Mortal Kombat memoirs of a gamer

hbkjason

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Hi guys I am new here and for my first post I thought I would tell you the story of my introduction for Mortal Kombat.


Mortal Kombat memoirs of a gamer

Growing up as I did in the 80’s/90’s games were a huge huge part of my childhood. My friends and I were huge StreetFighter 2 fans and my best friend had a copy of it for the Super Nintendo. We played the hell out of that game. It was a fun game that was great to play with your friends. At my school at lunch time you were able to go into the town to get something to eat which most of the students did. There was a video store called good news video which had a StreetFighter II arcade machine this was usually pretty busy there was most of the time 2 guys at the machine and a line of about 10 people waiting for there turn. I was one of the top players along with 2 other guys called Paul Lamberton and a guy named Gareth who apart from our games of StreetFighter had nothing else to do with each other at school. Gareth was the top dog with myself an Paul fighting for 2nd spot each of us would occasional knock Gareth of the top but he would always be back. One particular day it was quiet at Good News Video and one of my friends Scoot came in and said they have this new game at a chip shop called Lebos. Lebos was one of the most popular places for the kids to get there lunch at my school. Scott said it was like Street Fighter but was even better and everyone was playing it.

Lebos was pretty much across the road from good news video and Scott was not kidding the place was packed. There had to have been about 30 people there just for the game as well as the people buying there lunch. Lebos was busy most of the time but this was crazy we couldn’t even get in it was that busy. I was amazed by MK that day without even playing it all I could see was people playing it through the window but that was not what caught my eye. I was and still am a huge Van Damme fan and the guy on the side of the cabinet looked just like him one of my friends was convinced it was him I wasn’t so sure but there was some part of me that hoped it was. Unfortunately we all had to get back to school so we decided to head back now and tomorrow at lunch time we would run as soon as the bell go’s straight to lebos for our first taste of Mortal Kombat

So the next day while on the bus to school we decided that we would wait till each of us got to the front of the school and then make our way down for some Mortal Kombat. A great concern my friend Scott Simpson who was in drama class before lunch the problem here was it was at the very far end of the school so me made sure he knew he had to hurry his ass up which he did. When we got to Lebos we were shocked that there was already a pretty big line. There were 3 of us Scott Steven and my self. Steven and I waited in line for MK while Scott went and got lunch. I could not wait for my turn people were cheering and shouting at the game screen. It was weird how excited for a game I was considering I never really knew anything about it just what me and my friends had imagined it would be.

It was finally my turn I step up with my 50 pence to play the game my opponent was a guy who was probably in 5th or 6th year at school so he would have been about 16 or 17. I put my money in and was blown away at how real the people looked. I picked Jonny Cage of course my opponent Sub Zero. To say I got my ass handed to me was a bit of a understatement the guy I was playing turns out was already somewhat of a expert and he just kept freezing then uppercutting me. I did however manage to get a uppercut in of my own and though it was so cool 2nd round I again got beaten without getting much offence in and when I was hit for the final; time and my opponent was told to finish me I was franticly hitting all the buttons hopeful I could get out of the daze then it happened. He ripped my damn head off I have to be honest here at first I didn’t even notice the blood while I was playing the game I was just so focused on the fight.

I could not believe what I had just seen. I asked the guy how he did it but he obviously could not be bothered with a kid and just said it was a secret. Steven who was up next saw what happened to me and picked Sub Zero hoping he could do to the older kid what he had done to me but while he did a bit better than I did the end result was the same he got his head ripped off. So that was our first taste of Mortal Kombat and while I really did not get to experience much I loved it. Unfortunately Lebos was busy and the line as always was huge so that was the only game I got to play that lunch time but we went back every day for the next few weeks perhaps longer. I eventually got pretty good at the game with my chosen guy being Jonny Cage. A local newsagents had a magazine that had a MK guide in it and rather than buy the magazine we went in with a pen and bit of paper and wrote down some special moves and fatalities.

I asked the guy at our local game store if Mortal Kombat was ever coming out for the Super Nintendo. He said yes it was but for some reason kept telling me the Amiga version would be best. As a kid I had it made with the MK home versions I and Steven had it for the SNES and a couple of other friends had the Mega Drive version another buddy had the Amiga version and my cousin even had it on the Master System. The only time our MK sessions were interrupted were by school................... yeah right Ben Linge had it for the old Game Boy and while he would never let any one else play it there was usually at least 5 of us round him to watch. I don’t know if it was because it was the version that I had but I preferred the Super Nintendo even without the blood and fatalities. Now I appreciate the Mega Drive version but at the time it was always the Super Nintendo I preferred. I remember the cheat codes for the Mega Drive version which made it easier to fight Reptile something I only managed a couple of times on the Super Nintendo. While I still loved Street Fighter thee was just something special about Mortal Kombat each character had more of an identity than they did in Street Fighter. And over time Mortal Kombat would become my favourite fighting series.

So that was it my memories of the first Mortal Kombat game hope you enjoyed it and that it did not put the sleeper hold on you guys.
 
A great read, i remember when i pulled off the infamous spine rip once in the arcade, everyone was shocked.
 
I remember Sub-Zeros classic spine rip
From that day on. Sub-Zero had not just become history, But he made the ESRB we have today
Thank You Midway
 
I remember Sub-Zeros classic spine rip
From that day on. Sub-Zero had not just become history, But he made the ESRB we have today
Thank You Midway

Safe to say Sub Zero's pretty much the best character in Mortal Kombat.
 
my first game was mk2 i remember getting really mad because the cpu were so cheap and i could not beat them (use the 50 kreadits cheat) and doing my first fatality for the first time reptiles head eat by accident and...was shocked and hyped at the same time since then ive been hook'd to mk ever since..but my love for the fighting game community is just as much as it was when i played mk2
 
after scorpion? yes. if not, no.

Nah homie. Ya see, you are either "the best" or your not. Sub Zero is, the best. Not 2nd best. Noob's 2nd best. Scorpion's kneeling (not his standing) in 3rd place with a extra big, bold, special-olympics BRONZE medal taped to forehead (so the retard doesn't lose it).
 
My first MK game was mk3.

I remember going to Pizza Hut with my grandma and there was an arcade machine with MK on and I had to try it.
Love the uppercuts soooooooo much. Good times :)

Oh yeah Sub-Zero is the shit
 
Hi to everyone. Just joined the forum today
I first saw this on an arcade console in a motorway service station on the M1 . i knew even then that this was a total new level of combat style game but who would have thought it would have lasted this long !!!
I agree with most here that scorpion and sub sero are certainly the most popular characters of the game. I first had this on a sega megadrive console then mk2 and so on . I dont think I´ll ever get tired of this game
 
My first MK was MK: Deadly Alliance and it was also my first mature-rated game.

Then I played MK2 and I legit thought only the CPU could use specials lol but I had a heck of a lot of fun anyway.
 
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