As a kid the whole wife/queen thing flew over my head, I just remember her as purple witch lady

Not going to lie. I love that rooftop stage. I don't know why, but it always left an impression on me as a kid. The dark sky. The city in the background, Shao Kahns tower in the middle of the city. It's the best city stage in the series in my opinion. Better than even the ones in MK9

I prefer the retcon of Ermac blowing up Jax's arms over Jax's deciding to give himself dumb metal arms

7:51 "That is the best fatality I have ever seen" *Gives it a 9/10 in the Rate The Finisher video for MK3*

25:22 So thats how Shiva killed Motaro in the original timeline :v

But my boy ermac makes his debut. Gotta love the spam teleports he does.

I remember that in the first moments of the release of MK3, my friends swore to me that this cyborg yellow ninja was Scorpion in disguise ... they could not conceive that Scorpion was not there, hallucinated with him.

- Ah, I love Scorpion...has there ever been a Mortal Kombat without Scorpion? No. - ...except Mortal Kombat 3 TBFP 2013

I feel that mk3 and SF3 and the alphas played a HUGE role in why ppl love to rush in fighting games nowadays rather than learn neutral

I kinda love how they have the actors show up in the credits.

Liu Kang's a true champion if he can take THAT MANY missles

Inb4 "Scorpion was getting ready for Smash" comments.

The reason why there's a lot of original characters excluded from MK1/2 to MK3 is because of royalty lawsuits, and they had to recast everyone Recast between MK1/2 and MK3 Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Noob Saibot, Smoke, (Daniel Pesina) Kitana, Mileena, Jade (Katalin Zamair) Shang Tsung (Philip Ahn) Sonya Blade (Elizabeth Malecki) The reason Johnny Cage doesn't have the split punch for his appearance in MK Trilogy is because they didn't do any animations for the groin hit.

UMK3 added Scorpion, Reptile, Kitana, Jade and had the secret characters Classic Sub Zero, Mileena and Ermac. Also, Smoke wasn't hidden like in Vanilla. It also added some other new stuff.

Sal wasn't the inspiration for Mokap, Carlos Pesina was, he played Rayden in MK1 and 2 and did the motion capture for Deadly Alliance and Deception

I played this so much on my genesis. I just remember being so disappointed that the move list wasn't in the manual and of course the lack of Scorpion.

Scorpion was originally not included in the arcade cabinet version he was placed in the console versions of umk3 and trilogy instead due to popular demand... Shinnok was also considered to be in this title but was omitted in the final cut then reintroduced in Mortal Kombat 4 (Mortal Kombat Gold via Sega Dreamcast)

3:59 there faces are priceless

This game is Ed Boon's Devil May Cry 2.

And this is why no one remembers MK3 but UMK3 instead... or Trilogy too

@32:52 cartridge emperor race CONFIRMED

Fighting "fans": "Where are mah ninjas?!" Midway/NR: "Don't worry, we gave you a shit ton of new characters to compensate for their absence!" Fighting "fans": "I want muh ninjaz!!!!" Midway/NR: "*Sigh* Fine, here's 8 of them. Enjoy your palette-swapped laziness!" Fighting "fans": "Yaaaaaaasssss!!!!"

"I can freeze him!" Me remembering from years ago that NO projectiles work against him and always reflect on a registered hit... "No... No you can't...."

8:24 Kung Lao's uppercut was so FAST, JESUS CHRIST!

This intro is the GOAT no matter how many times I've seen it, I always watch it!

Stryker's original design makes me laugh XD At least he was OP in this game. Sheeva was so hot back then.

Kenny with that teabag to show Kahn his dominance 😂

YAAAAS! You mentioned that you're going to be playing MK TRILOGY!!!! Can't wait!

Sheeva canonically killed Motaro in MK3. Guess we now know how...

Liu Kang's design from MK3 to MK Trilogy reminds me of Bolo Young.

The House Of The Dead 2 reference at 16:46 tho

MK3 for the Genesis was the very first MK game I ever own. Back then for us this was golden.

I was looking forward to this one 😃 Edit: I didn't realize basic mk3 had this small a roster

I love this series where you play OG MK games

Good call on the combo screen shake. There are a lot of elements that can make a combo fun and I never considered screen shake

"he has antifreeze, he puts that shit in his car and drinks it for breakfast" lmao you can't just come up with that on the spot

Wow, I remember playing this one a lot before UMK3 in Genesis when I was a kid. Good old times for sure.

Lol at Shang Tsung freezing the game each time he changes character, best part of this video so far. Kano: So you ready to fight soon or what? Shang Tsung: Shut up bitch! Shang takes the time Shang needs fool!

He was taking some rest till UMK 3

No one talks about how the PC port was actually the best home version of this game. It was a perfect translation of the arcade version. This was true for all of them until the PS2 era.

*nOt wHaT i MeAnT bY tHe SpLiTs*

Mk3 (og) was the first game I really got into on the ps1. Loved it

Kenny is Sektor in disguise as Kenny as Sektor playing himself 😂

Thanks MK3 for all the 90s memories!

Really? Steve hating on Gil just because he heard the rest talking smack about Shao's move-set? Gil has so much more than Shao-Khan

MK3 was my first MK game. I loved it

Max was so proud of that antifreeze pun.

