The History of Killer Instinct - Arcade console documentary 

That intro was incredible with the NBA JAM Announcer.

If you're over a certain age and a gamer you've definitely said "C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!" at least once.

Eyedol's ending spoofing Blanka's will always be hilarious

Seeing this game in the arcade as a child was amazing....You will never get that vibe again... Also, Orchid was a certified Baddie!

Killer instinct is one of my favorite fighting games! Orchid, Combo, and Sabrewulf were my favorite characters.

Can’t believe it’s been almost 30 years since this was released. Arcade goers like myself were blown away when this dropped. The graphics, the gameplay and the SOUND. This game literally SHOOK the arcade floor with its Hollywood quality soundtrack, bass heavy hits and insane callouts. This game always drew a crowd. Great video and wonderful synopsis as usual, Pat!

Still my favorite fighting game of all time. My dad used to take me and my bro to play it at the arcade and he always said, when this comes to Super Nintendo i’m getting it for sure. Well, one day we came home from school and my mom brought us to the basement to see my dad playing killer instinct on Nintendo and we went nuts. We played it all the time

The on the fly audio eq'ing, although just for certain high pitched sounds and voice announcements to get the attention of everyone in the arcade was so clever and ahead of its time. This came way before games started having variable sound effects for punches and gunshots and menu sounds. Now the sound effects and music are taken for granted for the most part.

I remember how the SNES game came out on the first day of my freshman year in high school. I got through the day eagerly awaiting the game, and when I got home I finally found it there.

The sound for this game was amazing. It was booming in every arcade. The music and the announcer were on point. This and Robocop had the best attract mode.

One of my favorite arcade games of all time.

Amazing work! Thanks for the shout out, glad to be a part of this!

Thanks as always for the vid. Back in the day at the university arcade, there were two crowds: the Virtual Fighter 2 crowd, and the Killer Instinct one.

This was a great Arcade game back in the day. I remember this being at our local arcade back in the 90's. I really feel bad for the kids of today who never grew up in those arcades of yesterday. I am so glad I grew up in 80's and 90's era.

Your best video yet Pat. Watched it all the way through and thumbs up for yhe algorithm. This channel deserves to go huuuuuge!

Back during those early days of fighting games (hard to imagine there was a time the genre was new) this was one of my favorites. I got the Gameboy version as a gift and was amazed at how much it captured compared to the arcade and SNES originals. Very recently picked up an Xbox One and the reboot was an immediate purchase.

Unforgettable and awesome game. Not only is the music awesome, but as someone said, the themes FIT the characters too. So many great things about this game, i am glad to know of its existence.

combo breaker!

Thank you Patman for taking my mind off some problems for a while. You are the man

Man the arcade backgrounds still look amazing.

Amazing video Patman!! Thank you for your commitment to awesomeness!!

Killer Instinct is one of my all-time favorite video games. I can still vividly remember the first time I saw it in the arcades - the stunning graphics, incredible music, and groundbreaking combos absolutely blew me away. I truly believe that Killer Instinct was a pioneer in introducing combos to fighting games. I even still have the soundtrack from the SNES version of the game.

Thanks for the video, I was waiting for it and glad you finally made it.

Another great vid Pat!!! Keep 'em coming and I'll keep watching!!!

This brings back memories, with my best friend who passed away from cancer last December. He was a monster at this game, Getting High with the feeling.... RIP Ric my old friend! CCCC Combo breaker!

Still have my copy for the Super Nintendo! Forgot about this game & had to play it after watching this video! Thanks for that! Also, i remember playing this in the Arcades in the 90s. The cabinet attracted me as it reminded me of Jason & the Argonauts! Now to find out Spinal was influenced by this movie is awesome! Also a big fan of werewolves, so i was Sabrewulf as well. i love your videos with you: Patman playing the actual arcade game! That is so Rad to see!

I remember having the first installment on the SNES when I was a kid! Certain sound effects and music (especially the music of the end of match) actually scared the hell outta me! The same should be said for the visual effects when the losing character gets knocked out from the top of a building and it lands on the ground hearing that scary final piece of music! When Big Patman's in the house....... You KNOW it's gonna be a SUPREME VICTORY!!!! PERFECT!!! 👍😁

You have the single best account for video game history and docs. And learning abt how you got started making these history videos is amazing. Love your channel and content! I look forward to every upload!

Incredible job. This was such a groundbreaking and memorable title. I feel like it has aged rather well too

Best intro period. And thanks for another COMBO BREAKER! introspective Patman

Yes please, a part 2! Great video

Congratulations. SUPREME! video, thanks for use a little part of my video memories of my channel. keep making this videos, are AWESOME! You got ULTRA INSTINCT!!! Arcade Challenger.

Wow such a great video Patrick

Another "Killer" video, Patman! Always a great day watching you talk about "happy little games". Can't wait for the next one!

