Expect a lot more from this series. Although they will individually take longer to make than our usual content, Mortal Kombat will always have a special place in our hearts as content creators. Taking you through the history of the scene and games alongside it is something we've always wanted to do. And going into 2018, Mortal Kombat content will become more regular in the form of the MK Meta. Huge thanks to Shock for helping me iron out the mammoth script that I had to write for this episode. You can follow him on Twitter over at: twitter.com/UMKShock He also took part in a really interesting interview lining the absolute history of the games competitive community: iplaywinner.com/news/2011/6/21/ipw-x-tym-feature-history-of-the-mortal-kombat-scene-by-shoc.html Hope you guys enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it.
We didn't have internet or even manual with characters moves in 90th Russia because everybody had pirate version of game. So we had to discover combos ourself and writing them in notebook. Every kid had cheap standart school green notebook reserved fo MK combos. Still remember first time I thought "could next move in in this cool Liu Kang combo be block button??"...
Every time I see Jax's stomp fatality, I am reminded of a joke I read on a website in the mid 90s, "Yo mama so fat, when Jax tried to stomp fatality her he twisted his ankle!"
reminds me of professor klump movie :p ik one. ur momma so fat when she plays mk scorpion yells stay over there. maybe thr spear breaks i dont remember
I already wish this type of video was being made for every game since SF2, this is absolutely brilliant content and I can't thank you enough for making it!
That's actually partly why I decided to start making it. I've always wanted a focus, streamlined video for games that I never understood but loved watching, but could rarely find what I was looking for. If I can at least make that exact kind of content for the games I've grown up with, it's guna help someone else for the same thing.
@@dominicesquivel3901 Snack bar food, pop corn... and Bromine, the chemical they used for the waters around the arcade, they had bumper boats. It was an open air arcade so the breeze would blow through the arcade. I loved it.
@@Shiratto I know it's a year later but have you been enjoying Strive? A lot of people have been giving it hate but I've been having so much fun with it.
@@jakejutras5420 Haven’t had time to play it recently but I have no doubt it’s still fun. I should go back and give it another go since I bought dlc characters I haven’t really used yet XD
9:54 You just need to press down 2 times to perform a Mercy, this is one of the most common input errors in the history of the game, it took me some time to realize that ;)
haven't played the game in forever I thought it was down three times and then hit the run button. Also I never knew you couldn't hit the block button to do friendships and babalitys that doesn't seem right to me.
@@rob5687 It may not seem right cuz the stipulation was different in MKII. In that game it was just avoiding punches but kicks and blocks were still fine to use.
I played UMK3 on the DS online. There was this person named "Sonya" or something like that. By some chance you read this; Hah I finally beat you that one time.
Every Friday night my family would go out to Me&Ed's for dinner. I remember being more excited to play this game than actually sit down to enjoy pizza.
This is a video I always wanted. A big fighting gamer, only played MK/NRS games after Injustice 1, so only played the old games casually as a kid. And whenever I've seen competetive footage of MK3, it always looked crazy as hell and ultra-lethal so I always wanted a proper explanation of the game just like this. Excellent work lads.
This is exactly the sort of series an increasingly-large, increasingly-introspective community needs to better understand the games it plays. Good work, lads.
Would love to see an MK2 video like this! Also maybe touching on different releases like the mk arcade kollection which is great but also problematic (you can literally just quit out in ranked games if you are losing so you don’t lose your rank).
I feel like UMK3 deserves a remastered episode. Every other episode of MK meta has been jammed with so much more history and knowledge that this feels more like a proof of concept by comparison. Still, this is a legendary video in a legendary series.
In all honesty, it was. This was the first of its kind and I didn't really have the formula down back then. I saw my trilogy video as a revisiting of the style with a lot more detail.
@@PNDKM Definitely! You are definitely right to point out that the Trilogy video covers a lot of common ground with UMK3, I hadn't really considered that for some reason.
My mom bought me MK 2 when I was 9 not knowing what it was. After she saw the game she didn’t take it from me but she refused to let me have UMK3. So I had to settle for playing it at the arcade in Mazzio’s Pizza MAYBE one night a month. That longing to play the game and those few fleeting moments of excitement when I would finally get those opportunities makes this one my personal favorite of the series.
