I remember watching my older brother playing this game with his favorite character Sub-zero at the laundromat & a crowd gather because nobody had ever seen sum1 defeat Goro & passing the game. The crowd was cheering him on & as a 11 year old I felt so proud 🤣🤣 RiP bro it's been 10 years since u passed..thx for the memories, 1 day will see each other again
As much as I wasn't born in the 90's I can say that it really must be terrifying to come across a monster that is super strong and resistant and you have to think what to do to defeat it
Me and my brother used to sneak to the arcade on sundays while doing laundry and spend like $5 in quarters playing this 🤣🤣🤣🤣 no lie, we was so happy when pops (RIP) bought us a Sega genesis and MK 1 with 2 controllers for xmas 😂😊😊😊😊 God the memories of the early 90's
Yes sir. Those were the good ol' days. To play this game in arcades, then have it at home to play all you want was the best thing ever back then. RIP to your father.
I remember the Arcade Game of MK1 was at our local Wal Mart. When parents are checking out, My brothers we would always go to the Arcade and play MK1. Whenever we go to the laundromat, there was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, instead of helping we always go there to play. When Mortal Kombat 4 came out at the Arcade at our local mall, we would spend most of our time there playing MK4 while my parents are out shopping.
I remember the first time seeing Mortal Kombat. It was 1992 at a bowling alley here. I was amazed by this game, because there was nothing else like it at the time. There was an older kid playing it and he knew all of the special moves and fatalities. There was a huge crowd of people gathering to watch him rip off heads with spines still attached, and shock an enemy with lightning until their head explodes. Good stuff. Haha!!
I was a street fighter ii fan, world heroes. When my brother took me to this new arcade I saw my and was mesmerized. The blood staying on the floor for a second. It's slower motion game play. I emediatly liked the bruce lee character.
The good ol' days of arcade madness... Yeah games look better now and are 100x more powerful, but you just had to be there in the 90's arcade era to appreciate how awesome it was.
@@ihatefacebook31184 the time before SJWs and 70+ genders and cancel culture and everyone getting offended by everything. Oh man... If we only knew how good we had it then.
I remember Goro giving me a jump scare when he first appeared jumping on the screen and the match starts off just like that. At that time, I wasn't expecting that
The screams that sound when Shang Tsung throw fireballs scared me when I was a kid. Were those supposed to be like tortured souls being released by Shang Tsung or what?
Man this brings back memories as a kid. I wasted so much money on the arcade machine, then there were lock ins at timezone. Kids these days have no idea how cool our childhoods were.
yep when you had to work just to play a video game. Now kids are just so spoiled. I remember the days of working my ass off to get a few dollars just to wait in line to lose to the really good asian kid that lived at the arcade.
man, this reminds me of how mindblown I was to see the arcade graphics. So many more frames in the sprites. The first time I saw the head rip fatality I just about exploded
I can only imagine how the meeting went when the ESRB ratings group was formed and they watched Sub-Zero pull the head off the opponent (with spine attached) as the fatality. :)
I feel that this is the life blood of Mortal Kombat. Fights in the pits of hell, no rhyme or reason just fighting gore and death, and absolutely no mercy
I remember when this came out on arcade. It was in the middle of the “fighting game” craze that was initiated by the popularity of “Street Fighter 2”. This game was awesome when released and then Mortal Kombat 2 took everything to an even more amazing level.
Nostalgia!!! But man this guy makes it look easy!! I remember we used to go broke without even ever finishing the game!! Haha We used to watch older guys play it till the end they were like gods to us lol. I did finish it myself when I mastered it on my super nintendo lmao
I also played through this game with Sub Zero back in ~1994 on my PC. He was the strongest character for the tournament. With Liu Kang or Raiden I always failed at Goro, no matter how hard I tried
That gong in the beginning where you see the characters is epic and gave me chills. This will always be my favorite Mortal Kombat. It was the most real too cuz they actually took photos of real people to make it. And after the second one, it was all about doing combos like it Killer Instinct. I never learned how to do that, just knew the special moves.
Bi-Han was amazing. From his stance, to the his special move animations, he was the best. That freeze and slide animation😍. Has yet to be topped in my book, but MK11 looks amazing. Great stance and animation. Looking forward to playing Sub-Zero in MK11.
@@WillConley You're telling someone to go home when you got your facts wrong. Bi-Han is the original Sub-Zero. His younger brother Kuai Liang took his place in MK2.
