Oh I forgot to add how when you defeat Shao Kahn in arcade, he explodes like Agent Smith does.
ROUND ONE! FIGHT!
They could have Neo appear as a secret character by crushing Smith on the ceiling and flipping onto the platform like in the movie. You could unlock him via a secret input while the phone was ringing or by getting a double flawless+fatality when the phone made a unique ring. They could make him look like an oldschool digitized sprite. Plus some of his moves are already in the game like Liu Kang's bicycle kick and Stryker's Gunfire. lol.
yeah the Matrix, Terminator, Predator, Transformers, Big trouble in little China errr just a few movies it borrows from oh and lets not forget Enter the Dragon
HEX means hexadecimal it goes from 1 to 15 with the numbers from 10 and up beeing labeled with letters (A=10, B=11 ...)
And matrix uses a code with numbers , letters and even some special characters
Sektor teleport thing is just 1 and 0s to represent binary code and give u a cybernetic feel I guess