Your Very First Mortal Kombat Experience? (Nostalgia Time!)

[ETC Mcfly]

MK1 1993

 

[GamerBlake90]

So honestly, given the above, the attitude of his friends was kind of fair. Most games don't make it so being better than your opponent makes them feel so damn turned off to it. It really isn't fair that for this genre we have to choose between being good and having fun with our masher friends. It's just something fighting games does. It makes people who are at a lower skill level feel like they are playing a different and lesser game.

This is why I'm so defensive about how games like MK and KI are working to be more inviting to new players, why I'm so excited about games like Rising Thunder, and why I'm so disappointed that the Street Fighter community feels like there is some massive loss because the new game will have 3-frame link minimums for easier execution.

I agree with the second paragraph, but vehemently disagree with the first. Justifying the attitude of Scott's friends as "fair" in any way at all is appalling. What fairness is involved when his friends play him only because they could win against him all the time, until that changed?

 

[YourMKArcadeSource]

I was 12 years old. The year was 1992. My grandfather owned and operated a bowling alley that had a few arcade games. One Wednesday night, I went with my dad to watch him bowl his league. When I got there, I saw that my grandfather had removed all the old games and put in some new ones. One of them was Mortal Kombat. I went to check it out. Couldn't really tell much from watching the attract mode, but man, oh, man did I think it was cool. I had played Pit Fighter and thought the digitized actors/characters at the time was awesome (even though that game was total shit), but I remember thinking that MK was so much better. The overall look of the cabinet, the artwork, the control panel, etc just really made me think this game was going to be bad ass. My dad gave me $5 and needless to say, I went through it pretty quickly. It didn't matter though...I was hooked! That's my story regarding my first MK experience. I've been a loyal, die-hard fan since that day when I was 12...

 

[MKF30]

Was literally a kid, think 8 or 9 at the time playing MK 1 at the arcade noticing Scorpion do "GET OVER HERE!" and Sub-Zero freeze him like "what the heck is that? It's not cartoony like that Street Fighter game" and feeling instantly intrigued by MK, playing it and watching the A.I. do a fatality I was like woah! lol

Then I remember playing it more in the arcades, bowling alleys and A.C. after that UMK3 especially I remember groups of people putting quarters up saying "I got next" good memories.

I also have one other great nostalgic memory when MK 2 first came out I saw the A.I. blow me up Raiden's explosion fatality and me being grossed out like seeing guts, bones everywhere I remember it disgusting me so much I didn't eat lunch that day lol first time I saw that. Though it was awesome I was like "that's nasty" lol but awesome.

Later on my local bowling alleys when I was a bit older got some MK 2, UMK3 and SF Alpha machines in there, I remember playing them in between bowling league breaks constantly. Oh and they had Bust-A-Move too lol. I miss the good old days of Arcades, shame there's only a few left here and there.

 

[skater11]

First played MK2 on snes then I found out there was a first game (lol) and I tried it out. though, now that I think of it, I can't recall ever having a copy of MK1. Closest thing I came to owning one was this...

 

[RM Jonnitti]

one of my earliest memories ever was playing mk2 on snes at my cousin's apartment in queens, ny. he would body me, do a fatality and i would cry. my mom saw what we were playing and freaked tf out lmfao

 

[Mikemetroid]

I've been playing Mortal Kombat for so long I don't even know when I started to play it. The earliest memory I have is being at my Dad's girlfriends house in the year 98, and she bought us (she was loaded) a copy of MK1 on the SNES. I still have this copy!

 

[Lariives]

There was an MK arcade at my local hockey arena, and I would save quarters on a week to week basis to get a couple of plays a week. I was hooked as soon as I heard "Come'ere!" for the first time uttered by Scorpion.
When it came out for the Super Nintendo (no blood), is when I mastered the game.
My best memories of the franchise are with MK2. For me, it still stands as the best of the franchise, and still play it today. A buddy of mine's father owned a chain of laundromats, and had MK2 arcade at one of them. When he sold the business, he gave the arcade to my buddy, and we had it at our apartment during University. I don't know how I passed...
Now I play an 'old school' style of MKX and get owned by the newer fans to the franchise...

 

[theend1114]

What a beautiful topic. My first experience playing the game was at my grandmothers house and she bought a PlayStation for the grand children. At this point I was already hooked on fighting games (played alot of soulcalibur and virtua fighter). She bought us MK Trilogy. The whole game was amazing to me, but my absolute favorite character has always been Jade. I just love how she would act like projectiles mean nothing to her. In addition, she had the best fatalities. Good times.

After that, my next Mortal kombat was Deception (ironically that was the next one to feature Jade again), and after that I became such a fan that I went back and played every MK game. I truely love this franchise <3

 

[XxTheGoblinX]

One morning before school my Uncle called and told me to look at his new game he got.I was around 6. Shaolin Monks, I watched as Liu Kang kicked some dark priest of the screen. I stared in amazement dying to play but then my mom forced me to school. After a few years i picked up Mk Armageddon, mastering Noob Saibot and practicing my own little combos and falling in love with Konquest Mode. Sparked my intrest and a few games later I met tym.

 

[The XBANDER]

First experience with mk was playing mk on genesis after using abacabb blood code and the dullard code. But i wasnt hooked. Then i went to an arcade in green acres (long island new york) mall which had mk2 mad loud. I lost my mind at that point. I picked shang and some dick told me u can morph by pressing start like in the street fighter II hacks. He lied lol. I played in arcades until the game came out on console and still went to play land , broad way arcade (in Manhattan) and even fun time usa (in Brooklyn). Then xband came out which for those that dont know let u play mk2,ssf2 and other games online via a phone line. I then became an online warrior lol up until they went out of bussiness. My old gamer tag is in tips and tricks magazines for the rankings etc... The xband device was a modem that let you play mk2,mk3 , ki and other games via phone lines for snes and genesis. Since then i loved mk outside of the 3d ones (mkda -mka) and came back with mk9, injustice (which i didnt like much), mkx and ki

Edit: i was a big fgc dude back in those days. From sf2 - alpha 3 and even ex. Man i miss these games heh.

Hey Eddie! Darkstalker -D- nice to see you here. Im surprised you didnt get in on the xband documentary a few years ago. Im in it.

 

[B W1zZ]

 

[Saltea Moonspell]

1993 - MK1 Arcade, downtown,

Taking shit from older guys and learning how to play right, and dont bitch about nerfs/buffs......oh wait a minute, we didnt do that back then, we sucked it up, man up, grab more change, and learn to beat that ugly moth$&^$ standing next to the Arcade : )

 

[Revy]

I think I told people here my origin story not to long ago but I might as well tell it again:

Around 1998-1999 my uncle would teach me how to play UMK3 on cabinets around Toronto as it was his version of babysitting my brother & I. Since I was old enough to not be shitting my pants I was able to go with them. We went to this arcade that had these leather bar stools and he sat down with me on his lap asked me who I wanted to learn, I picked Stryker so he taught me how to play then each time, we’d go to places where he knew there was an UMK3 machine he would teach me how to play until I was good enough on my own then he taught me high level play. I was told by my brother that he was thankful that I cared about Mortal Kombat because he wanted to play the Jurassic Park arcade game & other fighting games that my uncle didn’t approve of (Like War Gods) out of spite.

That basically started my journey of being an fighting game player & started my love for fighting games.