Thanks so much for watching! These videos are designed to be enjoyed as part of a series and thus, the first two videos are essential viewing. You can find those here, Mortal Kombat, m.th-cam.com/video/7MQ0GDyB_B4/w-d-xo.html Mortal Kombat 2, m.th-cam.com/video/UjkA564qv9U/w-d-xo.html Edit: So I mistakenly say that Arcade operators were unhappy with Midway for releasing MK3 on console so soon after the arcade release which resulted in the creation of UMK3, I did not know until now that there was an obscure documentary created in the 90’s to promote MK3, that identifies that UMK3 was in fact created in advance. Link to that documentary is here if you want to watch it for more information surrounding the creation of the game. m.th-cam.com/video/pqdRUOALpqE/w-d-xo.html If you’d like to see more games explained, then catch the full playlist here, m.th-cam.com/play/PL1OBedn71fCt6nYsng_LzCgCU93-NbOOZ.html
Loving the series. Can't wait for number 4. I have lots of nostalgia for that one as I remember renting it regularly when I was in junior school over the weekends. Neighbor would come over and we'd spend the nights playing like crazy.
UMK3 is still my favorite entry to this day. The gameplay was perfected as far as the 2D games goes, the speed and characters are excellent. I still enjoy playing this with friends and competitively! Great video and series.
MKT on Playstation was horribly unbalanced. The only thing it had an advantage over the N64 version was a bigger roster and better sound, although I wish they didn't downpitch the music. The N64 version was more balanced and no load times, but the sound was awful and the controller took a little more time to get used to for a fighting game.
UMK3 was the first MK game I played in 1997 or thereabout. It remains one of my favourite games to this day and brings back so many wonderful memories.
11:21 Thanks for the glimpse into the "best Fatality in MK history"! Wished you had included Sooke laying out the bombs, however. But for real, there has never been a Fatality that embodied the "over the top" aspect of Mortal Kombat's "finishers" to the extent of Smoke blowing up the whole damn planet just to finish off his opponent! That had me rolling off the floor when I first saw it!
I like that in the original 3, not Ultimate, since there were no ninjas that can be used for Noob, he was actually using a blacked out Sprite of Kano. After that, Ultimate and after, they used a proper ninja.
Funnily enough, even though Noob isn’t a playable character in the Saturn port of UMK3, his “blacked-out Kano” version IS actually still there. If you win the 8-player tournament mode, and select the right “reward”, you get to fight him. He uses all of Kano’s moves, IIRC, and he’s insanely tough
Back as a kid, I remember thinking I created Ermac 😂 I had been obsessed with Scorpion, but had drawn a red ninja since & submitted my idea in fan art during MK2 & MK3's run. When UMK3 came out & I saw Ermac, I freaked out & showed friends at school who were also. MK fans. I really thought they liked my idea & put it in the game. Granted, I was a 4th grader, and didn't understand pallete swaps 😅 Either way, I love UMK3 & MK Trilogy so much. They were like the culmination of my childhood obsession
Love the old era of them just changing color of certain character to make completely new character. Hope this thing could happen in some way or another these days😅
Yeah, managing to create eight characters from the same male ninja sprite (Scorpion, SubZero, Reptile, Smoke, Ermac, Rain, Noob, Chameleon). Four from a female ninja sprite (Kitana, Mileena, Jade, Khameleon) and three from a cyber ninja sprite (Sektor, Cyrax, Smoke) is incredibly clever, and I imagine saved a bunch of memory space.
In the new MK1 trailer Scorpion and Sub-Zero are kolour swaps again with just minor differences to their outfit so I think the simple designs might be koming back which makes sense kause they’re going back in time
I’ll take mk3 over the early 3d polygon games any day. Mk4 was a necessary step forward but also in many ways a visual step away from how real everyone looked in mk3
MK4 is ok, but the really bad ones are the PS2 games. MK3 is so much better than Deadly Alliance, Deception and Armaggedon!!!. The gameplay in those is atrocious, they are unplayable messes, and the direction the story and characters took doesn't help. I think the PS2 games were a mistake and the worst era of the franchise. I'm happy MK9 returned to normal and brought back the real MK gameplay and managed to set the story and characters back to the MK1 to MK3 era. By the way, I think the 2D games, sprites, pixel art, and digitized characters resist the passage of time a lot better than polygons. It's silly how in the 90s some complained "it looks outdated compared to tekken" but MK 1 to Trilogy today look good but the older Tekken and Virtua Fighter look HORRIBLE. 3D gets old very quick.