I agres about Trilogy, but it's basically UMK3, with all the other characters. Which all being blocks of MK3. The better question is, what was the best version of UMK3? PlayStation, or Saturn?
This is an excellent video! I played the MK series growing up, and I still enjoying playing MK 1 through Ultimate/Trilogy. However, I never knew much about the series' tournament scene, and why certain characters would be considered powerful. Growing up, I only had the Prima Games UMK3 guide to go by. This video was extremely informative, and I am anxious to see the next one.
I just got the 1up mk3 arcade cabinet at work and work with some youner guys. We started playing 3 months ago and I was kicking their butts... but they found your videos ans now they almost pulled even with me. I use smoke and they use Stryker, Scorpion and smoke against me. Such great times.
The differences in Hitboxes reminds me of the different weights in games like Virtua Fighter and Guilty Gear, learning variations in combos is always key with those
Great video! This was a trip down memory lane. While I never really played UMK3 (didn't had the execution required for fighting games) I became fascinated with it after discovering Shock's combo videos on his site (this was right before TH-cam existed). I still have them saved on my hard drive along with a ton of old matches.
i have been playing MK for about 25 years and i NEVER knew that you could avoid being grabbed if you pressed back lol Can you do a video on MK Deception?
8:24 When the Characters section pops up, Kano does a fatality where he removes the opponent's skeleton, playing on the fact this section of the video is going to show the ins and out of characters. Nice details Ketchup!
You forgot to note that noob and human smoke are in regular umk3, they just don't have their own icons and you have to do some menu-ing. Sort of like picking old sagat in super turbo
I grew up on MK, cutting my teeth on the original, battling for hours with friends. I forced myself to get good at every character, never focusing too heavily on one. I eventually just went in with Shang Tsung every round and morphed to counter whomever I was up against. I was a beast. I had to tone down my play so my friends would still want to play, meaning more reliance on the basic attacks and tactics, rather than devastating combo chains and special moves. I was so familiar with the game, I could beat my opponents without even looking at the screen, just using the sound effects to go by. When a lot of us were playing, I would often throw the fight so others could fight each other, otherwise it'd be just everyone in line against me, and that's no fun.
This was the first fighting game my brother ever played, we grew up loving this Game in the arcades & has to beg our parents to buy it for our console so we could play it endless hours as kids. We played 1 & 2 after knowing about MK3, also the all the games after but MK3 was the fighting game we loved. Seeing all these combos/loops now as an adult amazes me because I never the game could be this complex lol since we never played it competitively as kids just for fun.
Loved this game, and absolutely HATED it at the same time. The increasing arcade difficulty, even on the lowest difficulty, is a thing of nightmares. You want to talk about rage inducing, you're talking about MK3's arcade mode.
Ultimately the perfect Mortal Kombat game for me would be revisiting how the classic Mortal Kombat three game played but using the graphics of Mortal Kombat 11 think that will be the perfect fighting game right there and using the sound effects from Mortal Kombat two
The amount of info and content in these meta videa is incredible thanks for all you do this video amazing and must have taken a long time to complete to look this good 😊
@@ElectricNikkiGames actually it makes more sense for it to be the "melee of mk". the game itself was rather broken, with good characters being *really* good, and bad characters being *really* bad. Not to mention, the community trying to fix the game by releasing fanmade mods only strengthens our point
This video is... AMAZING.... FLAWLESS VICTORY ... great content for a very important game. I hope this gets expanded on by characters and other titles in the franchise (MK4 and even the 3d era 😅) ... Thanks for the effort and care, keep it up
This Arcade was so loud at the mall in the Tilt room next by the food court. As a kid, it was mesmerizing watching older teens play and everyone getting all hype.
Only halfway through but amazing video so far! Glad to see informative content is still being made for older games. Also, congrats on 40K! You guys deserve way more tbh.
Dude, the MK Trilogy Megadrive Russian hack game was nuts. The added moves and crazy combos, the energy bar that could be doubled for more intense matches. I don't care if it was a pixelated Megadrive version, I was insanely fun.
you have a lot of good videos but this is what made me subscribe. it seems it has been a long time since you uploaded it but i hope the next one comes soon. I never had the chance to play MK and the idea of learning about the meta is so awesome for me. i wish i could find videos like this for otjher k games or old competitive games.
