Old School roll call!!!

Wow, I'm a bit late to this thread... Just stumbled onto it today, so thanks to Electrici for bumping it again.

I've gotten nostalgic about the old #mk3 days a few times over the past 10 years... each time, my first compulsion is to put together some sort of web project for it. In late 2009, I got my old icemaster.org domain back for a new retro-MK site (last time I had it was 1996-2001 and for a short period later on but I'm not sure how/when I dropped it again in the 2000s between moving back and forth, to the west coast and back, and changing my ISP email multiple times in the process.)

I still fire up MAME to play the old MK's every now and then but I can't seem to get the settings to save in Ubuntu (aside from that, it's been great as a Win alternative imo.)

Anyway, I haven't spoken to anyone from #mk3 in the last 9 years except for McCarron and Tetterket so if anyone who posted on this thread is still checking in 4 years later, then it'd be great to hear from you. Pat, tet, dru, digital-c, tonyd, cammy, and anyone else who idled with our bots back in the day ;) I never spoke directly to Jenn or Galahad/Chris McCullough back then but I definitely remember their work.
 
Here!

I still remember playing mk1 in the arcade and being blown away by it. So much allowance pumped into that machine.

Then mk2 came out and it was the best game I ever played. So many people lined up to play. I was always amazed when someone did a fatality. Like a little kid on christmas. Some of my best memories were at the local arcade. Always had a dude there that reeked of cologne.

Mk3/umk3 came out and it seemed to get better and better. Loved the combo system and run once I got used to it. What I would give to have arcades be popular again. If there is an arcade now a days it has machines for winning tickets only. Where's the games u just played to play???

Mk4 came out and I was like wtf? Even back then I knew it wasn't too good and clunky. Big step backwards in my opinion, but I still played it cause it was mk.
 
Kano81 said:
I'm going to resurrect this thread that is 3 years old, but I'll be damned if I'm going to not contribute to this. I was big on MK in the arcades back when the original came out, then MK2, and MK3. At first I went by Kano81 (since I was born in 81, which put me at about 13 or 14 when everyone else in #mk3 seemed to be a few years older than me), then later revkano or reverend (reference to Marilyn Manson, not a Christian reverend or anything).

I feel like I was in on the ground floor of the internet, mainly due to #mk3 on efnet. I heard more strange jargon there that eventually became Internet speak so it was kind of odd to later hear people saying "leet" or "31337" when I had heard that back in #mk3 ages ago. Anyone remember that gag about some dude's beard having giblets in it? Can't remember his name for the life of me, maybe sektor? Still funny.

I happened to come across Patrick McCarron in a forum I was reading about the iPhone, and visited his website, then he had a link to here, then I was browsing the forums and came across this thread. So cool reading some of the messages from the old-timers.

ratman, I remember the greatest thing was getting an account on your site.. kano@rat.org, oh man that was so awesome. Truly felt like I belonged at that point. And running IRC on Linux, for some reason I thought that was the epitome of coolness. F mIRC.

My #mk3 homies were druboy, Digital-C, rat, McCarron, Tetsu0, TonyD, mack 10, and my god so many others I can't even remember. That was such a great time. I learned more about computers there than I ever could have. I had written a web page before anyone I knew in real life had even used the web.

I stopped playing MK seriously after UMK3, so I played MK4 a few times but never got in to it. I still really like games, mainly the Halo series, but it sucks that the arcades aren't what they used to be. I was in to Tekken for a while but nothing like MK and KI.

Anyways, I'll leave it at that. Feel free to contact me if you wish to reminisce since I doubt I'll check this much. I grew up in Wichita, KS and I still live in Kansas but up in Manhattan.
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LOL that was about me, I still don't know what got Samuels0n started on that, but we ended up being pretty good friends afterward.
 
Alittle late to the party but yeah I used to play in the arcades quite a bit. MK1-UMK3 and the occassional Gauntlet if there were enough people. Then I had to move and the place closed up and switched to home versions of the games. Console gaming is fun and all, but nothing is like what arcades were.
 
