The digitized graphics were perfect for this game. Just realistic enough to sell the bloody murder, but so fast and jerky you can't really take it seriously.
And thats why i have a retro gaming room with all the consoles. I relive my childhood memories. Every game has a special memory attached to it! Thanks Ed Boon and team for keeping us entertained as kids through the years. I sometimes spend hours in my gaming room. Myself and friends i grew up with will once every 2 months still have a all night retro gaming night with good food and snacks. No better time than the 90s. Im 47 now and still treasure those memories.
They had so much passion back then. MK, MK2, UMK3 are my childhood playing on my Sega Mega-Drive. MK4 is also nostalgic playing on my PC. After that only MK9 and Shaolin Monks ignited that fire again.
pretty sells, games back them. games nowadays = the actual physical human model is pretty, but they make the character in the game ugly. I'm like what tha ? then wonder why games don't sell.
@@stayhungry1503 Yeah... These guys worked on Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 and they probably made 6 figure salaries, I think they had relationships with women that you imagine in your dreams but continue to reassure you behind your gaming PC at League of Legend 😅
Is it just me or do these outfits look 10x better than any of the ones they did in the Hollywood movies? Bridgette Wilson in that Sonya outfit? Oh yeah!
@jimmyboe8246 That's a matter of opinion bud, many agree that the 90's was also the Golden age of Hip hop but some youngsters think this is the Golden age of Hip hop, there was just something special about those times, you didn't grow up in that Era like I did, there is no such thing as 2 Golden ages and the Origin eras of any embodiment of Art is usually considered the Golden age anyway so sorry youngster but I seriously believe YOUR wrong...
This was so fun to watch😢 I grew up doing the video gaming revolution of Street fighter, killer angsty and this mortal Kombat. I was always going to the arcades to escape the hardship of my childhood being brought from Mexico to this country and I didn't know anything this gave me an edge. I remember the lion being at the very least 3 or 4 always. Of course if you went to the Pacific arcade you're talking about a big line. I miss those days and I am the world's biggest fan now.
Na minha opinião mortal kombat 3 ultimate foi o melhor jogo dos mortais kombats de todos os tempos. Essa atriz que fez sonya blade é muito linda como ela está hoje em dia
6:06 I remember as a kid there was a European game Magazine named 'Power Unlimited'. I watched the artwork for HOURS!!!! Still watch them on the net lol 🙂 Respect for the PENCIL artists
Nood Saibot...Hehe when this came out I was a Sr in HS, loved it and there were actual Arcades back then where people would hang out. Being in Hadley Massachusetts, Amherst Ma is next door w/ Umass and Amherst college so we had access to BBS and a few kids got the fatalities list back after MK2....Love this game it changed the World...
i remember making a bunch of drawings of my own characters and sending them in to these guys with a letter, explaining how i hoped they would use some of them in their next game. they didn't, but they sent me a fan appreciation letter back. it was really cool as a 13 year old kid.
Won't happen. If you listened closely they recorded the footage onto "Beta" (8:54 486x333) which means magnetic tape. Probably got overwritten or discarded or both. The computer processes a square of the image as seen in (9:22) which if you look at the still of their software at 9:31 you can just make out that they are 256x256 resolution. Even if the footage survived, you'd have to AI upscale the assets. This is the biggest problem with this method. With older games that used geometry meshes you could always subdivide the meshes and smooth shade to get some extra detail out of the original models. You could also upgrade the renderer to support more modern techniques. However, with footage, you can't remaster it at a higher resolution without physically refilming everything at that resolution. The alternative is AI Upscaling, but to go from such a low resolution to such a high one would be a bit difficult. It might be possible if they could train one specifically for the old MK titles, but probably won't happen.
