Thanks so much for watching! These videos are designed to be enjoyed as part of a series and thus, the first two videos are essential viewing. You can find those here, Mortal Kombat, m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbOBY6p13qjDcmg.html Mortal Kombat 2, m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9CbdJhnmdfaaYk.html Edit: So I mistakenly say that Arcade operators were unhappy with Midway for releasing MK3 on console so soon after the arcade release which resulted in the creation of UMK3, I did not know until now that there was an obscure documentary created in the 90’s to promote MK3, that identifies that UMK3 was in fact created in advance. Link to that documentary is here if you want to watch it for more information surrounding the creation of the game. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pteUhbiAprLUoXk.html If you’d like to see more games explained, then catch the full playlist here, m.kzfaq.info/sun/PL1OBedn71fCt6nYsng_LzCgCU93-NbOOZ

the hype for mk3 was unreal in 1995

UMK3 is still my favorite entry to this day. The gameplay was perfected as far as the 2D games goes, the speed and characters are excellent. I still enjoy playing this with friends and competitively! Great video and series.

Back as a kid, I remember thinking I created Ermac 😂 I had been obsessed with Scorpion, but had drawn a red ninja since & submitted my idea in fan art during MK2 & MK3's run. When UMK3 came out & I saw Ermac, I freaked out & showed friends at school who were also. MK fans. I really thought they liked my idea & put it in the game. Granted, I was a 4th grader, and didn't understand pallete swaps 😅 Either way, I love UMK3 & MK Trilogy so much. They were like the culmination of my childhood obsession

Mortal Kombat Trilogy is definitely my favorite version. The only real criticism are the horrible loading times, at least on the PS1.

11:21 Thanks for the glimpse into the "best Fatality in MK history"! Wished you had included Sooke laying out the bombs, however. But for real, there has never been a Fatality that embodied the "over the top" aspect of Mortal Kombat's "finishers" to the extent of Smoke blowing up the whole damn planet just to finish off his opponent! That had me rolling off the floor when I first saw it!

UMK3 was the first MK game I played in 1997 or thereabout. It remains one of my favourite games to this day and brings back so many wonderful memories.

I like that in the original 3, not Ultimate, since there were no ninjas that can be used for Noob, he was actually using a blacked out Sprite of Kano. After that, Ultimate and after, they used a proper ninja.

Love the old era of them just changing color of certain character to make completely new character. Hope this thing could happen in some way or another these days😅

MK3 is a peak fighting game. Might be the best fighting game of all time….

This MK story recap series is awesome! Great job dude. 👍

My favorite mk was the 3 one because off the crazy combos n movement

Liu Kang beating the living shit out of Shao Kahn, not once, but twice in a row is so epic

UMK3 is still the best in the series to me. If they remade it with today's technology, it would be the greatest MK game of all time.

Thanks for making this series! This series has been some of the best MK content I’ve seen. Well done

I’ll take mk3 over the early 3d polygon games any day. Mk4 was a necessary step forward but also in many ways a visual step away from how real everyone looked in mk3

Mk3 and ultimate mk3 were my favorite. Some of the best fighting games imho.

Fantastic content! I’d love to see deeper dives of each character’s storylines as well when you’ve wrapped up the entire series. Seriously well done!

Mk3 was my first Mk. Absolutely loved this game

The only MK game that I was able to master all combos. Man Liu Kang, Kabal and not to mention Sheeva’s combo was epic!!! God I miss MK3

Mk 3 the most mortal kombat of all mortal kombats.

