THIS CHARACTER HAS A FLATTOP??? (KILLER INSTINCT TAS REACTION) 

Killer Instinct is such a classic. The soundtrack alone is 🔥

The fact that SMUG said that Killer Instinct was "before his time" makes me feel old. LMAO 🤣

Cannot believe Smug never played Killer Instinct before.

If Smug played modern KI, TJ Combo is exactly who he'd use. Duff City with a command grab? Oh that's it right there.

Speaking of arcade tournaments, here's a fun fact: In arcade tournaments (back in the day), Cinder used to be banned, partly because of his infinite air juggle, but also because, with a then-secret code, you could select Eyedol with Cinder (who was also banned, in part also because of his infinite air juggling).

Back in the 90s flat top was a thing for every culture

Wait until he discovers TAS's for the Arcade version of KI. Now that's where you get into the real busted stuff.

You could get crazy high combos on the original SNES version. I remember cooking people with Orchid once you found that near-infinite links into an Ultra.

Killer instinct was the first fighting game I ever practiced just so so i could beat my dad on it, me being a saberwulf player and my dad on orchid The day I discovered i could do a charge move, hit normals, and have time to charge another special something changes in my life.

Y'all know SMUG has that Killer Instict CD which is why the music in this video slaps so hard!!

T.J. Combo, Orchid, Spinal and Glacius were my favorite characters from that game.

Bro, this was my second fighting game. The original Mortal Kombat was the first (that game sucks for real) but when i found this i was blown away. It's still good to this day. At like 7 years old I would sit in training mode for hours and hours. It was my Aunts game, and she would always go "WHY DON'T YOU PLAY THE GAME INSTEAD OF SITTING IN TRAINING MODE" Today, I have had the pleasure of fighting some of the best players in the world in UNI. Big Black always knocks me out of everything lol. This game is so special to me. Good stuff Smug. Much love, with the greatest of ease

“available for your home in 1995 only on the Nintendo ultra 64!” This is Maximillian Doods favorite fighting games. Love the original game so much TJ Combo is my favorite fighter. Got the code mystics version on Xbox series S. The arcade version released 1994. SNES was 95. UUULLLTTRRAA CCOOMMMBBOO!! This game was originally called Brute Force I think and they changed it to Killer Instinct. And the game was supposed to be on N64 (at the time called the Nintendo Ultra 64) but was moved to the SNES console. Don’t remember why. May have been the console delay where the N64 released in 96. Eyedoll is so hard you land one hit and he goes beserk mode almost KO’s you on arcade hardest difficulty and on top of that I think he has a move where he can heal himself when he slides or stomp his hoof down and don’t remember which one.😂 Smug you should check out the arcade version of the game.

TAS videos are always fun to watch. especially fighting games with frame perfect inputs

Man you should totally take a look at the arcade combo showcases. People getting 50+ hit combos with the cast is amazing. I love KI and seeing people be amazed by it makes my day.

TJ combo would be your dad that game came out in 94 in the arcades. This is the SNES version is 95, i would play this on my bros SNES as a kid in the early 00s.

HE FINALLY PUTS KI CONTENT ON HIS CHANNEL.

It reminds you of MK because during the time of MK3 the marketing of the game was doo doo, they then brought Trilogy by using KI's combo system and then created the Ultimate version... So because MK used KI's combo system it revived the game and it became a classic. Many parodies of the game were created after that. Without KI there would be no MK.

Play the new one on Xbox or PC it’s hella slept on now

I'd absolutely love to see you play KI 2013, it's so sick

4:28 This was my exactact reaction watching an Ultra combo for the first time as a kid 😂

I remember playing KI on the SNES using that one internet modem adapter and playing against people across my phonelines in the early hours of weekend mornings.

Smug I really like the vibe of your studio with your flower picture frame and regular curtains. It makes it feel like visiting an old friend's house playing video games and having fun back in the school days. Keep up the great work!

Ki is such a nice game, my man smug gotta play tj combo in KI 2013

Yo!!! Justin Wong is back on Usf4 🎉🎉🎉best edition of all time imo and many more... Where's dr diddles at Smug??? Lets get it!!! Memories of NEC!!! Smug the "gate crasher" !!!

Going to the arcade in the 90s and getting blown by the loud sounds was something special.

I haven't smiled this hard in awhile. Living your reaction man!

the soundtrack, amazing.

BTW, Eyedol is such a pos because he can literally recover health by stomping his hoof.

Someone link SMUG a TAS of the Arcade Killer Instinct. Minds will be (more) blown.

I used to love playing as Orchid, Jago and Riptor back on the SNES. Man I feel old now.

