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Legend of Kage of was cool. I don't think I ever got past level 2. All I did was just jump around the trees because that game's jumping dynamics were quick and cool. Excitebike was great too.

Mortal Kombat: I knew at the time that Nintendo's decision to remove the blood from the Super Nintendo game would look stupid from a historical perspective. Looking back, that holds true. The first movie was never that great as a movie, but great for what it actually was if you were a fan of the game. Learned recently that the guy that played Kano died in 2003.

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Reviews l YouTube Playlist: Another Dimension

"All over a bowl of bitter beans."

The Batlord

I hope that he treasured these moments.

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Black Francis

I want to talk a bit about fighting games, specifically the top 5 fighting games that imo are were the blueprints for modern fighting games. Starting with Street fighter 2



Though SF is not the first fighting game ever it is the first fighting game to get the concept right, this game did not only set a new standard in fighting games, it set the standard for fighting moves as well.

Most fighting moves to this day are a derivation of this:


← ↓ → + P = Hadouken


→ ↓ → + P = Shoryouken



↓ ↑ + K = Spinning Bird kick

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Black Francis

Those fighting controls to me is the biggest contribution SF has done for the genre. This game also made the music of the stages actually relevant



No one cared about the music of fighting games before this game and to this day SF2 has one of the most nostalgic soundtracks of any game.

On a personal note, i used to love the Street fighter 2: Hyper championship edition Arcade machine but not the official one, the hacked one



The arcade machine i played was even faster and more broken than this one, i remember using Balrog to beat it cause his special punches also came with 2 hadoukens

That's all i have to say about SF2 but not about hacked arcade machines, the next game i'll be covering Mortal Kombat also had a hacked arcade machine

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"Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!"

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Black Francis

Mortal Kombat 1 & 2



I have to cover MK 1 & 2 because covering just MK1 simply wasn't enough, If Street fighter set a new standard for fighting games MK took that standard and violently raised it

Now, before MK there were fighting games were you could kill your opponents, for example Time killers



In this game you could chop up your opponents to bits and this game was around the same time MK first came out but MK1 brilliantly set a more gruesome and realistic tone simply by using digitized graphics of real actors instead of using animation.

I kidd you not, when MK1 first came out and kids saw this



we flipped the f*ck out, and when parents saw it they flipped out too and gave MK the first ever MA rating in a videogame

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"Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!"

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Black Francis

I remember discussing MK1 with friends when it first came out, i was like 9 and me and my friends were a little scared of the game. We loved it but it shocked us as well, i remember seeing Kano's fatality and being legitimately in awe

Eventually we got used to the violence and then here comes MK2 and all MK fans lost their sh*t



Now they had more characters, an evil emperor Shao kahn, Hidden characters Like Jade and Noob Saibot and now each character had 5 fatalities, 2 regular ones a Babality a Friendship and a pit fatality





Fighting games would not be what they are today withouth MK, This game introduced legit gore to fighting games, something fighting games needed.

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"Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A

The Batlord

I was a tyke when those games came out, and they pretty much divided my video game timeline into pre- and post-Mortal Kombat. Not saying they were the best games ever invented, but I don't think most people -- gamers or otherwise -- really thought of video games as anything other than kids' toys, but after MK there was kind of a quantum shift in mentality. Limits people weren't even bothering to notice had now been broken.

Oh, and shout out to the first MK movie. The second one was garbage, but the first will forever have a piece of my childhood.

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Black Francis

Really? i prefer the 2nd MK movie mainly cause Sonya was alot hotter in that one.

To be honest both films disappointed me, the 1st one had great casting (except for Sonya) and the 2nd one was too cheesy.

I forgot to say, MK2 also had a hacked arcade machine were you could perform multiple fatalities at a time. in hacked Mk2 machines Kintaro was your first opponent



i never mastered the hacked version but i sure got my ass beat by pro players, the most impressive one was one that used Johnny cage and ripped 5 heads out of me THEN turned me into a baby AND THEN did a friendship like a total badass.

I didn't even mind losing, it was amazing to see.
Ive never played a hacked Mk3 and i don't see any hacked arcade machines anymore but the MK2 and SF2 ones were amazing, they were hyper-broken versions of the original game.

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"Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A

The Batlord

The first one actually had a semi-working plot, as opposed to the pure ****fest that was the sequel. It was ripped off from Enter the Dragon, but it was still an actual plot.

Besides, Johnny was alive in the first movie, and he was easily the best thing it had going for it.

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Oriphiel

Ha ha ha ha, yes! "Kidd Thunder!!"