It would be really cool if someone would make a game like this today, with recording each animation with video/camera like they did, and use that to make the game. It would probably turn out really unique and cool if done right. Be cool with HD cameras and whatnot
Wonderful this video dedicated to the making of Mortal Kombat 3. Well done to all those who made this splendid video game and extraordinary all the actors who played each character. And what about the three beautiful women: Kerri Hoskins (Sonya Blade), Lia Montelongo (Sindel) and Becky Gable (Kitana, Mileena and Jade).
the beauty of this game seems to me to be in the limitations of the technology of that time. The limitations drove their creativity and innovations making it a multi art/craft game not just a computer based game like they are nowadays. I'm thankful to have lived my childhood through the digital evolutionary epoch of the 90s. PS: Sonya is waaaaay foxier than I had ever imagine.
My child hood :,(. I started playing it when I was like 4-5 and now I'm 15 I have the X I lost my Mk3 on Nintendo it makes me sad the new versions aren't as good
Back when female characters were allowed to be beautiful. These crushes on characters are what turned me into an artist. Eventually a digital and traditional media artist. All because a pretty girl in a video game inspired me. If they looked like the character in star wars outlaws I wouldn't have even played the game. No inspiration no muse no excitement. Yeah they were pixelated images back then but they weren't PURPOSEFULLY ugly.
The sight of Kitana used to make me touch myself in naughty ways. Watching this video from 19:44 onwards triggered the same involuntary motor responses decades later
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Came for Sonya...stayed for the great 90's nostalgia
take a number bro
Sonya is STILL a blonde bombshell, just like Vanna White.
@@Angie2343are u coping? With the current industry now lol nope
This whole video is the 90s personified
for real
Thank you for the childhood full of gore, blood, rages, and epicness
You there😂
and Fatalities :P
I miss how they did mortal kombat the original way😢
Then just play the first one
@johnsmith6217 I meant the way the made it the game I can still play the original on my sega genesis
best multiplayer game in terms of rated E for everyone is Fuzion Frenzy and its so fun
The digitized graphics were perfect for this game. Just realistic enough to sell the bloody murder, but so fast and jerky you can't really take it seriously.
The team was well creative when they did the first mortal kombat they should have kept it that way
This is more than just a game- it's a work of art. Masterpiece.
0:24 the legend of this game so far
Yeah ed boon
@@DerickC_ no dan forden
TOASTIE
i thought he is ELon Musk
Damn would love to have these classic MK Actors as skins in MK11, not just the costume
It’s so cool seeing this small team of super talented guys just having fun and coming out with one of the greatest series of games ever
And thats why i have a retro gaming room with all the consoles. I relive my childhood memories. Every game has a special memory attached to it! Thanks Ed Boon and team for keeping us entertained as kids through the years. I sometimes spend hours in my gaming room. Myself and friends i grew up with will once every 2 months still have a all night retro gaming night with good food and snacks. No better time than the 90s. Im 47 now and still treasure those memories.
They had so much passion back then.
MK, MK2, UMK3 are my childhood playing on my Sega Mega-Drive.
MK4 is also nostalgic playing on my PC.
After that only MK9 and Shaolin Monks ignited that fire again.
MK9 and Shaolin Monks are so good. I need these to be legal ports again. My sister and I played them all the time in addition to MK 2-3.
90's Ed Boon would be disappointed in 2024 Ed Boon.
@@BrokenControllerClub Agreed. MK12 is REALLY starting to eat dirt.
Look like these guys had a good time making this. We need more of that. 😁
This is so 90's, takes me back, and it feels soooo good!!
Sonya is so pretty!💗
She was a playboy model
And she's aged like fine wine. Kitana-Mileena-Jade also looked insanely hot for this game. That long cleavage with the strings was fire.
pretty sells, games back them. games nowadays = the actual physical human model is pretty, but they make the character in the game ugly. I'm like what tha ? then wonder why games don't sell.
she was a nude model, you can check her playboy pics
She looked a bit like Yvonne Strahovski
I'm Sal Divita.
And I'm the entire cyborg family of the MK franchise.
Thats so cool. What about the ninjas? Was it you also?
That was John Turk, the guy who played unmasked Subzero.
