The Forgotten World of Mortal Kombat Clones (MK) 

Use code AUSTIN15 over at www.world.holzkern.com/austineruption and get yourself a lovely timepiece today! Happy 10 Years! ALSO, QUICK, what's a video topic I should do for later this month? I'm taking my favorite idea and turning it into a video FOR REAL. You can fact check me later! I've got a ton of ideas but for the decade anniversary I wanna see how fast I can put one of y'alls suggestions together! LETS GO!

There is a Mexican Mortal Kombat clone called "Kombate Mexicano X". I bought a copy of it when I went to the EGS (a gaming convention that had support from big brands) like 16 years ago in the indie section that was behind the important booths, the person demoing the game was actually one of the developers/actors who was digitized into the game. I may still have the game somewhere in my old CD collection. As a Mexican game, it had mechanics inspired from King of Fighters, references to corrupt politicians, pop culture figures, and El Chavo, plus a ton of albures. I loved bringing it to the IT classroom in high school, where we would play it while the teacher wasn't looking.

Damn, you've been pumping out a lot of content lately, Austin - cheers.

I still remember my original copy of killer instinct 1 being a black cartridge instead of the typical grey one. It was awesome.

Loved Eternal Champions when I was a kid. I remember really liking the idea of characters from different time periods fighting.

Fun fact about Eternal Champions: “Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's 1995 album E. 1999 Eternal, was loosely inspired by the video game, not just in title, but even as far as the use of samples, such as the character bios theme for "Eternal", and the bad ending theme being the basis of the original "Crossroad", which would later be remixed, becoming the group's biggest single and earning them a Grammy.”

Street Fighter The Movie The Game deserves some degree of mention. While everyone involved seemed to be on a completely different pages as to exactly what they were making, at least some of those involved viewed the game as Capcom attempting to copy the look and success of Mortal Kombat.

These clones just cement how truly special the Mortal Kombat franchise truly is...

The only imitator to stay around is Killer Instinct

I LOVE the story that the Kasumi Ninja team literally went to a market across the street from their building to find the costumes for the game. That’s admirable determination!

KI had to be the first clone I played or was aware of. And similar to MK, my mom banned me from playing it. I managed to make a deal with her that would allow me to play KI as long as I only played as Spinal since he didnt bleed. Eventually I got her to allow Fulgore and Glacius since they bled "oil" and "water" respectively

One small correction; the Sonic comic with the Eternal Champions special was NOT the Archie comic, but was in fact the British "Sonic the Comic" from Fleetway. The more you know.

If I remember correctly, Death Cargo was repurposed into "Gorebreaker" (a game that used the assets, but seemed to be more of a beat'em up/RPG hybrid).

Eternal Champions was Segas best hit as an exclusive hybrid between MK and Street Fighter. Owned the original on Genenis and the CD Version is just what it always schould have been from the beginning. Could have become one of THE fighting games of today... oh - i would love to see that version of reality.

I remember getting Eternal Champions and my friends asking,"What the Hell is this?" While l loved the game my friends thought it was pretty sluggish.

Congrats on ten years, Austin! I've been watching your stuff for a long time and always enjoy opening RU-vid to see a new video of yours. Hope that you keep making cool stuff for a long time!

I wish WB would make MK spin-offs. Shaolin Monks needs a sequel or a remaster for modern consoles. Scorpion should have his own action game like God of War (classic).

As a certified dinosaur kid ™️, my first thought for a clone was Primal Rage, so I'm glad you got to it immediately! We rented it over and over for the SNES, and I even still have an official action figure for a sabertooth tiger character from the unreleased sequel. A modern reboot could be incredible!

So many games I’ve never heard of. Mortal kombat was the first console videogame I ever had as a kid. My dad got us a sega genesis after we spent so many hours playing gameboy. Great memories

I never actually played it but Eternal Champions’ box art lived in my mind way too much as a kid when it came out. I would just sit there and wonder, how far does that beam out of his watch go? Is it like a lightsaber or does it just go up into space? I’m doing it again help

I feel really lucky to live an hour away from Galloping Ghost. Such a blast to take my kids there for the day. Such a smorgasbord of awesomeness wherever you look. And the history man. Holy hell it's something to behold. 🤩🤩🤩

Primal Rage needs to get a modern reboot.

