Every now and then I love checking out everyone’s killer instinct vids. The game was a huge part of my life as a kid and even more so as an adult. I was a lucky guy because I ended up on the reboot soundtrack back in 2015 on the Herald of Gargos track. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I’d be able to be a part of killer instinct history.
This game is 25 years. I still remember the first time i saw it at the mall arcade Some guy dominating with riptor and just seeing that stage with the blood on the tiles and thr speed of the game was crazy foe 9yr old me. The last time i saw it was in 2006 in an old arcade shop :(.
I was a sophomore in highschool when this dropped..first ultra I saw was orchid...the kid did it on accident..he took his hands off the joystick and to all our amazement it kept on going...we lost our minds!!!!
Killer Instinct is the game series where the concept of the "combo" reached its highest point. Killer Instinct is my favorite fighting game series. Playing Killer Instinct on the Xbox One on Xbox Live and seeing how far this series has come is truly amazing!
no it isnt, many of capcom games like the alpha series and the versus games had a big emphasis on custom combos and the games where way more fluid and fast paced than killer instinct, games like guilty gear xx and anime fighters that came after just go crazy on combo territory with combos easily going into the 50 and 100 hits, killer instinct sure was great and miles better than some of its competitors (like mortal kombat that sucks) but its not the best when it comes to combos
Love this! Orchid is so perky and playful and has a super cute voice. That was great how Eyedol rallied at the end of the fight. I like the sounds he makes when he gets hit and the ones he makes when he does his foot stomp health regenerate. Every thing about this game is very satisfying. I want to find an arcade that has this now and go play it for hours
Playing this at home on my SNES when I’d do her fireball my dad would be on the side yelling “Beans again!” Hahaha!! Cracked me up every time, memories 😁
I remember this game in the arcades. It was turned WAY up so you could hear the second you walked in - people were lined up 10 deep waiting their turn to take on the winner. For my local arcade (at least when I went), this game was THE big daddy - with NBA Jam in second. When you heard the bass pounding for Orchid's music, it was absolutely mesmerizing.
Even if the volume wasn't turned up quite a bit, as certain operators would turn it down due to complaints, it was designed to be at max volume when someone, or the CPU gets an Ultra Combo.
There something about Killer Instinct that no other fighting game can't match , the visuals, the music, the characters, just effing everything. Killer Instinct 2 was truly special as well.
I'd love to see a fully remastered version of this 1994 classic. Just imagine it with 2021 technology. I mean, I know there's a recent PC version available on Steam but if someone took this and gave it a once over it would be awesome.
I remember in 1995, I adopted a pet rabbit and I named her Bunny Orchid... only to later discover she was actually a he, so I renamed him Sabrerabbit (or Rabbit for short.)
I remember all the high skilled players went between Fulgore, Spinal, Thunder, Glacius, and Orchid at the arcades. It was so sick what these people could do, including the infinites.
I remember my dad getting this for snes in 1995 when i was 7 years old and him and his friend were both appreciating orchids jugs lol. Even i knew i liked em
I actually do have a vivid memory of killer instinct on someone's small bedroom TV when I was growin up, but never owned it myself. I played more Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II for Sega genesis and SNES and then goldeneye on N64
I've been playing playstation since it came out.. but this game made me get an xbox one just so I could replay this masterpiece!! So many memories! Used to play it on Snes when I was like 12 years old. Good old days MK3 and KI
Sabrewulf, Orchid, Chief Thunder and T.J. Combo were my best characters, there wasn't nobody seeing me on this game. I worked at the arcade park back then and used to give people their quarters back after I demolished them, it was awesome. Lol
OMG there combos on the arcade version are super fluid They don't have those redundant breaks in between the combos trying to count every hit. Like just let them do the combo.
I still remember borrowing this game for the SNES and playing the shit of out of it... I will always remember that feeling when I went to the arcade and saw the Ultra 64 version and having my mind blown by the sound, the graphics, the music...
They used “HOT” cause it reads the same regardless of the direction her sprites are flipped. Capcom did the same thing with Dee Jay of the Street Fighter series. His pants say “MAXIMUM” vertically.
