The Forgotten World of Mortal Kombat Clones (MK)
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Now that there's a brand new Mortal Kombat on the PS5 , Nintendo Switch and other platforms, I figured it was time to take a look back at the EXTREMELY VAST world of Mortal Kombat Clones! Klones? However you wanna say it. I still can't believe this thing is on Switch, do people not remember the Krypt? WILD.
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00:00 - Intro
04:02 - The Obvious Choices
07:41 - Time K*llers and Bl**d Storm
11:23 - The Good Stuff
14:25 - Eternal Champions
17:48 - Bottom of the Barrel
26:58 - The Next Generation
32:29 - As "Modern" as it gets
34:41 - The Rest of It
38:19 - Tattoo Assassins
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Happy 10 Years! ALSO, QUICK, what's a video topic I should do for later this month? I'm taking my favorite idea and turning it into a video FOR REAL. You can fact check me later! I've got a ton of ideas but for the decade anniversary I wanna see how fast I can put one of y'alls suggestions together! LETS GO!
you should do a video on night trap clones. you know, five nights at freddies, thhat star fox command gamee, theres a good one on the play store where you do the fixed camera switching thing
i say night trap clones but i think there was some sherlock holmes fmv games that pre date night trap by a few years
Forgotten, underappreciated and underrated DS games part 2? Could be a fun idea to revisit, since the DS library is very vast. Forgotten Licensed Games? Or maybe Forgotten Anime games? I don't know, I'm just throwing ideas around.
The life and death of the Mega Man Legend series
PlayStation Era RPGs that time has forgotten and desperately need a sequel/remake COUGH Wild Arms, Breath of Fire COUGH!!
I still remember my original copy of killer instinct 1 being a black cartridge instead of the typical grey one. It was awesome.
Probably one of the best Clones that Soundtrack was Killer.
@@moroseloki1912 It really was
Loved Eternal Champions when I was a kid. I remember really liking the idea of characters from different time periods fighting.
Definitely due a revival from Sega. Especially since there hasn't been news of a new Virtua Fighter for a couple years now.
Does anybody know if they’ll ever give this game a makeover?
With the recent reimaginings? Gods I hope so.
There is a Mexican Mortal Kombat clone called "Kombate Mexicano X".
I bought a copy of it when I went to the EGS (a gaming convention that had support from big brands) like 16 years ago in the indie section that was behind the important booths, the person demoing the game was actually one of the developers/actors who was digitized into the game.
I may still have the game somewhere in my old CD collection.
As a Mexican game, it had mechanics inspired from King of Fighters, references to corrupt politicians, pop culture figures, and El Chavo, plus a ton of albures.
I loved bringing it to the IT classroom in high school, where we would play it while the teacher wasn't looking.
Dude I need to see this lol
Of course it has El Chavo.
Just looked it up, looks very nice
My country had one of those, but it was a flash game full of the "memes" from that era plus some foreign, legendary ones like Edgar (from "La Caída de Edgar").
The one you mentioned, how was it about the budget? Did it look serious although the themes and references or was it more like a fun, one-time little project?
@@CristianNavia0807 it was closer to Mortal Kombat, as the fighters were digitized actors.
I don't know the budget it may have had, but it was an entertaining game with around 20 characters, but I may be misremembering it.
It can still be found online.
In their official page, which is now offline, one could download fighters for free, as back then downloading the full game at once would have taken a while, one could download one by one.
Damn, you've been pumping out a lot of content lately, Austin - cheers.
Yeah im lovin dis shit
He'll probably take a break soon.
Street Fighter The Movie The Game deserves some degree of mention. While everyone involved seemed to be on a completely different pages as to exactly what they were making, at least some of those involved viewed the game as Capcom attempting to copy the look and success of Mortal Kombat.
It was supposed to be Street fighter 3 at some point, and Sheng Long himself was almost in the game. At least they had Akuma.
@@Invidente7 The SF3 story has been debunked. It was apparently a misunderstanding on the part of some people at Intelligent Technologies.
Capcom USA had denied the claim all the way back at the beginning of 1995.
