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Anyone remember playing these ones in the arcade? The fatality I liked to do in MK2 was melina's, where she sucks them in and spits out the bones. Someone told me that you could do combinations of finishing moves, that once he saw someone playing Melina, and she was spitting out the bones, there was a flower and the person was a baby. I remember in school everyone was trying to get the moves, I got some of them off of Prodigy back in 93.
And does anyone remember a cartoonish, but violent fighting game called time killers, in that game (which had tons of blood) it was possible to kill your opponent mid match be decapitating them, happened to me once, think that's unfair? I mean yes "critical hits" are good for the person who does them but absolutely sucks for the person who dies from the first hit.

I remember them. Mortal Kombat 3 was a perennial fave.

At least until Soul Edge.

At which point it got horribly, horribly Owned. Who cared about your puny Fatality when I've got a Big Fucking Sword.

(Going back to the Mortal Konbat games after playing anything from Namco just makes you want to puke, they're so horribly bad)

Vendetta wrote:I remember them. Mortal Kombat 3 was a perennial fave.

At least until Soul Edge.

At which point it got horribly, horribly Owned. Who cared about your puny Fatality when I've got a Big Fucking Sword.

(Going back to the Mortal Konbat games after playing anything from Namco just makes you want to puke, they're so horribly bad)

Mortal Kombat 5 Deadly Alliance is pretty good and I think it has redeemed the MK franchise to at least a position where their is a good chance of it coming back to a worthy contender in the fighting game arena.

IMO the Dead or Alive games and the Soul Calibur games are dead even for favorites in my books. One sey is a terrific fist to fist fighter the other is a terrific weapons based fighter. However, the DOA series especially DOA 3 for Xbox has the best graphics out of all the fighters I have seen.

Shrykull wrote:Anyone remember playing these ones in the arcade? The fatality I liked to do in MK2 was melina's, where she sucks them in and spits out the bones. Someone told me that you could do combinations of finishing moves, that once he saw someone playing Melina, and she was spitting out the bones, there was a flower and the person was a baby. I remember in school everyone was trying to get the moves, I got some of them off of Prodigy back in 93.

I believe that was a friendly.

And does anyone remember a cartoonish, but violent fighting game called time killers, in that game (which had tons of blood) it was possible to kill your opponent mid match be decapitating them, happened to me once, think that's unfair? I mean yes "critical hits" are good for the person who does them but absolutely sucks for the person who dies from the first hit.

I remember a game like that, but I don't recall it having that name.

neoolong wrote:I remember a game like that, but I don't recall it having that name.

Might you be thinking of Guilty Gear X? In that, a player can at any point try for a deathblow that would instantly kill the other person. You need to set up for it, and that setup drains health and super gauges at a high rate. It's a very well-animated 2-D fighter with some of the most outlandish designs to appear in a fighting game. The sequel, Guilty Gear XX, was released a few months ago.

ALL HAIL TEKKEN!!!

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Errr...

"Time Killers"? Sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't remember it..

~ver

Icehawk wrote:Mortal Kombat 5 Deadly Alliance is pretty good and I think it has redeemed the MK franchise to at least a position where their is a good chance of it coming back to a worthy contender in the fighting game arena.

Seems WAY too much to me like a mix between Tekken and other 3D games and MK2 (by far the best MK ever).

IMO the Dead or Alive games and the Soul Calibur games are dead even for favorites in my books. One sey is a terrific fist to fist fighter the other is a terrific weapons based fighter. However, the DOA series especially DOA 3 for Xbox has the best graphics out of all the fighters I have seen.

I've not played DoA, but I have a VERY difficult time playing the SC games because of the way the controls are set up (at least, arcade wise). I prefer Tekken, myself, because it's pretty smooth, nice graphics, and I like the controls. Reaction time severely slowed between Tekkn 3 and 4, but it's still a really good game series, even if it has a .. weird .. storyline.

~ver

Ah, MK2; I got so terribly owned in that. I'd go down to the arcade at the roller rink (you'd be surprised how many go there just to beat on others in video games) and there'd be these freaks who could kill me in one succesful combo and pull a triple-uber-death-ray-machine-fatality on me.

Killer Instict (which many of you may remember from SNES fame) was very similar, except I could remember some of the combos there--especially for the Glacier guy--and actually win half the time.


Don't even try to fight me in Smash Bros. I'll kick you in the head and make you beg for mercy.

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Don't even try to fight me in Smash Bros. I'll kick you in the head and make you beg for mercy.

Sounds like gow I used to be with Tekken4.. I wonder if I'm still that good.. I haven't played in FOREVER...

~ver

Melty Blood!

Datana wrote:

neoolong wrote:I remember a game like that, but I don't recall it having that name.