Wish you could experience walking into a dimly-lit arcade and see this running the Attact Mode running for this game (look it up!) The 90s was such a special time for fighting games in the arcades. Mortal Kombat 2 dropping was a HUGE deal. Everyone huddled around the new machines, trying to figure out everything without the internet around to help... "Coming Soon to your home on Nintendo ULTRA 64"...legendary stuff.

I am going to be doing playthroughs once I get a Nintendo Switch! This is the very first fighting game in which I was introduced to and haven't looked back since! It's awesome to see greatness finally getting it's exposure!

Oh man I need to see you play TJ Combo in KI 2013

KI was the perfect blend of SF and MK back in the day. It took the best of each game and made its own thing on top of that, truly one of the unsung pillars of the FGC Golden Age.

I never thought I would enjoy a third party gamer. The was actually a fire video. The nostalgia of watching those killer combos and seeing someone experience it for the first time. It was cool.

30 year aniversary coming up

The soundtrack for this game is absolute fire!!🔥 🔥🔥🔥

2:16 the best one ever my friend

4:29 when that hot sauce start kicking in

There is actually a dinosaur fighting game in this style... it's called Primal Rage (1994).

In high school we would play KI and KI2…but only in training mode. This game was all about showing off your execution. It’s the perfect smug game.

Hi. I'm TJ. You damn right I played TJ Combo in this classic known as Killer Instinct. And yes, I too had a high top fade and flat top as a youngster. In fact, I damn near used everyone in this game. Thus, this made me come up with depth charts no matter the fighting game. For those who have never played this game, go to an arcade that has a Killer Instinct cabinet, and invest $10 to it. Make it a pilgrimage if you have to. Why? Well, all of a sudden, nearly ev'very fighting game is combo based and the music has to be perfect. Thanks To... KILLER INSTINCT. You will get hooked and make sure the owner is cool that he or she will turn the game all the way up on the volume. IYKYK.

The whole roster is fun dude! My personal favorites are combo, fulgore, and Sabrewulf.

That fatality is called the Arm Break.

Seeing ultra combos with the arcade music and sound Effects turned up with the bass and music/ combo was insane in the arcades. Ullltraaaa would be so fucken loud. The whole game was extremely loud and wild.

When I was a kid I used to play Cinder because his combos where extremely easy to do. Years later I emulated the game on my Wii and I got obsessed with Fulgor, crazy nasty combos.

A meduim height flat top looks good, but it's hard to find a barber that can do it. They always make it look like a Kid and play eraser head or an ugly short military skin fade one. The white version of a good flat haircut is Ivan Drago. I forgot to mention that people with receding hairline can't pull off a flat top.

Now this made arcades in the 90s. You became the the talk of arcades when you hit them ultras. My favorite is cinder i was unstoppable with him.

I was in middle school when this game dropped. It's a classic fr. I can't believe I didn't peep all the MK comparisons until right now

TJ combo is definitely Smug's spirit animal. I'm glad he found him. I'm not gonna lie, I'm 36, so I def played this game, and it was so fun getting that ultra combo

This takes me back to when I was 10 or 11 years old playing this in the arcade was amazing! Orchid and Cinder where my mains, Spinal and Fulgore came next. KI was meant for N64, but they released it on supe NES. The graphics were let down compared to what the arcade had.. the arcade would say ultra 64 cause that was the code name for the N64 before release. Loved the video!

I remember using the SNES version of Killer Instinct to practice combos to use at the Arcade. And I loved the audio CD 💿 that came with the game… I listened to the soundtrack for months!

Neeeeeed this as a series.. the nostalgia is uncanny

This was basically their character of Mike Tyson for this game in case anybody didn't know that. That's why they made the character but they didn't want to make it exactly like Mike cuz they didn't want to pay him so they derived this character up. Gave him a flat top as you noticed he has the American colors on. They basically was representing Mike Tyson when he was going for the Olympics Golden gloves back when he was a beast

That ending uppercut on the ultra is just chefs kiss it makes the combo I still remember cinders ultra to this day lol

The wait lines with ppls quarters on the bottom of the screen were longer than mortal Kombat when this game came out

Yo this combo was hilariously godlike 😂 4:28

I played this like crazy as a kid on the SNES, just practicing combos and seeing how many hits my ultra combo can go to, or just figuring rumors such as shadow combos and playing as the boss Eyedol...simpler times and so much fun

One the main gimmick in KI1 - if character ducking - you can do overhead attack. But AI here try to spam overhead attack if you are ducking even if you outside of range

OG Killer Instinct has one of the greatest OST in videogames ever

The SNES version came with a cd with a banging soundtrack.

@SMUG You should play some Killer Instinct. You'd really enjoy TJ Combo.