Polygon's oral history article is even more telling. Not only does everyone from Capcom Japan deny the idea (instead it was viewed as a spin-off), even some of the people at Intelligent Technologies deny it. While Alan Noon said he remembered the game being pitched as SF3 and even found a design document that called it such, Ralph Megosa said Capcom never approved that name and that it was likely just an (IT) internal development label.
That's what I meant when I said everyone seemed to be on completely different pages as to what they were making. While some people at IT thought Capcom was looking to outside Western developers to "save" the SF franchise, Capcom Japan was just dumping off a project (making a game based on the live action movie) that they *didn't even want to make.* The whole reason SFTMTG exists is apparently because the president of Capcom had first wanted a movie made for a Capcom property, and then wanted a game made for the movie...
I came to say this, I was surprised it wasn't included, or even mentioned.
@@BainesMkII I wouldn't call it an MK rip off though, all it really did was use digitized graphics. Which MK wasn't even the first one to use that, Pit-Fighter was.
Fun fact about Eternal Champions: “Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's 1995 album E. 1999 Eternal, was loosely inspired by the video game, not just in title, but even as far as the use of samples, such as the character bios theme for "Eternal", and the bad ending theme being the basis of the original "Crossroad", which would later be remixed, becoming the group's biggest single and earning them a Grammy.”
These clones just cement how truly special the Mortal Kombat franchise truly is...
i think they just cement how financially successful it is lol
The sad thing was no one could do what they did as good as they did.
Many imitators but no true successors or equals. Say what you will about mortal Kombat but it had a look and feel that it nailed perfectly. And though a bit wonky by modern standards it's still comes up on top compared to the absolute Dollar store knockoffs that mostly came up against it.
@@JohnDoe-wq5euboth of the latest Tekken and Street fighter games shit all over MK1 as a pure fighting game
I LOVE the story that the Kasumi Ninja team literally went to a market across the street from their building to find the costumes for the game. That’s admirable determination!
If I remember correctly, Death Cargo was repurposed into "Gorebreaker" (a game that used the assets, but seemed to be more of a beat'em up/RPG hybrid).
I still have the og demo on my pc 😂😂
Eternal Champions was Segas best hit as an exclusive hybrid between MK and Street Fighter. Owned the original on Genenis and the CD Version is just what it always schould have been from the beginning. Could have become one of THE fighting games of today... oh - i would love to see that version of reality.
I was ticked off when they cancelled the saturn one. I was hyped for that one.
KI had to be the first clone I played or was aware of. And similar to MK, my mom banned me from playing it. I managed to make a deal with her that would allow me to play KI as long as I only played as Spinal since he didnt bleed. Eventually I got her to allow Fulgore and Glacius since they bled "oil" and "water" respectively
So many games I’ve never heard of. Mortal kombat was the first console videogame I ever had as a kid. My dad got us a sega genesis after we spent so many hours playing gameboy. Great memories
Congrats on ten years, Austin! I've been watching your stuff for a long time and always enjoy opening TH-cam to see a new video of yours. Hope that you keep making cool stuff for a long time!
I feel really lucky to live an hour away from Galloping Ghost. Such a blast to take my kids there for the day. Such a smorgasbord of awesomeness wherever you look. And the history man. Holy hell it's something to behold. 🤩🤩🤩
I really wanna play the SegaSonic arcade.
As a certified dinosaur kid ™️, my first thought for a clone was Primal Rage, so I'm glad you got to it immediately! We rented it over and over for the SNES, and I even still have an official action figure for a sabertooth tiger character from the unreleased sequel. A modern reboot could be incredible!
One small correction; the Sonic comic with the Eternal Champions special was NOT the Archie comic, but was in fact the British "Sonic the Comic" from Fleetway. The more you know.
I never actually played it but Eternal Champions’ box art lived in my mind way too much as a kid when it came out. I would just sit there and wonder, how far does that beam out of his watch go? Is it like a lightsaber or does it just go up into space? I’m doing it again help
Eternal Champions is great, especially the sega cd one.
Same. Seen it advertised in comics and wondered often 😅
I remember getting Eternal Champions and my friends asking,"What the Hell is this?" While l loved the game my friends thought it was pretty sluggish.
I discovered this channel a few months ago and honestly.. its become my favourite channel on TH-cam. The consistency of these videos is awesome! Never miss one and always watch the whole video.. keep doing what you are doing Austin!
