Back in 1996 there was an MKII arcade box in my local corner shop. And this teenage girl played Shang Tsung and absolutely wrecked the hardmode arcade ladder. Like annihilated it. Flawless victories. She kept shapeshifting into differnent characters thruout and doing all of their fatalities. Finished the game. 1 quarter. And just walked away. Fkn legend.

Most wholesome guy in the FGC, can't help but like him.

It really would have change the outcome of the matches if the players knew that standing high kick is your go-to anti-air in old mks lol.

Jax is god-tier in this game.. if anyone would have known the ground pound with standing hk wall of invincibility he can create it would have been curtains

Yo, those finals were really close. Love to see these simpler early fighting games being played so intensely. Thanks for hosting these tournaments, JM.

2:44 ...why did that single high-punch do so much damage? 😐

The main differences between old MK gore and modern MK gore is that the old games had very cartoonish anatomy (notice the explosion of bones with a dozen ribcages) and the fatalities were usually one big action and that’s it rather than a series of brutal attacks with an extra gruesome finish

man, hearing the sound effects in MK just takes me back. The hurt sounds always made me laugh at how goofy they sound.

Wow! Wasn't expecting all the matches to be that close. I think MK2 has the best looking health bars out of all the fighting games.

You caught me so off guard with the bones fact lmao "theyre like this | | and you can make them do this &"

While Reptile would find his footing in UMK3, Scorp & Sub were never good in the OG trilogy. In the first two games in particular they were among the worst, mainly due to weaknesses universal to Ninjas like bad normals and hurtboxes. UMK3 would actually see Ninjas that are legit top tiers, but Scorp and Sub were not among them. Scorp was technically midtier, but practically entirely irrelevant thanks to Human Smoke being objectively better in every way.

I’m glad you got to upload this. I remember commenting on the tweet about WB and the copyright bs. I kinda thought it would’ve been a good idea for you to mute the game audio, and just dub all the screams and grunts with your own voice, but didn’t feel the joke would be appropriate while you were figuring out a fix. 😅

kudos to all participants!! this was a great watch!!

Seriously, the game music got you copyrighted? What's next, the grunts from the characters?

Please make another one of this game, it's so fun to watch.

Jump in kicks combo into slide with reptile and subzero. [Facepalm]

baraka's chop chop is a great anti-air

7:32 They disgust you? Whack. That bring me unmeasurable joy lol.

"thats me with hair" lol i love you man

Your vids are so fun to watch!!!

man, idk what it is about watching other people play older fighting games that gets me so hyped.

This was a fun video to watch. Thanks!

I caught that MF DOOM reference

Great vid JMCroft. PR thanks you for wearing your dark robe for the Video cameo.

Reptile has a whole other set of skills, fast orb, slow orb, invisibility, slide

makes me wanna fire up some mk2 with my bros and close friends! great vid and great matches from the contestants 👍👍👍

Back in the day we did not think the MK2 fatalities were gross and over the top, do you think we were like cavemen lol? The reason you think the new MK fatalities are gross and disgusting is because they're more realistic so it's more like watching a real decapitation or arm getting broken...

Powerstone! That would be quite the tournament!

The MF Doom reference caught me off guard. JM is goated.

I enjoyed this. I played this game so much as a kid. My sister sweet talked a boy in her class into borrowing us his copy all summer long, good times.

Thank you for the fatalities!!! 😀😎🤘

Mk2 will forever be a classic. I used to get obsessed with it on the arcade back in the day.

crofts mentioning divekick terms makes me happy

Awesome tournament idea!

Would love to see you guys have a go at Chaos Breaker\Dark Awake: The King Has No Name, it's a really awesome 3v3 fantasy fighting game.

Aren't those two bones there specifically to enable rotation?

Wow JM u have lost some weight there, u look great, congrats bro

You guys should totally hold a tattoo assasins tournament. Or, mace the dark age

Love the content. If you do a Rival Schools or Project Justice tourney I’d love to see it or even Power Stone

this is some toasty content. mkII was huge in my childhood

man some of the damage some of these moves deal feels so out of whack. Always fun to see the random tournies though, lots of fun to see people learn on the fly.

@jmcrofts have you done a tournament for primal rage?

I thank you for this. Mk2 was and still Is my favorite fighting Game,Even tho it Is a little bit old

Reptile is just a high commitment character. You gotta work to make him good, but it's worth it.

I played a bunch of kitana in mk9 and then one day I was playing mk2 kitana and found that I could play in nearly the same way. The buttons and combo timing felt so similar that even despite not knowing wtf I was doing in mk2, i was still winning against my scrub friends

I would love to see an umk3 tourney that game is mad hype

I completely broke both radius and ulna on my left arm. Had plates put in both and docs said the angles aren't perfect and I have a odd motion to my forearms rotation as you describe. Kinda flops over.