Austin probably won't ever see this but I've been so impressed with this Chanel (I found it this year) love the style, pacing, and most of all the seamless transitions from game to game. Idk if there's a dedicated editor other than Austin but both writing the script, and editing it's a labor intensive process that doesn't go unnoticed

I discovered this channel a few months ago and honestly.. its become my favourite channel on RU-vid. The consistency of these videos is awesome! Never miss one and always watch the whole video.. keep doing what you are doing Austin!

I was hoping you'd bring up Eternal Champions. I had a friend who owned it and I spent a single summer playing the hell out of it. I liked the alchemist guy with the cane.

i’m almost certain i grew up playing battle monsters on the saturn and i had no recollection of it whatsoever until i saw it in this video. thank you for unlocking this memory for me

Primal rage was prob one of my biggest letdowns when it came out. MK/dinos was like a dream for a jurassic park kid

Despite being clones Primal Rage and Eternal Champions are absolute gems and games that stood out. Always picked them up with out hesitation.

Surprisingly one of my first knockoff of MK was dong dong never die

While watching this video I couldn't help but wonder what a Eternal Champs remastered might be like !?

I was so excited to see you talking about Eternal Champions. That was my favorite fighting game as a kid

Wasn't expecting to see another video from you so soon. Thanks for making my day a bit better.

Matt McMuscles would be proud that someone else knows just how bad Expect No Mercy is.

I've been trying to remember One must fall 2097 but my search had always been in vain. I played this at my friend's house. He got the controller and I was stuck with keyboard. Fuckin thank you for doing what you do and letting me finally remember the name after literally a decade of searching!

Congrats on 10 years! Man, can't believe you've been YouTubing for that long. From talking Genesis games as Boku no Eruption to being the drummer of a band to now. Keep making good work!

Wow you’ve been pumping out high quality video after high quality video Austin. This was one of my favorite episodes in recent memory. Awesome work man

Omf2097 was one of my favorite games in the late 90s and I remember one of my friends contacted the creator to use the music on my city's local Comcast cable channel. While it might feel clunky by today's standards it's deep story telling for the tournament modes made it an amazingly fun dos alternative to Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter 2 (for a single player). If you had the ability to use 2 Gamepads it could also be very fun with 2 players even if it wasn't as deep on a mechanical level. Ran on everything and had a shareware (and then freeware) version. Free vs the 50 to 60 Dollars Mortal Kombat was at the time made it an easy choice for me. And damn it's soundtrack is full of bangers

Istg, every video you improve with the script, delivery, and editing. I dont think you're ever gonna reach your peak, because you simply cant stop getting better

"Austin references Elfen Lied in a violent video game video" was indeed on my bingo card

So good to see Eternal Champions get some much deserved recognition.

I had the Primal Cuts CD as a kid and I felt like I was a man amongst children while listening to it.

Eternal Champions. Another example (among many) highlighting that Sega really mastered the art of shooting themselves in the foot.

Congrats on 10 years Austin and team!

Eternal Champions CD has some of the most gruesome stage fatalities that I've seen in all my years, especially the mine cart one. With the log. Or the one where you're basically microwaved while still conscious. Ouch. I'm just bummed that Sega seems to have completely disowned it, since it still has potential and probably enough nostalgia to get some goodwill.

DUDE! I had been looking for Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon for decades now! I kept remembering playing a demo as some sort of Sasquatch climbing buildings and doing other weird activities, and I've finally found it after all this time in a completely unrelated video!

Mortal Kombat would go on to get praise for being innovators of mechanics like skill-based finishers, control distortion, speed altering, and timer manipulation... 25 years after Eternal Champions did them.