Great video Pat! My friends and I first saw this in an arcade room at a D&D con. The graphics at the time were so mind blowing it was like peaking in to the future. Really cool of you to show all the finishers BTW! Also I'm glad you talked about the voice acting, in particular the overly amped up announcer who I felt was a huge draw.

Love your vids. Thanks

One of my favorite childhood games, a total hype machine. I miss those days. Thanks for the video, Patman :3

Great video as always!

Thank you for making this combo. If you could explain more of killer instinct 2 in your next video as well as go in depth into the characters I would be very grateful if you could do that. Thank you for making this video.

1) I only played this on SNES and I loved it! 2) PatmanQC's production quality has really improved over the years, and I am really digging your videos!

Loved the video. Do the other ones please .

Yes! Your videos are religion for me. The details are always great,and addictive! All hail PatmanQC! 😎

Love your videos my man!

Killer Instinct is one of my fave games. I mostly play as Orchid.... Another awesome documentary PatMan my freind. Excellent stuff.

Thanks PatMan ! . I am currently playing KI on the X-Box One . But I can remember playing it when it first came out on the PlayStation 1 . ! . Thank you Sir for taking me back .!

I lived in arcades at that time and played a ton of MK and KI. And NEVER have I ever seen a finisher/fatality/ultimate ever done in KI in any arcade so much no one even knew they existed. It wasn’t until a few years back when the updated version came out that I even saw them on RU-vid.

I remember being blown away by this game when it first came out. Awesome vid!!!

UUUUULLLLLLTTTTTRRRRRAAAAAAAAA COMBO!!!! That announcer lives in a tiny spot of my brain and comes out every once in a while just to scream that. Same with NBA JAM and "Boom Shakalaka!"

Great work! And yeah, I'd love for you to go more in-depth on KI2 and the reboot!

Great video as always Patman!! Fun fact, I have the voice from the game saying danger, eyedol, glacius, & cinder for specific text tones for certain friends…cinder is for an annoying buddy lol

Another awesome documentary. I have this game on the Rare Replay for Xbox but I never played it. So I will have to check this out and give it a go.

C-C-C-Combo BREAKER!!!!!!! Great video PatmanQC. Thank you!!

I prayed they put this in the snes emulator on the switch. ever since they did, I still play this game like crazy. wish I could play others online though. great video homie👍🏾

i fondly remember working in an arcade and telling people when they were playing ...wanna see something cool..both of you guys...hold up and all three punch buttons etc on both joysticks at the same time on the loading screen after character select... (hearing the bonus punch sound resulted in faster gameplay...slower gameplay etc depending on buttons held)

Excellent vid-doc! Please continue the series with KI2 and KI Reboot

omg RC ProAm The things I remember about this game were the fluid animations, amazing sound and the music that would thunder head and shoulders above the entire arcade lol

Another great docuvid, patman. A KI 2 arcade video would be great. I still play the RPGish mode in the steam version of the 2013 game, to this day.

21:39 I was today years old when I finally realized Fulgores fatality is a homage to the Ed-209 board room scene. 😂

Thanks for this amazing video. I was a huge fan of KI2 i used to play at a bowling place im Guatemala, what a great game! Cheers! 🇬🇹👍

Great vid Patman.

While I never got as good at Killer Instinct as I did with Street Fighter 2, it was the only other fighting game I spent any meaningful time with. Back when I was living in Los Angeles I was lucky enough to get to play a test machine for KI in Westwood, at an arcade near the UCLA campus. It was cool, as you had so many fighting game guys known in the community coming through to see the latest and greatest. The internet was barely a thing back then, but a few guys showed up from time to time with finishers and such, but since it was a test machine, things changed pretty regularly. Sadly, this was probably the last arcade game I actually spent time playing at a real arcade, as that culture was coming to a close by this time.

Oh man , i remember going to aladdins castle arcade with a roll of quarters and would play Killer Instinct for hours, some the best child hood memories of mine.

Waking up to a new PatmanQC vid. Its gonna be a good day.

This game came out right when I joined the Air Force. There was an arcade machine at the base exchange and we all played the hell out of the SNES version in the day room.

Great episode Patman, I personally would love to see a KI2 and reboot, episodes. Tight

great video, knew almost nothing about this series

There he is!!Mr Pat!! Love your stuff!!

Great video. Love this game.

Hi Patrick. wanted to see you document this for so long. its so awesome. would love to see the rest in depth. thank you!!!😌

I needed a new pat man qc today it was one of those days thanks a lot man ! By the way me and my friends used to play this a pizza 🍕 restaurant back in the day and arcade a and then his Nintendo 64 ha ha . Ps also loved th convention footage I gotta go there if it's kinda by the north west Chicago suburbs or not to far

Thank you Patman!!!!!!!

