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Had fun watching this you did great man. Some of the moves you couldn't do MAN I was screaming at my phone the inputs 😂 mk2 was a massive part of my childhood all of the mk games actually and yes including that hard as nails mythologies 😂
MK-2 really shines in 2-player VS mode , , presuming both players are well skilled on at least 3 of the fighters apiece 😋 arcade or home versions , , me and my bud named Phil were,/are skilled on majority of the "Kombatants" , we had crazy match my Liu Kang VS his Raiden ,by the second round action and counter-action got so speedy an fierce we glitched out SNES cart we were playing , , ,later that week we played my Sega Saturn vers of MK-2 , it does have load times between match-ups , but during the fights it was speedy as hell and NEVER had a problem ( unless a jerk picks Shang Tsung ) , , ,we were also very adept ( skilled yo ) at the Saturn vers of ""Mortal Kombat Trilogy"" , and played the living crap out of that , , , between our grudge matches in ""SF-Alpha2 gold"", Cammy says "Lock on , destroy trucker", , , ,in new MK games I wish you could turn off the "X-ray moves" or what they renamed "Fatal-blows" , that TOGGLE option should've been included , , ,😸👍👍
bro that was poor.. I was pulling my hair out when you were describing Kung Lao (Best character in the game).. For someone who was around at the time when it was released in the Arcades. Im surprised you didnt pick up any useful tactics.. especially the Player 2 glitch which enables you to control the AI making it easy to practice your best kombos.. Even if its set on the Hardest difficulty the AI still is stupid lol..
Yep, didn't know it then but the game basically cheats to beat you. I loved MK2 at home, but could never do well in the arcade. While MK2 was amazing at the time, as far as a well rounded fighter, it fell behind Street Fighter which felt more natural to play and the ai wasn't as brutal or unfair(and didn't feel unfair).
I can still win in a single credit. The trick is after round 3, no more uppercut until you get the enemy in the air, then punish with uppercut. Let them walk toward you, but at about 3/4 of the way to sweep range from your character, jump backwards. Computer should stop, and jump I to a free uppercut. Immediately jump in for Jump Kick followed by sweep, jump back again. If they repeat it, start over, if they keep walking, let them get close enough to trigger the stall again, they will repeat this till dead in most cases. Using Kung Lao was a major part too, I could do several things to win easily, like lead jump kick back into dive kick, or Jump kick and air throw.
There's a bar/arcade near where I live. They have MKII. It took me nearly three hours but I beat it. Towards the end nearly all the patrons were gathered around the machine watching me play. It was very cathartic being able to do in adulthood what I couldn't in adolescence, lol.
What I remember in the arcade is that the first two characters were somewhat easy, but then the third character was usually Mileena and she would absolutely destroy you.
In 1993 I was 17 and a senior in high school. Man the arcades were awesome back then! And when MKII dropped I was blown away. It’s probably still my favorite MK game. I had this on SNES!
MK 2 was huge when it came out. i swear one feeling online games will never replicate is having a stranger pull up next to you and put quarters in and now it’s on. you’re playing for your quarter which you don’t have much of when your just a kid lol.
Let me take you on my MK journey. It was 1992 I believe. Our local movie theater had a small arcade section. And low and behold, Mortal Kombat 1 was there. I had seen the Simpsons, Street Fighter, but MK1 was the new kid on the block for sure. One year later, after getting to rent it for SNES often, there was another trip to our local arcade. I walk up to where the MK1 machine usually was and out of my left peripherals I notice MKII. So I investigate further and then it hit me, THIS IS NEW! I quickly dispensed a quarter and everything is mind blowing and hard to take in. But I continue with utter amazement and excitement. First character I picked was this cool looking dude with a hat. "KUNG LAO" it says when I press the select button and I'm like "oooo hoo hoo" like SpongeBob with the magic conch. Hearing Shao Kahn's voice was scary lol. I knew then this game wasn't f'ing around.
The Video Rental Store a block away from my house put in an MK2 Cabinet the moment it was released. I was 11 years old, and it was damn near ALWAYS crowded. Probably the best investment that independent videostore ever made. I blew half my weekly allowance every week playing the hell out of that game.
I grew up to these arcades blessed to be at the tilt watching people getting down on mk2, the fucking game was like a concert a huge crowd watching so sick.Everybody performing all the moves ,combos, fatalities,secerts legendary era 🔥
I still remember the first time I ever saw MK. Me and my cousin were at the mall with our moms, they were shopping and let us go to the arcade. When we walked in there was a HUGE crowd of kids around this one machine, when we got close enough to see what it was the first thing that hit us were the graphics. It looked REAL. And I'm not talking slightly more detail, to our eyes that were used to looking at animated cartoon looking graphics, MK looked like real people on the screen. Then we started noticing all of the blood and finally we saw a fatality. We couldn't believe what we were watching. The most realistic looking game we'd ever seen and it was also the most gruesome game we'd ever seen. It was wild. I was 13 when the first MK came out. And each game got better, more realistic looking and more gruesome. But that memory of the first time I ever witnessed MK1 in person will always stick with me.
Bro I can still remember going to the arcade when all 3 mk came out and the feeling was amazing! Still remember my then friend Luis was describing how the game looked and played because at this time there was no Internet only word of mouth and or magazines, so when I stepped into the arcade and saw MK 1 for the first time, it blew my mind! As well as 2 which is still my favorite of the series and 3.
There was a skating rink in Sarasota Florida called Stardust in the late 90’s. I used to frequent that place and they had the MK2 arcade. The hype around it was astounding and there’s no way to explain it in words, you had to be there. I’m thankful to have grown up in the 90’s, definitely was the best time all around imo.
Ugh. So much yes. When this game came out in arcades, for months it was the one arcade game that every kid at school was talking. It was huge and rumors about secret fighter and finishing moves were flying all around it. Everything from being able to fight Barney the Purple Dinosaur to charaters perfmong "Sexalities". lol.
MK2 on the SNES was insanely hard even on easy. Also to get to right noob saibot you had to do the trick 50 times. Megadrive was easy on easy, which is what you'd expect. Fun fact, Kintaro can do 4 fireballs in a row, I found this out by jumping back and he perfectly time all 4 to hit me and defeat me in one go :|
Great video! I remember first playing MKII in a pizza shop sometime in 1994-1995. Jax kicked my ass, and sent me into the Deadpool's acid. I had nightmares for weeks! MKII AI is whacked.