With any character, if you hold back and then tap forward plus any other button combinations, you'll always go into a minimum of 8 hit combo...I love that about this game
Killer Instinct was the first fighting game that I remember having combos in the gameplay. Many games copied after this came out. I used to walk to the arcade just to play this lol.....
As a kid, I use to have so much fun kicking ass with orchid on the killer instinct arcade at Hollywood park race track in the 90s. My dad would gamble on horses, and I spanked ass on virtual instinct and Ultimate MK 3
A Movie will be less impressive with human but a movie with this arcade version game for model with some things more realistic HD watched in cinema could be great
i used to love playing this in the arcade with older lads as this one guy taught me to play it and rinse them was fantastic he always went jago but taught me to play with orchid and riptor
Soundtrack was so good. The killer instinct theme with the electronic guitar makes me cry with nostalgia like a lot of 80's / 90's soundtracks, they just dont make them like they used too
I'd love to see what this was like on the actual silicon graphics machine BEFORE it was ported to the Nintendo ultra 64 chipset. It would be interesting to see how good it actually was. I liked the graphics with this even though the animation could of been smoother and more detailed. Silicon graphics should revisit this technique for the next new consoles and give us the ultimate intended visual treat.
This IS what the game would look like on arcades, this is running on the MAME emulator (arcade). This isn't the SNES version. The particle effects are a dead giveaway.
@@David-zh7rj Hi David, I think you are somewhat confused. The Arcade version was actually running the Nintendo Ultra 64 Chipset. The actual graphics were created on Silicon Graphics computers BEFORE being ported to the Ultra 64 Format. @Zac Dior is referring to the original graphics not what actually made it into the game - which would of been superior to what actually ended up being in the Arcade version. No one would of seen the actual Silicon Graphics renders apart from the original development team. Unfortunately I believe these have been lost and we will never see them.
@@brucejones5962 "Unfortunately I believe these have been lost and we will never see them" Shame that😢as I've always wondered how Donkey Kong Country looked running on the Silicon Graphics computers too.
@@petrusamp7792 I agree. My gripes were: too many day stages which took away from the cool vibe the first one had, the combos and animation felt clunky compared to the seamlessness of KI, and the new characters were boring. Maya and Tusk both looked like they came from the same tribe since they were both scantily clad people using blade weapons. A huge strength of KI was the characters' diversity.
I would love to see a fight between orchid and jade from Mk3 trilogy. Orchid was my go to on killer instinct and jade’s kicks wasn’t nothing to play with . LOL
Street Fighter made it about strategy. Mortal Kombat made it about blood and gore. Virtua Fighter added realism. But Killer Instinct satisfied what we all really wanted. COMBOS!!!!
Am so desperate to play this I missed this game so much my favourite old school game I loved this game best fighting game I really want them to release this and KI2 on ps4
+William Colbert yes arcade emulator or the snes. mame for arcade, but make sure you download the older version. You do need CHD rom though. but also google is your friend :-) snes9x for snes games. Works perfectly
Still looks and plays amazing after all these years. It truly was ahead of its time..
nighthawk0077 Rare was the best video game company and Nintendo let them slip through their fingers. That was a dream team.
hi!!..where can us dowload this version KI ??...
This game was ahead
Soundtrack to this game was absolutely amazing
I had it it came with the game when my mom got it for me
Rare did NOT fuck around when it came to music.
The free CD the game came with was amazing
@@blakfloyd or the announcer. Probably most epic fighting game announcer of all time.
@@TraumaER indeed :) I still remember every combo nickname like 3=triple, 4=super, and so on.
Every now and then I love checking out everyone’s killer instinct vids. The game was a huge part of my life as a kid and even more so as an adult. I was a lucky guy because I ended up on the reboot soundtrack back in 2015 on the Herald of Gargos track. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I’d be able to be a part of killer instinct history.
Thanks for your contribution 🙌. Absolutely phenomenal music for a phenomenal series.
W for you sir.
I’m still chuckling at the rack reveal fatality move. The one that makes the doppelgänger orchid throw a fit is hilarious.
Orchid was always my favorite ... so easy to combo!