@@CainNuke No it was Sal Divita who played Night Wolf and Robots
@@bxyhxyh he said the ninjas, i assume he meant Scorpion, reptile and all the others from MK3 ultimate and trilogy
The cyborgs are getting genderbent now, Sal.
Mk1,Mk2, UMk 3 and trilogy Still Best Mortal Kombat Ever
BEST FIGHTING GAME
What about mk3
MK2 is my favorite.
19:44 Kitana/Jade actress (Becky Gable) is so beautiful. I love how she looks in that kind of swimsuit🩱😍
She was Mileena too.
is she also the one who cast Sonya?
I beat my joystick to death playing with this version of Sonya
...well actually so did I.
Still do
Well done!
Well done!
Well done!
I just want to keep hearing special moves and cheat codes from Kerri Hoskins all day. Grant me strength to overcome the coom, boys!
They should have never stopped making MK this way . . . The best!
Wow Sonya is smoking
Mustve been hard to get any work done around her.
@@datadavis "Must've been hard. . . . around her"
@@datadavis yeah especially for sweaty nerdy game designers most of which are probably virgins
@@stayhungry1503 what are you sayin? just cuz you not a virgin ,, you dont think she is smoking?
@@stayhungry1503 Yeah... These guys worked on Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 and they probably made 6 figure salaries, I think they had relationships with women that you imagine in your dreams but continue to reassure you behind your gaming PC at League of Legend 😅
The combo system....it was a wrap at that point. You walk into an arcade with a 4-5-6 hit combo devoted to memory, you were king.
HP,HP,⬇️ LP,⬇️HP,➡️➡️HP+LP,juggle with a standing HP,⬅️⬅️HP+LP,standing HP,jump kick,⬅️Lp+blk+HK
With quarters to spare what kids or teens know about that today
Is it just me or do these outfits look 10x better than any of the ones they did in the Hollywood movies? Bridgette Wilson in that Sonya outfit? Oh yeah!
90's where did you go? Come back!
Sonya aged like vintage wine.
I agree. As did Vanna White.
These guys just look like they had so much fun making this game. I wonder if any indie studios have this same vibe these days.
Yeah plenty of indie studios do
@@cr8982 yeah now studios are full of angry purple and pink hair lesbots! hating man ,
Pretty sure indie studios is where it's at nowadays
To whoever posted this, many thanks from the bottom of my heart!
Very nostalgic.....i'm even use MK theme music for my nokia 5110 ringtone back then
0:57 exactly the reason why I play old games. Newer games are focused more on graphics than gameplay, the antithesis of a video game
Exactly the story was the thing back then!
That was peak Mortal Kombat, artistically speaking
Games were fun no dlc, no in game transactions,no politics just fun
That’s what we need to go back to!
This is So cool and damnnnn Sonya is beautiful ❤️
She was a playboy model
@@mcmerry2846 Really? Wow!
I used to play with Mustard at the arcade, he was my favorite character. Lol
The Golden Age of Mortal Kombat...
I'm a kid of this golden age but you're wrong.. The MK of this generation are far better.
@jimmyboe8246 That's a matter of opinion bud, many agree that the 90's was also the Golden age of Hip hop but some youngsters think this is the Golden age of Hip hop, there was just something special about those times, you didn't grow up in that Era like I did, there is no such thing as 2 Golden ages and the Origin eras of any embodiment of Art is usually considered the Golden age anyway so sorry youngster but I seriously believe YOUR wrong...
This was so fun to watch😢 I grew up doing the video gaming revolution of Street fighter, killer angsty and this mortal Kombat.
I was always going to the arcades to escape the hardship of my childhood being brought from Mexico to this country and I didn't know anything this gave me an edge. I remember the lion being at the very least 3 or 4 always. Of course if you went to the Pacific arcade you're talking about a big line. I miss those days and I am the world's biggest fan now.
