Really - if there's anything that should be glorified in the 90's that would be Mortal Kombat. Much more than a game, the impact of Mortal Kombat in modern civilisation should never be overlooked.

It all started in 1991, when some cooky Japanese game developers came out with the brilliant idea of releasing Street Fighter II. The hand-drawn characters and all their charisma was childish but it had come up with concepts that gave it the honourable title of "grandfather" of all fighting games. And for this we should all be grateful. The same way Chicago had played 10 years earlier with the toys the magical Japs from Roland had created (giving birth to Acid House and even House itself), an art movement was about to emerge. It would all come with the glory of one game: Mortal Kombat, from Midway Games.

Much more realistic than Street Fighter and extremely exaggerated, it was like those old Martial Art movies taken to a bizarre extreme. Nothing made sense whatsoever. Characters bleeding 10 litres of soup every round, fatalities and a pointless plot. It was just perfect. When Midway (from Chicago, naturally) introduced the world to their latest game, they couldn't ever imagine how they would change the lives of millions worldwide.

Soon there was the film and the soundtrack. Radios everywhere were airing some strange tune with the sounds from a video game. Who could've imagined? We've never heard a tune saying "Ryu, Zangief, Blanka", probably because of Street Fighter's pokemon-like atmosphere. Mortal Kombat, on the other hand, gathered geeks and thugs and had their speaker blast words like "Flawless victory, Liu Kang, I win". Soon there was no distinction. The violence was a call for peace and fun. The soundtrack also introduced the somewhat harder side of electronic music to zillions of laymen.

First Chicago came up with House music. Then there was Mortal Kombat. Soon we also had E.R. as their legacy, but it had little impact to EDM (other than having Orbital in one of the chapters), so I won't mention it here.

So this thread is dedicated to Mortal Kombat: the game, the films and the soundtracks. In all their glory.

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Chicago House Music.

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hey, i think this guy likes mortal kombat.

but i like street fighter more. and i think by far the best use of a street fighter sample i've heard was in this set where akakabe McPowns some McPowser: http://www.dmcworld.com/technics/ar...attle1-100k.wvx

YOU LOSE!

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flawless victory

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Originally posted by Lira The violence was a call for peace and fun.

+1

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OMG that scorpion picture is so ACE!

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Originally posted by Octanesyco Greetings. My name is Casey. You can call me Moose. -Moose

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Originally posted by Aiwendil hey, i think this guy likes mortal kombat. but i like street fighter more. and i think by far the best use of a street fighter sample i've heard was in this set where akakabe McPowns some McPowser: http://www.dmcworld.com/technics/ar...attle1-100k.wvx YOU LOSE!

I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about true turntablism, but do they use those marks on their records as reference points for all their trickery?


And as an addendum to my post - the second 90 seconds of Akakabe is unreal.

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Originally posted by Aiwendil hey, i think this guy likes mortal kombat. but i like street fighter more. and i think by far the best use of a street fighter sample i've heard was in this set where akakabe McPowns some McPowser: http://www.dmcworld.com/technics/ar...attle1-100k.wvx YOU LOSE!

Holy shit!

That is possibly one of the most awesome things that i have ever seen.

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Originally posted by UWM I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about true turntablism, but do they use those marks on their records as reference points for all their trickery?

The stickers indicate the starting point of used samples.

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Street Fighter II is a second generation fighter, and as such can't be considered a grandfather of the genre.

The Grandfather of the genre is the 8bit game Bruce Lee. Where many an hour was spent battling as either the Green Sumo thing, Bruce Lee, or the Black Ninja in PvP battles.

I suspect Lira's bias is because the Mortal Kombat soundtrack introduced him to Halcyon!

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that vid is kind of funny in that that was the final round, and akakabe won the competition for that year. you'd think Silk Kuts would have been better if he made it to the final round. but he obviously choked in the last half of the battle.

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