I appreciate all your recent videos to prepare me for MK12

Great series!! Thank you for all the hard work put into these. 👌

Hey, great job on this video. I'm watching all of them and onto mk4. It's always good to see additional channels put their touch on the story recap. One small detail, tho: as far as i can remember and have played on ps1 and n64, the full aggressor meter only boosted damage shown with an additional shadow trail behind your character. No speed boost. 👍

7:20 I am SO glad to see this combo being shown in an MK3 video cuz chaining the ground saw with the spinny cocoon move got nerfed out of the final version. In my area, we never knew you could start a combo with a roundhouse, probably because you generally couldn't do so in MK 1 or 2 unless near a corner. Anyway, I remember a Sunday morning in the first few weeks since MK3 had been released where my bro, some random dudes we'd hit it off with at the arcade, and I were putting our heads together to come up with the longest combo we could think of. We pretty quickly settled on Kabal. Even though I wasn't worth a damn with him at that point since I mained Subby and Jax in the beginning, I was still able to come up with the idea of jump kick, cocoon move, ground saw, LK, LK, HP, HP, D+HP, jump kick, air projectile for a 10-hit 72% combo. I just couldn't do it myself but luckily one of the other ppl in our lil group was able to. It was awesome knowing you could pull off something like that (in that version, at least) and it led to me maining Kabal not long after that but cyber Smoke would become my new main as soon as he became unlockable, as was the case for many others.

Sadly Raiden was missing from MK3 and even MK3 Ultimate.

What a superbly made video. I was going to go to bed and stumbled across your video and ended up watching the whole thing. Well done!

I don't get that hatred towards Kurtis Stryker. He was one of the strongest and coolest fighters. I even liked his story line. MK Trilogy is by far my favorite compilation. Surprised it was criticized for the graphics. When we talk about graphics, Mortal Kombat has always been 100x better than Tekken or Street Fighter

Loving this series!!😊

MK9 is like a remake of MKT.

I think MK3 was an incomplete on the rush game which complete version was UMK3. I've seen videos, some also clipped in this video that show Becky Gable doing her part as Kitana/Mileena/Jade along with actors from MK3, like John Turk or Richard Divizio. So... at least those three female characters were meant to be in MK3 but were cut for some reason. It's not like she was called later to play her roles for an update of MK3.

Another stellar episode, good job man . I am only now as of watching this, realising that trilogy was an official release and not just the epic hack of umk3 for the megadrive lol

I really loved your series of the MK trilogy, and I'm looking forward to your next project!

I really love these videos. As a game developer myself starting an indie studio, it helps by telling me the story of these games, while also giving me a history lesson.

I love how Mortal Kombat has stayed alive till this day. Surely MK 1 would improve upon the whole MK fighting formula.

Love your channel bro. We need Cyrax in the Mk1 game !!

Gotta love the uppercut to the 2nd story.

UMK3 still my favorite!!

Thank you so much for producing this. Bought back awesome memories. I remember first playing MK3 on the SNES; it changed the face of Beat-Em-Ups forever! And the 16/32 bit Graphics were mesmerising at the time, the combos function that were replicated by other titles (Street Fighter, Killer Instinct) that followed that same year. My fav characters to play in MK3 were Sub Zero, Liu Kang and Kung Lao. I wish Boon would allow a skin in the new version for Sub Zero from MK; he was simply the coolest looking character with the best "round the world" button combo!

Great video! I think it's worth noting though, the "outrage" from the arcade operators is somewhat of a half truth. UMK3 was in development before MK3 was released, likely due to the shortened timeframe between arcade and home console releases of MK3. It's also worth noting that UMK3 was FREE upgrade for arcade operators.

This was my first time playing MK we had it for sega genesis, the ultimate edition❤ those were the days! Wish I still had it 😢

That sound track in the beginning brings back so much memories

Great content. Keep it up.

i love this series just continue!

No Scorpion!!! What we’re they thinking!!!

Keep up the content mate. Absolutely love it❤

Loved the video brother 🤘 I want to jam this game with friends now

UMK3 is still the best one in the series for me.

Here we go, lets get it!!!

When I was younger, I wanted to know what secrets were hidden in the arcade ladders in the background... Oh teenage me.

That soundtrack 🔥 Had that Hellrasier vibe

Very thorough. Thank you.

Banger

Amazing video, cant wait for yours on armageddon

One of my favorite things about this game is that it officially introduces different blood colors in the series.

Good vid dude, very well done.

(U)MK3 taught me the value of learning combos as a kid given i was someone who loved spamming projectiles at the time.