@@pelgervampireduckMK9 is good gameplay but the game is ugly and the lore is crap. MK: Annihilation did the Trilogy story arc better. The voice acting of MK9 is cringe and the dialogue quality is far inferior to anything said aloud in MK: Annihilation. From 1992-1996 there was a sense of style and mystique to MK, largely due to John Tobias. Once he left, it dissipated, and the bad aesthetics of MK9 are a cheap, soulless reminder of this. I don’t disagree with your criticisms of MK:DA/MK:D; the gameplay is not always the best and the aesthetics and music are nowhere near as good as the arcade games. However they had decent lore and were still somewhat connected to the spirit of the glory days of MK (1992-1997). I also have more respect for the success of MK:DA, as it couldve easily been a flop and the end of the franchise. However, it was a grand slam and is the reason Mortal Kombat is huge today and not just a dead franchise from the 90s. MK9 came into existence when the MK franchise was already safely back into mainstream cultural consumption.
@@pelgervampireduck That's why the lore is crap. The original arcade games were classy and superb. MK9's lore is a cheap rehash that messed most of it up and looked like garbage.
I don't get that hatred towards Kurtis Stryker. He was one of the strongest and coolest fighters. I even liked his story line. MK Trilogy is by far my favorite compilation. Surprised it was criticized for the graphics. When we talk about graphics, Mortal Kombat has always been 100x better than Tekken or Street Fighter
Tekken is just technically more challenging, more "realistic," and has more options (a side step, chain throws, etc.). I love MK but it's no Tekken lol.
I feel the same way about Stryker. He was a difficult character to play because his special moves and combos weren't great, plus he was slow (or at least felt slow). It was so much fun to beat people who combo-spammed cheesy characters like Kabal.
Totally with you; his combos and attacks were so unique and appropriate for its time considering the social issues happening in the USA, mainly Los Angeles.
I think MK3 was an incomplete on the rush game which complete version was UMK3. I've seen videos, some also clipped in this video that show Becky Gable doing her part as Kitana/Mileena/Jade along with actors from MK3, like John Turk or Richard Divizio. So... at least those three female characters were meant to be in MK3 but were cut for some reason. It's not like she was called later to play her roles for an update of MK3.
7:20 I am SO glad to see this combo being shown in an MK3 video cuz chaining the ground saw with the spinny cocoon move got nerfed out of the final version. In my area, we never knew you could start a combo with a roundhouse, probably because you generally couldn't do so in MK 1 or 2 unless near a corner. Anyway, I remember a Sunday morning in the first few weeks since MK3 had been released where my bro, some random dudes we'd hit it off with at the arcade, and I were putting our heads together to come up with the longest combo we could think of. We pretty quickly settled on Kabal. Even though I wasn't worth a damn with him at that point since I mained Subby and Jax in the beginning, I was still able to come up with the idea of jump kick, cocoon move, ground saw, LK, LK, HP, HP, D+HP, jump kick, air projectile for a 10-hit 72% combo. I just couldn't do it myself but luckily one of the other ppl in our lil group was able to. It was awesome knowing you could pull off something like that (in that version, at least) and it led to me maining Kabal not long after that but cyber Smoke would become my new main as soon as he became unlockable, as was the case for many others.
Hey, great job on this video. I'm watching all of them and onto mk4. It's always good to see additional channels put their touch on the story recap. One small detail, tho: as far as i can remember and have played on ps1 and n64, the full aggressor meter only boosted damage shown with an additional shadow trail behind your character. No speed boost. 👍
Thanks so much!! I hope you enjoy the rest of the videos, Shaolin Monks is in production atm. Really, it looked and felt like it sped up your combos but I could be wrong haha 😄
Great video! I think it's worth noting though, the "outrage" from the arcade operators is somewhat of a half truth. UMK3 was in development before MK3 was released, likely due to the shortened timeframe between arcade and home console releases of MK3. It's also worth noting that UMK3 was FREE upgrade for arcade operators.
