STB Shujinkydink
Burning down in flames for kicks
What were you doing 10 years ago? do you remember? How different was your life?
Im here to tell you about how different the MK community was about 10 years. When injustice launched and an influx of new members came in and i was quickly reminded that they had no idea about what life at TYM was like before injustice. I got around to thinking, MK9 brought about a lot of new faces i had never seen online before. Names that are household names to the MK community now were completely new to me. Imagine looking at 16 bit or CDjr or Perfect Legend as just another newbie on the forum. Im here to tell you the story of the Modern MK community, and to entertain you with tales of who the elders on this site really are, and how we came to come to this great site we have today.
THE BEGINNING
The year was 2004, and being that I skipped Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance due to me being a snot nosed 15 year old boy who was busy skateboarding and setting parking lots on fire, I figured it was time to get back into Mortal Kombat. A game I used to play on an arcade machine every week at my local bowling alley. I had seen a commercial for mortal kombat deception and it looked incredible, it had been ages since I've seen the characters but it was entertaining to watch so I picked it up upon release. Having no idea how to play fighting games I decided to use the power of the internet to teach me. I had no idea what I found that day would change my life completely from thereon out.
I stumbled upon a little site called MKO. From what I could tell by the search results it appeared to be the MK site to be at. So i joined up, and introduced myself. I was a complete scrub at the time. I had hidey accounts, I would decline everyone that had a better record than me, and I played for that top spot on the leaderboard(which I eventually obtained through scrubbery so suck on that it actually works). It wasn't until I played a gentleman by the tag of eazytobeat that I would understand what playing the game actually meant. Ill go into more detail about him at later date, he's a big staple of the early community.
After a few months on MKO, wasn't long at all, I saw a heated debate start up between a member and a mod. The Mods name was "The Pink Ranger" and she was the bane of our existence. She would delete posts and ban people at the first sight of poor sportsmanship or disagreement. She made all of our lives a living hell, but being MKO was the only place to read about MK online at the time, we had to live with it. The member in question i believe was General M2Dave a name you forum goers are all too familiar with these days. After his continuous trolling, some other members of the site got involved, myself included eventually, and we decided to break off into our own site, a site where we could say what we want and do what we want without fear of getting banned, reprimanded, posts deleted or anything like that. This site was born on the basis of freedom and being able to discuss a game that we loved openly. It was a small site, maybe 100 people, but we were all extremely passionate about the game and wanted a place to be able to share this. The members that I can remember involved in this transition were bobby blaze, dirtylova, Darktrax, AK Pig Of The Hut,@AK L0rdoftheFLY, m2dave, and the notorious JTF, who is a major part in the next section of the story...
Theres lots to tell about the history of the community, so Im posted it in parts to save time for everyone. If no one is interested, i wont continue, if you want to hear about the new site we created, and see when your favorite top players made an appearance in the MK scene, id love to share it. Just let me know. Either way, just know this community has thrived off the players for as long as we've been on the internet, and if we dont continue to do so, and support the sites for giving us a place to talk and play with each other then all the hard work we did once upon a time is for nothing.
- STB|EGP Shujinkydink
Im here to tell you about how different the MK community was about 10 years. When injustice launched and an influx of new members came in and i was quickly reminded that they had no idea about what life at TYM was like before injustice. I got around to thinking, MK9 brought about a lot of new faces i had never seen online before. Names that are household names to the MK community now were completely new to me. Imagine looking at 16 bit or CDjr or Perfect Legend as just another newbie on the forum. Im here to tell you the story of the Modern MK community, and to entertain you with tales of who the elders on this site really are, and how we came to come to this great site we have today.
THE BEGINNING
The year was 2004, and being that I skipped Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance due to me being a snot nosed 15 year old boy who was busy skateboarding and setting parking lots on fire, I figured it was time to get back into Mortal Kombat. A game I used to play on an arcade machine every week at my local bowling alley. I had seen a commercial for mortal kombat deception and it looked incredible, it had been ages since I've seen the characters but it was entertaining to watch so I picked it up upon release. Having no idea how to play fighting games I decided to use the power of the internet to teach me. I had no idea what I found that day would change my life completely from thereon out.
I stumbled upon a little site called MKO. From what I could tell by the search results it appeared to be the MK site to be at. So i joined up, and introduced myself. I was a complete scrub at the time. I had hidey accounts, I would decline everyone that had a better record than me, and I played for that top spot on the leaderboard(which I eventually obtained through scrubbery so suck on that it actually works). It wasn't until I played a gentleman by the tag of eazytobeat that I would understand what playing the game actually meant. Ill go into more detail about him at later date, he's a big staple of the early community.
After a few months on MKO, wasn't long at all, I saw a heated debate start up between a member and a mod. The Mods name was "The Pink Ranger" and she was the bane of our existence. She would delete posts and ban people at the first sight of poor sportsmanship or disagreement. She made all of our lives a living hell, but being MKO was the only place to read about MK online at the time, we had to live with it. The member in question i believe was General M2Dave a name you forum goers are all too familiar with these days. After his continuous trolling, some other members of the site got involved, myself included eventually, and we decided to break off into our own site, a site where we could say what we want and do what we want without fear of getting banned, reprimanded, posts deleted or anything like that. This site was born on the basis of freedom and being able to discuss a game that we loved openly. It was a small site, maybe 100 people, but we were all extremely passionate about the game and wanted a place to be able to share this. The members that I can remember involved in this transition were bobby blaze, dirtylova, Darktrax, AK Pig Of The Hut,@AK L0rdoftheFLY, m2dave, and the notorious JTF, who is a major part in the next section of the story...
Theres lots to tell about the history of the community, so Im posted it in parts to save time for everyone. If no one is interested, i wont continue, if you want to hear about the new site we created, and see when your favorite top players made an appearance in the MK scene, id love to share it. Just let me know. Either way, just know this community has thrived off the players for as long as we've been on the internet, and if we dont continue to do so, and support the sites for giving us a place to talk and play with each other then all the hard work we did once upon a time is for nothing.
- STB|EGP Shujinkydink