Whats crazy is, I'm actually working on the next video right now. But as I'm not a fulltime creator and the MK meta vids take AGES to produce by myself, things keep coming up that I need to focus on first. The next video is going to be roughly 40 minutes long if you add up all my commentary I've recorded. I promise it will be done. I want the MK meta to continue more than anyone. They're by far my favorite vids to make.
Love these videos! Would love to see the development of tier lists for each conpetitive game (for example day one tier list and how it changed by the end of the competitive scene)!
I spent a lot of money on this fighting game in the arcades when I was a kid against the cpu; I definitely have a soft spot for this game, even though I didn't know about competitive fighting games and their meta back then. It's funny how both SSF2T and UMK3 are revered by their respective communities as great competitive FGs and both are known for having awful CPUs. My favorites in the game were sindel, ermac, robo-smoke and human smoke.
I personally thought that ultimate Mortal Kombat three was the most balanced of the final classic Mortal Kombat games but the fact that trilogy had all the characters was a huge selling point for me and the reason why I recently purchased it for PlayStation one was because it did have all the characters if they could somehow combine the balances of ultimate with the characters being all there like trilogy And fixing things like removing the infant is it would be the perfect game hopefully they do ultimate Mortal Kombat for some day
I am on the east coast USA and will be starting a group for offline UMK3 and old school Street Fighter tournaments and casual play. Working out logistics and rental space now. We will bring back the old days! 👊
@@thehoodybadger3402 - Just got back from MAGfest in DC. Took some notes and talked to folks. Will be getting with my partners soon and starting a FB page, etc.
I never understood the point of friendships or babalities bc I never played competitively. I’m just now learning that they were like sending a message.
That MK Arcade Kollection was so embarrassing. They never even fixed the "can't move for a second after unpausing" bug, among others. They released 1 half-assed patch and then abandoned it. If the rumors about the remasters that popped up last week turn out to be true I hope they have a little more effort put into them.
The only mk games Ive played were Mk and Mk2 when I was a kid and then Mk9 and MkX more recently. I sucked at the game when I was younger but I still loved it.
In theory, but it would never work in arcades, because everyone would just spam friendships to avoid ever having to put more coins in to continue playing. Great idea in general, but from a business standpoint, it wouldn't work.
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Expect a lot more from this series. Although they will individually take longer to make than our usual content, Mortal Kombat will always have a special place in our hearts as content creators. Taking you through the history of the scene and games alongside it is something we've always wanted to do. And going into 2018, Mortal Kombat content will become more regular in the form of the MK Meta.
Huge thanks to Shock for helping me iron out the mammoth script that I had to write for this episode. You can follow him on Twitter over at: twitter.com/UMKShock
He also took part in a really interesting interview lining the absolute history of the games competitive community: iplaywinner.com/news/2011/6/21/ipw-x-tym-feature-history-of-the-mortal-kombat-scene-by-shoc.html
Hope you guys enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it.
PNDK&M do you guys know when they'll show a trailer for Mortal Kombat 11?
carry on!
Allen Guzman You probably will not see an MK11 trailer until late 2018/early 2019. All the games since MK9 have been following a release schedule.
MK11 announcement will likely be made at E3 2018
PNDK&M loved the video, please do more theoretical content!!!!!
We didn't have internet or even manual with characters moves in 90th Russia because everybody had pirate version of game. So we had to discover combos ourself and writing them in notebook. Every kid had cheap standart school green notebook reserved fo MK combos. Still remember first time I thought "could next move in in this cool Liu Kang combo be block button??"...
It took me years as a kid to find out how to pull off Sektor's Homing Missile.
The idea that you had to do a half circle input blew my mind.
... and then you spam it until all your friends forbid you to take Sector
Lol that was us in Nigeria. We had loads of notes
In soviet Russia you not make combos, combos make you.
I had the exact thing going for me
Every time I see Jax's stomp fatality, I am reminded of a joke I read on a website in the mid 90s, "Yo mama so fat, when Jax tried to stomp fatality her he twisted his ankle!"