I agree
I agree... *quietly say "that's bullshit"*
I agree that ur a noob and this game was actually trash. *splash goes the sound of the garbage*
@@kan35611 STFU
@@kan35611 It was a fun game and had a unique combo structure compared to other fighters!
This game looked so good graphically back in day
Amazing
This game is 25 years. I still remember the first time i saw it at the mall arcade
Some guy dominating with riptor and just seeing that stage with the blood on the tiles and thr speed of the game was crazy foe 9yr old me.
The last time i saw it was in 2006 in an old arcade shop :(.
This game is not that long...
1996
*1994
I was a sophomore in highschool when this dropped..first ultra I saw was orchid...the kid did it on accident..he took his hands off the joystick and to all our amazement it kept on going...we lost our minds!!!!
Killer Instinct is the game series where the concept of the "combo" reached its highest point. Killer Instinct is my favorite fighting game series. Playing Killer Instinct on the Xbox One on Xbox Live and seeing how far this series has come is truly amazing!
no it isnt, many of capcom games like the alpha series and the versus games had a big emphasis on custom combos and the games where way more fluid and fast paced than killer instinct, games like guilty gear xx and anime fighters that came after just go crazy on combo territory with combos easily going into the 50 and 100 hits, killer instinct sure was great and miles better than some of its competitors (like mortal kombat that sucks) but its not the best when it comes to combos
@@pedrogabriel3158 read his comment again.
You are objectively and irrefutably wrong.
Not open for discussion. Period.
@@turbulonTV
Tt.n r 4bhg
Love this! Orchid is so perky and playful and has a super cute voice.
That was great how Eyedol rallied at the end of the fight. I like the sounds he makes when he gets hit and the ones he makes when he does his foot stomp health regenerate.
Every thing about this game is very satisfying. I want to find an arcade that has this now and go play it for hours
Playing this at home on my SNES when I’d do her fireball my dad would be on the side yelling “Beans again!” Hahaha!! Cracked me up every time, memories 😁
I remember this game in the arcades. It was turned WAY up so you could hear the second you walked in - people were lined up 10 deep waiting their turn to take on the winner. For my local arcade (at least when I went), this game was THE big daddy - with NBA Jam in second. When you heard the bass pounding for Orchid's music, it was absolutely mesmerizing.
Even if the volume wasn't turned up quite a bit, as certain operators would turn it down due to complaints, it was designed to be at max volume when someone, or the CPU gets an Ultra Combo.
@@master2873😮
30 Years later still one of the best Fighting games ever made!
There something about Killer Instinct that no other fighting game can't match , the visuals, the music, the characters, just effing everything. Killer Instinct 2 was truly special as well.
Omg I used to spend hours in the arcade as a kid playing Orchid! Thanks for bringing back some fond memories!
Just bought back a snes just to play KI again
bee boo never played it on Xbox.Only snes and N64
bee boo 👌🏾but trust me,I’m the real deal especially on snes.I just miss em yrs back with ma homies
bee boo as soon as I do I’ll let you know so I can get a few tricks from you
I am in the same team bro
Always using girls in games
I had no idea what I was doing when I would play this as a kid, but Orchid was always my favorite
Lol.
Arcade version is the best version. Its so much smoother than i remember.
I play on the super Nintendo and I have play Arcade and it's definitely better
I'd love to see a fully remastered version of this 1994 classic. Just imagine it with 2021 technology. I mean, I know there's a recent PC version available on Steam but if someone took this and gave it a once over it would be awesome.
Just thinking the same, a remake would be fucking incredible!
@@cybersamiches4028pues un remake de éste al 2 prefiero el 2
I worked at an arcade and mastered Glacius--I was one of the first in my town to beat the game.Great Great game
I remember in 1995, I adopted a pet rabbit and I named her Bunny Orchid... only to later discover she was actually a he, so I renamed him Sabrerabbit (or Rabbit for short.)
xD Damn...
F*ck :'D
Lol that's adorable
man killer instinct... what a classic.. such a great game it will always have a special place in my heart.