The only imitator to stay around is Killer Instinct
Does injustice count?
@@icravedeath.1200 no because Injustice were developed by Netherealm themselves instead of another company trying to mimic them.
I just clicked this video only to see killer instinct. So I'm glad to see it in the comments already.
I was born in 88 and when killer instinct came out it was pretty damn cool and "unique".. enough haha I loved it
What you said is true! ULTRA COMBO!!
I wish WB would make MK spin-offs. Shaolin Monks needs a sequel or a remaster for modern consoles.
Scorpion should have his own action game like God of War (classic).
You could unlock scorpion in shaolin monks if i remember correctly.
Austin probably won't ever see this but I've been so impressed with this Chanel (I found it this year) love the style, pacing, and most of all the seamless transitions from game to game. Idk if there's a dedicated editor other than Austin but both writing the script, and editing it's a labor intensive process that doesn't go unnoticed
Primal Rage needs to get a modern reboot.
Yes it does
It absolutely does not
Same here and I can say the same with Eternal Champions too.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN yes it absolutely does.
I was hoping you'd bring up Eternal Champions. I had a friend who owned it and I spent a single summer playing the hell out of it. I liked the alchemist guy with the cane.
i’m almost certain i grew up playing battle monsters on the saturn and i had no recollection of it whatsoever until i saw it in this video. thank you for unlocking this memory for me
Same same same.
I was so excited to see you talking about Eternal Champions. That was my favorite fighting game as a kid
Despite being clones Primal Rage and Eternal Champions are absolute gems and games that stood out. Always picked them up with out hesitation.
Primal rage was prob one of my biggest letdowns when it came out. MK/dinos was like a dream for a jurassic park kid
Wasn't expecting to see another video from you so soon. Thanks for making my day a bit better.
Matt McMuscles would be proud that someone else knows just how bad Expect No Mercy is.
Surprisingly one of my first knockoff of MK was dong dong never die
Omf2097 was one of my favorite games in the late 90s and I remember one of my friends contacted the creator to use the music on my city's local Comcast cable channel. While it might feel clunky by today's standards it's deep story telling for the tournament modes made it an amazingly fun dos alternative to Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter 2 (for a single player). If you had the ability to use 2 Gamepads it could also be very fun with 2 players even if it wasn't as deep on a mechanical level. Ran on everything and had a shareware (and then freeware) version. Free vs the 50 to 60 Dollars Mortal Kombat was at the time made it an easy choice for me. And damn it's soundtrack is full of bangers
Congrats on 10 years! Man, can't believe you've been YouTubing for that long. From talking Genesis games as Boku no Eruption to being the drummer of a band to now. Keep making good work!
While watching this video I couldn't help but wonder what a Eternal Champs remastered might be like !?
Or an eternal champions remake in general.
Istg, every video you improve with the script, delivery, and editing. I dont think you're ever gonna reach your peak, because you simply cant stop getting better
Eternal Champions. Another example (among many) highlighting that Sega really mastered the art of shooting themselves in the foot.
Wow you’ve been pumping out high quality video after high quality video Austin. This was one of my favorite episodes in recent memory. Awesome work man
Mortal Kombat would go on to get praise for being innovators of mechanics like skill-based finishers, control distortion, speed altering, and timer manipulation... 25 years after Eternal Champions did them.
I've been trying to remember One must fall 2097 but my search had always been in vain. I played this at my friend's house. He got the controller and I was stuck with keyboard. Fuckin thank you for doing what you do and letting me finally remember the name after literally a decade of searching!
It has a great soundtrack!
So good to see Eternal Champions get some much deserved recognition.
DUDE! I had been looking for Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon for decades now! I kept remembering playing a demo as some sort of Sasquatch climbing buildings and doing other weird activities, and I've finally found it after all this time in a completely unrelated video!
"Austin references Elfen Lied in a violent video game video" was indeed on my bingo card
Eternal Champions CD has some of the most gruesome stage fatalities that I've seen in all my years, especially the mine cart one. With the log. Or the one where you're basically microwaved while still conscious. Ouch. I'm just bummed that Sega seems to have completely disowned it, since it still has potential and probably enough nostalgia to get some goodwill.
