TIMESTAMPS IN DESCRIPTION BUT HERE YOU GO 0:00 Intro 0:53 How Rewind Found Mortal Kombat 28:40 The Challenges Rewind Faced In the FGC 47:15 How Rewind Leveled Up In Competitions 51:46 The Role Discipline Plays 1:03:54 What the NRS Community needs to improve 1:23:19 Rewind’s Struggles 1:34:23 Keeping your priorities straight 1:50:24 What’s MK1’s PROBLEM?
Inspirational!🙌🏾💯 @RewindNV u might not know personally. But yu are a HUGE inspiration to me, my channel, my fighting game abilities. I’m a big fan of your content n my favorite tournament player! (Favorite player in general tbh). Thx & Thx to @christatarian2504
Yo this was dope rewind. Feel like I could listen to y’all talk about fgc lore for another 10 hours. Very interesting to hear you’re perspective on things, and to hear about what makes you you
This is so inspiring full time workers that are still at the top of their game. I'm a 9-5 worker and I never thought it possible to even win my local. Just knowing people like you makes me want to work harder at what I want to do. THANKS FOR THE PODCAST!!!!
Big ups to rewind🤝 Im trying to be an MK player while also being a full time student and working a full time job and this was all the motivation i needed to keep goin. Much love
As an NRS player I am so happy to see him here, much like him I am also mostly an MK fan and recently, after buying both KOF15 and SF6 I must say I started to appreciate MK even more(the mechanics, the gameplay and of course the fact that we have a block button)! I hope you will invite SonicFox too
I love all fighting games, and people will never agree which is best. It's just learning new timings, new combos, routes, and defensive options while applying your fundamentals across each unique title.
Imagine your teacher is a professional Street Fighter player, that would be awesome. Great episode as always, it would be great if you could invite Sonicfox
Probably the best interview I’ve seen. I’m a big Rewind fan and it was cool understanding how he got better and what his story in general was. He was one of the first people I watched that got me into fighting games. Thank you Chris!
I enjoyed Rewind’s Batman rivalry with Sonicfox’s Joker… Good interview. I like how you are so down to earth and humble. Try and invite more NRS stars.
@@christatarian2504 Of course, man! It was a great interview and podcast overall, I listen to long form stuff like this at work every day, and I enjoyed this one a lot. If I fw'd Street Fighter more, I'd be watching all the vids on your channel. Keep up the good work! 💪😊
What got me into MK was the first game in arcades. I was possessed and have been ever since. To me, MK is Superman. It is Batman. I had MK underwear.. MK is life.
MK3 on the SNES was my first. Went over to my older cousin's house and he whooped my ass over and over, I was like 5 and he was 13. MKX was when I really cared and followed the scene for sure.
This is a great interview for new players to see. When Rewind talks about being impressed by somebody doing a simple combo, that’s where many players are today and they’re too intimidated to dive deeper. Rewind explaining how he saw what works well and just kept trying to learn is a great lesson.
This episode was great, just hearing Rewind story is eye opening. I respect any player that continue to push through all the hardships at the time. Hearing the reality of playing competitively, how you can still do it while handling your business. But priorities come first when you get older. School, work, family can still be done with the right discipline and balance. This is something that sits with me as in the mid 90s when gaming was king for me, I found myself pursuing other ventures because I couldn't find a way to make money doing this passion as a career. I didn't even know about any tournaments outside of the ones my community created to see who was best. I grew up knowing that money would be needed to survive, and college showed and taught me that. Lucky I was able to compete while in college with different people and tournaments to eat and have little money to spend. But eventually time wasn't there with working, school, and playing ball. But I have time now and the balance is there so just looking to compete while still working in my career and this episode has given me the encouragement to know its ok to be stable first, and mix my gaming in there. Thank you for another solid episode.
Holy crap, I JUST had a round with Rewind while listening to this. I was listening to this interview and was like, holy crap! I'm matched with RewindNV! Holy crap! Wild.
Thanks Chris for this . Rewind is such a cool guy and always positive. I’m 46 and have been watching the FGC since MK9. Please try to have REO… MK Tom Brady literally made him stop podcasting with his hate of the franchise.