This is arguably the most perfect 90’s internet slam lmao
website in the 90s? ummmm
reminds me of professor klump movie :p ik one. ur momma so fat when she plays mk scorpion yells stay over there. maybe thr spear breaks i dont remember
Thanks for sharing. Im surely gonna bring that to my friends! xd
@@BrowneVisuals Yes, the Internet was widely accessible for most people for the majority of the 90s.
I already wish this type of video was being made for every game since SF2, this is absolutely brilliant content and I can't thank you enough for making it!
That's actually partly why I decided to start making it.
I've always wanted a focus, streamlined video for games that I never understood but loved watching, but could rarely find what I was looking for.
If I can at least make that exact kind of content for the games I've grown up with, it's guna help someone else for the same thing.
@@PNDKM It would be cool if you did this with obscure fighting games as well
Check out SRK Wiki. They have a lot of info on a lot of fighters.
I had no idea the older MK games even had a meta. That is incredibly insightful. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
Glad you enjoyed it. More to come in 2019!
Everything has a meta once you plug in an online community.
I can still remember the smell of the arcade... This was top tier arcade fighting back in its day.
What did it smell like?
@@dominicesquivel3901 Snack bar food, pop corn... and Bromine, the chemical they used for the waters around the arcade, they had bumper boats. It was an open air arcade so the breeze would blow through the arcade. I loved it.
This mans knows the Smell of the Game.
@@Shiratto I know it's a year later but have you been enjoying Strive? A lot of people have been giving it hate but I've been having so much fun with it.
@@jakejutras5420 Haven’t had time to play it recently but I have no doubt it’s still fun. I should go back and give it another go since I bought dlc characters I haven’t really used yet XD
I'll never be good enough at a fighting game to need any of this minutia but I find it incredibly interesting. Thanks for creating the video
Not all fighting games are hard. The best ones (gameplay wise, not graphics or lore) are accessible.
Tournament Edition was the greatest thing to happen to UMK3, and truly is the breath of fresh air this game needed for YEARS.
9:54 You just need to press down 2 times to perform a Mercy, this is one of the most common input errors in the history of the game, it took me some time to realize that ;)
haven't played the game in forever I thought it was down three times and then hit the run button. Also I never knew you couldn't hit the block button to do friendships and babalitys that doesn't seem right to me.
@@rob5687 It may not seem right cuz the stipulation was different in MKII. In that game it was just avoiding punches but kicks and blocks were still fine to use.
If Hara Kiri's return in MK11 and Cyrax is in, I'd love to see his self-destruct fatality as his Hara Kiri for a throwback
If smokes in he's gotta blow up the world again
smoke ftw
f
Smoke had it in deception I believe
I played UMK3 on the DS online. There was this person named "Sonya" or something like that. By some chance you read this; Hah I finally beat you that one time.
Whoops LMAO
Oof
This is hilarious, thank you. Made my day.
nice t-dub reference btw
I had the nastiest combos with Stryker in the MK3 styled games. His launch combo combined with his gun made for some easy damaging combos!
Every Friday night my family would go out to Me&Ed's for dinner. I remember being more excited to play this game than actually sit down to enjoy pizza.
I cannot describe how amazing this video is!
Thanks!
My first MK game. This is the start why i love MK so much until now. I miss those days playing with my childhood friend :)
This is a video I always wanted. A big fighting gamer, only played MK/NRS games after Injustice 1, so only played the old games casually as a kid. And whenever I've seen competetive footage of MK3, it always looked crazy as hell and ultra-lethal so I always wanted a proper explanation of the game just like this. Excellent work lads.
This is exactly the sort of series an increasingly-large, increasingly-introspective community needs to better understand the games it plays. Good work, lads.
Umk3 on xbla was my introduction to fighting games at a competitive level. Smoke ftw!
Btw, does anyone know if the xbla version is backwards compatible on xbox one?
Would love to see an MK2 video like this! Also maybe touching on different releases like the mk arcade kollection which is great but also problematic (you can literally just quit out in ranked games if you are losing so you don’t lose your rank).