That sound she makes at the winner screen gets me every time lol
Lmao. We owned the SNES version so we never heard that as kids. Her song is even full of moans lol
I remember all the high skilled players went between Fulgore, Spinal, Thunder, Glacius, and Orchid at the arcades. It was so sick what these people could do, including the infinites.
They need to make a 2020 version with the latest graphics but the same controls as the Nes version
No not the SNES controls I prefer the 2013 controls more or even letting you have Combo assist if your bad or can’t handle the D-pad inputs.
they wont do it because rareware got bought by microsoft.
orchid was my freak in the 90 s. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yuuup!😏
I remember my dad getting this for snes in 1995 when i was 7 years old and him and his friend were both appreciating orchids jugs lol. Even i knew i liked em
@Ewolf5150 your dad seems like a great one. Super jealous.
I was waiting for Jago to fire the endokuken at the same time as the lasken followed by the wind kick. That happened to me every time vs Jago
If this dont take you back to your childhood and memories on Nintendo 🤦🏽♀️🙌🏾
I actually do have a vivid memory of killer instinct on someone's small bedroom TV when I was growin up, but never owned it myself.
I played more Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II for Sega genesis and SNES and then goldeneye on N64
I still play it
I loved it when the dude would say "Kiiiiiiiiiiiing Comboooooo"
Ultraaaaaaaaa Combooooooooo!!!!
This game is ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA GREAT
Seeeeeeeeeee
ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AGREED
I've been playing playstation since it came out.. but this game made me get an xbox one just so I could replay this masterpiece!! So many memories! Used to play it on Snes when I was like 12 years old. Good old days MK3 and KI
God, i forgot how nasty orchid was. she was legendary.
50 hit ultras 🤯🤯🤯
100+ on Xbox 😎
Was this a real version? I had the super nintendo and don't remember this lol
@@carisbarton9501 Yes, the SNES version stripped out a lot of the Arcade version's features, e.g. the Shadow Moves.
@@L8onL8on Wow the arcade version looked better than the SNES one. Crazy how much memory it had back in the day.
Sabrewulf, Orchid, Chief Thunder and T.J. Combo were my best characters, there wasn't nobody seeing me on this game. I worked at the arcade park back then and used to give people their quarters back after I demolished them, it was awesome. Lol
I LOVED DOING HER FLIPS AS A KID, SHE WAS MY ORIGINAL QUEEN
The quality of this game is awesome. 1995 people and still looks great
1994.
OMG there combos on the arcade version are super fluid
They don't have those redundant breaks in between the combos trying to count every hit. Like just let them do the combo.
Gran juego el mejor juego de peleas hasta el momento.. mi humilde opiñon..nunca se a superado en nada al killer instinct 1 ( arcade)..
yamasaki 1992 El juego tiene 24 años y me sigue pareciendo impresionante. Toda una obra de arte. Esto necesita un remake fiel al original
14:33-14:44 That moment of inactivity was weird.
Timothy Kluver q
I need a loop of this!
Probably fell asleep while playing
😂
Kinda looks like an abuse of game scripting almost. Weird.
There's no other like this one!! This gold classic 👌
Finally after wanting to learn orchid for about 15 years I finally got a good ultra combo.
I find it kind of funny how orchid and jago are related. Like brothers and sisters fighting and shit when they little.
That's why it's always so hard to beat him- he's ANNOYING lmao
I remember having this super game and the audio was modified especially about it and it was surprising to see the boys play ... simply spectacular.
Omg I remember playing this on my super nintendo back then, Orchid was my favorite I loved that stage at 2:10 it was my favorite to fight in
For my orchid it is the best killer instinct is my favorite without a doubt, I and my sister always use it
Team orchid 💚
Yes
I was so orchid til I realized I should probably try another few 😂
I was today years old when I found out Jago and Orchid are brother and sister.
that's crazy cuz they're my two favorite characters
And when she flashed him...
I would never forget this game. Played it all night the game was black no disc back then. Super Nintendo gray n white
The one game from my childhood ahead of its time. This is where combo queen term comes from
I still remember borrowing this game for the SNES and playing the shit of out of it... I will always remember that feeling when I went to the arcade and saw the Ultra 64 version and having my mind blown by the sound, the graphics, the music...