I really love these videos. As a game developer myself starting an indie studio, it helps by telling me the story of these games, while also giving me a history lesson.
@@DonCritic Who knows. Our first title is almost done, it’s a small Pokémon stadium style game. I don’t know if you would personally be interested in it, but overall I think it’s pretty good.
MK3 and its extensions Ultimate MK3 (UMK3) & MK Triology were the best in the saga... I played soooo many hours on that. Still so hard to do a fatality, let alone a Brutality. The level of hard of this game is ridiculous, remind the bosses that destroy you with 4 hits.
Another stellar episode, good job man . I am only now as of watching this, realising that trilogy was an official release and not just the epic hack of umk3 for the megadrive lol
I liked that when you played as the boss characters (in MK Trilogy) you were overpowered. In more recent games, those boss characters are just regular characters and lose their mystique. I miss Motaro. I wonder if the mechanics are just too hard to do in a game to make him hard, but balanced. Then again, boss characters are usually cheap in fighting games.
As much time as I've spent constantly, absolutely hating Sonya and Cassie Cage these past few years, they always do make me forget that Stryker *was, and is,* my all-time most hated MK character. The irony of Stryker "standing up against tyranny" when he's *literally* in the profession that hes in 🤣🤣🤣😮💨
They rushed this game badly. So badly, they had to make Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 to bring characters like Kitana, Rayden. Mileena, Scorpion, and Reptile back. Imagine a Mortal Kombat game without Scorpion! Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 should've been what Mortal Kombat 3 was supposed to be. Adding the run button and combos pissed a lot of people off.
3 was my 2D favorite. The atmosphere, speed and massive number of features were improvements for me. Besides, its the first one I actually knew how to play 😂
They should bring back the MK3 music theme and horrific screams and every fatality and special move from every game for use of Juggle combos and also all outfits from movies and games
Thank you so much for producing this. Bought back awesome memories. I remember first playing MK3 on the SNES; it changed the face of Beat-Em-Ups forever! And the 16/32 bit Graphics were mesmerising at the time, the combos function that were replicated by other titles (Street Fighter, Killer Instinct) that followed that same year. My fav characters to play in MK3 were Sub Zero, Liu Kang and Kung Lao. I wish Boon would allow a skin in the new version for Sub Zero from MK; he was simply the coolest looking character with the best "round the world" button combo!
You've got that the wrong way around. The first fighting game to have combos was Street Fighter II. That came out not only before MK3, but even before MK1. I remember playing MK1&2 back when they were new and not liking how clunky and basic they felt without combos which SF had made me expect in fighting games.
Shao Kahn went for it all in MK3 and in storyline he should have succeeded. Once you play as Shao Kahn in Trilogy you fully understand that no one can match him
Did anyone else get that black screen with the music playing after finishing the tournament mode on the PS1 version of UMK3? It happened a lot and i had to reset the game each time.
Man i kinda wished i grew up with these types of games life seemed so great around then too bad i grew up with mk9 mkx and mk11 which many people considered bad so i always try and understand these games to see what makes it so good and i see why now im not as critical on mk story mode but it does make me wish i was around on earth during the midway timeline
I played the fuck out of MK3. Beat it with every character, did every fatality at least once, and the bugs and glitches I found we many. One is as Sektor when you beat an opponent, launch a heat seeking missile, then quickly preform the crusher fatality like at 1:52 . The missile with hit the other player knocking them back out of range. The fatality will still work, except the opponent will be 10 feet away, float in the air and be crushed by nothing. One thing I didn't care for was when I first played the game, some of the animations felt slow. Like Liu Kang would shoot a fireball, but it wouldn't become it's own projectile for several frames. As a result it could easily be interrupted. It would look like a fireball would be half way across the screen when you got hit and it would disappear. Still, MK3 was peak Mortal Kombat.