Truly one of the saddest things in gaming these days (at the risk of sounding like a grizzled old man) is that a whole generation of gamers has grown up never knowing what it was like to play fighting games in arcades. It's still possible to find an old SF II or MK machine in a pizza shop here and there, but nothing that compares to going to the arcade, seeing a new game was just installed, and placing your quarter on the edge of the screen to mark that you got next.
 
I rarely see people play arcades in the malls. But when I go to casinos in Nevada (such as in Reno or Las Vegas) the arcade place would be PACKED with people. They are mostly shooting games but other games are Tekken, Street Fighter, Marvel vs Capcom 2, and those kinds of fighting games. I saw one MK2 machine in Reno but it was empty. So for the fun of it, I played in it and when I did a fatality (Kitana's fan decapitation) a woman next to me (who was playing a game next to the MK2 machine) saw what I did and she was like, "OMG". lol I like how people react to my gruesome performance in games. I take it as compliments. ;-)
 
[sek] said:
Truly one of the saddest things in gaming these days (at the risk of sounding like a grizzled old man) is that a whole generation of gamers has grown up never knowing what it was like to play fighting games in arcades. It's still possible to find an old SF II or MK machine in a pizza shop here and there, but nothing that compares to going to the arcade, seeing a new game was just installed, and placing your quarter on the edge of the screen to mark that you got next.
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Back in my day, we didn't have online games to play at home. No... we had to stand up to play and we had to pay for every single game! We couldn't get the baddest version of a game at home, so we had to go to out to the mall or somewhere else that had what are called "arcades", and we had to dredge through 40 miles of snow and uphill BOTH WAYS!

:p
 
Old school is the only school.

First saw and played MK1 at a CHUCK E CHEESE back in 1992. lmao Then MK2 took over my life, and UMK3 even NOW, is a huge reason I am around. Long live TRUE MK........2d MK!!!
 
Tim Static said:
Old school is the only school.

First saw and played MK1 at a CHUCK E CHEESE back in 1992. lmao Then MK2 took over my life, and UMK3 even NOW, is a huge reason I am around. Long live TRUE MK........2d MK!!!
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what chuck e cheese has a mortal kombat machine!!! :O
 
[sek] said:
Truly one of the saddest things in gaming these days (at the risk of sounding like a grizzled old man) is that a whole generation of gamers has grown up never knowing what it was like to play fighting games in arcades. It's still possible to find an old SF II or MK machine in a pizza shop here and there, but nothing that compares to going to the arcade, seeing a new game was just installed, and placing your quarter on the edge of the screen to mark that you got next.
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I totally agree. Even sadder, however, is the fact that relatively youthful people such as you and I have already been relegated to the "Excuse me, sonny" set.
 
[sek] said:
Truly one of the saddest things in gaming these days (at the risk of sounding like a grizzled old man) is that a whole generation of gamers has grown up never knowing what it was like to play fighting games in arcades. It's still possible to find an old SF II or MK machine in a pizza shop here and there, but nothing that compares to going to the arcade, seeing a new game was just installed, and placing your quarter on the edge of the screen to mark that you got next.
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Ah, yes. I remember when MK4 came out at the local PGN Jump 'N Fun. All my friends flocked together and begged our parents to drive us out there. The 8 or so of us huddled around that lone machine for a good 2 hours before the manager came by and told us to let others play the game. Great times, they will be missed.
 
i remember playin mk at the atlanta CNN center in an arcade room called the goldmine,and i knew i had fell in love when i saw kano's heart rip.also do any of you old heads remember mk 3 before it was upgraded to ultimate where you could jump in with sub and do a ice clone right above there head and it was unblockable?ah those were the days.
 
My basement walls were sad when I was a kid, lol. My younger brother and I sat there and wrote out all the fatalties from all the games and hung them on the wall so we wouldn't have to go searching in the magazines.

Old school MK has the best music ever.










Man, this makes me want to cry <3
 
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