To this day , the only MK game I never beat was MK 2. Evy on very easy I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea of why it was so hard lol. Absolutely frustrating!
the challenge is what kept me playing as a kid, we didnt need any achievements or trophies. Played to beat the game and just have fun. I spent hours just playing to see every characters special moves (fatality, babality, friendship, etc). Back then this was a first of its kind and this game was considered as gory as they came and probably contributed to the esrb rating being applied to games.
I love listening to people who have unlimited continues and talking about how hard this game is to them today. Back in 1993, I would get $2 (each try was $0.50), and you BETTER learn the computers tricks, flaws, patterns, and reactions to your moves and behaviors. It FORCED you to get REALLY good REALLY quickly, or you were sitting on the sidelines watching what you dreamt you could do.
The thing that made this game playable for me was learning combos. You can delay hitting punch or kick while jumping which tricks the CPU. You can also jump over and kick or punch them on the backside of a block. These open the opponent up for a quick second and maybe third strike. In MK2, a 4 or 5 hit combo is reserved for a master.
I was 12 when it first hit arcades. Even after all my money was spent I would still hang around there watching the older kids play. Good times. This was back when the arcade machines had ashtrays attached, I probably secondhand smoked a whole carton a day.
Watching those intro/outro slides for each character was painful, because there are so many spelling errors! I guess they didn't bother with a copy editor before putting them in.
I was 8 when this game came out and I remember constantly throwing the sega controller at the screen out of frustration. My 13 year old older brother beat the game on difficult after just 4 tries 😒
Lui kang's bicycle kick is actually fairly easy to pull off. You can hold the button down while you do other moves and just release it when you're ready to do the move. You can also do the bicycle kick right as the match starts like the CPU did simply by holding the button during the time the announcer is speaking before the match starts
I feel bad because I used to roll MKIIS head, but only because it was EXTREMELY big in my town when I grew up so we was ALL playing competitively at the local arcade.
I have to play the arcade with Baraka. It's easier to trick the AI into falling for his shredder move and you can use that trick all the way up to Kintaro.
It's nice to see people exposing the CPU on a technical and fundamental level. Parents and friends would just say I was bad and games don't cheat etc... I knew I was right
It was a different world, was there when street fighter two came out, mk all the good stuff. Miss those days no cellphones, no correct way to be, little bit of rebellion but people had respect for each other. The world is F... Now
Yeah. MK2 AI is freaking over the top hard. Even in home versions, the AI is broken. I beat this game in my childhood only once on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis as Sub-Zero, and then I never ever touched it. Thus, most of the time I played UMK3. That was fun.
I used to be scared shitless of this game back in the day. This and house of the dead freaked my 3 year old self out as a kid. I used to just watch my dad play Tekken 2 in the arcades back in 96 97
i was cracking up at the comment "98.5% of the motherfuckers who watch my videos did not subscribe" We shared similar experiences of going to the arcade rooms and being hypnotized by the deep voice and surreal atmosphere of MKII. That game was everywhere: bowling alleys, skating rinks, pizza joints. I like your content. I think you would benefit from an improved microphone.
MKII is just one of those stupidly hard games where the way to beat it is to do the most boring repetitive things, because doing the fun things just get you killed. Just like life.
As someone who used to play the sh!t out of this with my friend as kids when it came out, i agree that it was hard, but most games around that time were.. as the tuck and rollers say, "get gūd"
as a kid i never thought it was hard. but it's been a while and im old now lol. so it's prob hella tough. i know some other games i used to find easy are actually pretty tough for me now. And yes mortal kombat used to scare me and my friends lol but we loved it anyway. Killer instinct used to be absolutely frightening tho. damn maybe i should subscribe lmao
As a teen i use emulator to play og mk2 and yes absolutely hard to play and ai is guessing my move faster than i am. But manage to beat them twice as liu kang and jax,i beat shang tsung kintaro and shao kahn. And then use cheat code to manage noob and the other secret kharacters,they more harder than main boss and sub boss. İ love the game ost ,vibes,stage designs. Yet i understand back in the times most of games hard cause they want to pay more than one koin so...still broken as hell and somehow i enjoyed mk1 more than mk2.
As an experienced fighting game player (as in I've played pretty much everything) I think Mortal Kombat 2 arcade takes the cake for overall most unfair AI. It's not even the hardest, it's just the most *unfair* because through all games like Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (US version) and a lot of the harder SNK fighting games, this is the only game I can think of where the AI just straight up breaks the rules of the game. It does things the game is not meant to allow. A lot of fighting games will only ever really have that in one way - as in, the AI can ignore "charging" special moves (i.e, they can throw Guile's Sonic Boom while walking forwards). But this game will do stuff like being able to throw you if you try to throw them WHILE THEY'RE STUNNED OR FROZEN and seemingly teleporting into a jump while flat on the ground in a single frame. Absolute trashfire experience.
It was 50 cents a play in 1994. My mom would let me hang out at the mall arcade while she walked around. She would give me two dollars and I would beat the game four times. That was before accessible internet. We just had our arcade people. It wasn’t that hard to beat.
Similar to SF2’s difficulty levels as each instalment gets released into the arcades. Operators wanted customers to put in their quarters or 20p’s where I’m from in 🇬🇧. As gamers got better, developers felt they needed to increase the difficulty accordingly. Just try playing Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo in comparison to Street Fighter 2 World Warrior edition. It’s a whole new level of frustration.
@@steele1 damn... I remember on Sega Genesis and 32x I put level at very easy and beat them.... However on my Arcade 1up, I set level for very easy and it doesn't matter.... I get my ass kicked hard
Easy strat even on "very hard". Hold down all the time, wait for the enemy to come to you and jump back before he can grab you. He will jump after you and you have him open in air. Repeat untill you win. Doesn't work with every character but it works when you use Baraka, Shand Tsung, all ninjas, Johnny Cage and Jax i think. Enjoy the game bro :)
It was only difficult if you tried to have an actual match against the computer opponents. This kid showed me a trick where you kneel down and jump backwards slightly out of sweep range. The AI felt compelled to jump after you literally EVERY SINGLE TIME you did it. You could do anything you wanted while they were in the air.
lie, they can also counter the sweep, and the low kicks, and any movement, including the jump kick, because they have perfect blocking and in the frames it takes to get the character back to the ground, they do the German suplex. It's crazy.