The story behind D.C.'s (the one you mentioned at the Rest of Clones before going with tattoo assassin') seems to be how the developers were just churning DMCAs to people talking about the game with footage for some reason...but I think there's people on Reddit with reuploads of when Super Best Friends Play tried it and made a mockery out of it (Saturday Morning Scrublords)...which might also be the easiest way to see how the game, that indeed existed but was almost scrubbed from existence because of its devs, looked like
Which is still very weird to think about; all that for a MK clone lol
I still have the og demo on my pc 😂😂
Congrats on 10 years Austin and team!
War Gods just unlocked a core memory. Oh my goodness.
I had the Primal Cuts CD as a kid and I felt like I was a man amongst children while listening to it.
There's this one very obscure fighting game on Mac and PC called The Untouchable that would've been a good fit for the video, it was released in the late 90s and had digitized characters. There's not much info on it out there so I'm not shocked that it wasn't mentioned. Looks like it was developed by the same studio that made Bikini Karate Babes lol. Great video, man. Been watching since the FFXV review!
Dude, this doc is extremely impressive. The amount of information you’ve included, in such an informative fashion, is truly incredible.
Thank you!
I had (and still have) Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortex. I actually preferred Kasumi Ninja, as I was able to work out better “strategies”. Also, i thought it was cool how the characters would fall in a few different ways based on how they are hit. That was actually pretty cool.
Eternal Champions was awesome. Great story, graphics and music. The story in the book was awesome too.
I remember having a lot more fun with Eternal Champions while playing it with my brother comparing to MK1. We both knew it wasn't really good but the characters had a lot of charm, having a cyborg, a vampire, a 40s gangster and stuff, it was cool. And the music was pretty great too!
Some people act like the game is sooo bad but it's definitely a serviceable fighter. I liked it better than MK1 too because it had way more content.
@@Gatorade69 ever played the Sega CD sequel?
@@Invidente7 No but I know about it.
I should emulate it. Can't you play as a chicken in it ?
Bruh the fact i been watching you since before rocket knight, dawg thanks for being there frfr, always happy to watch your vids. Happy 10th glad you stuck around Austin
Primal Rage I would love a remake of! With claymation in 4k! Would be awesome.
THANK YOU FOR SHOUTING OUT KILLER KUTS!!
That shit is just a straight-up legit studio electronic dance album
The Eternal Champions comic was a special from Sonic the Comic, from Fleetway, not Archie.
Only MK "clone" I really played back in the day was Eternal Champions for the Genesis/Mega Drive. I was never very good at it, but I still enjoyed playing it on my friend's machine. Primal Rage, too. One of my local pizza places had an arcade machine for a good while after both TMNT arcade games had more or less been played out by everyone.
Oh wow, this must be my birthday, can't wait to watch. Thank you!!
Congratulation on the 10-year anniversary man! Your videos are so entertaining and so informal!
Man I still have my copy of Primal Rage! And a couple action figures! Too bad we never got the full release of PM2. What a great throwback video this is!
Omg I forgot about primal rage wowwww
Man Killer Cuts was the first CD I owned, I couldn't listen to if for years until my family go it's first CD player!!! :D 5:48
Love your clone videos. Keep them coming 👍
This video unlocked a core memory. I bought one must fall 2097 from the discount bin I’m the 90s and it only worked once on my pc with no sound. Never got it working again and tossed it.
I've seen a few other TH-camrs cover this topic before. You covered more games than the others I've seen, so that is cool. Good job.
I loved the character "Larcen" in Eternal Champions. He was a bad ass to my young mind, reminding me of a mix of Batman and Dick Tracy (Dick Tracy being a game I also played a lot of the Genesis.)
"(Punk.)"
Those Jackie Chan games are actually really good, they seem chunky and just button smashers at first, but if you keep at it, there's actually a very interesting combo system that's hard to describe but eventually you catch on. Play as that Chinese New Years Dragon thing first if you want to learn it.
I love this channel and I love you Erupti. Thanks for wonderful 10 years.
35:18 Some of my fondest memories growing up was playing OMF with my brother on the same keyboard. Great game and a banger soundtrack.
One Must Fall 2097 is fantastic; one of my all-time favorite PC games. Nice to see it get a shout-out here.