I remember when MK launched in the arcades. The moral panic was insane. All the gore, all the questions, "Are these violent video games warping our children's minds?" It was so wild. It was either late Bush Sr. or the beginning of Clinton's first term, before the Republicans took over Congress 1994 with Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," but the conservative right had been building over the last decade and a half or so. When they ported it to SNES they took out all the blood and decapitation so Sub-Zero's fatality where he rips your head off your shoulders with the spinal column hanging down got replaced by him like freezing and then shattering opponent to pieces. The biggest crime committed though was easily the port to the Sega Genesis. MK was 4 buttons + block and the Genesis only had 3 buttons... so...
respect to those competitors striving to make this/or has made it a career..it takes a lot of dedication and have to treat it as a professional sport…for me i always just wanted to compete for the fun and for the love of competition. of course i wanna beat the best and win money but i never wanted to make it a career its all about the competitive drive and the challenge for me 💯💎
Yo Chris T I agree with you on Cod Players and FGC Players being good players. i started off as a FGC Player and now dabble with Warzone and its so easy since both require fast reactions
BTW as a new guy into the FGC and MK in particular I got to confirm at first I thought OMG these combos are so fucking hard how do you remember and do that in an actual fight.. Now from the distance of 6 months playing both MK11 and MK1 now I got to say combos is indeed the easiest thing probably :D :D Movement, spacing, how to keep pressure, how to adapt all these things are so much harder cuz you can't learn them in practice mode!
i fought rewind many times online his execution is on ANOTHER LEVEL 💯 i have no shame in losing to one of the best its all a lesson to me ima get better by it
I'm having trouble with balancing work and play as well, I was top 500 online for a while, then I had to start working 2 jobs 6 days a week for a total of 86 hours a week and I dropped down to like top 5k now, it ain't that I got worse, everyone else just passed me, it is devastating.
Great interview! Only thing I didn’t agree with is the statement that all the MK games feel the same😂 NRS is quite literally the only company in the FGC truly changes the mechanics and dynamics of all their games. None of the MK games are the same so I’m not sure where that opinion came from lol. Street fighter quite literally has played the same since the beginning of time.
I probably saw "anybody got mic that wants to 1v1" but I didn't know you back then. I was anti mic cuz English is my second language so I wouldn't even give that comment a look at all. MK9 was fun. I liked throwing tomatoes 🍅 in KOTH...
People romanticize MKX way too much . Go and check the FGC state of the game while it was alive. Year 2 EVO finals were at 8 AM with no one caring. MK Tom Brady was crying about his clone and the hate on Tanya was real.. MK1 is more fun and watch the tournaments… they are STILL finding new combos after 7 months.
Mortal Kombat wasnt that big of a deal up until MK11, everyone knew about MK but no one really cared enough. The fact that MK11 and MK1 get more people in tournaments is thanks to the heavy promotions/ads that WB and NRS have put into those games which has attracted more people than never before. MKX is a more enjoyable game and after almost 10 years there are people coming up with new optimal combos and executions. That's why that game still has solid player base with many pros going back to play it from time to time and it's not dead like MK9 or (soon) MK11. Not saying MK1 is bad though, just saying MKX is (and feels) better.
OMG what the fuck is that game Def Jam I didn't even knew it existed and the fact that my favorite Sean Paul was probably banned that's an amazing story :D
Great conversation, and I completely agree with Chris about the MK throw tech guess…complete garbage and seems to be in there for the sake of artificial “depth.”
“I think your issues with the game are not the issues” 💀Rewind you couldn’t have answered that any better😮💨 like bruh mk11 felt and looked nothing like mkx 💀💀
@@christatarian2504 i get it but i feel when i read the title itd be on just fgc stuff tbh. I mean i get it, i was a semi pro at cod and you played when i played starting in cod 4 i did appreciate agreeing with you on the experiences but i just was hoping for mostly fgc related stuff. Im glad you didnt come lash at me, re reading the post did come off rude for sure.