I REALLY REALLLYYYYYYY REALLLLYYYYYYY enjoyed this. Please more like this, I appreciate it so much
I feel like UMK3 deserves a remastered episode. Every other episode of MK meta has been jammed with so much more history and knowledge that this feels more like a proof of concept by comparison.
Still, this is a legendary video in a legendary series.
In all honesty, it was. This was the first of its kind and I didn't really have the formula down back then. I saw my trilogy video as a revisiting of the style with a lot more detail.
@@PNDKM Definitely! You are definitely right to point out that the Trilogy video covers a lot of common ground with UMK3, I hadn't really considered that for some reason.
My mom bought me MK 2 when I was 9 not knowing what it was. After she saw the game she didn’t take it from me but she refused to let me have UMK3. So I had to settle for playing it at the arcade in Mazzio’s Pizza MAYBE one night a month. That longing to play the game and those few fleeting moments of excitement when I would finally get those opportunities makes this one my personal favorite of the series.
Not gonna lie, UMK3 was always fun to play. Good stuff guys!
Liu Kang was the one that I mastered, but Shang Tsung, Sheeva, Jax and Nightwolf had really cool combos
"Kabal.. HA!"
Fantastic video btw!
This was really enjoyable. Definitely will be waiting for more.
Admired lol i found u. im waffle2k. or derp
UMK3 was, and still is, the best Mortal Kombat game.
Wrong, that would be Trilogy
CHICKEN Gotta side with you here, trilogy was awesome
@@lemfandango uh no?
I agres about Trilogy, but it's basically UMK3, with all the other characters. Which all being blocks of MK3. The better question is, what was the best version of UMK3? PlayStation, or Saturn?
Trilogy
This is an excellent video! I played the MK series growing up, and I still enjoying playing MK 1 through Ultimate/Trilogy. However, I never knew much about the series' tournament scene, and why certain characters would be considered powerful. Growing up, I only had the Prima Games UMK3 guide to go by. This video was extremely informative, and I am anxious to see the next one.
I just got the 1up mk3 arcade cabinet at work and work with some youner guys. We started playing 3 months ago and I was kicking their butts... but they found your videos ans now they almost pulled even with me. I use smoke and they use Stryker, Scorpion and smoke against me. Such great times.
The differences in Hitboxes reminds me of the different weights in games like Virtua Fighter and Guilty Gear, learning variations in combos is always key with those
Great video! This was a trip down memory lane. While I never really played UMK3 (didn't had the execution required for fighting games) I became fascinated with it after discovering Shock's combo videos on his site (this was right before TH-cam existed). I still have them saved on my hard drive along with a ton of old matches.
i have been playing MK for about 25 years and i NEVER knew that you could avoid being grabbed if you pressed back lol
Can you do a video on MK Deception?
8:24 When the Characters section pops up, Kano does a fatality where he removes the opponent's skeleton, playing on the fact this section of the video is going to show the ins and out of characters. Nice details Ketchup!
You forgot to note that noob and human smoke are in regular umk3, they just don't have their own icons and you have to do some menu-ing. Sort of like picking old sagat in super turbo
I grew up on MK, cutting my teeth on the original, battling for hours with friends. I forced myself to get good at every character, never focusing too heavily on one. I eventually just went in with Shang Tsung every round and morphed to counter whomever I was up against. I was a beast. I had to tone down my play so my friends would still want to play, meaning more reliance on the basic attacks and tactics, rather than devastating combo chains and special moves. I was so familiar with the game, I could beat my opponents without even looking at the screen, just using the sound effects to go by. When a lot of us were playing, I would often throw the fight so others could fight each other, otherwise it'd be just everyone in line against me, and that's no fun.
This was the first fighting game my brother ever played, we grew up loving this Game in the arcades & has to beg our parents to buy it for our console so we could play it endless hours as kids. We played 1 & 2 after knowing about MK3, also the all the games after but MK3 was the fighting game we loved. Seeing all these combos/loops now as an adult amazes me because I never the game could be this complex lol since we never played it competitively as kids just for fun.
This game has so much nostalgia for me I remember playing this for hours on SNES
Loved this game, and absolutely HATED it at the same time. The increasing arcade difficulty, even on the lowest difficulty, is a thing of nightmares. You want to talk about rage inducing, you're talking about MK3's arcade mode.