Also, congrats on 10 years! I discovered and subscribed to you because of your Babylon's Fall video of all things since I got the platinum trophy for it before it closed up shop. Been loving the videos ever since.
Eternal Champions was pretty damn good. It still looks good, too.
BIG fan of Eternal Champions Sega CD, so glad you mentioned it.
The wild hidden characters is almost as iconic as its violence.
I'm so glad you mentioned Death Cargo! I remember hearing about that game and being super intrigued by it only to never see or hear about it actually being released... Maybe a whole video on that story?
Started watching you in 2016. Great work and I wish you continued success.
24:00 YESSS!!!!! "I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU!!!!"
Fantastic video! What a trip down memory lane.
1 Must Fall!! DUDE!! my brothers and I played this on the computer. Lots of fun.
This is the most blood I’ve seen in a yt fighting game vid, way more than the dedicated fighting game channels. Even the doods who say they won’t edit out the gore but still do. Just give chaos acid pee fatality from primal rage.
You putting in that GRIND 💪😎
Been hanging around for a _long_ time, since the Arcadea days even, and it's always been a pleasure to catch your videos to this day
Here's to another 10 years!
Cheers 🎉
The voice clip anubis you have been chosen has been stuck in my head since I played wargods at my cousin's house when I was a child
Love these videos!! Thank you
Congrats for your decade man !
Congratz on ten years! I found your channel over 2020 and it helped entertain during The Bad Time. Would love to see you do something with the No One Lives Forever franchise! I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned before but it's a nostalgic one for me and I always want to see more of it :)
Austin rhe fact that you used a clip from lost lands has me hollering haha thank you for that and congrats on the 10 years. U are a mint individual and appreciate everything u do
That one kid was Maximillian Dood and i think he mentioned it in several videos when he covered the ost in old podcasts with Superbest Friends and their fighting game podcast
Whenever Austin uploads I stop what I'm doing and watch
Congrats on 10yrs cheers 🍻
Woa Eternal Champions. Some core memories activated. I remember being so proud finally doing some crazy finishers. Beating your opponent and letting him burn at the stake.
clean vids man good work
I love this video, thank you for the work you put in to bring us… the bottom of the barrel.
Yo, great documentary~comentary format, not typical 10min for revenue videos. Appreciated, liked and followed.
Well this was a great video it’s just entertaining seeing how absurd some of these clones are, when their trying to be taken seriously, and overshadow Mortal Kombat, when most likely they won’t, and will just be laughed out aside from Killer Instinct, for the most part, though Midway, trying to create different games with similar vibes is pretty passionate, also holy shit bootleg slender man was really throwing hands got daymn, i won’t lie that sequel terrordome had me cracking up, but the Ash, in the original boggieman goes hard as hell. Now this type of video being made again makes me wanna see you cover Half Life, clones, Metal Gear, clones, Crash Bandicoot, clones, and Jak 3, clones, in terms of being vehicular combat games, which i could definitely see Roadkill, being in that video it’s just a insane game, that i think would fit right in with the weird stuff you cover, Austin, also a wtf games video would be awesome to, since you do specifically do weird, and forgotten games on different consoles, but that type of game would be like crap you can’t even comprehend, like that don’t even have a weird novelty to them. Oh, and congrats on reaching your double digit anniversary, Austin, it’s always crazy to see TH-camrs, i throughly enjoy reach milestones, and i’m not to sure when i subbed to you, but I’d definitely say i really got into you during your uploads through 2020, to now, and i do deliberately plan to watch your stuff when you stock up on videos, so thank you for the unforgettable entertainment kudos to you my man Austin.
Congrats Austin on the 10 years!
There are not enough videos on this topoc for my tastes, thanks for this.
I miss physical game manuals. Mgs 3 literally had a 2-4 page graphic novel of snake eating a fish
I loved Mace the Dark Age on the N64 and Pojo is GOAT.
I loved One Must Fall (freeware demo). The thunder sound effect brings me back.
Congrats on 10 years man!
congrats on 10 years bro. I'm a long time subscriber and an old school Texan gamer too , love your videos :)
here's a video idea, maybe 5 to 10 games you hated as a kid/ teen but gave another chance and actually enjoyed them more since you're older now.
Congrats on the anniversary!
I was hoping you were going to mention One Must Fall...because it's the only one I've played.