Actually, MK3 and UMK3 on the Genesis weren't bad at all as far as the Genesis goes. They did what they could with the hardware. Today, of course, it's easy to be negative about it. But back then it was alright. Also, on the Genesis, going from MK1 to MK3 you can actually see the progression in the ports in terms of overall quality; it shows how the hardware was better understood by the time they ported MK3 and UMK3 because to be honest those two games play better than MK1 and MK2 ports. I do like the MK1 port on the Genesis, but MK2 was already a better port and so was MK3 compared to MK2. The only one that doesn't show much progress is UMK3. Considering the hardware in the Genesis and seeing how it plays that well to me is a sign that they understood the important parts of it: the gameplay. It plays smoothly and fast enough to be enjoyable. It's a good thing that they didn't try to squeeze too much visuals in which would have crippled the gameplay in a heartbeat. They even managed to keep the stage transitions in, pretty amazing all things considered.

A KOUNTDOWN TO KOMBAT NEVER SEEMED SO LONG....hurry up April 23rd!!

In this game, the ninjas are replaced by cyborgs, which Scorpion is not in this game until Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 & Sub-Zero is no longer a ninja sence he left the Lin Kuei.

Steve insinuating that Gil is as boring as Shao Khan is hilarious

Who remembers that cartoon where Sub-Zero was voiced by Luke Perry? Stryker voiced by Ron Perlman, freaking Raiden was Clancy Brown lol

Sub Zero's freeze sounds like a spell being cast in Runescape

In this game I just used to enter the code to disable blocking. Kabal's death scare fatality was his best one before 11 imo.

Excellent stuff again guys. I played a ton the MK3 games on the SNES, man was it broken lol. The MK3 games was the last time i played MK seriously.

25:23 ah childhood memories, that's how I beat him too

10:47 It’s like playing Dig Dug.

I probably said that already but DAMN THAT INTRO....SOOOOOO GOOOOODDDD

Cyber smoke, shao kahn, and motaro you could play as in this game if you put in the code at the homescreen. However UMK3 added a lot of characters which were missing, but the fatalities and such were lacking for some characters.

"I wanna shang you shung" -Steve 2019

That large Marge reference brought a terrible memory. Freaked me out as a kid

It's always nice to see these professional fighting game doods struggle against these bs bosses

Max making fun of the robo noises XD. I’m glad I’m not the only one

Shao Kahn is stuck on the old ways when they didnt have combos.

I played SNES version of this and the last time i remember Sektor's missile flies straight, instead of flying around and homing in. Also my brother did the same thing with Sheeva vs Motaro

Smoke is kinda like scorpion but in cyber mode. Why didn’t you enter the codes for longer fatality time?

25:24 "Bouncy, Bouncy, Bouncy!"

Ik I'm a year late but it's chicago not NY. Stryker is a chicago police officer. The netherrealm / midway guys are a chicago based studio

31:03 Mark Guidarelli is a William MurderFace from Metalocalypse doppleganger lol

"Somebody fart in here?" Lost it on that comment.

Were they fighting Shao Kahn, or Spark Mandrill?

"llllook at my PITS!!" best taunt ever.

Ha, you guys beat Shao Kahn the same way I always used to. Freeze. Uppercut. Repeat.

Strange thing is, SNES version of MK3 and UMK3 are the only version with name under the life bar, not inside. I don't know why they did that, transparency issue with the UI perhaps?

I’d love to see what the game would look like if A.i. Learning was used to improve the textures/ character models.

I still don't believe they made a mortal Kombat game without Scorpion

16:43 Max I will love you forever for that House Of The Dead 2 reference lol! 😭

I’m glad I had the Sega Genesis version of MK3 and N64 ver. of MK Trilogy. Loading screens a pain.

I didn't care about Scorpion but was confused to see Sub-Zero without the mask at the time.

It has begun... loading... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

I think my first MK game is 3 iirc. I remember entering kool, kooler, and koolest stuff when I was around 14.

22:49 Wii tennis sound intensifies

I was wondering what was going on with the loading of transformations, but I had the Genesis version, which had poor graphics yet smoother transitions, lol

I have the same game on my SNES mini and it looks with huge pixels, also other games, does anybody know how to fix that???

what system are they playing this on? Did they start on the Saturn? I've never seen the game load during a Tsung transformation and before fatals start.

"Eat lead slacker" 🤣

Sector:Macross Missile Massacre

Can't wait for mk4 :]

"The meek shall inherit the Earth"? Isn't it supposed to be "There is no knowledge that is not power" or something like that? Pretty sure the former is a Rush lyric.

Hooray for Kombat!

Ans then Ultimate came out and everything was balanced once more.

For me MK 3 , MK 3 Ultimate were the best of all of them

This was so hype when it came out in 95...i spent tons of $ at the arcade 😂

I just only played ultimate mk3. I just learned scorpion is not in the original game bruhhhhh

I will challenge anyone on some mk trilogy,childhood favorite! Love you guys!

25:24 laughed so hard. My head hurts.

That Large Marge shit had me 🤣🤣

He wasnt in mk3. He came back when ultimate mk3 came out.

I think it was your high def tv that made the genesis version look bad , because on my small monitor it looks pretty damn good for a genesis game. Not Sonic good but good. Anyway I love you guys keep up the awesome content

My first Mortal Kombat game was Ultimate MK3 on the DS. It was a really odd port, as it played actually pretty good. The oddest thing, however, was it had puzzle kombat from deception! What?!