Wow killer instinct was a classic Smug

this game will always be a freaking classic !!!!!!!!!!, hands down one of the best fighting games of the 90s.... my favorite was Sabrewulf, Spinal, and Tusk, and Orchid ! so fun !

The sounds are so distinct, every character.

I played with Thunder on the original KI from 1995. I played Jago in KI2 in 97, since Thunder wasn’t in KI2. I played with Thunder, Jago, and Shadow Jago in the new KI on Xbox.

For those who dont know, Killer Instinct was a Spoof video game to kinda pick jokes at Street Fighter which ended up being a pretty good game ...AND it was also the first Fighting game wit a Combo system...

Once you see your first 30-hit Ultra on the SNES, , you're hooked. You may never look at a fighting game the same way, again.

The fact smug never played KI is wild to me KI is a Nintendo classic

Back in the 90's Killer Instinct was the First Game in that Time that Had Combos like this..

You must see the a TAS in the arcade version. The graphics was out of this world back then

C TO THE O TO THE MBO!!! Killer Instinct will always be my favorite. First fighting game I ever played

The greatest comeback in any fighting game happened in Killer Instinct. At Evo, My God Vs. Sleep. Greatest comeback ever. You would break the table reacting to it. Maximilian Dood on the call too.🎉

KI - Orchid KI2 - Sabrewulf Killer Instinct back in the day was Mortal Kombat’s rival game. Though the franchise wasn’t as ambitious in perusing sequels, it stood eye to eye with most fighting games. The SNES and N64 versions were “okay” but nothing like the arcade!

A Rare Game😎😎😎 perfection ahead and beyond the time

Spinal and Cinder were my mains for a _LONG ASS_ time. Spinal was my original and the first character I learned to do Ultra Combos with but Cinder was the one I got best with.

This game is GOAT’d soundtrack was fire back then and now!

I played the absolute hell outta this on SNES back in the 90s glad someone turned smug on to TJ

He should have been advised to look up only the arcade version, that looks very good even today. Also videos of the snes version, if really old, are extra downgraded because of the YT compression and because the own original videos probably are fairly low quality. Oh and also the fact this is him watching a video on stream.

My favorite was always Jago. Remembered dropping plenty of quarters in this game when I was on deployment exercises in Yuma AZ. You need to watch this game when they CPU can actually fight back. Great combo breaker mechanic for it's time...

Killer instinct started combos for the fighting game industry

I’m glad you like killer instinct, bro you should definitely Ki 2013 man It’s a really fun game and you’ll really like TJ combo in that game🔥🔥🔥

KI use to be the loudest machine in the arcade and nothing was more hype than seeing people combo each other into oblivion.

I remember seeing this in the arcade back in the day and the sound was fucking cranked and the announcer was yelling at you! Good times

Like seriously when I'm playing pool and shoot a really hard combo I always yell out "TJ Combo!!!!!" The younger guys have no idea what I'm talking but the guys in their 40s like me that played him in the arcades get a kick out of it lol

This game was so epic when it came out! The graphics were very advanced for the time... I used to play this in the Arcade and later on console when it came out. It's still a thing in the fight game scene and I believe there was even a recent new version. The combo's were crazy especially the ultra's... i there were even some infinites. It's basically MK with other characters (fancier graphics at the time) and a better combo system (64+ hit combo's). At the time you could only get the combo's from game magazines or watching other players. No internet...

"Who are the coolest characters in killer instinct?" All of them. No im not kidding or exaggerating. Though Glacius's puddle punch is my favorite move in fighting game history.

Killer instinct was the first game i ever played. I never knew how to combo (i was a 3 year old) but flailing about was so much fun to me.

This was the SNES version. The arcade version would zoom in and out depending on how far away from each other you were.

Combo is my fave. Cinder is a cheat code very easy to use, but thunder is complicated but beast mode once you learn him

Yooo!!! The spinal soundtrack is gangsta!!!

Driving with boxing gloves on is diabolical work

I don't usually watch the videos of old games, but if you played the KI I would watch that.

bro, thank gosh you went back to your old music lol that song you were experimenting with in some videos had such a depressing mood to it. Dope Video man!!

When I was 15 I was a master of killer instinct on SNES. it's been 28 years, but I know id still pick TJ combo every time in VS. You can do a glitch combo and actually miss with his ultimate combo.

i cant believe Combo actually knocked Orchid, off the roof and landed her on his car, bad move buddy, now you have to pay for the expensive again 4:29

Fun fact about KI1, grabs were so universally hated and considered cheap by the fgc back then that the KI team made KI1 with absolutely no grabs or throws at all, it wasn't until KI2/ gold when they finally implemented grabs at all.

Orchid then later Tj combo. I like his semi mui tai style. Reminds of Michael jai white in undisputed.

It brings me back really fun game definitely give it a try