Your memories/rants/thoughts on Mortal Kombat II's 20th anniversary today (MORTAL FRIDAY!)

Zangrief

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Played the ever living shit out of the SNES version, and it was likely the last arcade (or ported) game that I mastered ALL of the characters' moves for. Seriously, I was already checked out by the time SSF2 hit the arcades.
 

SonGohan

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I remember walking home from school and trying to be the first at a mom and pop store to rent it. I played the shit out of it, and even spent hours grinding 2p for Noob Saibot. It was a really good port (snes), but I remember it bothering me so much that the names weren't set in the life bar, haha.

Maybe a week later I remember my grandmother visiting and asking me what I wanted for my birthday. I told her MK2 and she asked what that was. I proceeded to show her Johnny Cage punching 3 heads off of Jax and she said "how about a nice sweater instead?" Later that evening she came back with the ugliest sweater that had MK2 wrapped up in it.

She was so awesome. I miss her :(
 

wataru330

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Your memories/rants/thoughts on Mortal Kombat II's 20th anniversary today (MO...

MK II on the cab @ Roberto's Taco Shop in Mira Mesa during lunch breaks from my shitty graveyard shift job in college.

Dat Rayden yell!
 
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NeoGeoNinja

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That's the store where I also got my 3DO.

*shudder*...actually I should hate that place

3DO had SS1, SSF2X way before any other console, StarFighter, StarControl II, Space Hulk, Need For Speed, Road Rash... etc, etc.

3DO had good shit available for it. It's just a shame it didn't push forward as well as it's later contemporaries.

I still enjoy my 3DO. Unashamedly...
 

ballzdeepx

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Ah MK2, I remember first seeing the cab and I was just blown away. I honestly can't think of another fighter at the time that improved on EVERYTHING and so well. The memories of trying to figure out all of the hidden stuff was so much fun, truly a golden age fighter if there ever was one.
 

Castor Troy

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Played the crap out of the SNES version.
But my fondness memory of MKII was when this arcade had an after hours tournament. The place was packed.
No one could figure my strategy with Kung Lao. I made it to the semi, but lost to the guy who would win it all. I ended up in 3rd place and won something like $100 (my memory is fuzzy). To this day, Kung Lao is still my boy.
 

wataru330

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"GABBAGABBAGAAA!!"
"HIMMAHIMMALAIIEE!!"

Or, something like that. I used to love all the nonsense the characters used to utter whilst executing moves in all the sequels too...


Lol, you got it man. *slaps high five*

I'm jonesing to play now. Need a time machine, as there aren't any MKII cabs in the wild near me.
 

Tacitus

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...a good port...

HA HA

Poor people buy ports.

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LoneSage

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I remember walking home from school and trying to be the first at a mom and pop store to rent it. I played the shit out of it, and even spent hours grinding 2p for Noob Saibot. It was a really good port (snes), but I remember it bothering me so much that the names weren't set in the life bar, haha.

Maybe a week later I remember my grandmother visiting and asking me what I wanted for my birthday. I told her MK2 and she asked what that was. I proceeded to show her Johnny Cage punching 3 heads off of Jax and she said "how about a nice sweater instead?" Later that evening she came back with the ugliest sweater that had MK2 wrapped up in it.

She was so awesome. I miss her :(

Dude that is an awesome grandma story.
 

Zangrief

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Too many characters, too many moves, too many fatalities, and that damned "Run" button - I bought an UMK3 pcb years ago that just gathers dust. It's still a tough pill to swallow when my skillz were so honed in the arcades of Atlanta in the late '80s/early '90s. MKII was butter (and better, but also butter).

Gawd, send me opponents!
 

roker

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I used to love this game, but it didn't age well, sadly. I can't get myself to play it, even for nostalgic reasons.

It's one of those games that broke new ground in my generation (and it came from the US for once!) and it was an enjoyable experience, but years and years later, I don't see anything bringing me back.

A tip of the hat to the first wave of over-the-top violent games with photo-realism ... ok, digitized crap.
 