You can definitely hear the 90's hip hop influence in the games soundtrack. It's like it is it's own sub-genre of possessed hop or dark hop.
the actress in the Sindel outfit.. OmFG 😍
Ahhh, Ed Boon and John Tobias... the humble beginnings of "Noob Saibot" (Tobias Boon spelled backwards) lol
What a couple of legends
6:30 Who knew, after 30 years we've been saying Shang Tsung wrong... its actually been Shang T. Sung this whole time! haha
Thank you to the whole crew for my wonderful childhood memories ❤🔥❤🔥👏👏
Sheeva being stop motion was the biggest surprise
It's hard finding a beauty with four arms.
Kano is super impressive. I mean, he doesn't look like a normal guy in a costume. He actually looks like Kano lol
Na minha opinião mortal kombat 3 ultimate foi o melhor jogo dos mortais kombats de todos os tempos. Essa atriz que fez sonya blade é muito linda como ela está hoje em dia
Whoever played Sonya in MK3 is like gooooooood daaaaaame!
They need to bring back that style of MK
19:44 She´s so beautiful... I remember how much I was in love with her back in the 90s...
your first gf ?
I was in love with sailor mercure to be honest.. the blue hair girl
@@jimmyboe8246 Ami/Amy? (I am a PROUD Sailor Moon fan myself.)
Teenage wet dreams
6:06
I remember as a kid there was a European game Magazine named 'Power Unlimited'.
I watched the artwork for HOURS!!!!
Still watch them on the net lol 🙂 Respect for the PENCIL artists
Back when we celebrated beauty in our fantasy. God I miss those days.
10/10 thank you for great childhood mems
We salute you all. Thank you for such great product and ideas. Just wonderful. All of you should be added into a MK game somehow.
That was such a awesome documentary. Very cool!
Nood Saibot...Hehe when this came out I was a Sr in HS, loved it and there were actual Arcades back then where people would hang out. Being in Hadley Massachusetts, Amherst Ma is next door w/ Umass and Amherst college so we had access to BBS and a few kids got the fatalities list back after MK2....Love this game it changed the World...
the insane knockers in this thumbnail
I love mk3. This was a great behind the scenes look.
Damn, that team of talent must have had fun while at it
That was an awesome video. Thanks nomoj.
My teacher explaining to me the test questions: 2:28
i remember making a bunch of drawings of my own characters and sending them in to these guys with a letter, explaining how i hoped they would use some of them in their next game. they didn't, but they sent me a fan appreciation letter back. it was really cool as a 13 year old kid.
I'm so happy I got to grow up during this era 😥
So nice to see Noob and Saibot.
I love Sonya! She’s so pretty! ❤️ 💕 ❤️ ❤️
Agreed. No WONDER Shang Tsung wanted to make her his queen in the 1995 film.
6:13 I'd love to work with people who have this good sense of humour
Those guys had tons of fun creating MK for sure😂 🔥🔥
this was awesome to watch
I also want an HD version of this game to come out so badly. Don't they have access to the original assets? ugh, probably not, but imagine...
That would be awesome 😊
Yeah, with 4k res sprites.
Won't happen. If you listened closely they recorded the footage onto "Beta" (8:54 486x333) which means magnetic tape. Probably got overwritten or discarded or both. The computer processes a square of the image as seen in (9:22) which if you look at the still of their software at 9:31 you can just make out that they are 256x256 resolution. Even if the footage survived, you'd have to AI upscale the assets.
This is the biggest problem with this method. With older games that used geometry meshes you could always subdivide the meshes and smooth shade to get some extra detail out of the original models. You could also upgrade the renderer to support more modern techniques. However, with footage, you can't remaster it at a higher resolution without physically refilming everything at that resolution. The alternative is AI Upscaling, but to go from such a low resolution to such a high one would be a bit difficult. It might be possible if they could train one specifically for the old MK titles, but probably won't happen.