There's this one very obscure fighting game on Mac and PC called The Untouchable that would've been a good fit for the video, it was released in the late 90s and had digitized characters. There's not much info on it out there so I'm not shocked that it wasn't mentioned. Looks like it was developed by the same studio that made Bikini Karate Babes lol. Great video, man. Been watching since the FFXV review!

I remember having a lot more fun with Eternal Champions while playing it with my brother comparing to MK1. We both knew it wasn't really good but the characters had a lot of charm, having a cyborg, a vampire, a 40s gangster and stuff, it was cool. And the music was pretty great too!

The story behind D.C.'s (the one you mentioned at the Rest of Clones before going with tattoo assassin') seems to be how the developers were just churning DMCAs to people talking about the game with footage for some reason...but I think there's people on Reddit with reuploads of when Super Best Friends Play tried it and made a mockery out of it (Saturday Morning Scrublords)...which might also be the easiest way to see how the game, that indeed existed but was almost scrubbed from existence because of its devs, looked like Which is still very weird to think about; all that for a MK clone lol

Congratulation on the 10-year anniversary man! Your videos are so entertaining and so informal!

Love your clone videos. Keep them coming 👍

War Gods just unlocked a core memory. Oh my goodness.

Bruh the fact i been watching you since before rocket knight, dawg thanks for being there frfr, always happy to watch your vids. Happy 10th glad you stuck around Austin

I had (and still have) Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortex. I actually preferred Kasumi Ninja, as I was able to work out better “strategies”. Also, i thought it was cool how the characters would fall in a few different ways based on how they are hit. That was actually pretty cool.

Dude, this doc is extremely impressive. The amount of information you’ve included, in such an informative fashion, is truly incredible. Thank you!

Oh wow, this must be my birthday, can't wait to watch. Thank you!!

Only MK "clone" I really played back in the day was Eternal Champions for the Genesis/Mega Drive. I was never very good at it, but I still enjoyed playing it on my friend's machine. Primal Rage, too. One of my local pizza places had an arcade machine for a good while after both TMNT arcade games had more or less been played out by everyone.

Man I still have my copy of Primal Rage! And a couple action figures! Too bad we never got the full release of PM2. What a great throwback video this is!

Primal Rage I would love a remake of! With claymation in 4k! Would be awesome.

Fantastic video! What a trip down memory lane.

Eternal Champions was awesome. Great story, graphics and music. The story in the book was awesome too.

I've seen a few other RU-vidrs cover this topic before. You covered more games than the others I've seen, so that is cool. Good job.

THANK YOU FOR SHOUTING OUT KILLER KUTS!! That shit is just a straight-up legit studio electronic dance album

Started watching you in 2016. Great work and I wish you continued success.

Those Jackie Chan games are actually really good, they seem chunky and just button smashers at first, but if you keep at it, there's actually a very interesting combo system that's hard to describe but eventually you catch on. Play as that Chinese New Years Dragon thing first if you want to learn it.

You putting in that GRIND 💪😎 Been hanging around for a _long_ time, since the Arcadea days even, and it's always been a pleasure to catch your videos to this day Here's to another 10 years! Cheers 🎉

One Must Fall 2097 is fantastic; one of my all-time favorite PC games. Nice to see it get a shout-out here. Also, congrats on 10 years! I discovered and subscribed to you because of your Babylon's Fall video of all things since I got the platinum trophy for it before it closed up shop. Been loving the videos ever since.

Congrats for your decade man !

The Eternal Champions comic was a special from Sonic the Comic, from Fleetway, not Archie.

Love these videos!! Thank you

I loved the character "Larcen" in Eternal Champions. He was a bad ass to my young mind, reminding me of a mix of Batman and Dick Tracy (Dick Tracy being a game I also played a lot of the Genesis.)

This video unlocked a core memory. I bought one must fall 2097 from the discount bin I’m the 90s and it only worked once on my pc with no sound. Never got it working again and tossed it.

I love this channel and I love you Erupti. Thanks for wonderful 10 years.