Haters who post about how 'crap' this looks were probably still shitting in their Pampers when it reigned supreme - in 1992 there was NOTHING that looked and played as brutally cool as MK. If you never played this on a greasy 30" CRT monitor in a fog of cigarette - smoke... you weren't alive to comment. 😈😈😈
It's so cool how Midway used real life martial arts actors to create the characters in the game (except for Sub Zero, Scorpion and Reptile because they were the same character with the colors on their costumes changed to yellow, blue, and green).
+Peyton Golding buddy. So you never knew that reptile was a secret stage in the pit? You have to wait until you see Santa on the moon including the. Pit stage, then kill your opponent without using block and with flawless victory and I don't remember if you need to do fatality or send him to the pit, but the. You change to reptile stage that was basically scorpion and subzero merged. He can perform both of their powers and was extremely fast. But very simple to defeat. By the way Santa appear in the moon every five games. So was not possible to have reptile in every game, I was waiting and counting other boys until was time for the fifth game.
I completed my first ever playthrough of MK1 as Sub-Zero. I was delighted at the end to learn that he amassed a huge fortune and rode off into the sunset as a wealthy retiree. I was extremely disappointed that MK2's storyline basically undid all that by having him killed off and replaced with a "warm-hearted" younger brother (and then eventually by a cyborg).
CraftySouthpaw And in the movie they fucked up Sub-Zero by making him a bad guy teaming up with Scorpion and then he is murder by Liu Kang. Yet in the MK1 he died by Scorpion. If the creators of the game/movie can revert back to Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero then you will get the real back story about both Scorpion and Sub-Zero before Mortal Kombat started.
when i first saw this game in the arcades i was blown away by the graphics.......i had never seen anything like it before. Previously i think all fighting game characters were drawn
I remember I was like 7 at the arcade and I put my quarter up and people didn't want me to play cuz I had no idea what I was doing. But they were like let the kid play, so I got my chance. I picked Johnny Cage for some reason and from button mashing I did his special kick and won the first round. But then the other dude started trying and he beat me. But winning that round was the highlight of the day for me. Eventually I got the game for NES and learned all the special moves. Which isn't saying much cuz they were all relatively easy to do. Like back back forward, forward forward punch. Ahhhh memories.
I was 8 when this game came out in 1993. All the kids were talking about it; all the parents were horrified at it. This game was revolutionary in terms of the graphics in it. We were used to Mario brothers and Nintendo. Not something like this.
I remember seeing Mortal Kombat for the first time ever when I was about 7 or 8. The machine was in a liquor store and I never had heard of it. Saw some older kid playing it as Sub Zero. Watched in awe and then witnessed the fatality where he rips off the guys head. Omg, I was hooked! Thanks for uploading this.
Mk1 really nailed it with the screen going dark during the fatalities. I noticed a progression of more light in each remake. By the time i was playing MK on PS2 the game didnt even get dark during the fatalities and the gore looked like popcorn. Mk1 still rules when it comes to CREEPINESS.
Very true. I've always loved how unapologetically brutal and serious this game was. The music and sound design especially elevate the hellish nature of the world.
Yeah, from the first three, MK1 is my favorite because of it's dread and ominous mood. When I first saw it, I was shocked with the "realism" of the violence. The fighters all seem bad guys, as they were into murder a defenseless opponent. The sound was totally creepy, as it was the agony screams. You could hear the agony of a fighter being killed in your head long after you've played. And being murdering or not an opponent, a choice of the player, it added a lot in the disturbing effect. In MKII, things got tuned down, with "toasty" screams, babalities and friendships. The violence was also changed into something parodic through excess. I mean, look at the roundhouse kick in MK1 - it's brutal, you felt as you had broken the jaw of the enemy. On MKII in just throw the guy flying into the other side of the arena, as he was made of plastic. Also, in the first one, tha fatality of Scorpion left just the charred skeleton of the victim on her kness, while in MKII people are exploding all around, which was funnier than scarier.
Kind of miss those days spending Saturdays at the arcades & playing against others in this game. Those were the days, even though kids these days can compete online I think it was better being in the arcade & competing one on one w/ someone in real time. At least you didn't have to worry about lag.