5:38 Nightwolf - Get Ready With Me 💄
Back when small, dedicated teams made amazing games. Now we get "AAA" slop that typically pushes some sort of agenda
Wow. Sonya!!!
It would be really cool if someone would make a game like this today, with recording each animation with video/camera like they did, and use that to make the game. It would probably turn out really unique and cool if done right. Be cool with HD cameras and whatnot
Tactical thumbnail
This should be in history books!!
YES!!
ive always wondered what happen to actor daniel pesina, sucks they had a fall out. but daniel deserves credit
Wonderful this video dedicated to the making of Mortal Kombat 3. Well done to all those who made this splendid video game and extraordinary all the actors who played each character. And what about the three beautiful women: Kerri Hoskins (Sonya Blade), Lia Montelongo (Sindel) and Becky Gable (Kitana, Mileena and Jade).
Came for Sonya (no pun intended), stayed for the behind the scenes ;)
She's Johnny's girl. :)
the beauty of this game seems to me to be in the limitations of the technology of that time. The limitations drove their creativity and innovations making it a multi art/craft game not just a computer based game like they are nowadays. I'm thankful to have lived my childhood through the digital evolutionary epoch of the 90s. PS: Sonya is waaaaay foxier than I had ever imagine.
At 12:03 that explains everything.... I recently started playing my N64 & I have MK Trilogy & round 2 is very difficult trying to beat Shao Kahn
2nd comment I LOVE MK3 SO MUCH! I AM PLAYING IT EVERYDAY!
Amazing footage !
I wish the aspect ratio wasn’t squished on this… this would be so nice to see in its orignal 4:3 aspect ratio.
einfach unschlagbar was die in den 90ern für eine geile Athmosphäre erschaffen haben. Großartig
Seems like making games was way more fun back in the 90s. Now it’s more like „milking“ games…
My child hood :,(. I started playing it when I was like 4-5 and now I'm 15 I have the X I lost my Mk3 on Nintendo it makes me sad the new versions aren't as good
Oh me too, I played this a lot with my brothers, even if I would always lose the fight ;-;
wtf
WWE UFC Master kass what
They look like they had so much fun
R.I.P. Mortal Kombat you will be missed!
7:59 Scarlet
Scarlet wasn't introduced untill mk9 idoit
@@Kurxxedemerqldz Actually she first appeared in MK2 as a glitch. Same as Ermac
@@pooler57 yeah but wasn't introduced till mk9
@@pooler57 sorry tho
@@pooler57 but whos your fav character
8:00 I didn't know Mileena is gonna be this cute
You're waaaaay cuter than kitana mileena and jade combined. ;)
Fr like she’s scary in the game but cute irl
They just forgot to add the teeth in
Mileena's pretty now! Yay!
Should have kept original Kitana for MK3
MOrtal Kombat marked my childhood when all friends and relatives came to play around.
Un juego adelantado a su época, pasé horas jugando con mis amigos. Gracias por todo
Back when female characters were allowed to be beautiful. These crushes on characters are what turned me into an artist. Eventually a digital and traditional media artist. All because a pretty girl in a video game inspired me.
If they looked like the character in star wars outlaws I wouldn't have even played the game. No inspiration no muse no excitement.
Yeah they were pixelated images back then but they weren't PURPOSEFULLY ugly.
just great nostalgia for me even if i didnt play this game when it was out in arcades.
The sight of Kitana used to make me touch myself in naughty ways. Watching this video from 19:44 onwards triggered the same involuntary motor responses decades later
Looking good Sonya
9:52 17:23 17:56 19:43 22:50 You're welcome
For what?
11:00
Who's the character at 17:25
@@alk3603 sindal
@@Mackenzie88 k thx
Magnifique la petite Sonya !
2:18 Sonya
And then you realize that the 90’s where actually amazing…
Came to see Sonya but was impressed by how cute Katalin Zamiar was as Mileena.
Kano, the best behind the scenes!
"Reality is boring". Man, if only today's Hollywood could understand this.
Kerri Hoskins is hot.