This game used to blow me away at the arcade.
I never realized it spells out hot on the side of her clothes
Yup that was bae 😆
Only realized when KI for Xbox was released. 😔 I'm not the KI fan I thought I was.
What made this hand fun read the sound effect. The way the opponent sound when they get spank.
They used “HOT” cause it reads the same regardless of the direction her sprites are flipped. Capcom did the same thing with Dee Jay of the Street Fighter series. His pants say “MAXIMUM” vertically.
StoneworksStudios
That’s awesome, never considered the symmetry of the capitalized letters.
Um jogo de luta a frente de seu tempo em qualidade de imagem e jogabilidade!!!
if I saw this guy in an arcade...I would not want to be player 2.....I would like my quarters to last longer than 10-15 seconds LOL
With any character, if you hold back and then tap forward plus any other button combinations, you'll always go into a minimum of 8 hit combo...I love that about this game
Sound FX for this game are legendary till this day.
Even when the characters are screaming as they get beat, the sonics are beautiful
riptor theme alway give me chills, what a perfection
Sounds like a mix of ninja theme and a prehistoric one.
She was my main. This game might be one of the greatest of all time!!! Such good feels watching these videos!!!
They need to release this game on ps4
why do they need to do that?
So I can play this game with the ps4 graphics stupid, what u think so they can satisfy me ? Huh? Huh? Think for once
Sergio Vazquez Since rare ia owned by Microsoft, that wish will not happen
Microsoft owns Rare, so it's not gonna happen
Calling someone stupid but wishing for a Microsoft game to be on a sony platform....might wanna think who the stupid one is here......
Killer Instinct was the first fighting game that I remember having combos in the gameplay. Many games copied after this came out. I used to walk to the arcade just to play this lol.....
Shout out to all my orchis fans 2020
2021 now :>
I love Orchis.
As a kid, I use to have so much fun kicking ass with orchid on the killer instinct arcade at Hollywood park race track in the 90s. My dad would gamble on horses, and I spanked ass on virtual instinct and Ultimate MK 3
She's my favorite too... love the fire cat.
How bad ass if they make a real life movie of KI.
If they do that Nadia Bjorlin better play Orchid 😆
A Movie will be less impressive with human but a movie with this arcade version game for model with some things more realistic HD watched in cinema could be great
I don’t know. Considering how badly street fighter and the two Mortal Kombat movies went, I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
Mortal Kombat 1 was good but was definitely a PG-13 version of it. I liked Street Fighter but MK Annihilation definitely sucked!
It would suck. Hollywood just can't get anything right about the fighting games we loved. MK1 was the closet we may ever get.
Great gameplay!
The soundtrack and especially the announcer are absolutely superb!
I remember the first time I ever saw a ultra combo in the arcades. I was blown away. You know u usually saw games in the arcades first back then
There was nothing better than this game and Mortal Kombat 1&2 on an actual Arcade game. Consoles just don't go games like this justice.
The way he lured Jago to the bracker combo🔥🇵🇦
12:14 - 12:30: Impressive!...
This fight game was really the best, great characters, great, play, great soundtrack, perfect
14:31 Eyedol got scared?! lol
i used to love playing this in the arcade with older lads as this one guy taught me to play it and rinse them was fantastic he always went jago but taught me to play with orchid and riptor
This is nostalgia...along with MKIII.
I remember playing this game when I was 6 years old orchid was always my fav lol
@3:06, was the other orchid being “jelly”?
I love how the gameplay is like "Oh you've made a single mistake? Allow me to remove half your healthbar with a single combo!"
One of my all time favorite characters of this game!