It was lightning in a bottle, pure magic. I still love this game. I was 13 when this came out, I was obsessed with this game. People would take typing classes and type a fatality cheatsheet and sell them for lunch money haha.
hahahaha that's awesome I was five when this game was released and i remember seeing it at this place called Chimpy's Pizza, which was basically just a poor kid's version of Chuck-E-Cheese The attract mode video that had Shao Kahn on it scared the hell out of me haha, but i loved hearing all the kids talk about MK2. Wasn't until a few years later when MK3 was released I played Mk2 and Mk3
Played in some MK2 tournaments as a young buy in the 90's. The smell, the putting the quarters on the machine to let people know you were up next, the staring at the graphics wondering what this mysterious, violent game was all about. It was amazing.
What a time to be alive. I was 9 when this came out in arcades. It was unlike anything I ever remember seeing. Even MK1, as groundbreaking as it was, didn’t hit me like 2 did. Remains one of my favorite games of all time.
@@theungreatkahli it really was the golden age of gaming, I even miss going to midnight openings. Sad our children will never get to experience some of the things we did.
Even though it was over 20 years ago, I'll never forget playing MK2 in the arcade. I was a kid and I just thought I sucked. Moves were spread around by word of mouth because we lacked internet lol so I only knew a few easy fatalities (Liu Kang, Raiden). Once I got to the third stage, it was a wrap. I could never get past it. I've beaten almost every game from youth, but I'm learning this all over as we speak lol. I didn't know how much cheese you had to do to win
Thing with MK1 and especially MK2 is that it was originally released as arcade, and it was meant yo eat up your coins. So first two or three matches will be normal, but after that AI will start to cheat, because players will continue as they are "half-way there". AI reads your inputs and react accordingly, and has it's own set of rules, such as being able to throw you while blocking, break out of combos or spam special moves unlike player who has built-in timer for animation. This is most obvious with projectile moves like Mileena's sia toss or Liu Kang's fireball, AI will spam them and not have to wait for animation to finish before throwing another one. Also in MK3 for example, in console version you could always easily beat Motaro by just either jump kicking him or just standing right next to him and doing high punch, however on console version he has that stupid unblockable grab which takes like 1/4 of your HP.
MKII is best with friends. Everyone knows the AI is broken and designed to steal your quarters. You'd probably be better off playing a MUGEN version of MKII.
The home console ports were still difficult but nowhere near the nightmare of the arcade version. The difficulty settings actually make a difference. That's how I played as a kid, never got to go to the arcades. I made the mistake of playing the Arcade Kollection and it's just not as fun as I remember because of the bullshit arcade AI.
The CPU has its own set of rules : Mileena can throw her sais whenever she wants, but you can't when you're controlling her. You have to hold down the high punch button for a few seconds to do it, and you can't throw another one until the animation is finished.
@@steele1 It's not, and the CPU can also do moves that you can't, such as Sub-Zero throwing a second ice ball BEFORE the first one TOUCHES YOU. Or CPU Liu Kang doing two bicycle kicks in a row, but you can only do one at a time etc.
@@jerelminter MY favorite is how the CPU can go from laying on the ground after a knockdown, to suddenly kicking you out of the air in just ONE frame - whereas if YOU get knocked down, you have to wait until your character gets back on his / her feet before you can even start attacking again. 🙄
@@MattKittredge2112 That move pisses me off too, or when you try to do an uppercut on the CPU but you miss and then they duck and do it to you. It's bullshit, that they cheat like this. They can also throw you in the middle of an animation, like if you try doing Raiden's flying torpedo tackle, the CPU will catch you before you do it, and throw you to the other side of the screen. What the hell ?
Oh, oh.. I've got a good one! If you spam fireballs at the AI and force them to remain crouched, they will eventually just slide over to you while crouched and uppercut you. No special animation, just.... Zzzooop!
I remember watching a guy playing on a huge arcade version, absolutely cheesing the computer with Katana and her fan spin. It was magnificent, no continues.
You can cheese it all the way to the bosses with sub zero too with an ice ball then uppercut combo. When you with them with the uppercut they will land on the ice ball if you launch one immediately after the uppercut.
This is my favorite MK game, easily. And yes, it is destroy-your-balls levels of hard. One thing I find interesting about MK2 is that it even _looks_ different compared to both MK1 and MK 3/UMK. The mocapped sprites are cleaner. The character select screen is very high-def. It has a totally different feel and energy to it. It feels like a very real world with real, unique and interesting characters. Not even the new games compare. When this game came out, along with the _Malibu_ comic books attached to the series (and the movie!) it was legitimately insane. I can still smell the arcade _and_ the comic books. It's wild. Edit: I seem to remember that to get Liu Kang's bicycle kick more often, just buffer it during other moves. Basically, do Flying Kick or Fireball but hold LK right after you finish the input for any other move. This also works with normals, so when Liu is done with one animation (like a sweep or whatever), you can just let the button go and it'll fire off instead of trying it raw.
The jump mechanic can be exploited. You walk towards the computer/opponent then jump back, they should jump forward at the same time. They should be at the end of their jump at the exact moment you hit the ground which gives you a prime opportunity for a Down 2 or Back 2.
There is a difference between the difficulty settings: The game's cpu reads the matrix for the player's input. Depending on how often it does this, and if it runs a counter to the input, is determine of the setting. Very Easy won't do it often and will execute a very bare bone aggression counter, while Hard and Very Hard will read your every input and do the legit opposite or best counter to your input.
Well, as someone who lived the experience of putting coins in the coin machines for Mortal Kombat 2 back in '93 and playing it as a kid I can tell you it was an awesome experience. I already had Mortal Kombat 1 on Genesis at the time so it was definitely great to see the sequel when it came out.
13:23 You're right about the that. The AI is programmed to be super evasive against Scorpion's spear and Sub-Zero's ice blast. Even more so than normal projectiles. About the only time you can hit the AI with either is as part of a combo chain or sheer luck.
Grandpa moment here. I was a kid when this came out and it changed my world. I made a lot of friends playing this game and we are still friends today. They would leak fatalities and finishing moves online very slowly so a new fatality was a pretty big deal if you were the first one to do it. The gaming community was far less toxic without the benefit of hiding behind a screen. If you talked shit you would have to back it up haha. One friend figured out that if you play on player 2 side, there's a game breaking exploit that makes the game very easy to complete with any character. You simply jump toward the enemy and they'll slowly walk backward. If you maintain a distance you can walk them in the corner and the computer will just sit there. At that point, when you jump toward the enemy, the ai will fire a projectile since every character has one. You're rewarded with a devastating corner combo with no damage scaling, so about 80% combos. Otherwise the cheap ass computer will input read everything you do after the third character, Midway was notorious for basically stealing your money at a certain point so this exploit spread through arcades like wildfire. For whatever reason it wasn't ever patched out. Whenever I see this game, I only play on the second side for this reason and it actually makes the game far more enjoyable. Anyway, cool videos, glad to see old MK getting some love. They really are still fun today especially against other people. Keep up the great videos man.