SNKorSWM

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I remember picking up SNES MKII in rental and found out that Nintendo finally caved to the demands of gamers and not asking Midway censoring out the fatalities, so the game had retained all of its gore instead of getting nerfed like the first SNES MK. That was quite a milestone.
 

cannonball

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I remember walking home from school and trying to be the first at a mom and pop store to rent it. I played the shit out of it, and even spent hours grinding 2p for Noob Saibot. It was a really good port (snes), but I remember it bothering me so much that the names weren't set in the life bar, haha.

Maybe a week later I remember my grandmother visiting and asking me what I wanted for my birthday. I told her MK2 and she asked what that was. I proceeded to show her Johnny Cage punching 3 heads off of Jax and she said "how about a nice sweater instead?" Later that evening she came back with the ugliest sweater that had MK2 wrapped up in it.

She was so awesome. I miss her :(

Good story man. She sounds like she was pretty cool.
 

ReplicaX

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First game I ever preordered.

My first preorder as well. Software Etc. Still have my Brady Guide.

Lechmeres...the only place in the Ma. area with a Neo Geo setup that was playable in stores.

Visiting Lechmere in Weymouth as a teen was like Child World when I was younger. They always had every interactive.

What I loved about Mortal Kombat was the game's where just dropped in the arcade and everybody had to figure out everything on their own. You'd have people there spending their whole day figuring out how everything worked and how to do it.

Yep, this is why my friend and I learned so fast. The first 3 days in the Arcade /w 2 machines out front ppl didn't even notice it. Once word got out, we had lines out the door and for months.
 

neo_mao

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Visiting Lechmere in Weymouth as a teen was like Child World when I was younger. They always had every interactive.

Child World was awesome...I used to go to the Dedham and Brockton ones all the time

I think the one in Dedham is now a Bob's Home Furniture

Not sure what's in place of the one that was in the Westgate Mall, as I've been afraid to step foot in Brockton for years
 

spoonz

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Great memories with this game on console, we had a couple snes setups in our high school lab that would cost like 25c US for 5 minutes of game time. I don't think I've ever beaten the game in all the times I played it though.
 

ReplicaX

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Child World was awesome...I used to go to the Dedham and Brockton ones all the time

I think the one in Dedham is now a Bob's Home Furniture

Not sure what's in place of the one that was in the Westgate Mall, as I've been afraid to step foot in Brockton for years

I know there is a Toys R Us on the backside of the mall. Other than that no idea, like you I stay away.
 

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I picked it up for the PC a couple years after it came out. Played the hell out of that game. That was the closest you could get to the arcade at that time.

The MS-DOS version was surprisingly good. Enjoyed it a lot! Some sound effects were incorrect, though.
 

DZ

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I know there is a Toys R Us on the backside of the mall. Other than that no idea, like you I stay away.

Brockton ain't shit. I never knew there was one in Brockton as we mostly shopped at the Quincy one with an
occasional stop at the Dedham one. That place was the best.
 

ReplicaX

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Brockton ain't shit. I never knew there was one in Brockton as we mostly shopped at the Quincy one with an
occasional stop at the Dedham one. That place was the best.

Hanover one was no joke either man. It was huge.
 

GregN

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I remember in Brooklyn Park they had it in the arcade and it was brand new and no-one knew any moves. I had a couple written down on a piece of cardboard and some black kid asked to borrow it and I never got it back.

I remember playing against people on the SNES Xband. Good times.
 

GohanX

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I was obsessed with Mk2. I was looking forward to the release, saving my pennies earned from mowing lawns, trying to make sure I had the 60ish bucks by release. I had it, but err didn't have any dedicated game stores so I was calling every department store every day until finally Sears got one in. One.

I was flipping out, I got my dad to take me immediately, and there it was! And it was SEVENTY dollars plus tax. I didn't have enough! I was about to lose my shit but my dad said he'd pay the rest, which was huge since he was big about earning your own way.

I played that game so much. I still play it from time to time.
 
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