Thats just awesome, I recall an article where with Ono saying that they were impressed with how MK was done, they just didn't feel that a crossover would really be possible or successful. It was a very old article back when MK9 first released.
That's awesome, lol I can't believe I didn't catch that. As for the game I think it is ok so far. I'm just on the sixth mission though but don't want to spoil anything by giving a lot of thoughts on it haha.