You can hold the command down before the fight starts and the 4 seconds still count towards it. That’s how he did it right away. You can also hold it down while doing other moves and then release. That’s the trick to the bicycle kick. I used to dominate with that move as a kid.
I was in 3rd and 4th grad in 1993 and the first time I saw MK2 was in a bowling alley(which always had pretty up to date arcade machines) on a summer trip with day care. There was this adult guy playing it who clearly knew all the moves and fatalities/friendships etc and we were , like you said, completely blown away. I had played MK1 and this was just better in everyway. In 1994 we weren't desensitized to video game fatalities like we got by the late 90s. It was all we could talk about on the bus ride back. All these awesome moves and fatalities. Something missing from video games today is back then, the arcade games almost always were miles ahead of console games and served as like a mythical brief look into the future. They were something special you couldn't duplicate at home.
I remember that time well. I still have pictures I drew in elementary school of the fatalities. My friends and classmates would talk about all the rumors and secret stuff they “heard” you could do. Most of it was bs, but no internet really in those days, so we didn’t know lol
If you want to be a master of 2D fighting Games(or even competitive games in general) you gotta master MK2. It teaches you to not be predictable and the frames to get an opening to attack your opponent are super tight where as the CPU has an advantage to hit you more easily
My guy when this game came out I was 10/11. It was a glorious time no social media no bullshit. You used to get excited if you went somewhere and saw this in an arcade by chance it was fantastic God I miss the old days
If I was ever able to make it to Shao Khan, i'd get wrecked beyond imagining. His shoulder charge interrupted EVERYTHING. Or Kintaro's overhead jump. God. Damnit. Kung lao and Sub Zero i was able to cheese enough to win. But the soundtracks were amazing. Definitely some of the best ever. The temple is perpetually stuck in my head.
The best playground myth from MK2 that I remember was kids saying they knocked someone into the mouth of a tree in the dead woods for a stage fatality. Obviously it wasn't true, but that very "stage fatality" came back full circle in MK9 as one..man life is weird.. EDIT-Great content, stumbled across your channel by random chance, don't regret it. Keep up the good work Steele
Well it technically had it's first appearance in MK: Shaolin Monks. You could upper/throw enemies to the tress and the trees would eat them in the Living Forest stage. Heck it's even a game over screen where a tree eats the player if you lose all your health in that stage.
This video was recommended to me, man am I impressed. I love the presentation, I wish you the best with the future of your channel. You definitely deserve more subs dude!!!
11:43 Heads up. For Liu Kang's bicycle kick, the game counts holding down the kick button during the "ROUND 1/2.....FIGHT!" segment, so all you need to do is release it once the round starts. In fact, I'm pretty sure the time doesn't even matter. I have vague memories of discovering the kick is bugged to where the duration doesn't matter. Even if you hold it for like 2 seconds and release once the announcer says FIGHT, liu Kang will do the bicycle kick.
@@aceboogie2021I remember it was 2 friends of mine(who are brothers)that filled me in on it way back in the 90's. They were big fighting game heads. They had all the Mortal Kombat games up to that point(MK1 - MK4), Killer Instinct, Street Fighter Alpha 1 and 2(along with Turbo), Virtua Fighter 4 and Soul Blade. One day after beating my ass with every character, the younger brother asked if I'd like to see a trick with Liu Kang and he showed me lol.
I want to thank everyone once again for the support on the previous video and now this one. If you enjoyed please consider subscribing, the next video coming out will be on DOOM (1993) and after that it will be UMK3
Had fun watching this you did great man. Some of the moves you couldn't do MAN I was screaming at my phone the inputs 😂 mk2 was a massive part of my childhood all of the mk games actually and yes including that hard as nails mythologies 😂
Can't wait for the umk3 one!
Was a great watch and thank you for it
MK-2 really shines in 2-player VS mode , , presuming both players are well skilled on at least 3 of the fighters apiece 😋 arcade or home versions , , me and my bud named Phil were,/are skilled on majority of the "Kombatants" , we had crazy match my Liu Kang VS his Raiden ,by the second round action and counter-action got so speedy an fierce we glitched out SNES cart we were playing , , ,later that week we played my Sega Saturn vers of MK-2 , it does have load times between match-ups , but during the fights it was speedy as hell and NEVER had a problem ( unless a jerk picks Shang Tsung ) , , ,we were also very adept ( skilled yo ) at the Saturn vers of ""Mortal Kombat Trilogy"" , and played the living crap out of that , , , between our grudge matches in ""SF-Alpha2 gold"", Cammy says "Lock on , destroy trucker", , , ,in new MK games I wish you could turn off the "X-ray moves" or what they renamed "Fatal-blows" , that TOGGLE option should've been included , , ,😸👍👍
bro that was poor.. I was pulling my hair out when you were describing Kung Lao (Best character in the game).. For someone who was around at the time when it was released in the Arcades. Im surprised you didnt pick up any useful tactics.. especially the Player 2 glitch which enables you to control the AI making it easy to practice your best kombos.. Even if its set on the Hardest difficulty the AI still is stupid lol..
The AI’s ability to do frame-impossible attacks/counterattacks made this SO frustrating as a kid. I only ever got up to Kintaro I think
Yeah that’s the most infuriating part, they have input scanning that they react to on the SAME FRAME you make the input, making it unfair
Yep, didn't know it then but the game basically cheats to beat you. I loved MK2 at home, but could never do well in the arcade. While MK2 was amazing at the time, as far as a well rounded fighter, it fell behind Street Fighter which felt more natural to play and the ai wasn't as brutal or unfair(and didn't feel unfair).
I can still win in a single credit. The trick is after round 3, no more uppercut until you get the enemy in the air, then punish with uppercut. Let them walk toward you, but at about 3/4 of the way to sweep range from your character, jump backwards. Computer should stop, and jump I to a free uppercut. Immediately jump in for Jump Kick followed by sweep, jump back again. If they repeat it, start over, if they keep walking, let them get close enough to trigger the stall again, they will repeat this till dead in most cases. Using Kung Lao was a major part too, I could do several things to win easily, like lead jump kick back into dive kick, or Jump kick and air throw.
