I very much remember the first time I saw Killer Instinct in the arcade. It was at a place called Outer Limits just outside of Washington DC. It changed my life not because I kept playing it in the arcade but because it sparked my interest in computer technology. I give it some credit for driving me to eventually become a network engineer for a Fortune 50 company here in the United States. By the way, I still play video games although I like old and new almost equally.

Both KI and KI2 were really important to me,especially in the arcades. I still blast Killer Cuts on occasion. That soundtrack is something special! I really appreciate your commentary. I’m a similar age and grew up in the arcades so it felt very familiar. The hype from the arcades cannot be beat. When KI2 would get louder as you got closer to the final boss to draw people’s attention it really made you feel like a boss.

Always liked this game, was never great at it. Just started playing yesterday on the switch, tried spinal and some other characters. Got wrecked by the AI thunder started playing him. Was able to do 9 hits, felt so good! I think he may be one of the strongest characters. 22:39

Spinal is the king

Finally found a decent review on TKA. Ty. Good stuff.

Political correctness and corporate greed has almost completely neutered the video game industry. It makes me red in the face, dude. F*cking absurd.

Whoa😮

Many classic arcades!!! Awesome!! Where? In USA?

30th anniversary? Wow, such a long time ago! How amazing you still remember all of the moves that all of the characters had and you still memorize every single combo! It's just muscle memory, the more you play since the 90's, right? Lol. You're better at K1 and K2 than me. In 1994, 13 year old kid at my arcade back in the day was amazing at this and I spent so much of having 25 cents in the arcade on this game. The backgrounds just looked so different and the characters were so unique. I remember when Donkey Kong came out on the SNES, I rented the SNES version of Killer Instinct and we (my brother and I) enjoyed it. The SNES port looked great for a SNES game but the graphics paled in comparison to the arcade. Character models, frames, backgrounds, speed, the sound, everything. I recall arcades being 25 cents to about 1990 and then were 50 cents to about '96 or something. MK4 was the first 50 cents I remember playing at the arcade in the mall, but my brother told me the game was Dragon Lair and some games in the 80's. I was surprised that the KI and KI2 arcade didn't cost 50 cents. It's so great to see you play this game in your area! I miss those days in the 90's!

I'm finally sitting down to watch this. Thanks for the shout out in the beginning! (I’m commenting as I watch so this comment is going to be a mess!) The rambling is great btw, I’m enjoying just hearing the stories. It’s taking me back to those days and it’s nice to hear how people have had similar experiences as I have. It was so cool being the best KI player in your area, I miss it. Drawing a crowd just to watch you play made me feel like a celebrity haha. Once I get online I realize there’s so many better players than me, it’s humbling! As far as I’ve read and heard this is the first game to have a hard drive which is why it was more expensive for arcade operators to buy than other games of its time. I still haven’t been able to get a concrete price for the machine when it was brand new, I’ve heard $4995 and even up to $6495. That must have been a crazy investment in the 90s but after buying a few real machines you can see they made way more money than that by checking the coin meter in them. My KI2’s meter shows it made over $32,000 and it spent half of its life in someone storage unit. Now I’m rambling! Haha The burp and fart finisher is hilarious and I don’t care what anyone says! Tattoo Assassins took it way too far, KI had tasteful gas passings lol. I loved the modern day gaming rant. I hate how modern games feel like a second job. They want way too much of our time. Arcade games are pure magic because you’re in and out of the experience quickly but it’s still entertaining. The 90s was the last fun decade! Everything since then is ultra serious and if you’re not borderline depressed by everything going on in the world you’re a bad person. The MK1 stuff was frustrating when trying to google anything about the original arcade. I wish theyd just go back to the original style, old button layout and a simpler game. They won’t because they need to sell the game at $70 plus DLC. The gaming industry has gotten to big, way too much of a corporate machine that’s 100% profit driven. The movie industry has all but died with that same model. You’d think they’d see that and change course. I didn’t know anyone as a kid that was really into arcade games. I usually went to the arcade alone and didn’t get to nerd out of the games with someone. It’s probably why I’m a loner today. I enjoyed this one, I’ll expect another video at the 40 year anniversary haha!

Yeah dude the whole thing youre talking about, the wake thing, lol. Dumb to no end. I miss the good ole days before the direction we seem to be headed collectively.