They were forced to "Go in a new direction" as far as characters. The actors (I forget them all. Dan (The guy who played Scorpion and Sub-Zero) sued for unpaid royalties do the home releases.
Thanks so much for watching! These videos are designed to be enjoyed as part of a series and thus, the first two videos are essential viewing. You can find those here,
Mortal Kombat,
m.th-cam.com/video/7MQ0GDyB_B4/w-d-xo.html
Mortal Kombat 2,
m.th-cam.com/video/UjkA564qv9U/w-d-xo.html
Edit: So I mistakenly say that Arcade operators were unhappy with Midway for releasing MK3 on console so soon after the arcade release which resulted in the creation of UMK3, I did not know until now that there was an obscure documentary created in the 90’s to promote MK3, that identifies that UMK3 was in fact created in advance. Link to that documentary is here if you want to watch it for more information surrounding the creation of the game.
m.th-cam.com/video/pqdRUOALpqE/w-d-xo.html
If you’d like to see more games explained, then catch the full playlist here,
m.th-cam.com/play/PL1OBedn71fCt6nYsng_LzCgCU93-NbOOZ.html
Loving the series.
Can't wait for number 4.
I have lots of nostalgia for that one as I remember renting it regularly when I was in junior school over the weekends.
Neighbor would come over and we'd spend the nights playing like crazy.
UMK3 is still my favorite entry to this day. The gameplay was perfected as far as the 2D games goes, the speed and characters are excellent. I still enjoy playing this with friends and competitively! Great video and series.
Mine too bro. They need to remake it or remaster it. It would be so damn epic.
Nice nice mk3u is my 2nd favorite. MK Trilogy is mine all time favorite of all time.
@@tower8810trilogy is my fave too 😍
@@tower8810 Same here. I'm a big MK Trilogy fan too....still playing this on my PS2.
MK2 is always better
Mortal Kombat Trilogy is definitely my favorite version. The only real criticism are the horrible loading times, at least on the PS1.
And the cheap A.I. and broken characters
💯💯💯💯
MKT on Playstation was horribly unbalanced. The only thing it had an advantage over the N64 version was a bigger roster and better sound, although I wish they didn't downpitch the music. The N64 version was more balanced and no load times, but the sound was awful and the controller took a little more time to get used to for a fighting game.
@@rickylucas6503 When playing against friends, we all agree not to use Noob Sabot. Talk about broken.😆
@@MrBronx61 knew a guy that would use noob and sektor in endurance. damn he would own everyone in the room.
UMK3 was the first MK game I played in 1997 or thereabout. It remains one of my favourite games to this day and brings back so many wonderful memories.
the hype for mk3 was unreal in 1995
It was my first Mortal Kombat game. I got it as a surprise Christmas gift when I was 7. Freaking amazing.
Then disappointment when it came out lol
It was kinda a disappointment, I think they made it in a rush
Yep. Then it came out and had the awful run button and killer instinct combos
I was 1 year old
11:21 Thanks for the glimpse into the "best Fatality in MK history"! Wished you had included Sooke laying out the bombs, however. But for real, there has never been a Fatality that embodied the "over the top" aspect of Mortal Kombat's "finishers" to the extent of Smoke blowing up the whole damn planet just to finish off his opponent! That had me rolling off the floor when I first saw it!
Yeah Smoke’s annihilation of the planet is a very cool fatality 😄
Really that Fatality should take you straight to a gameover lol...
I like that in the original 3, not Ultimate, since there were no ninjas that can be used for Noob, he was actually using a blacked out Sprite of Kano. After that, Ultimate and after, they used a proper ninja.
Funnily enough, even though Noob isn’t a playable character in the Saturn port of UMK3, his “blacked-out Kano” version IS actually still there. If you win the 8-player tournament mode, and select the right “reward”, you get to fight him. He uses all of Kano’s moves, IIRC, and he’s insanely tough
Back as a kid, I remember thinking I created Ermac 😂
I had been obsessed with Scorpion, but had drawn a red ninja since & submitted my idea in fan art during MK2 & MK3's run.
When UMK3 came out & I saw Ermac, I freaked out & showed friends at school who were also. MK fans.
