CCCCCCOMBO-BREAKER! [Killer Instinct appreciation thread]

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Story

Ultratech is a very powerful megacorporation (entities which, in this future setting, replaced all governments) which organizes a tournament called Killer Instinct. Along with regular participants, experimental creatures created by Ultratech also fight in the tournament. Ultratech also discovers a technology to make bridges between dimensions, and to also release from this dimensional prison a two-headed monster called Eyedol, an ancient warrior that was locked away along with his rival.


Characters

Fulgore
Cinder
Glacius
Jago
Riptor
Sabrewulf
Spinal
TJ Combo
Chief Thunder
B.Orchid
Eyedol



Killer Cuts

Killer Cuts is a soundtrack album released and packaged with the video game Killer Instinct on the Super Nintendo in 1995

Does anyone remember this? I still have mine when I bought SNES, it came bundled with the game

Cokomon

What about Maya, Tusk and Kim Wu?

servbot

Never really played number 2, deprived of an N64 as a youth, only tried it in the arcade a few times

Cokomon wrote: »

What about Maya, Tusk and Kim Wu?

Cokomon

servbot wrote: »

Never really played number 2, deprived of an N64 as a youth, only tried it in the arcade a few times

Cokomon wrote: »

What about Maya, Tusk and Kim Wu?

Oh, that's cool. I guess this is just a KI1 appreciation then?

Also, Glacius was awesome.

-SPI-

I destroyed my thumbs on several occasions due to this game. All those long charge move combos with Sabrewulf did it every time.

BTP

Game Boy version represent!

(I have no idea who these "Sore Thumbs" people are until I found this video.)

Polago

Played the arcade and SNES versions of this a ton, played the KI2 arcade build (and a beta build wtf?) a fair bit, and blew out my KI:gold cart. Three sealed copies of the SNES version with killer cuts are in my games drawer.

Needless to say, much like Battletoads, this is straight up stupid finger mashing fun.

Dusda

I miss Cinder. Why the fuck did they take him out in KI: Gold?

Tokled

servbot wrote: »

Killer Cuts

Killer Cuts is a soundtrack album released and packaged with the video game Killer Instinct on the Super Nintendo in 1995

Does anyone remember this? I still have mine when I bought SNES, it came bundled with the game

I bought that very same SNES bundle, and I remember having that soundtrack, but I can't for the life of me remember what was on it. I wonder what I did with it.

Bartholamue

I still have my Killer Instinct sealed that I bought on ebay years ago. I got KI Gold for only a buck, and it was the best dollar ever.

Exarch

C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER.

Kay2

I loved the first game. I couldn't get into the second because some of the characters changed so much, notably Saberwulf. I think I played more Orchid and Jago than the wolfman, though.

Davoid

Spinal - Forward Forward Fierce Punch

repeat forever

TehSpectre

Remember that time you weere playing against Jago and he made a car fall on you?

Yeah, that was a weird finisher for a ninja.

Colt

ULTRAAAAA COMBOOOO

I wish I could get that as a cell phone ring...or the sound when my computer starts.

Sunday_Assassin

I once fluked a huuuuuuuge combo with Jago that ended in Spinal being thrown into the air and not coming back down for 15-20 seconds.

It still annoys me that I wasn't fast enough to juggle him before he hit the ground, even though at the time my brother and I were just sitting there, amazed at what was happening on screen. Too stunned by the awesome to move.

Also, there was a time when that Killer Cuts CD was all I listened to.

wusoldjr

By far my favorite fighting game that has ever been made. The announcer voice overs alone made it worth it, I'd love to find some sound files of a few of his sayings. I owned this on SNES and KI2 on N64 and played the shit out of both of them. I was a huuuge Chief Thunder fan, I loved how his headress was part of his combo. I thought that was so cool at the time. Thanks for putting this thread up, it's a pretty good feeling logging into work on a Monday and before I even check my email I come here and find a KI thread, totally made my day.

TwistedJester

Not only do I still have Killer Cuts somewhere, I had a fucking Fulgore mask that I obtained through Nintendo Power's catalog ( I think ).

xWonderboyx

Man I remember going to EB with 60 bucks wanting Mario RPG but that bitch was 80 dollars and my dad was all like, save more, and I was all FUCK YOU DAD I WANT THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS! And it was killer instinct and I listened to that soundtrack non-stop all the time. I also played the fuck out of that game and the only ultra combo I ever pulled off was cinder's because I could use a turbo controller to just mash forward and buttons wildly and it would magically do an ultra combo.

I have 3 copies of KI sitting in my SNES games box under the coffee table. I may play this after work tonight.