This is the best MK for me for a lots of reasons: 1 - It has the best soundtrack of 'em all (love listen to that) 2 - All that dark, ancient eastern, wicked worldly, hellish atmosphere 3 - It is really creepy 4 - Until best graphic resources fatalities and graphics were poorer than the 1 version (MK 2 and 3 with those bones all like the same and shit) 5 - The best Chroma key of all versions 6 - I've been playing this game since 1992 :)
Dude... thank you SO much for this video! Perfect image and sounds, SubZero in player 2, with the best Fatality screaming of all time! Outstanding! Congrats!
yeah people don't know the phenomenon this game was when it came out. and yeah it would be in arcades, laundromats, bowling alleys, movie theaters.. there was even one that me and my brother found in a shitty grocery store across town. it was great because no one really knew about it and all the other mortal kombat games in town would usually have lines of people waiting to play. me and my brother would get loads of quarters and drive out there and play it for hours. in the arcade where the crowds would gather around it, things would get heated.. you'd have to be careful because actual fights would actually break out over the game sometimes
Goro and Shang Tsung would look a lot scarier if they were able to give them the same look as the rest of the characters where it’s a real person digitized into the camera.
dakentaijutsu2010 yeah you’re right, taking a closer look I noticed, I guess it was the coloring or something that made him look more animated to me than the rest of them.
Not sure if i have ever commented about this, but one thing they haven't done since is when you're in the final endurance stage. After the 1st opponent is down and you start battling the 2nd opponent, the ground starts shaking and you hear goro off screen. It threw me off playing at a young age and made me lose b/c i thought goro was gonna come out and wreck everyone in his path. He doesn't and if you're lucky to win, he drops into frame not giving you a breather. If you're in direct reach and don't react quick, the match is already over b/c goro has you and you're gonna have trouble counter attacking. This was goro at, imo, his most intimidating.
i was 12 or 13 when this game came out... and let me tell you, this was so cutting edge graphically at the time, though the fatalities were what EVERYONE was talking about. I mean i remember it even freaking me out then as a kid, as i'd never before seen violence like this in a video game. sure, there were the movies (the dream warriors being my favorite 'nightmare' movie of all time), and other video games like smash tv and N.A.R.C... but nothing quite like this. i guess it was just in the presentation and lifelike graphics that left a lot of us uneasy at first, and curious for more. this game was the essential of every arcade, every pizza parlor, laundry mat, apartment lobby, barber shop, corner store... you name it. this game was where it was at. the lines where even drawn.... were you a street fighter kid, or MK kid? sure, there were other challengers to the throne (killer instinct really being the only one that anyone ever took seriously), but it was really between these two games. i know it sounds super dated and cheesy, but those were the games the "bad kids" played... standing around, smoking cigarettes and watching their quarter move up the line on the bezel waiting for their turn. parents warned their "good" kids to stay away from those machines like they were a beacons for drug dealers and gang members, lol. those who weren't afraid of them though, man... the challenges and the memories. I'm going to be 40 in 2019, and this game still takes me back instantly. still a fan of the series, can't wait for MK11. those first two, however... they'll always take me back. keep your skeeball and crane games... all i wanted was some mortal kombat.
I've got a few years on you but I remember when it was new. The freaking grocery store had this game, right next to Street Fighter. It was the darkest thing in my life, and it was scary as hell.
To think before we got Johnny Cage it was gonna be originally Jean Claude Van Damme but to licensing and creative difficulty we got Johnny instead. I wonder how different the MK universe would have been if it would have been JCVD in Johnny's Place
One writer wrote in to Gamepro saying that Sub-Zero’s decapitated opponent in their SNES/Genesis strategy section looked like Ken. They were right about the letter the opponent’s name started with - it was actually Kano.
I don't think there's an arcade machine I pumped more quarters into than this one, except for maybe Street fighter II - Champion Edition. Ahh, the memories.
When I first saw this game at a local Tilt arcade there must have been at least 30-40 people crowded around the machine. It was the first time I had ever seen so much hype for a game.
I remember in the arcade were I was Number 1 in the list just fucking beating up everybody with scorpion. and 1 time a guy who knew every freaking combo and I lost and we had a rematch and I PUT EVERYTHING IN TO IT!!!!! I just accidentally dropped my soda on his pants and ran and the game crashed but I was still Number 1!!!!!!!
Clássico, pra mim o melhor de todos.... o jogo mais realista de todos os mortais combat, os de hoje parece desenho lixo lixo lixo, agora esse é muito perfeito.
Isso é um fato, o Mortal Kombat 1 é o mais realista de todos, os outros começaram a ficar muito viajados tanto nos fatality quanto nos personagens, o MKX por exemplo foi o limite desvirtuou bastante da essência do mortal kombat que é a arte marcial.
Pura verdade, esse é o melhor, me sinto dentro do jogo, muito real, tenho aquela sensação que eatou na China ou Japão e me sinto um guerreiro do Japão feudal.. Nostalgia! Saudades! O MK 2 tem Kung Lao que é uma moral a parte👍 No ML 1 o meu personagem favorito é o Rayden, original escrito com "Y"