Yeah it was brutal
shao kahn n kintaro are the easiest imo when u learn how to cheese them both out
There's a bar/arcade near where I live. They have MKII. It took me nearly three hours but I beat it. Towards the end nearly all the patrons were gathered around the machine watching me play. It was very cathartic being able to do in adulthood what I couldn't in adolescence, lol.
That sounds awesome man
$52 later lol
@@coldschooISome barcades today have free play, so who really knows for sure.
@@coldschooI Fortunately all their games are free. But they definitely made that from me in drinks, lol.
U weren't allowed to play or sumn?
Getting thrown by the CPU was very frustrating. They could counter any move with a damn throw.
Lol that and an uppercut in range going straight through them and they doing one back without moving foward😅
What I remember in the arcade is that the first two characters were somewhat easy, but then the third character was usually Mileena and she would absolutely destroy you.
Fucking Ball, man. Frame-perfect rolls into sai-throws until she just walks up and throws you.
Sweeps, uppercuts, roundhouse kicks, and jump kicks mixed in with special moves.
thats the game lol
In 1993 I was 17 and a senior in high school. Man the arcades were awesome back then! And when MKII dropped I was blown away. It’s probably still my favorite MK game. I had this on SNES!
Best mk game
Old ass 😂
It's the best. If they managed to capture this feeling this game had on people again, it'd be a billion dollar game.
@@acesmoove9196 Your time will come.
@@leogolive I was 8 when it came out, I could never play it because of you teenagers always hogging the machine lol
MK 2 was huge when it came out. i swear one feeling online games will never replicate is having a stranger pull up next to you and put quarters in and now it’s on. you’re playing for your quarter which you don’t have much of when your just a kid lol.
Let me take you on my MK journey. It was 1992 I believe. Our local movie theater had a small arcade section. And low and behold, Mortal Kombat 1 was there. I had seen the Simpsons, Street Fighter, but MK1 was the new kid on the block for sure. One year later, after getting to rent it for SNES often, there was another trip to our local arcade. I walk up to where the MK1 machine usually was and out of my left peripherals I notice MKII. So I investigate further and then it hit me, THIS IS NEW! I quickly dispensed a quarter and everything is mind blowing and hard to take in. But I continue with utter amazement and excitement. First character I picked was this cool looking dude with a hat. "KUNG LAO" it says when I press the select button and I'm like "oooo hoo hoo" like SpongeBob with the magic conch. Hearing Shao Kahn's voice was scary lol. I knew then this game wasn't f'ing around.
The Video Rental Store a block away from my house put in an MK2 Cabinet the moment it was released. I was 11 years old, and it was damn near ALWAYS crowded.
Probably the best investment that independent videostore ever made. I blew half my weekly allowance every week playing the hell out of that game.
I grew up to these arcades blessed to be at the tilt watching people getting down on mk2, the fucking game was like a concert a huge crowd watching so sick.Everybody performing all the moves ,combos, fatalities,secerts legendary era 🔥
I still remember the first time I ever saw MK. Me and my cousin were at the mall with our moms, they were shopping and let us go to the arcade. When we walked in there was a HUGE crowd of kids around this one machine, when we got close enough to see what it was the first thing that hit us were the graphics. It looked REAL. And I'm not talking slightly more detail, to our eyes that were used to looking at animated cartoon looking graphics, MK looked like real people on the screen. Then we started noticing all of the blood and finally we saw a fatality. We couldn't believe what we were watching. The most realistic looking game we'd ever seen and it was also the most gruesome game we'd ever seen. It was wild. I was 13 when the first MK came out. And each game got better, more realistic looking and more gruesome. But that memory of the first time I ever witnessed MK1 in person will always stick with me.
Bro I can still remember going to the arcade when all 3 mk came out and the feeling was amazing! Still remember my then friend Luis was describing how the game looked and played because at this time there was no Internet only word of mouth and or magazines, so when I stepped into the arcade and saw MK 1 for the first time, it blew my mind! As well as 2 which is still my favorite of the series and 3.
There was a skating rink in Sarasota Florida called Stardust in the late 90’s. I used to frequent that place and they had the MK2 arcade. The hype around it was astounding and there’s no way to explain it in words, you had to be there. I’m thankful to have grown up in the 90’s, definitely was the best time all around imo.
Ugh. So much yes. When this game came out in arcades, for months it was the one arcade game that every kid at school was talking. It was huge and rumors about secret fighter and finishing moves were flying all around it. Everything from being able to fight Barney the Purple Dinosaur to charaters perfmong "Sexalities". lol.
MK2 on the SNES was insanely hard even on easy. Also to get to right noob saibot you had to do the trick 50 times. Megadrive was easy on easy, which is what you'd expect.
Fun fact, Kintaro can do 4 fireballs in a row, I found this out by jumping back and he perfectly time all 4 to hit me and defeat me in one go :|
Only way I beat it was on easy waab, jus had to know how to do some moves
Great video! I remember first playing MKII in a pizza shop sometime in 1994-1995. Jax kicked my ass, and sent me into the Deadpool's acid. I had nightmares for weeks! MKII AI is whacked.
The arcade by my house had Ultimate MK3 on an 80 inch screen, back in the mid 90s, it was 🔥
To this day , the only MK game I never beat was MK 2. Evy on very easy I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea of why it was so hard lol. Absolutely frustrating!
If you hold down LK at the very start of the match while Shao Kahn is announcing the round, you can start charging for Liu Kang's bicycle kick early
the challenge is what kept me playing as a kid, we didnt need any achievements or trophies. Played to beat the game and just have fun. I spent hours just playing to see every characters special moves (fatality, babality, friendship, etc). Back then this was a first of its kind and this game was considered as gory as they came and probably contributed to the esrb rating being applied to games.
This game was absolutely BRUTAL man. Imagine how much money people wasted trying to beat it!
"I yearn to know what it feels like to be alive in 1993." Oh, that's right. I'm old. Thanks dude.
Lmao my bad if I made you feel bad about your age, I’ll be there one day too
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"Have a nice day" LMAO
I love listening to people who have unlimited continues and talking about how hard this game is to them today. Back in 1993, I would get $2 (each try was $0.50), and you BETTER learn the computers tricks, flaws, patterns, and reactions to your moves and behaviors. It FORCED you to get REALLY good REALLY quickly, or you were sitting on the sidelines watching what you dreamt you could do.
Great video!! This game devoured more quarters than egos, but by a slim margin im sure lol
The thing that made this game playable for me was learning combos. You can delay hitting punch or kick while jumping which tricks the CPU. You can also jump over and kick or punch them on the backside of a block. These open the opponent up for a quick second and maybe third strike. In MK2, a 4 or 5 hit combo is reserved for a master.