Absolutely mind blowing because I grew up with this on the SNES but it looks and sounds so different here
Rare is the reason why my childhood was awesome
Soundtrack was so good. The killer instinct theme with the electronic guitar makes me cry with nostalgia like a lot of 80's / 90's soundtracks, they just dont make them like they used too
is it just Me or Does Orchid Look Like Jade From Mortal Kombat
It's you lol
Jade clothes, Tania appearance
Yes
9:10 kame hame ha vs sokidan
Orchid and Sabrewulf’s themes are my favorite then… they still are now. 🔥🔥🔥
I'd love to see what this was like on the actual silicon graphics machine BEFORE it was ported to the Nintendo ultra 64 chipset. It would be interesting to see how good it actually was. I liked the graphics with this even though the animation could of been smoother and more detailed. Silicon graphics should revisit this technique for the next new consoles and give us the ultimate intended visual treat.
This IS what the game would look like on arcades, this is running on the MAME emulator (arcade). This isn't the SNES version. The particle effects are a dead giveaway.
@@David-zh7rj Hi David, I think you are somewhat confused. The Arcade version was actually running the Nintendo Ultra 64 Chipset. The actual graphics were created on Silicon Graphics computers BEFORE being ported to the Ultra 64 Format. @Zac Dior is referring to the original graphics not what actually made it into the game - which would of been superior to what actually ended up being in the Arcade version. No one would of seen the actual Silicon Graphics renders apart from the original development team. Unfortunately I believe these have been lost and we will never see them.
@@brucejones5962 "Unfortunately I believe these have been lost and we will never see them" Shame that😢as I've always wondered how Donkey Kong Country looked running on the Silicon Graphics computers too.
fun fact: according to Rare, Orchid won the first Killer Instinct Tournament
2018 and I still play this game I love it
The ultra combo is sick
Best fighting music of any game.
Holy Hell that Ultra Combat was insane and I haven’t seen anything close to that in modern fighting games as that really was supremely ultra amazing🔥
Available in your home on 1995 only on Nintendo ultra 64
(lol funny thing is that project was delayed and got a different name)
and we never fucking did get Killer Instinct 1 for the N64....some shitty thing called KI Gold instead
AJAM Yeah Nintendo dropped the ultra from it and called it N64.
+Viral Killer
Which was just Killer Instinct 2, but yeah, I still wanted KI1 on the N64
I love popping off the combos with all characters. So addictive.
k1 is much better than k12
agreed. I didn't like KI2. Just something about it, I could never get into it.
@@petrusamp7792 I agree. My gripes were: too many day stages which took away from the cool vibe the first one had, the combos and animation felt clunky compared to the seamlessness of KI, and the new characters were boring. Maya and Tusk both looked like they came from the same tribe since they were both scantily clad people using blade weapons. A huge strength of KI was the characters' diversity.
@@blakfloyd Ironically, Tusk and Maya ended up getting married in both their arcade endings, so that design choice was prescient.
Orchid combo magnific and fantastic
How long did it take for you to practice those combos with her?What moves & combinations do you use to perform those combos?
When this came out in the arcades... Just can't get that excitement anymore 😔
They should make a mk vs killer instinct game that would be awesome
that would be sick! orchid fighting sonya blade, sub-zero fighting glacius, etc.
Jax fighting tj combo and so on
Would of been way better than mk vs dc
I always love how everytime orchid gets hit she sounds more angry then she does in pain
Best fighting game in that time .
Orchid such an amazing character!!!
I would love to see a fight between orchid and jade from Mk3 trilogy. Orchid was my go to on killer instinct and jade’s kicks wasn’t nothing to play with . LOL
Orchid was my baby back then. I was a killer with her combos.
Street Fighter made it about strategy. Mortal Kombat made it about blood and gore. Virtua Fighter added realism. But Killer Instinct satisfied what we all really wanted.
COMBOS!!!!
Thank you! The air combos are spot on for my game play to shoot “laser shuriken” to toggle!
Am so desperate to play this I missed this game so much my favourite old school game I loved this game best fighting game I really want them to release this and KI2 on ps4
+Jordan Dymiter just get the emulator and rom. i'm still playing it
+Alucard8319 Would that be the emulator for the arcade version or the SNES version? I have no idea where to find the arcade version!
+William Colbert yes arcade emulator or the snes. mame for arcade, but make sure you download the older version. You do need CHD rom though. but also google is your friend :-) snes9x for snes games. Works perfectly
stop bitching
1995... A great time to be a fighting game fan
1994