I got into Mortal Kombat kind of late... my cousin had Mortal Kombat Trilogy on N64, and I got into it. I think the reason why I got into Smoke was becasue at the time I was into Star Wars and I liked the droids because of this story I read about the bounty hunter IG-88... but I also read a story about a hunter named Dengar, and Smoke's story reminded me of Dengar's, so Smoke became my fave. I also like Baraka, Scorpion, and Motaro. I could only beat the game on Very Easy -_-;. But I could beat the rpg-ish game, MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero. I used to come home from school, play the game for an hour, and beat it every day. I got SO close to beating the hard version, but the final boss was WAY too fast.
As far as the movies went, the first one was more enjoyable and fun. Smoke was in the sequel, but that brat Sub-Zero killed him (.... that's not how the storyline went...), so that ruined the rest of the movie for me. I'm such a geek :D. I think I'll draw a colored Baraka one of these days.