I was there in 1994!!!
That arcade had a nice sound system
Mortal Kombat Trilogy was the one that hooked me.
I was 12 when it first hit arcades. Even after all my money was spent I would still hang around there watching the older kids play. Good times. This was back when the arcade machines had ashtrays attached, I probably secondhand smoked a whole carton a day.
Watching those intro/outro slides for each character was painful, because there are so many spelling errors! I guess they didn't bother with a copy editor before putting them in.
Looking forward to you having a go at the OG MK3 sub-boss....
To do the bicycle kick you can hold the button before the match and let go right after he says fight.
I was 8 when this game came out and I remember constantly throwing the sega controller at the screen out of frustration. My 13 year old older brother beat the game on difficult after just 4 tries 😒
Loved playing this as a kid. I’d skip class and go to the local TimeZone and play till I ran out of money lol
Lui kang's bicycle kick is actually fairly easy to pull off. You can hold the button down while you do other moves and just release it when you're ready to do the move. You can also do the bicycle kick right as the match starts like the CPU did simply by holding the button during the time the announcer is speaking before the match starts
I feel bad because I used to roll MKIIS head, but only because it was EXTREMELY big in my town when I grew up so we was ALL playing competitively at the local arcade.
I was alive and going to the arcade in 1993 and it was awesome. I knew how to do 3 fatalities and I was so freaking cool.
I have to play the arcade with Baraka. It's easier to trick the AI into falling for his shredder move and you can use that trick all the way up to Kintaro.
Someone should port MK2 to modern consoles/pc/smartphones but with the difficulty being bearable.
It's nice to see people exposing the CPU on a technical and fundamental level. Parents and friends would just say I was bad and games don't cheat etc... I knew I was right
It was a different world, was there when street fighter two came out, mk all the good stuff. Miss those days no cellphones, no correct way to be, little bit of rebellion but people had respect for each other. The world is F... Now
Yeah. MK2 AI is freaking over the top hard. Even in home versions, the AI is broken. I beat this game in my childhood only once on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis as Sub-Zero, and then I never ever touched it. Thus, most of the time I played UMK3. That was fun.
I used to be scared shitless of this game back in the day. This and house of the dead freaked my 3 year old self out as a kid. I used to just watch my dad play Tekken 2 in the arcades back in 96 97
i was cracking up at the comment "98.5% of the motherfuckers who watch my videos did not subscribe"
We shared similar experiences of going to the arcade rooms and being hypnotized by the deep voice and surreal atmosphere of MKII. That game was everywhere: bowling alleys, skating rinks, pizza joints. I like your content. I think you would benefit from an improved microphone.
I definitely want to get an improved microphone soon
Love how Shang tsung has a do rag on😂😂
At first I thought he said "more characters with more boobs" 😂. I mean if he did he'd technically be right.
Down, forward, back, back and HK with Liu Kang and you’ll do his dragon fatality.
This is a really well made video am subin
MKII is just one of those stupidly hard games where the way to beat it is to do the most boring repetitive things, because doing the fun things just get you killed.
Just like life.
Amazing Baraka strategy, exactly how I've done it forever lol. Jump LK and scissors with feints are OP
Ultra Instinct in a nutshell.
Every now and then I'll play this, get frustrated by the AI then smile once I beat it.
As someone who used to play the sh!t out of this with my friend as kids when it came out, i agree that it was hard, but most games around that time were.. as the tuck and rollers say, "get gūd"
Me and my friends used to call Shao Kahn Shao Kunt. Yes, we are Australian.
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I played the SHIT out of MK2 when I was younger in the mid 90's.. it was indeed insanely hard and frustrating.
as a kid i never thought it was hard. but it's been a while and im old now lol. so it's prob hella tough. i know some other games i used to find easy are actually pretty tough for me now. And yes mortal kombat used to scare me and my friends lol but we loved it anyway. Killer instinct used to be absolutely frightening tho.
damn maybe i should subscribe lmao
*I definitely enjoy this and subscribed. Big time MK fan since i was a kid*
Thank you so much
This game always gave me troubles lol 5 year old me was going through the ringer back in the day. Reptile for the win
As a teen i use emulator to play og mk2 and yes absolutely hard to play and ai is guessing my move faster than i am. But manage to beat them twice as liu kang and jax,i beat shang tsung kintaro and shao kahn. And then use cheat code to manage noob and the other secret kharacters,they more harder than main boss and sub boss. İ love the game ost ,vibes,stage designs.
Yet i understand back in the times most of games hard cause they want to pay more than one koin so...still broken as hell and somehow i enjoyed mk1 more than mk2.
Bro i remember that i was 15 when mk 2 was released. Damn so many coins wasted never finished it lol
As an experienced fighting game player (as in I've played pretty much everything) I think Mortal Kombat 2 arcade takes the cake for overall most unfair AI. It's not even the hardest, it's just the most *unfair* because through all games like Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (US version) and a lot of the harder SNK fighting games, this is the only game I can think of where the AI just straight up breaks the rules of the game. It does things the game is not meant to allow. A lot of fighting games will only ever really have that in one way - as in, the AI can ignore "charging" special moves (i.e, they can throw Guile's Sonic Boom while walking forwards). But this game will do stuff like being able to throw you if you try to throw them WHILE THEY'RE STUNNED OR FROZEN and seemingly teleporting into a jump while flat on the ground in a single frame. Absolute trashfire experience.
It was 50 cents a play in 1994. My mom would let me hang out at the mall arcade while she walked around. She would give me two dollars and I would beat the game four times. That was before accessible internet. We just had our arcade people. It wasn’t that hard to beat.
Similar to SF2’s difficulty levels as each instalment gets released into the arcades. Operators wanted customers to put in their quarters or 20p’s where I’m from in 🇬🇧. As gamers got better, developers felt they needed to increase the difficulty accordingly.
Just try playing Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo in comparison to Street Fighter 2 World Warrior edition. It’s a whole new level of frustration.
Man this game took me years to beat lol I first played it when I was 8 lol
what system are u playing on?? i wish they remade MK1 2 and 3 for the ps5
I played on my pc
@@steele1 damn... I remember on Sega Genesis and 32x I put level at very easy and beat them.... However on my Arcade 1up, I set level for very easy and it doesn't matter.... I get my ass kicked hard
With most of SNK games, probably the most frustrating IA ever seen in a beat'm up..