The radius actually rotates at the elbow to allow you to twist your wrist, hence radius, 😁

came for mk2, stayed for the bone lore

13:19 RIP the supervillian.

Now i wanna hear meat grinder lol

Poor spam man I was rooting for ya!

How do I get in on these random tournaments? Seems awesome to me haha

DId he just throw out a MF DOOM verse?

Would have went Bonkers in this tournament I love all old school mk games, 2 and Umk3 , I’d probably go undefeated in those because I’ve mastered the frames but then again tricking the AI is way easier than real opponents

damn i'm glad I'm not the only one who has that sentiment about the new mk fatals. I like classic fatals cuz they always felt funny and corny and left things for imagination as well. With the new fatals, its very graphic and all like, out there for you to have to withstand. Not a dealbreaker, but the new fatals are definitely hard to watch sometimes and I remember just looking away at times when one happens, its a little much..

Im in love with ogs mks pls do umk3 next!!!!!

greatjob

damn bro, MK2 was peak early 90s arcade. Eeeeeeeverybody loved this game and it always drew big crowds and laughs.

All of those baraka projectiles could have been countered with just a sweep.

I wish you hadn't said that thing about the bones because now I am aware of my arm bones.

So entertaining

Gettin bioLOGICAL!

It's only gross when you lose and your buddy pauses to see how he will gore you up! And your girl's like "Aah who wants a drink?" 😂😂🍻

I believe Kitana had problems playing from the right side of the screen.

"Your bones can twist. Isn't that weird." Put down the edible JM.

HP LP are different in MortalKombat and other like street fighter, at least in older game up to MK3 HP in MK means high punch, while in SF means heavy punch

And the slide down Baraka blades fatality to finish it!

KOF XI would be an interesting game for the discord tournament I think

i want to see yall play dong dong never die

Do more of these!

Great idea and tourney... No fatalities though??? Bummer... We're not in 2010... I wanna see the sparkles when I watch a tourney 🤩 Stilll a thumbs up but...

Reptile was tough in UMK3, Deadly Alliance and X.

You should consider Ragnagard for fightcade frenzy, it's a cool little known fighting game

The radius wraps around the ulna, the ulna stays where it is.

13:21 nice DOOM reference

What? There is MK2 tournaments happening?

Ngl I thought this was gonna be a fighting game history video. I miss those vids where you go over historical fgc matches…

Nice tourney.

Good shit, GunDog92.

I remember first seeing MK1 in arcades when I was like 10. There was a crowd around the box with this cool artwork, i caught a glimpse and it was like ninjas fighting and shaolin, and blood and decapitations. And I became obsessed. All I knew was Street Fighter, GI Joe's and Power Rangers. But i loved JCVD movies and the American Ninja movies, so how ofc i loved MK. It was next level. It was crack for early Millenials. It was edgy and awesome and part of the wave where everything was so over the top. Wrestling was more extreme than ever, movies were bloodier than ever, popular music was dirtier and heavier than ever before, everything was sexier and raunchier, video games were gorier and gorier, comedians were raunchier and more insulting than ever, sports were more and more extreme - pop culture got a face lift and it was just getting more and more graphic. It was all part of the zeitgeist. For companies, it was an arms race to top the next thing with something more exteme and grab that next dollar. I think today is a better time overall, I don't miss the old days tbh. But, it was all an interesting social experiment.

Why does jm with hair look like Michael from gta 💀💀💀

That MF DOOM reference!

How did you played mk2 online?

literally the first time im watching one of these where i know i could have won, probably with any character

Liked due to the DOOM reference.

So when I was young, I had a Playstation 1 game called Warpath: Jurassic Park. I remember having a *ton* of fun playing it, but I no longer remember what happened to my copy. I recommend the fucking dinosaur fighter for your next tourney.

That Madvillainy reference

you should do another one

jm with the stoner small talk to fill in dead air like a pro commentator 5:17 someone hire this man

I want a Bloody Roar 2 tourney. With the redub patch.

you should anti air with jumping punches

I used to wreck my brother and all my friends as Baraka lol

An akatsuki tournament would be cool. That or project justice

In chile one of the best players of all time in MK2 is also a famous singer there, that guy is legit. i think his name is Leo Re, he's still active to this day

0:58 what's the name that game?

13:21 That an MF DOOM reference I hear?? 🤔🤙

Bro please do a LAST BLADE 2 tournament.

NICE! The best MK game imo, because it's theme is just Mortal Kombat in it's purest form. All about the tournament, not the end of the world stuff we see in MK3 and the others beyond it that go even further away of what made the characters so iconic. My only gripe about this game is the unfair greedy AI made to waste our wallets back when it released.

Why on Earth did I never realize you are Chilldog? It's been like a decade of me not making the connection.