Remember if you beat this game on Novice you won't get to pick the more awesome Kahn's Treasure.
I actually think MK2 had far worse AI. MK3 is difficult but still felt fun and rewarding, MK2 was just bullshit, especially Liu Kang and Kitana.
MK3's A.I. can easily be cheesed even the bosses.
This was a very niche video that appealed to my interests. GG
Happy 30th anniversary mk!!!
Had to revisit the mk meta series for the franchise that completely introduced me to the fighting game genre!! 🔥💀👑
56 dislikes from people who watched the video and still don't know how the meta works, , loved the video guys keep up the good work
Ultimately the perfect Mortal Kombat game for me would be revisiting how the classic Mortal Kombat three game played but using the graphics of Mortal Kombat 11 think that will be the perfect fighting game right there and using the sound effects from Mortal Kombat two
The amount of info and content in these meta videa is incredible thanks for all you do this video amazing and must have taken a long time to complete to look this good 😊
I'd love to have MKX-style brutalities in MK11. Such a fun, quick, and dramatic way to end a match.
I love your channel dude I remember getting my copy of mortal kombat 3 for saga genesis for Christmas it was a good Christmas
To be honest
This mk should be the "melee" of the mk series.
I'd consider it more the "Super Turbo" of MK
@@ElectricNikkiGames actually it makes more sense for it to be the "melee of mk". the game itself was rather broken, with good characters being *really* good, and bad characters being *really* bad. Not to mention, the community trying to fix the game by releasing fanmade mods only strengthens our point
It's the KOF 98 of MK
The Tag Tournament of MK👊
More like the "3rd Strike" of MK
You should definitely make tier lists for all the older games! I would love that
Sickest intro I've ever seen. Any MK content from you guys merits an instant like from me. :)
I was pretty beast with Sub Zero
I'm so happy and MK game is making it to the switch
To quote the games, "OUTSTANDING!"
This video is... AMAZING.... FLAWLESS VICTORY ... great content for a very important game. I hope this gets expanded on by characters and other titles in the franchise (MK4 and even the 3d era 😅) ... Thanks for the effort and care, keep it up
This Arcade was so loud at the mall in the Tilt room next by the food court. As a kid, it was mesmerizing watching older teens play and everyone getting all hype.
The greatest Mortal Kombat in the world besides trilogy a true Mortal Kombat fan been playing since 92
Only halfway through but amazing video so far! Glad to see informative content is still being made for older games. Also, congrats on 40K! You guys deserve way more tbh.
Thanks man!
This was really awesome guys. Very nostalgic as well. Can't wait to see what's next!
Great vid as always fellas! It was fascinating delving into the competitive side of UMK3
I LOVE this! I would love to see more of them!
even though ive never played the older games, im super excited for this series as i just really wanna know what it was like in them.
That's the idea :)
Dude, the MK Trilogy Megadrive Russian hack game was nuts. The added moves and crazy combos, the energy bar that could be doubled for more intense matches. I don't care if it was a pixelated Megadrive version, I was insanely fun.
played mk3 on my mates snes remake yesterday and i thought of this, that game is so much fun
Excellent video, man.
Brings back old and good memories.
Thanks a bunch!
ahhh this was great to watch, I would love to see the same for other titles such as MK9 and MKX..... OUTSTANDING!
tons of appreciation for you putting this together!! keep up the great work !!
Great video!! 👍🏼👍🏼
My favorite online player to watch back then was Gokuren. He was super godlike in UMK3
Born in 87. Even as a kid you knew the fatalities had been rushed and looked terrible compared to 2.
you have a lot of good videos but this is what made me subscribe. it seems it has been a long time since you uploaded it but i hope the next one comes soon. I never had the chance to play MK and the idea of learning about the meta is so awesome for me. i wish i could find videos like this for otjher k games or old competitive games.
Whats crazy is, I'm actually working on the next video right now. But as I'm not a fulltime creator and the MK meta vids take AGES to produce by myself, things keep coming up that I need to focus on first. The next video is going to be roughly 40 minutes long if you add up all my commentary I've recorded.