I really thought they liked my idea & put it in the game. Granted, I was a 4th grader, and didn't understand pallete swaps 😅
Either way, I love UMK3 & MK Trilogy so much. They were like the culmination of my childhood obsession
That’s such an awesome memory, maybe your drawing was still seen by some of the Midway team 😃
Sounds like something Professor Chaos would do.
Love the old era of them just changing color of certain character to make completely new character. Hope this thing could happen in some way or another these days😅
Yeah, managing to create eight characters from the same male ninja sprite (Scorpion, SubZero, Reptile, Smoke, Ermac, Rain, Noob, Chameleon). Four from a female ninja sprite (Kitana, Mileena, Jade, Khameleon) and three from a cyber ninja sprite (Sektor, Cyrax, Smoke) is incredibly clever, and I imagine saved a bunch of memory space.
In the new MK1 trailer Scorpion and Sub-Zero are kolour swaps again with just minor differences to their outfit so I think the simple designs might be koming back which makes sense kause they’re going back in time
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It kind of does with Smash Ultimate with characters who play the same they just change the appearance
Just like Ryu, Ken, Dan, Akuma, and Sean
This MK story recap series is awesome! Great job dude. 👍
Thanks so much mate!! Fourth episode coming soon 👍
Liu Kang beating the living shit out of Shao Kahn, not once, but twice in a row is so epic
Thanks for making this series! This series has been some of the best MK content I’ve seen. Well done
Thanks David! The next episode is in production
UMK3 is still the best in the series to me. If they remade it with today's technology, it would be the greatest MK game of all time.
I’ll take mk3 over the early 3d polygon games any day. Mk4 was a necessary step forward but also in many ways a visual step away from how real everyone looked in mk3
I like the digitized graphics of real actors of the first three games more than the CGI graphics that predominated after MK III
MK4 is ok, but the really bad ones are the PS2 games. MK3 is so much better than Deadly Alliance, Deception and Armaggedon!!!. The gameplay in those is atrocious, they are unplayable messes, and the direction the story and characters took doesn't help. I think the PS2 games were a mistake and the worst era of the franchise. I'm happy MK9 returned to normal and brought back the real MK gameplay and managed to set the story and characters back to the MK1 to MK3 era.
By the way, I think the 2D games, sprites, pixel art, and digitized characters resist the passage of time a lot better than polygons.
It's silly how in the 90s some complained "it looks outdated compared to tekken" but MK 1 to Trilogy today look good but the older Tekken and Virtua Fighter look HORRIBLE. 3D gets old very quick.
@@pelgervampireduckMK9 is good gameplay but the game is ugly and the lore is crap. MK: Annihilation did the Trilogy story arc better. The voice acting of MK9 is cringe and the dialogue quality is far inferior to anything said aloud in MK: Annihilation. From 1992-1996 there was a sense of style and mystique to MK, largely due to John Tobias. Once he left, it dissipated, and the bad aesthetics of MK9 are a cheap, soulless reminder of this. I don’t disagree with your criticisms of MK:DA/MK:D; the gameplay is not always the best and the aesthetics and music are nowhere near as good as the arcade games. However they had decent lore and were still somewhat connected to the spirit of the glory days of MK (1992-1997). I also have more respect for the success of MK:DA, as it couldve easily been a flop and the end of the franchise. However, it was a grand slam and is the reason Mortal Kombat is huge today and not just a dead franchise from the 90s. MK9 came into existence when the MK franchise was already safely back into mainstream cultural consumption.
@@WhistleMeThis The lore of mk9 is like a reboot of MK1 to MK3. I think they tried to go back to the glory days.
@@pelgervampireduck That's why the lore is crap. The original arcade games were classy and superb. MK9's lore is a cheap rehash that messed most of it up and looked like garbage.
MK3 is a peak fighting game. Might be the best fighting game of all time….
Mk3 was my first Mk. Absolutely loved this game
I don't get that hatred towards Kurtis Stryker. He was one of the strongest and coolest fighters. I even liked his story line.
MK Trilogy is by far my favorite compilation. Surprised it was criticized for the graphics. When we talk about graphics, Mortal Kombat has always been 100x better than Tekken or Street Fighter
Tekken is just technically more challenging, more "realistic," and has more options (a side step, chain throws, etc.).