Easy strat even on "very hard". Hold down all the time, wait for the enemy to come to you and jump back before he can grab you. He will jump after you and you have him open in air. Repeat untill you win. Doesn't work with every character but it works when you use Baraka, Shand Tsung, all ninjas, Johnny Cage and Jax i think. Enjoy the game bro :)
Got to use the jump away tactic
I used the uppercut strategy to get through this game... :-P
It was only difficult if you tried to have an actual match against the computer opponents. This kid showed me a trick where you kneel down and jump backwards slightly out of sweep range. The AI felt compelled to jump after you literally EVERY SINGLE TIME you did it. You could do anything you wanted while they were in the air.
If you think this is hard, you haven't played MK trilogy for N64 in the hardest difficilty, the AI literally cheats
One my fav MK
Never beat this even once.
The female ninjas being able to instantly counter any uppercut with a *German suplex* is one of my biggest gripes in video game history.
It's pretty funny too because this op money NEVER SHOWS UP AGAIN!!!! this would be so op in mk11.
SUPLEX CITY, BITCH! :)
lie, they can also counter the sweep, and the low kicks, and any movement, including the jump kick, because they have perfect blocking and in the frames it takes to get the character back to the ground, they do the German suplex. It's crazy.
me in beast style fr fr
@@animasionnoob3360there is a video on TH-cam explaining how the ai cheats .
It was lightning in a bottle, pure magic. I still love this game. I was 13 when this came out, I was obsessed with this game. People would take typing classes and type a fatality cheatsheet and sell them for lunch money haha.
facts!!!!
Hell yea 😂
hahahaha that's awesome
I was five when this game was released and i remember seeing it at this place called Chimpy's Pizza, which was basically just a poor kid's version of Chuck-E-Cheese
The attract mode video that had Shao Kahn on it scared the hell out of me haha, but i loved hearing all the kids talk about MK2. Wasn't until a few years later when MK3 was released I played Mk2 and Mk3
Played in some MK2 tournaments as a young buy in the 90's. The smell, the putting the quarters on the machine to let people know you were up next, the staring at the graphics wondering what this mysterious, violent game was all about. It was amazing.
What a time to be alive. I was 9 when this came out in arcades. It was unlike anything I ever remember seeing. Even MK1, as groundbreaking as it was, didn’t hit me like 2 did. Remains one of my favorite games of all time.
@@theungreatkahlisame, same...the best.
@@theungreatkahli it really was the golden age of gaming, I even miss going to midnight openings. Sad our children will never get to experience some of the things we did.
Even though it was over 20 years ago, I'll never forget playing MK2 in the arcade. I was a kid and I just thought I sucked. Moves were spread around by word of mouth because we lacked internet lol so I only knew a few easy fatalities (Liu Kang, Raiden). Once I got to the third stage, it was a wrap. I could never get past it. I've beaten almost every game from youth, but I'm learning this all over as we speak lol. I didn't know how much cheese you had to do to win
Bro it was glorious times to be around back in the day when these games dropped. All the way from mk1-mk4.
There was nothing like the sound, sights, and smells of a full mall arcade! I miss those days so much!
Thing with MK1 and especially MK2 is that it was originally released as arcade, and it was meant yo eat up your coins. So first two or three matches will be normal, but after that AI will start to cheat, because players will continue as they are "half-way there". AI reads your inputs and react accordingly, and has it's own set of rules, such as being able to throw you while blocking, break out of combos or spam special moves unlike player who has built-in timer for animation. This is most obvious with projectile moves like Mileena's sia toss or Liu Kang's fireball, AI will spam them and not have to wait for animation to finish before throwing another one.
Also in MK3 for example, in console version you could always easily beat Motaro by just either jump kicking him or just standing right next to him and doing high punch, however on console version he has that stupid unblockable grab which takes like 1/4 of your HP.
The imagery in Mortal Kombat 2 was very strong for the 90s. The color coding was also attractive when I was a child.
MKII is best with friends. Everyone knows the AI is broken and designed to steal your quarters. You'd probably be better off playing a MUGEN version of MKII.
The home console ports were still difficult but nowhere near the nightmare of the arcade version. The difficulty settings actually make a difference. That's how I played as a kid, never got to go to the arcades. I made the mistake of playing the Arcade Kollection and it's just not as fun as I remember because of the bullshit arcade AI.
The CPU has its own set of rules : Mileena can throw her sais whenever she wants, but you can't when you're controlling her. You have to hold down the high punch button for a few seconds to do it, and you can't throw another one until the animation is finished.
That doesn’t seem very fair lmao
@@steele1 It's not, and the CPU can also do moves that you can't, such as Sub-Zero throwing a second ice ball BEFORE the first one TOUCHES YOU. Or CPU Liu Kang doing two bicycle kicks in a row, but you can only do one at a time etc.
@@jerelminter MY favorite is how the CPU can go from laying on the ground after a knockdown, to suddenly kicking you out of the air in just ONE frame - whereas if YOU get knocked down, you have to wait until your character gets back on his / her feet before you can even start attacking again. 🙄
@@MattKittredge2112 That move pisses me off too, or when you try to do an uppercut on the CPU but you miss and then they duck and do it to you. It's bullshit, that they cheat like this. They can also throw you in the middle of an animation, like if you try doing Raiden's flying torpedo tackle, the CPU will catch you before you do it, and throw you to the other side of the screen. What the hell ?
Oh, oh.. I've got a good one! If you spam fireballs at the AI and force them to remain crouched, they will eventually just slide over to you while crouched and uppercut you. No special animation, just.... Zzzooop!
I remember watching a guy playing on a huge arcade version, absolutely cheesing the computer with Katana and her fan spin. It was magnificent, no continues.
You can cheese it all the way to the bosses with sub zero too with an ice ball then uppercut combo. When you with them with the uppercut they will land on the ice ball if you launch one immediately after the uppercut.
This is my favorite MK game, easily. And yes, it is destroy-your-balls levels of hard.
One thing I find interesting about MK2 is that it even _looks_ different compared to both MK1 and MK 3/UMK. The mocapped sprites are cleaner. The character select screen is very high-def. It has a totally different feel and energy to it. It feels like a very real world with real, unique and interesting characters. Not even the new games compare.
When this game came out, along with the _Malibu_ comic books attached to the series (and the movie!) it was legitimately insane. I can still smell the arcade _and_ the comic books. It's wild.
Edit: I seem to remember that to get Liu Kang's bicycle kick more often, just buffer it during other moves. Basically, do Flying Kick or Fireball but hold LK right after you finish the input for any other move. This also works with normals, so when Liu is done with one animation (like a sweep or whatever), you can just let the button go and it'll fire off instead of trying it raw.