I promise it will be done. I want the MK meta to continue more than anyone. They're by far my favorite vids to make.
@@PNDKM thanks i'll be waiting. You do an amazing job.
Man, I started playing UMK3 on my Super Nintendo back in the day and I still play it til' today on my XBox 360 or through the Fightcade on my PC
This takes me back to 2004 when I got hooked on UMK3 and was going on the MKO forums.
Love these videos! Would love to see the development of tier lists for each conpetitive game (for example day one tier list and how it changed by the end of the competitive scene)!
How unexpected. Both fun and interesting. Looking forward to seeing more of these in the future.
My favorite MK to this day, first game I've ever played and still very high on my list of favorite games
Man, the MK11 mercy was a callback to this game. I didn't even know it was a thing until this video.
Excellent video. Subbed. Fav game of all time.
This was my childhood MK and its an easy favorite of mine!
This was amazing. Thanks for the history lesson. This was all new to me. Great job.
i love anything regarding UMK3, I really hope you do an update on N64 MK trilogy. Thank you!
Idk how I got here but I loved it
I spent a lot of money on this fighting game in the arcades when I was a kid against the cpu; I definitely have a soft spot for this game, even though I didn't know about competitive fighting games and their meta back then.
It's funny how both SSF2T and UMK3 are revered by their respective communities as great competitive FGs and both are known for having awful CPUs.
My favorites in the game were sindel, ermac, robo-smoke and human smoke.
This. I really loved this. I can't wait for the next one!
I remember adding shock on umk3 on xbox live. Dude was good.
I personally thought that ultimate Mortal Kombat three was the most balanced of the final classic Mortal Kombat games but the fact that trilogy had all the characters was a huge selling point for me and the reason why I recently purchased it for PlayStation one was because it did have all the characters if they could somehow combine the balances of ultimate with the characters being all there like trilogy And fixing things like removing the infant is it would be the perfect game hopefully they do ultimate Mortal Kombat for some day
PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE, I LOVE YOU GUYS AND I LOVE THESE DAMN VIDEOS!
This video is a masterpiece.
This is a fantastic video. Looking forward to seeing more!
Excellent! Tier list next please
Love these videos! I play mk 11 and seeing the history is nice!
I am on the east coast USA and will be starting a group for offline UMK3 and old school Street Fighter tournaments and casual play. Working out logistics and rental space now. We will bring back the old days! 👊
You got a link or any source for updates? Sounds interesting!
@@thehoodybadger3402 - Just got back from MAGfest in DC. Took some notes and talked to folks. Will be getting with my partners soon and starting a FB page, etc.
@@thehoodybadger3402 - The event details are here: facebook.com/MarylandCFGA
yo this was so cool, cant wait for more of these
I never understood the point of friendships or babalities bc I never played competitively. I’m just now learning that they were like sending a message.
" Run jabs are a universal tool that every character has access to."
*Cries in Stryker*
poor little tiny man
That MK Arcade Kollection was so embarrassing. They never even fixed the "can't move for a second after unpausing" bug, among others. They released 1 half-assed patch and then abandoned it. If the rumors about the remasters that popped up last week turn out to be true I hope they have a little more effort put into them.
looking back, I don't understand why they wouldn't do MK Trilogy either included in the Kollection, or even as a seperate game.
A true masterpiece not like the trash games of today
The only mk games Ive played were Mk and Mk2 when I was a kid and then Mk9 and MkX more recently. I sucked at the game when I was younger but I still loved it.
Good job guys. This is gold!
It also had the best soundtrack out of all mk, even the new ones.
It would have been interesting if a friendship would have meant that the player that lost gets one more credit.
In theory, but it would never work in arcades, because everyone would just spam friendships to avoid ever having to put more coins in to continue playing. Great idea in general, but from a business standpoint, it wouldn't work.
UMK3 is my all time favorite fighting game.
13:10 is that Yipes with the grey beanie?
Yep!
Old school East Coast my dude.
Why does no one talk about umk3 for the N64? In terms of content that game was loaded. I still remember the aggressive meter bar
You mean MK Trilogy. Similar game but UMK3 never came out on N64.