Congratz on ten years! I found your channel over 2020 and it helped entertain during The Bad Time. Would love to see you do something with the No One Lives Forever franchise! I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned before but it's a nostalgic one for me and I always want to see more of it :)

Mortal kombat had both mortals and combat Also a cool ass story and fatalities

Eternal Champions was pretty damn good. It still looks good, too.

clean vids man good work

Austin rhe fact that you used a clip from lost lands has me hollering haha thank you for that and congrats on the 10 years. U are a mint individual and appreciate everything u do

I'm so glad you mentioned Death Cargo! I remember hearing about that game and being super intrigued by it only to never see or hear about it actually being released... Maybe a whole video on that story?

I love this video, thank you for the work you put in to bring us… the bottom of the barrel.

Congrats on 10yrs cheers 🍻

The voice clip anubis you have been chosen has been stuck in my head since I played wargods at my cousin's house when I was a child

Yo, great documentary~comentary format, not typical 10min for revenue videos. Appreciated, liked and followed.

1 Must Fall!! DUDE!! my brothers and I played this on the computer. Lots of fun.

I loved Mace the Dark Age on the N64 and Pojo is GOAT.

BIG fan of Eternal Champions Sega CD, so glad you mentioned it. The wild hidden characters is almost as iconic as its violence.

This is the most blood I’ve seen in a yt fighting game vid, way more than the dedicated fighting game channels. Even the doods who say they won’t edit out the gore but still do. Just give chaos acid pee fatality from primal rage.

There are not enough videos on this topoc for my tastes, thanks for this.

Congrats on the anniversary! I was hoping you were going to mention One Must Fall...because it's the only one I've played.

Thank you so much for making these enjoyable videos, your channel is one of my favorite channels and I don't have that many favorite ones there so I think that says a lot, so again thank toy so much and have enjoyable days

Whenever Austin uploads I stop what I'm doing and watch

Congrats Austin on the 10 years!

Congrats on 10 years man!

congrats on 10 years bro. I'm a long time subscriber and an old school Texan gamer too , love your videos :) here's a video idea, maybe 5 to 10 games you hated as a kid/ teen but gave another chance and actually enjoyed them more since you're older now.

35:18 Some of my fondest memories growing up was playing OMF with my brother on the same keyboard. Great game and a banger soundtrack.

That one kid was Maximillian Dood and i think he mentioned it in several videos when he covered the ost in old podcasts with Superbest Friends and their fighting game podcast

Well this was a great video it’s just entertaining seeing how absurd some of these clones are, when their trying to be taken seriously, and overshadow Mortal Kombat, when most likely they won’t, and will just be laughed out aside from Killer Instinct, for the most part, though Midway, trying to create different games with similar vibes is pretty passionate, also holy shit bootleg slender man was really throwing hands got daymn, i won’t lie that sequel terrordome had me cracking up, but the Ash, in the original boggieman goes hard as hell. Now this type of video being made again makes me wanna see you cover Half Life, clones, Metal Gear, clones, Crash Bandicoot, clones, and Jak 3, clones, in terms of being vehicular combat games, which i could definitely see Roadkill, being in that video it’s just a insane game, that i think would fit right in with the weird stuff you cover, Austin, also a wtf games video would be awesome to, since you do specifically do weird, and forgotten games on different consoles, but that type of game would be like crap you can’t even comprehend, like that don’t even have a weird novelty to them. Oh, and congrats on reaching your double digit anniversary, Austin, it’s always crazy to see RU-vidrs, i throughly enjoy reach milestones, and i’m not to sure when i subbed to you, but I’d definitely say i really got into you during your uploads through 2020, to now, and i do deliberately plan to watch your stuff when you stock up on videos, so thank you for the unforgettable entertainment kudos to you my man Austin.

Congrats on 10 years! Been here since the Ehrgeiz video!

haven't watched it yet but already know it's another banger video

oh my god every time I watch your videos I get reminded of games I totally forgot about.