fighter, Tekken, what not. I always thought, wouldn’t it be cool to have MK vs. SF and MK vs. Tekken and what not. We pursued some of those ideas to the extent that we could but we always ran into some kind of road block and couldn’t do it.