UMK3 on Sega Mega Drive was and still my fav MK game. MK trilogy was just as you described

Can’t wait for mk4 loving the series

Mk3 releasing without Scorpion is like Street Fighter with no Ryu wtf were they thinking

Well done!

When I saw the sub zero story as a kid I actually thought cyrax was a cyber scorpion

I remember swapping worms for MK trilogy on ps1 with my cousin ... Best choice I ever made!!!!

MK3 and its extensions Ultimate MK3 (UMK3) & MK Triology were the best in the saga... I played soooo many hours on that. Still so hard to do a fatality, let alone a Brutality. The level of hard of this game is ridiculous, remind the bosses that destroy you with 4 hits.

Saw this one first But I'll go back and rewatch the first two

Mortal Kombat trilogy for the PS1 is hands down number 1

Man looking at your content being explained like this !..your better than game informer 😂😂💯

I forgot scorpion wasn't in MK3! My favorite from the original trilogy

Damn good video.

3 was my 2D favorite. The atmosphere, speed and massive number of features were improvements for me. Besides, its the first one I actually knew how to play 😂

Every mk game needs to be on switch

on the Playstation 1 version of mortal kombat trilogy you could hit select on jax,kung lao,raiden and kano to choose there mk1 and mk 2 version

I'm still angry there's not a MKT remaster! I mean, not remake: REMASTER! For all systems. Imagine how fun that would be...

I love this game

The firs 3 mortal kombats are the 🐐. I miss the music and overall eerie feel it once had

I liked that when you played as the boss characters (in MK Trilogy) you were overpowered. In more recent games, those boss characters are just regular characters and lose their mystique. I miss Motaro. I wonder if the mechanics are just too hard to do in a game to make him hard, but balanced. Then again, boss characters are usually cheap in fighting games.

Complaining about an actual new character like Stryker but not about palette-swapped robots is an interesting take.

Old MK was the best honestly..this new mk1 looks like a tekken game

Mk3 is my favorite classic mk

MK3 music was crazy lol

Man i kinda wished i grew up with these types of games life seemed so great around then too bad i grew up with mk9 mkx and mk11 which many people considered bad so i always try and understand these games to see what makes it so good and i see why now im not as critical on mk story mode but it does make me wish i was around on earth during the midway timeline

Mk3 is probably my all time favorite in the franchise. I REALLY miss the brutalities.

As much time as I've spent constantly, absolutely hating Sonya and Cassie Cage these past few years, they always do make me forget that Stryker *was, and is,* my all-time most hated MK character. The irony of Stryker "standing up against tyranny" when he's *literally* in the profession that hes in 🤣🤣🤣😮‍💨

They should bring back the MK3 music theme and horrific screams and every fatality and special move from every game for use of Juggle combos and also all outfits from movies and games

My favorite Mortal Kombat are these old ones. I hope for this kombat mechanic in an iphotetic remastered

The best mortal kombat 🎉

Umk3 was my favorite besides trilogy. I has it on the Saturn. I'm digging the new mk1 quite a bit.

My first genesis game❤

I had gotten mk3 for xmas in the 90s. Umk3 is the best mk game still imo

All I got from this, was that Sindel is indeed originally painted neutral or bad from the get go. Her design speaks for itself.

Vanilla Mk3 is my favorite version. Before it was upgraded into UMK3 and Trilogy.

I heard about MK Ultra around this time and thought that was the follow up 😂 The more you know..

MK Trilogy also came out on DOS.

The MK3 days was peak Mortal Kombat.. the only thing that came close was MK9.

I have ultimate Mk3 on pcb for arcade it kicks ass in true arcade

Did anyone else get that black screen with the music playing after finishing the tournament mode on the PS1 version of UMK3? It happened a lot and i had to reset the game each time.

Now I feel like playing MK Trilogy

I wish the arcade collection was available on switch as well as the wii version of Armageddon

Ngl. I loved this game...but i think trilogy takes the cake. The ps1 version

I'd love to get my hands on the UMK3 arcade machine