DMK

Eleven years ago, a tiny little Mortal Kombat fan site by the name of Dave’s Mortal Kombat first appeared on the internet. Because of the hard work, dedication, and determination of founder Dave Rosteck, DMK quickly grew into one of the premiere MK fan sites. Dave spent hours upon hours of his free time perfecting DMK in the hopes of reaching out to all of the MK fans around the world. And slowly, it did. DMK transformed from a little MK fan site lost in the mix to a site that reached thousands of people!

Few journeys, however, are not complete without some hurdles. In 2008, due to financial reasons and a complete disconnect from the MK community, DMK was forced to shut its doors indefinitely. But where there is a will… there is a way. After a near two year absence, DMK returned to the web in September 2010!

This is the story of DMK…

Founded back in August of 1997 by David Rosteck, Dave’s Mortal Kombat has come a long way from being nothing but an offline Mortal Kombat information database to one of the most loyal and well known Mortal Kombat fansite on the Internet. DMK strives at providing you, the Mortal Kombat fan, the most organized, reliable, fast and comprehensive Mortal Kombat resource not found anywhere else.

The Long History Of DMK:

My first memory goes back when I received my first personal computer back when I was still in school. Ever since the first time I connected to the World Wide Web back in the summer of 1996, I was instantly hooked at how amazing it was to obtain just about any piece of information you wanted throughout the entire world. I was a MK fan at the time and just getting the feel of the community surrounding this great game series by visiting various fan websites dedicated to the MK series. I was absolutely mesmerized by the massive amount of information I was gathering without prior knowledge. When I think about my early days as an average fan, there’s only one MK fansite that comes to mind. When I think about my biggest inspiration to this day, BlueStar’s Mortal Kombat always sticks out in my mind. Run by a solo staff by the nickname of BlueStar (Nicolas Lee) I very much looked up to him for his great dedication, time and effort at keeping up a website on his own. I knew from then on that I shared his same passion for not only the game series itself but more importantly the fans.

Later on in the summer of 1997, I began compiling every piece of MK information, multimedia and images that I could get my hands on and started from there. I had no idea how to put my work online, I simply didn’t care at this point. From magazines to strategy guides, I put together and edited all of my findings into a word processor and even stored all of my images, scans and photos into folders on my hard drive. I even had my mind set on the name of my offline website (I guess you could call it) inspired by the already shutdown BlueStar’s Mortal Kombat. As the years passed, I continued to gather moves, cheats/codes and character biographies during the time of which Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero and Mortal Kombat 4 where making their debuts. As the end of the year 1999 approached, things started to change for the better. I was finally going to bring Dave’s Mortal Kombat to the Internet!

Sometime in mid December, I registered my first GeoCities account even without any HTML knowledge at all. Although I had heard all about them, I had no interest of using any kind of HTML editor besides good old Notepad. I eventually learned the basics and immediately started converting all of my word processor documents into HTML which ended up taking about two and a half months. At the time, the only image editor I had experience with was Microsoft Paint and it was good enough for me to at least get the site opened with a small amount of graphics. The site only started with the basics such as the obvious game sections, guestbook and my e-mail address. That was about it. On President’s Day, Monday, February 21st, 2000, Dave’s Mortal Kombat was launched to the public for the first time!

A Look Into The Future:

Looking back on the long journey of DMK, it’s hard to believe it would take over two and a half years to get online. To this day, I still feel the same amount of passion at providing one of the most loyal video game fans in the world the best source of everything Mortal Kombat. There’s never a day when I wake up and don’t feel like continuing this great website and help keep the Mortal Kombat spirit alive and well. For last and certainly not least, I would like to give out a huge word of thanks to the thousands who continue to visit this site each and every day to keep it going strong. Without you, the fans, DMK would be nothing. As long as the Mortal Kombat series lives on, you can always count on Dave’s Mortal Kombat as your Ultimate Mortal Kombat Source.

Sincerely,

Creator, Administrator & Webmaster of Dave’s Mortal Kombat