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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Oct 7, 2022 22:38:05 GMT -5
The first game came out on October 8th, 1992. I first played it on the SNES myself, when I was like six, though the main one I played as a kid was the Game Gear version of MK2.
... So can we get a modern port of MK9 sometime? Maybe also Deception and Shaolin Monks?
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Oct 7, 2022 22:50:19 GMT -5
Obligatory.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 7, 2022 23:09:44 GMT -5
The fun came before the internet where the fatality prompts weren’t widely known and there’d be that cool kid at the arcade who knew how to do ‘em.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Oct 8, 2022 1:10:11 GMT -5
The fun came before the internet where the fatality prompts weren’t widely known and there’d be that cool kid at the arcade who knew how to do ‘em. Was wondering how the hell did people figure them out back then without the internet?
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Post by sfvega on Oct 8, 2022 1:23:24 GMT -5
My first MK game played was II in 1993 at 7 years old. I played it on NES at the neighbor's house. They had a bunch of older siblings and it was impossible to keep us away from the game, which was a huge deal at the time. But parents not wanting to let kids play it made it an even cooler game, and it didn't need the help becoming a juggernaut of the time. Then my parents caved and let me have MK3 on Genesis. It was a terrible game with shitty animalities and didn't even have Raiden or Scorpion in it. I still loved it and played it endlessly.
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Oct 8, 2022 1:37:39 GMT -5
The fun came before the internet where the fatality prompts weren’t widely known and there’d be that cool kid at the arcade who knew how to do ‘em. Was wondering how the hell did people figure them out back then without the internet? By accident or through guide books.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Oct 8, 2022 2:22:37 GMT -5
I was 10 and the first time I saw Mortal Kombat was at a local pizza place near my grade school that had it as it’s sole arcade game. Johnny Cage was my favorite even then.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Oct 8, 2022 5:43:11 GMT -5
Was wondering how the hell did people figure them out back then without the internet? By accident or through guide books. Some of those fatalities were too complicated to be accidents, was there many guide books for arcade games or did magazines print them?
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Post by Desi on Oct 8, 2022 5:53:37 GMT -5
I like most things about MK except actually playing it because it's one of the few things that gave me nightmares as a kid.
And it wasn't necessarily the fatalities that did that, it was the MUSIC of all things.
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 8, 2022 6:01:52 GMT -5
Speaking of music, the Genesis OST for Mortal Kombat 1 has to be one of my favorites for that system. Really leaned into the console's electronic sounds and was all the better for it:
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Magnus the Magnificent
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Oct 8, 2022 6:07:48 GMT -5
I first played MKII on the Genesis. Kintaro was, and still is, a right bitch to beat, but Shao Khan is kind of pushover in comparison. Still fun to play.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Oct 8, 2022 7:24:02 GMT -5
I remember being 13, buying this game and a Genesis second hand, (my original Genesis had died a couple years before when water accidentally got spilled in it).
There was a sheet of paper folded up in the case that had the fatalities written down. It was awesome. Thank you random former owner!
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Post by Burst on Oct 8, 2022 7:38:07 GMT -5
Seems like it would be a good time for them to release a teaser for an MK12 or something of that sort. I'd mumble something about an HD Remix-type remake of MK2/3, but for all intents and purposes MK9 pretty much did that better than actually doing it would've, so maybe more like what was said above, and a remake of MK9 to push it to current graphics standards?
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Oct 8, 2022 7:40:25 GMT -5
Seems like it would be a good time for them to release a teaser for an MK12 or something of that sort. I'd mumble something about an HD Remix-type remake of MK2/3, but for all intents and purposes MK9 pretty much did that better than actually doing it would've, so maybe more like what was said above, and a remake of MK9 to push it to current graphics standards? I really want Cyber Sub Zero to come back. It was the coolest thing to happen in MK9. But they never followed up on it.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Oct 8, 2022 7:44:01 GMT -5
Seems like it would be a good time for them to release a teaser for an MK12 or something of that sort. I'd mumble something about an HD Remix-type remake of MK2/3, but for all intents and purposes MK9 pretty much did that better than actually doing it would've, so maybe more like what was said above, and a remake of MK9 to push it to current graphics standards? I really want Cyber Sub Zero to come back. It was the coolest thing to happen in MK9. But they never followed up on it. Well, they kind of did. Cyber Sub-Zero's moveset is a hidden moveset for Triborg in 10 and in 11 Frost takes some pretty obvious cues from him.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Oct 8, 2022 7:55:05 GMT -5
I really want Cyber Sub Zero to come back. It was the coolest thing to happen in MK9. But they never followed up on it. Well, they kind of did. Cyber Sub-Zero's moveset is a hidden moveset for Triborg in 10 and in 11 Frost takes some pretty obvious cues from him. Yea. But they just hand wave Sub becoming a cyborg. Like it was such an interesting plot moment.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Oct 8, 2022 8:10:12 GMT -5
Well, they kind of did. Cyber Sub-Zero's moveset is a hidden moveset for Triborg in 10 and in 11 Frost takes some pretty obvious cues from him. Yea. But they just hand wave Sub becoming a cyborg. Like it was such an interesting plot moment. Honestly that's kind of the story of the plot of the post-reboot games anyway. 9 has some pretty interesting plot shakeups laying the groundwork for a war with a basically unstoppable Shinnok, he's stopped super f***ing easily at the start of 10 and then the rest of the game kind of deals with building back to fighting him again. 10 introduced a bunch of new characters that were largely received well and moved the timeline forward in interesting ways, 11 banks hard on nostalgia (while being written by someone who's seemingly never played the other games given the immense amount of retcons going on), cuts most of the characters introduced in 10, and ends with another reboot that no one wanted.
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Post by xCompackx on Oct 8, 2022 8:27:29 GMT -5
Yeah, 11 is a downgrade in both story and gameplay from X. MKX's story wasn't perfect; I didn't care for the Revenants and Shinnok was kinda underwhelming (just like the first time, in fairness), but the story was mostly fun and the new characters all had pretty solid development as it went along. And even just to play, MKX is such a fun time. I spent so many hours in the Challenge Towers, it was probably the only good thing about my 2015, lol.
MK11 just isn't very fun. I didn't like the slower gameplay, they took out the X-Ray moves, Scorpion's standard Spear didn't even give you a free hit like literally all other games did, and the story sucked. Visually, it's great, but yeah, wasn't a fan.
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Post by lionheart21 on Oct 8, 2022 8:34:02 GMT -5
Seems like it would be a good time for them to release a teaser for an MK12 or something of that sort. I'd mumble something about an HD Remix-type remake of MK2/3, but for all intents and purposes MK9 pretty much did that better than actually doing it would've, so maybe more like what was said above, and a remake of MK9 to push it to current graphics standards? As much as I would love to see a remake of MK9, they'd have to release a patch alongside it since some aspects of MK9 were pretty broken (namely, the fact that Cyrax able to perform safe mixups and 80%+ combos)
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Post by Timeless Hayterade on Oct 8, 2022 8:38:00 GMT -5
I first played the original Mortal Kombat in the arcade. I was a little kid, so I was standing on a crate in order to play. Me and my older brother both got Mortal Kombat. I got it for the Sega Genesis, and he got it for the Super Nintendo.
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