When writer Jon Tsuei was a child,almost every trade in his San Francisco neighborhood had a Mortal Kombat cabinet. He used to battle the neighborhood kids on one at the store up the street from his mom's clothing boutique after school. With a steady diet of bootleg Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies, anime, or video games,Tsuei had a vivid imagination and a adore of fantasy from an early age.
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