Might you be thinking of Guilty Gear X? In that, a player can at any point try for a deathblow that would instantly kill the other person. You need to set up for it, and that setup drains health and super gauges at a high rate. It's a very well-animated 2-D fighter with some of the most outlandish designs to appear in a fighting game. The sequel, Guilty Gear XX, was released a few months ago.

I also remember there was a star wars game for Atari where you could gradually wear down an AT-AT with your shots, or try to hit the obscure flashing red spot for an instant kill. The red spot was hard to hit however, did anyone hit it every time?

verilon wrote:ALL HAIL TEKKEN!!!

[blinkblink]

Errr...

"Time Killers"? Sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't remember it..

~ver

yep, you play with characters from different time periods, the ones I can remember were a knight, a caveman, and this space guy called Orion, I got almost to the end with him where I lost to his clone.

neoolong wrote:

Shrykull wrote:Anyone remember playing these ones in the arcade? The fatality I liked to do in MK2 was melina's, where she sucks them in and spits out the bones. Someone told me that you could do combinations of finishing moves, that once he saw someone playing Melina, and she was spitting out the bones, there was a flower and the person was a baby. I remember in school everyone was trying to get the moves, I got some of them off of Prodigy back in 93.

I believe that was a friendly.
recall it having that name.

nope friendship is only the flower, this was a combination of a friendship, babality and her fatality, I never actually saw it performed however, so it could be BS, the animalities in MK2 were BS until MK3 introduced them.

verilon wrote:ALL HAIL TEKKEN!!!

*grumples* These spoiled kids.. All hail International Karate+.

SHODAN wrote:

verilon wrote:ALL HAIL TEKKEN!!!

*grumples* These spoiled kids.. All hail International Karate+.

Oh, bite me. I grew up with Mortal Kombat 2, and then when I couldn't play that anymore, I didn't play fighting games for a good several years until Tekken 4 came out, and that is now by far my favorite fighting game, for reasons stated above.

~ver

I remember "playing" them in the arcades, i sucked big style. i much prefer to buy the game when it comes out for a console.

Games like Time Crisis are a completely different thing altogether though. I can't remember the last time i didn't play a Time Crisis 2 machine when i had enough money for a game.

Nah. Time crisis is redundant. Too compicated.

House of the Dead is better, stick in a couple of credits worth, pick up both guns, and you're away.

For either though...sadly it's pure memorization.

I can still plunk in credits and do TC2 entirely...sometimes getting the high score(meaning 3-4 shots per person, and killing every Red jacketed fool and getting around 25 -30 constant hits)

HoD1 I love...HoD2 just at times cheats...but can beat either with 1 credit...sometimes 2 for HoD2.

Though unfortunatly no arcade around is of the nice small time...just the giant racing, multiplaying type.

Time Killers: ENGAGE!

Yes I remember that game.. thought it was damn cool.

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Don't even try to fight me in Smash Bros. I'll kick you in the head and make you beg for mercy.

Figuratively, right? Because I can't picture you kicking anyone in the head. But I may take you up on that.

Super Smash Bros. isn't a true fighter, IMHO. It's closer to an action platformer.

SylasGaunt wrote:Time Killers: ENGAGE!

Yes I remember that game.. thought it was damn cool.

Time Killers was okay. I remember a semi-sequel they did called BloodStorm. That one allowed you to not only cut off their arms or head, but also slice them in half. You could also get weapons from your enemies, and with a password, call them up again whenever you play.

Another obscure game I loved was Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side for the Sega CD. That game had some serious Fatalities. Each Stage had two: an Overkill and a Sudden Death. Both required you to knock the opponent into a certain spot to finish them off, although a Sudden Death could be pulled off even if the opponent had a little life left. Each Character also had a Vendetta, which was your classic Fatality(one character would grab you by the throat, pull out a knife, and stab you until the screen faded out), and a Cinekill, where if you beat the opponent correctly, the Final Boss would teleport in and kill the opponent in a CG scene.

My favorite game was "Barbarian", also known as "Death Sword" on the PC. There were all kinds of moves and one was a spin jump with the sword and cut to the neck. It was effective, but you saw it coming a km away. Normally it only worked with the easier computer opponents and beginner players, unless you somehow took your opponent by surprise.

Slartibartfast wrote:My favorite game was "Barbarian", also known as "Death Sword" on the PC. There were all kinds of moves and one was a spin jump with the sword and cut to the neck. It was effective, but you saw it coming a km away. Normally it only worked with the easier computer opponents and beginner players, unless you somehow took your opponent by surprise.

how old was this game, and how was it compared to other barbarian games, like Golden Axe and Rastan and Rygar?

I have barbarian for my old spectrum 128k*

That should tell you how old it is.
(late 80's)

* - Assuming the tape is still readable, it's been a long time since I dug it out.

what's spectrum? I thought I knew all the consoles out then, Nintendo, Genesis, turbographics 16, and a little later SNES and Neo-geo.