Nice! Cool memory, man. I think I got just as excited when I saw it was out on video as when I went to see it at the theater.

I'm sure I've shared the stories, but I've been playing this series since I was a year old.

I have an older brother who wanted a little brother but got me instead. So naturally, I was to fulfill the brother sibling by having my tomboyish roots come out. Which it did. I sat in my brother's lap, held the controllers and together we bashed buttons together.

Throughout the years, I had conquered some games but I still could never beat my brother, and his friends, on the Genesis.

Mortal Kombat 4 came out, still couldn't get him.

Finally, Deadly Alliance came around... I performed my first fatality ever with Frost, beat the game on Hard with Sub-Zero, I was a happy little camper.

For years my brother and I have fought each other through countless battles of Sub-Zero and Scorpion and what finally got him impressed was beating his butt in the arcade version of 2011 at Galloping Ghost. Now the little sister can dominate against him and his friends.

Yet... he says "I let you beat me." Bullshit.

My parents are also into this series, as I have mentioned that my daddy plays as Liu Kang. My mom doesn't play, but she knows her stuff.

This series has literally brought my family together, as much as people look at that and get weirded out. So of course this series has some big memories for me.

Well, I got to admit, that is a pretty cool story. It's neat that it's something you and your family share. No one in my life cares about Mortal Kombat at all except me. It's funny that my older brother got me into it but to him it was just a trendy video game he played some in the mid-90's whereas it had a gigantic impact on me. I'm positive he hasn't had played MK since the 90's and has no interest in it now.

So I RARELY post, but this thread is great. I was 12 in 1992 when MK1 came out and I played the hell out of it whenever I had the opportunity to and I've been a fan ever since. Through middle school, high school, college, marriage, jobs, and even still into grad school. Other than sports (btw Go Seahawks!!) MK has always been there as something I can use to take my mind off of things. This is especially true anytime a new game is announced. I literally hang on every hint, leak, etc. It never fails to excite me the same as it did when I was a kid.

Anyway...can't wait until MKX comes out (it is looking absolutely AMAZING to me!). I'll play the hell out of it just like all of the ones that came before it.

Here's to making some new MK memories!

Icebaby, I too have an older brother that got me into games and other, "boy stuff."

Honestly if I played MK1 when it first came out, I don't remember, I was like two. But I do remember watching my brother play the second and third one. He would always pick Liu Kang or Sub Zero. We thought the bicycle kick was the coolest shit in the world. And Shao Kahn was still...well himself. Lol

They should make a movie out of this!



I have kept folders with every pre-release pictures and videos I could find from each game.

Btw, the first MK I ever played was MK1 on gameboy back in 1993 when I was 11..



Good times..!

That's pretty awesome. I definitely remember it on Gameboy and SNES (seriously, no blood!?)

I owned it for Sega Game Gear!! That thing would be a relic now....

One of my (unintentional) fond memories of MK was loving Mortal Kombat 4 so much that one day our TV broke and had to borrow a spare. Turns out this spare was a portable, black and white tiny little thing.

However, my love for MK4 was so great that after a work-around, managed to hook up my N64 and play was was essentially a Game Boy version with console-quality sound.

I was so envious of that coloured version..

I was 12 years old when I first played MK1 in the arcades. The arcade I normally go to during my teenage years has been replaced by a little kids amusement center. I been following the series since then.

During my middle and high school years I have been playing not just MK but other fighting games as well like The Street Fighter Series and King of Fighters series. I was the best player at my high school. Nobody could have beat me. Great times where when some weekends my parents were going away I invited a lot of my friends over Saturday nights and we used to have fun friendly tournaments and having pizza parties while we are at.

I'm very excited for MKX. Just like I did with MK9 I'm going to be saving up my sick hours so I can take at least a week off from my job lol. MK9 was one of the most funnest fighting games I have ever played in a long time.

I moved to America when i was years old back in 92, and the very system i got was a sega, and mk1 being my first game, at that crucial moment in my young life i had to choose do i like the blue guy or the yellow guy? Picked Sub-Zero and never looked back. My landlord loved my family, and especially me, and he came from Ukraine just much earlier then us, and always treated us well, bought me MK2 when it came out !! i was floored! i carefully opened the box and went at it like a crazy person.

But i gotta say the thing that made me a life long fan was with mk3/umk3 ever since i got much deeper into the lore and story of the game, and found that the Younger Sub-Zero was a good guy, and an honorable fighter i fell in love with the character. That summer i went to summer camp, and me and few other young kids formed a MK CLUB where we pretended to be the characters, and fought as them. I met a friend who was a HUGE Ermac Fan we saw both of the mk movies together and used to come over each others houses every weekend and play umk3 for like 12 hours. He came the next day and printed out the WHOLE MK Triliogy book with all the character bios in color! he got a whoop ass like no other for that one, but we all huddled around it like it was the word of god i swear.

Then when i was 14 i went to camp for the last time, and met more people who were extremely passionate about the game and the story the story meant everything to us. MK4, MK:Da, god i loved mk:DA the characters looked amazing, and I loved how they made Sub-zero look and his story of becoming grandmaster everything was perfect. No matter how much people gave up and hated the game i was always a fan and always will be. This is the only game that has been with me since i first came to America, its how i made most of my friends, it is more then a game it was like a culture and lifestyle for us, It provided an outlet even though we didnt have much we had each other and always had MK to talk about.



sorry for ranting.