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• Taco2112@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I thought it was always Raiden, found this on Wikipedia:

  Raiden’s name was spelled this way in all of the original arcade games and in every game since Mortal Kombat 4. However, the PC and console ports released until Mortal Kombat Trilogy, along with both movies and the TV series, changed the name to “Rayden”, fearing the original spelling would lead to trademark issues from Seibu Kaihatsu’s shoot 'em up game Raiden. Ed Boon personally hated that Acclaim spelled it with a Y.

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  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh, I guess I played the console versions and internalized that his name was supposed to be spelled weird, never noticing when they changed it back.

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  • orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always thought it was Raiden too to the point I didn’t realize there was a Rayden spelling. Sounds like a fabric or non stick coating. Mean I didn’t play a ton of Mortal Kombat but knew, what I think was Scorpions finisher (?) in MK1 on Genesis, Start up up? Probably forgetting but that’s the only one I could remember enough to use back in it’s time…in the early 90s it was nothing short of fantastic to see them, even without the blood code for Genesis.

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