I love MK but it's no Tekken lol.
I feel the same way about Stryker. He was a difficult character to play because his special moves and combos weren't great, plus he was slow (or at least felt slow). It was so much fun to beat people who combo-spammed cheesy characters like Kabal.
Totally with you; his combos and attacks were so unique and appropriate for its time considering the social issues happening in the USA, mainly Los Angeles.
Mk 3 the most mortal kombat of all mortal kombats.
Not when it came to the fatality department
I think MK3 was an incomplete on the rush game which complete version was UMK3. I've seen videos, some also clipped in this video that show Becky Gable doing her part as Kitana/Mileena/Jade along with actors from MK3, like John Turk or Richard Divizio. So... at least those three female characters were meant to be in MK3 but were cut for some reason. It's not like she was called later to play her roles for an update of MK3.
No Becky and John did the male and female ninjas seperately. The video was just a montage!
Mk3 and ultimate mk3 were my favorite. Some of the best fighting games imho.
7:20 I am SO glad to see this combo being shown in an MK3 video cuz chaining the ground saw with the spinny cocoon move got nerfed out of the final version. In my area, we never knew you could start a combo with a roundhouse, probably because you generally couldn't do so in MK 1 or 2 unless near a corner.
Anyway, I remember a Sunday morning in the first few weeks since MK3 had been released where my bro, some random dudes we'd hit it off with at the arcade, and I were putting our heads together to come up with the longest combo we could think of. We pretty quickly settled on Kabal. Even though I wasn't worth a damn with him at that point since I mained Subby and Jax in the beginning, I was still able to come up with the idea of jump kick, cocoon move, ground saw, LK, LK, HP, HP, D+HP, jump kick, air projectile for a 10-hit 72% combo. I just couldn't do it myself but luckily one of the other ppl in our lil group was able to. It was awesome knowing you could pull off something like that (in that version, at least) and it led to me maining Kabal not long after that but cyber Smoke would become my new main as soon as he became unlockable, as was the case for many others.
That sounds like such a great time! Thanks for sharing mate! 😃
My favorite mk was the 3 one because off the crazy combos n movement
Fantastic content! I’d love to see deeper dives of each character’s storylines as well when you’ve wrapped up the entire series. Seriously well done!
Got a few of those already on the channel 🙂
I love how Mortal Kombat has stayed alive till this day. Surely MK 1 would improve upon the whole MK fighting formula.
Great series!! Thank you for all the hard work put into these. 👌
You’re very welcome my friend. Thank you for watching!
I really loved your series of the MK trilogy, and I'm looking forward to your next project!
Thanks so much Mike!
@@DonCritic You're welcome. Thank you for making the retrospective!
Sadly Raiden was missing from MK3 and even MK3 Ultimate.
I appreciate all your recent videos to prepare me for MK12
Thanks Austin!
What a superbly made video. I was going to go to bed and stumbled across your video and ended up watching the whole thing. Well done!
Wow you watched a lot of my videos! Thank you so much 🙏
Hey, great job on this video. I'm watching all of them and onto mk4. It's always good to see additional channels put their touch on the story recap.
One small detail, tho: as far as i can remember and have played on ps1 and n64, the full aggressor meter only boosted damage shown with an additional shadow trail behind your character. No speed boost. 👍
Thanks so much!! I hope you enjoy the rest of the videos, Shaolin Monks is in production atm. Really, it looked and felt like it sped up your combos but I could be wrong haha 😄
Great video!
I think it's worth noting though, the "outrage" from the arcade operators is somewhat of a half truth. UMK3 was in development before MK3 was released, likely due to the shortened timeframe between arcade and home console releases of MK3. It's also worth noting that UMK3 was FREE upgrade for arcade operators.
When I was younger, I wanted to know what secrets were hidden in the arcade ladders in the background... Oh teenage me.
Mortal Kombat trilogy for the PS1 is hands down number 1
Best game in the series. Grew up with the N64 port
I really love these videos. As a game developer myself starting an indie studio, it helps by telling me the story of these games, while also giving me a history lesson.