How I came across all 3 is a mystery.

Etch

When I got my super nintendo I got KI and Summer Olypics.

Guess which one I played.

Wetsun

DF-D-DB + A, B, DF-D-DB + X, B, F-D-DF-F + X

My favorite Jago combo, from memory. Wind kick, shin-kicks, laser sword, shin-kicks, sword-uppercut. Could juggle afterward too if you wanted.

Kay2

Orchid and Saberwulf had the easiest combos, as I remember.

I also seem to recall that Saberwulf could do his rolling charge slashes by using B->F or F->B, which was odd.

Rollout

I got this game for my birthday when I was 8 years old, and pretty much loved it. Pretty much 100% it, every difficulty on every character. I don't remember how I found the secret character though, as I didn't have internet until much later. I liked the black cardridge, it stood out on my collection(beside Maximum Carnage) and I still have the CD in my CD stack.

Mashing buttons and getting ultra combos angered my brother like mad. My favorite character was Jago although I never mastered how to use his sword. Good game! :^:

Dixon

In high school me and my friends would always head over at a buddy's house and play this, friggin Tusk and Jago were amasing "Daaahhhh!!" The game was so hilarious and we played with the unlimited energy cheat on. It was soooo brutal. My thumbs don't actually have any feeling any more and it is from this game

servbot

Rollout wrote: »

I liked the black cardridge, it stood out on my collection(beside Maximum Carnage) and I still have the CD in my CD stack.

Fuck yeah, Maximum Carnage was the shit

also i remember looking forward from coming home from school to strictly play this game along with watching fox kids shows like goosebumps, life with louie and x-men

toolbert

Man, I played the shit out of this game...i think my thumbs are still repairing themselves. I still have that Killer Cuts soundtrack somewhere...but fuck Eyedol man, fuck him with a pogo stick.

Ah_Pook

i used to know how to do some crazy infinite combos with the skeleton guy and with the two headed guy in the arcade. wouldnt mind playing some rounds of this, assuming i ever came across a machine in the wild.

Dissociater

I wonder why they don't try to make a current gen sequel to this game. The fighting genre is still alive and well, and when KI came out it was the shit. There were literally line ups at my arcade to play it.

LaPuzza

Dissociater wrote: »

I wonder why they don't try to make a current gen sequel to this game. The fighting genre is still alive and well, and when KI came out it was the shit. There were literally line ups at my arcade to play it.

EGM's Quarterman section claims that they are making a sequel. I think.

redraptor

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_V1lYUDXYgg

Look at Glacius, or Sabrewulf crip-walking.

The graphics on this game still look good. Like action figures come to life.

wusoldjr

LaPuzza wrote: »

Dissociater wrote: »

I wonder why they don't try to make a current gen sequel to this game. The fighting genre is still alive and well, and when KI came out it was the shit. There were literally line ups at my arcade to play it.

EGM's Quarterman section claims that they are making a sequel. I think.

I've read just the opposite, where Rare said KI was done for good........I hope that's not true.

Ah_Pook

are you guys nuts, a new KI would be an abortion. the game was gimmicky crap from the get go, dont let your nostalgia cloud things.

TelMarine

KI1 was alright, didn't play it too much, but played KI2/Gold a ton. The game is super broken, but it is tons of fun and (in the arcade version at least) I still like the FMV backgrounds. The finishing moves were super lame, but hilarious.

Crashmo

We need a Time Killers thread. Dismemberment and Insta-decaps ftw.

Skexis

Ah_Pook wrote: »

are you guys nuts, a new KI would be an abortion. the game was gimmicky crap from the get go, dont let your nostalgia cloud things.

In the world of fighting games, this series was always the hawaiian-shirt-wearing-fat-guy to everyone else's dockers-and-vest-with-polo shirt.

I mean, when was the last time you saw anyone talking about frame differentials with this series? It just doesn't happen. And that's what makes it great.

King Riptor

Bout time somebody did this thread.

I would have but people consider me biased for some reason.


Anywho Riptor is the best character.

Wetsun

Riptor is a shitty character who gives raptors a bad name.

a name with an i instead of an a, specifically.

he really does suck though.

l_g

King Riptor wrote: »

Bout time somebody did this thread.

I would have but people consider me biased for some reason.


Anywho Riptor is the best character.

But without a monocle he is not terribly classy.

I remember back in the day watching the guy who worked at the arcade taking a break to play KI, picking Eyedol and doing infinite juggles or triple fireballs. SUPREME VICTORY was shown an awful lot, but nobody played until he beat the game.