The jump mechanic can be exploited. You walk towards the computer/opponent then jump back, they should jump forward at the same time. They should be at the end of their jump at the exact moment you hit the ground which gives you a prime opportunity for a Down 2 or Back 2.
There is a difference between the difficulty settings:
The game's cpu reads the matrix for the player's input. Depending on how often it does this, and if it runs a counter to the input, is determine of the setting. Very Easy won't do it often and will execute a very bare bone aggression counter, while Hard and Very Hard will read your every input and do the legit opposite or best counter to your input.
That makes sense, I changed it back to medium for the video cause I assumed that the game didn’t have a difference lol
@@steele1 as you climb the arcade ladder, the AI fuckery becomes more frequent. Lower difficulties just slow the inevitability by a little bit.
Well put. U literally need to spam to win.
Well, as someone who lived the experience of putting coins in the coin machines for Mortal Kombat 2 back in '93 and playing it as a kid I can tell you it was an awesome experience. I already had Mortal Kombat 1 on Genesis at the time so it was definitely great to see the sequel when it came out.
13:23 You're right about the that. The AI is programmed to be super evasive against Scorpion's spear and Sub-Zero's ice blast. Even more so than normal projectiles. About the only time you can hit the AI with either is as part of a combo chain or sheer luck.
Grandpa moment here. I was a kid when this came out and it changed my world. I made a lot of friends playing this game and we are still friends today. They would leak fatalities and finishing moves online very slowly so a new fatality was a pretty big deal if you were the first one to do it. The gaming community was far less toxic without the benefit of hiding behind a screen. If you talked shit you would have to back it up haha.
One friend figured out that if you play on player 2 side, there's a game breaking exploit that makes the game very easy to complete with any character. You simply jump toward the enemy and they'll slowly walk backward. If you maintain a distance you can walk them in the corner and the computer will just sit there. At that point, when you jump toward the enemy, the ai will fire a projectile since every character has one. You're rewarded with a devastating corner combo with no damage scaling, so about 80% combos. Otherwise the cheap ass computer will input read everything you do after the third character, Midway was notorious for basically stealing your money at a certain point so this exploit spread through arcades like wildfire. For whatever reason it wasn't ever patched out. Whenever I see this game, I only play on the second side for this reason and it actually makes the game far more enjoyable.
Anyway, cool videos, glad to see old MK getting some love. They really are still fun today especially against other people. Keep up the great videos man.
You can hold the command down before the fight starts and the 4 seconds still count towards it. That’s how he did it right away. You can also hold it down while doing other moves and then release. That’s the trick to the bicycle kick. I used to dominate with that move as a kid.
Thank you for the advice
you took the words out of my mouth
I was in 3rd and 4th grad in 1993 and the first time I saw MK2 was in a bowling alley(which always had pretty up to date arcade machines) on a summer trip with day care. There was this adult guy playing it who clearly knew all the moves and fatalities/friendships etc and we were , like you said, completely blown away. I had played MK1 and this was just better in everyway.
In 1994 we weren't desensitized to video game fatalities like we got by the late 90s. It was all we could talk about on the bus ride back. All these awesome moves and fatalities. Something missing from video games today is back then, the arcade games almost always were miles ahead of console games and served as like a mythical brief look into the future. They were something special you couldn't duplicate at home.
That’s an awesome story man, thank you for sharing
I remember that time well. I still have pictures I drew in elementary school of the fatalities. My friends and classmates would talk about all the rumors and secret stuff they “heard” you could do. Most of it was bs, but no internet really in those days, so we didn’t know lol
@@theungreatkahli Haha right...those playground rumors. Imagine the first time lucked into finding Reptile in MK1.
I can remember when I was younger, I was so confused as to why so many people said mk2 was the best because of the bullshit when playing arcade mode.
If you want to be a master of 2D fighting Games(or even competitive games in general) you gotta master MK2. It teaches you to not be predictable and the frames to get an opening to attack your opponent are super tight where as the CPU has an advantage to hit you more easily
My guy when this game came out I was 10/11. It was a glorious time no social media no bullshit. You used to get excited if you went somewhere and saw this in an arcade by chance it was fantastic God I miss the old days
I wish I could time travel to this time. No social media? Man
@@SolidPain6624 💯 pal
If I was ever able to make it to Shao Khan, i'd get wrecked beyond imagining. His shoulder charge interrupted EVERYTHING. Or Kintaro's overhead jump. God. Damnit.
Kung lao and Sub Zero i was able to cheese enough to win.
But the soundtracks were amazing. Definitely some of the best ever. The temple is perpetually stuck in my head.
The best playground myth from MK2 that I remember was kids saying they knocked someone into the mouth of a tree in the dead woods for a stage fatality. Obviously it wasn't true, but that very "stage fatality" came back full circle in MK9 as one..man life is weird..
EDIT-Great content, stumbled across your channel by random chance, don't regret it. Keep up the good work Steele
Thank you, I really appreciate the support, I’ve heard of that rumor too and it’s awesome they brought it to life in mk9
Well it technically had it's first appearance in MK: Shaolin Monks. You could upper/throw enemies to the tress and the trees would eat them in the Living Forest stage. Heck it's even a game over screen where a tree eats the player if you lose all your health in that stage.
This video was recommended to me, man am I impressed. I love the presentation, I wish you the best with the future of your channel. You definitely deserve more subs dude!!!
Thank you so much I really appreciate that man
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Heads up. For Liu Kang's bicycle kick, the game counts holding down the kick button during the "ROUND 1/2.....FIGHT!" segment, so all you need to do is release it once the round starts. In fact, I'm pretty sure the time doesn't even matter. I have vague memories of discovering the kick is bugged to where the duration doesn't matter. Even if you hold it for like 2 seconds and release once the announcer says FIGHT, liu Kang will do the bicycle kick.
That’s actually really interesting, thanks for the info I didn’t know that
Lol I figured that out back in the day
@@aceboogie2021I remember it was 2 friends of mine(who are brothers)that filled me in on it way back in the 90's. They were big fighting game heads. They had all the Mortal Kombat games up to that point(MK1 - MK4), Killer Instinct, Street Fighter Alpha 1 and 2(along with Turbo), Virtua Fighter 4 and Soul Blade. One day after beating my ass with every character, the younger brother asked if I'd like to see a trick with Liu Kang and he showed me lol.
Dude, I thought you had at least 10k subs. You have a great editing style, and superb scripting. Keep it up.
Seriously thank you so much I really appreciate that a lot man