So glad you’re enjoying the videos. I sent my best regards to your new studio. I can’t wait to maybe play any of the games you make in the future!
@@DonCritic Who knows. Our first title is almost done, it’s a small Pokémon stadium style game. I don’t know if you would personally be interested in it, but overall I think it’s pretty good.
MK9 is like a remake of MKT.
That was the point, it was a reboot retelling of the first 3 MK games!
Mk9 is epic.
MK3 and its extensions Ultimate MK3 (UMK3) & MK Triology were the best in the saga... I played soooo many hours on that. Still so hard to do a fatality, let alone a Brutality. The level of hard of this game is ridiculous, remind the bosses that destroy you with 4 hits.
Loving this series!!😊
I forgot scorpion wasn't in MK3! My favorite from the original trilogy
Wow! I wasn't expecting that. Everything you need to know. Thanks. Appreciate it.
Another stellar episode, good job man . I am only now as of watching this, realising that trilogy was an official release and not just the epic hack of umk3 for the megadrive lol
Thanks Jon! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!
When I saw the sub zero story as a kid I actually thought cyrax was a cyber scorpion
Can’t wait for mk4 loving the series
Will be out in the next few days 🙂
I remember swapping worms for MK trilogy on ps1 with my cousin ... Best choice I ever made!!!!
(U)MK3 taught me the value of learning combos as a kid given i was someone who loved spamming projectiles at the time.
Love your channel bro. We need Cyrax in the Mk1 game !!
Thank you! I hope Cyrax is in there too!
I liked that when you played as the boss characters (in MK Trilogy) you were overpowered. In more recent games, those boss characters are just regular characters and lose their mystique. I miss Motaro. I wonder if the mechanics are just too hard to do in a game to make him hard, but balanced. Then again, boss characters are usually cheap in fighting games.
Gotta love the uppercut to the 2nd story.
For real!
This was my first time playing MK we had it for sega genesis, the ultimate edition❤ those were the days! Wish I still had it 😢
UMK3 is still the best one in the series for me.
Big fax
Trilogy
The fact that Sub-Zero was unmasked and the real life animations was amazing
As much time as I've spent constantly, absolutely hating Sonya and Cassie Cage these past few years, they always do make me forget that Stryker *was, and is,* my all-time most hated MK character.
The irony of Stryker "standing up against tyranny" when he's *literally* in the profession that hes in 🤣🤣🤣😮💨
i love this series just continue!
On it! Mortal Kombat 4 Explained is already in production 🙂
Here we go, lets get it!!!
One of my favorite things about this game is that it officially introduces different blood colors in the series.
I'm still angry there's not a MKT remaster! I mean, not remake: REMASTER! For all systems.
Imagine how fun that would be...
Complaining about an actual new character like Stryker but not about palette-swapped robots is an interesting take.
That sound track in the beginning brings back so much memories
It’s such a great soundtrack
UMK3 on Sega Mega Drive was and still my fav MK game. MK trilogy was just as you described
UMK3 still my favorite!!
The best
The firs 3 mortal kombats are the 🐐. I miss the music and overall eerie feel it once had
Mk3 releasing without Scorpion is like Street Fighter with no Ryu wtf were they thinking
Loved the video brother 🤘
I want to jam this game with friends now
Thanks so much!!
Saw this one first But I'll go back and rewatch the first two
Thank you, I’ve got up to Deadly Alliance aswell and currently working on Deception 🙂
Every mk game needs to be on switch
on the Playstation 1 version of mortal kombat trilogy you could hit select on jax,kung lao,raiden and kano to choose there mk1 and mk 2 version
They rushed this game badly. So badly, they had to make Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 to bring characters like Kitana, Rayden. Mileena, Scorpion, and Reptile back. Imagine a Mortal Kombat game without Scorpion! Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 should've been what Mortal Kombat 3 was supposed to be. Adding the run button and combos pissed a lot of people off.
Amazing video, cant wait for yours on armageddon
Thanks so much!!
Old MK was the best honestly..this new mk1 looks like a tekken game
3 was my 2D favorite. The atmosphere, speed and massive number of features were improvements for me. Besides, its the first one I actually knew how to play 😂
No Scorpion!!! What we’re they thinking!!!