Great video Patman! I knew I had to put this on this morning while I had breakfast. Used to walk up to Godfathers Pizza (now Rudy’s Tacos) and played this several times a week. I fired it up a couple weeks ago on my OG Xbox. Definitely lost my skills 30 yrs later lol

Ultra doco PatmanQC! I had KI on the snes and I still have gold on the 64. I would like a deeper dive into KI2 and gold, that would be cool. Cheers!

Thanks for giving me some education I loved this

That’s what I’m talking about!! Thanks, PatMan!!

28:46 wonder if someone made a SNES Cart of that Rom mod 🤔 ? Really impressive work who ever made that rom hack

What I really remember especially as a kid was the sound, it was so cutting edge at the time. Ka-Ka-Ka Combo Breakerrr! Even the Gameboy soundtrack slaps (chiptunes), just like the arcade version.

It seems like everything I played as a kid was developed by either Konami, Capcom, Midway, or Rare

It’s funny how a lot of people I think forget that the N64 was gonna be the Ultra 64, there are still posters and ads for it out there. I had no idea about the Famicom history, that’s very cool! This is actually one fighter I’ve always liked, fighters aren’t normally my thing usually. Lots of great info here, my favorite finishing clips was being thrown off the roof lol. Great vid as usual Pat!!! ❤️🎮

Thanks for the documentary. Many coins spent on arcade back at the 90`s! Now i have all of them, in various platforms! I am a MK guy, but Killer Instinct will be always on my heart and favorite fighting games! Stay Strong! Peace ✌

I played the ever loving HELL out of Killer Instinct back in the day. Perfect for an edgelord like me back then. A robot with Wolverine-esque claws? A werewolf? (later with cybernetic arms!). Super hot ass kicking female? Check, check, and check. My friends refused to play me at it because I would get them in those huge combos and they'd never be able to do a combo breaker. Great video, Patman. As always!

There's a good likelihood that Rare themselves decided to keep the finishing moves on the tame side to make sure KI got a Teen 13+ rating when it released for the upcoming "Ultra 64". More kids could buy it. Plus, it mighta been hard to make a bunch of CGI character models with severed heads and limbs, etc, to digitize into sprites. Easier to chop and edit photo-based sprites like in MK.

A game of many firsts - first fighting game to not have throws, first fighting game you can cancel special moves. First game to have rendered 3D backgrounds. First game to have secret stages (sky/dungeon) Also, BEST music in a fighting game. EVER.

You get a thumbs up from me just for including that random picture of Madame Fanny La Fan from 'Allo 'Allo! Totally random lol The video was great to watch too but my thumbs up still goes to Fanny lol

Yes would love to know more about the other KI games

Man, two videos of my favorite fighters released in a row! Cinder had even more names. Announcer sound files were found in the game for “Pyrotech” and “Headshade”. I’ve also seen early footage showing his name as “Meltdown”. This game imprinted on me as a kid. I remember the first time I put a quarter in it. It was 8am at my local 24 hour arcade. I showed up still half asleep to beat the crowds and play MK2. I instead spotted this new machine with a huge skeleton on it. I had to try it. I jumped from the extremely loud “Killer Instinct” from the announcer. It looked futuristic. I was 11 at its release but honestly and foolishly thought I was seeing something from the future. It looked years ahead of any game in the arcade. I went on to run a Killer Instinct fan site & forum for 16 years. I’m so happy to have this machine in my collection. It’s truly a dream come true for me. I’ve played it consistently since it released and I’m still learning new combos to this day. I still marvel at the technology and coding. Thanks for the video Patman!

Killer Instinct has always been a favorite of mine. Love having it on my XBox and mostly working on MAME now!

Love the newest addition the the intro!

I remember getting a SNES for Christmas (was already "retro" then but still on the market - prolly 1996 or 1997). It was still the Purple Brick. KI was the pack-in, and it had the soundtrack CD.

A lot of Combos in this Killer Instinct Game. I'm guessing the developers really like pretzels with cheese in them. 😉 Great history of this game, thanks Patman.

I remembered when the game first came out in arcades it was an earlier version # and not complete yet. Cinders name was Meltdown. Also on the character select screen the character's bodies didn't spin in a 360° motion but were just in their normal fighting stances.

Another great video! Still love this game. Sabrewulf was always my go to. Who was your favorite fighter, Patman?

i knew that Ken Lobb had worked on Splatterhouse2 at Namco This series seems like a natural fit.

Great video! KI and KI2 are really tricky to emulate. If you're using Batocera, you'll need to have extra folders in your ROM folder with CHD files from the game in them in order to get it to work.

I still have the "Orchid" songs from KI1 and KI2 on my playlist 😎 lol

Another killer documentary by PatmanQC !

I got this on day one release on the SNES and got the Soundtrack with my copy the first MUST buy on day 1

One of my fondest gaming memories was playing Killer Instinct in the arcade as a young teen & pulling off Fulgore's Ultra Combo by accident mashing buttons.

This game was my addiction back in the day

Bring back memories of arcades just seeing this.