They should bring back the MK3 music theme and horrific screams and every fatality and special move from every game for use of Juggle combos and also all outfits from movies and games
That soundtrack 🔥
Had that Hellrasier vibe
Great content. Keep it up.
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for producing this. Bought back awesome memories. I remember first playing MK3 on the SNES; it changed the face of Beat-Em-Ups forever! And the 16/32 bit Graphics were mesmerising at the time, the combos function that were replicated by other titles (Street Fighter, Killer Instinct) that followed that same year. My fav characters to play in MK3 were Sub Zero, Liu Kang and Kung Lao. I wish Boon would allow a skin in the new version for Sub Zero from MK; he was simply the coolest looking character with the best "round the world" button combo!
And thank you for watching! So glad it brought back great memories 😃
You've got that the wrong way around. The first fighting game to have combos was Street Fighter II. That came out not only before MK3, but even before MK1. I remember playing MK1&2 back when they were new and not liking how clunky and basic they felt without combos which SF had made me expect in fighting games.
@@matroska_5625 Ahh! True! I never played SF, but thank you for your correction.
All I got from this, was that Sindel is indeed originally painted neutral or bad from the get go. Her design speaks for itself.
Shao Kahn went for it all in MK3 and in storyline he should have succeeded. Once you play as Shao Kahn in Trilogy you fully understand that no one can match him
Ngl. I loved this game...but i think trilogy takes the cake. The ps1 version
Mk3 is my favorite classic mk
Did anyone else get that black screen with the music playing after finishing the tournament mode on the PS1 version of UMK3? It happened a lot and i had to reset the game each time.
Vanilla Mk3 is my favorite version. Before it was upgraded into UMK3 and Trilogy.
MK3 brought in Ultimate and Trilogy... This is the best Mortal Kombat til this day
I had gotten mk3 for xmas in the 90s. Umk3 is the best mk game still imo
Keep up the content mate. Absolutely love it❤
Thank you mate! 🙂
Man i kinda wished i grew up with these types of games life seemed so great around then too bad i grew up with mk9 mkx and mk11 which many people considered bad so i always try and understand these games to see what makes it so good and i see why now im not as critical on mk story mode but it does make me wish i was around on earth during the midway timeline
Very thorough. Thank you.
You’re very welcome! Glad you liked the video 🙌
The best mortal kombat 🎉
UMK3 is my favorite and it will never be topped
I played the fuck out of MK3. Beat it with every character, did every fatality at least once, and the bugs and glitches I found we many. One is as Sektor when you beat an opponent, launch a heat seeking missile, then quickly preform the crusher fatality like at 1:52 . The missile with hit the other player knocking them back out of range. The fatality will still work, except the opponent will be 10 feet away, float in the air and be crushed by nothing.
One thing I didn't care for was when I first played the game, some of the animations felt slow. Like Liu Kang would shoot a fireball, but it wouldn't become it's own projectile for several frames. As a result it could easily be interrupted. It would look like a fireball would be half way across the screen when you got hit and it would disappear. Still, MK3 was peak Mortal Kombat.
I never understood the hate for Trilogy. It’s by far the best fighting game ever
I think mk2 had the best fatalities out of the three
They were forced to "Go in a new direction" as far as characters. The actors (I forget them all. Dan (The guy who played Scorpion and Sub-Zero) sued for unpaid royalties do the home releases.
Banger
The MK3 days was peak Mortal Kombat.. the only thing that came close was MK9.
My favorite Mortal Kombat are these old ones. I hope for this kombat mechanic in an iphotetic remastered
Umk3 was my favorite besides trilogy. I has it on the Saturn. I'm digging the new mk1 quite a bit.
I love this game
Mk3 is my favorite in the series
Man looking at your content being explained like this !..your better than game informer 😂😂💯
Wow thanks Michael!! 🙏
trilogy was a god send if you think about you get all the games in the style of the latest one its crazy
The only thing about MK3 was the fatality death animations were SO lazy. Like if they had just fixed that, it would have been perfect.