I really love to see that retro games are still loved as I love to play them even I didn't even grow up with them they are just fun games I like to play they might have a hard difficulty and I might want to throw my controller every time the cpu does one combo and takes all my health or something like that but it makes the win feel all more great as most games now that are hard don't feel the same and have an easy option but I feel that it makes a win incomplete but that's how I feel about it and the old games feel more packed even if they only have a fraction of what a new game has it's cool to see what they could fit in and how they did cool stuff with it and the jank and glitchs I love that's what makes them fun for me I play the game the jank gives it a feel that I like about it or I see a glitch to get a 80 hit ultra combo and I am blown away and want to do it and learn it these games simply just have stuff that we don't get in modern ones but to sum this all up I love retro games for what they are and modern games won't be the same to me

Much appreciation for all the glorious videos throughout the years you have posted on this game along 2/GOLD along with your amazing MK Kontent! <3 I'm still only a fraction of your skill level but improved at a much fast rate than I would have without them! THANK YOU GLACIUSXL!!!! Also started with KI GOLD and went back in the series to see where it started and 1 is definitely the best!

Way better than super nes. That was so lame! The no blood and censored fatalities.

I got into KI Gold on the 64. Thats what really got me started. Couple decades went by before i decided i wanted a xbox one to be able to play KI again. I even got the rare replay with KI Gold for xbox one but the controls seem off to me. Really bad handling on there and i lost interest fast. KI one is pretty challenging to develope strategy on in my opinion. I never got super good with any of the characters, saberwulf i got pretty good with.

"I guess I'll fight him a little bit" *instantly gets deleted in one combo* Yup that's the Eyedol I know lol

Awesome video! I think I found out how to teleport twice with the QK liquidize. Right before you go into the puddle when you teleport, press any button and you should teleport twice. It is a bit finicky though.

Killer Instinct Gold is arguably the best fighting game on the N64 and still very fun to play.

im pretty impressed by the quality of this port, it's pretty close to the arcade! :o

I'm trying the SNES version (it's my first time trying this franchise by the way), and the controls are SO finicky it's a little bit maddening. MK is a lot easier in that regard hard to believe.

Thank you so much bro I sub :)

Nice very nice bro It helps a lot Thx bro

Trying this one for sure

At 1:50 considering midway helped publish killer instinct and ki 2 I wouldn’t be surprised if they gave rareware inspiration for the double and triple shots!

In stead to finish with 3 hits sometime just hit one with medium kick Can you explain pls thx

I only have one question I wanna know why When im using Jago and im doing combo and i want to finish the combo with Medium Kick sometime it end combo nice with mediun kicks But sometime just hit medium kick but not full combo I wonder why!!!

Nice vey nice

Can you please type her full ultra out in the manner that you use above please amazing kind ki master!? I know it's in the video but reading it in sentence might help my dumbass, thanks so much for all the work on ki 1 and 2

Thanks for all the tutorials on one of my favorite games, well done

Wow, that’s a very good port of MK, I definitely gotta get myself one! Great video dude 👊🏼

In SNES The dive attack has an extra auto (QK). It can also be inputted as quarter circle back + FP

I appreciate these videos. A local retro arcade has a pristine KI2 cabinet. I use to play KI and KI2 innthe arcade constantly back in the day. I immediately picked Jago back up since he was my main. I had forgotten how to use everyone else.

I wish the arcade version was like the PS1 version just to see the 3d ending Cutscenes🥲

Thank you for this, I've been replaying this and forgot all her moves when I used to play as a kid. I appreciate the vid ✔️

Why sometimes I can't break a combo? What are the rules for what is breakable and what isn't?

What can you play the Killer Instinct games on? Switch? Xbox?

For the ultra is there a way to get it slowed down during the ultra? What button do I hit?

ボロボロになりなが奮戦(笑)

All I needed was the back flip input to continue the combo longer

So that’s how combo breakers work in this game. I just thought if it was a medium combo you broke it with medium like in the new KI

Man! I LOVE KIG. I just recently got the WR speedrun on it...but it doesnt look nearly as cool as what you do.

I'm playing the Xbox One port of KI, I found that holding down while Sabrewulf is running for an uppercut also turns the launcher into an opener, no howl required.

So glad you had a tripod !! great video.

Great vid. I always enjoy the gameplay, commentary and ramblings. Also neat learn about things like at 21:34.

Feels like they always add one character who _doesn't_ have a projectile. It _looks_ like TJ Combo is that one in KI.

I just got KI Definitive Edition for the Xbox and yeah.. some of these moves for KI are not easy to make with a regular Xbox controller.. Btw way, my characters look very grainy, yours have much better resolution, is there a way to improve the video settings?

i still currently have the N64 with 6 games rr64(ridge racer 64), WF war zone, jet force gemini, mario kart 64, mortal kombat trilogy, and finally killer instinct gold

I was really good with spinal on this version. I could mever get very good with him on xbox 1, the version i now have and play on. I have KIgold on rare replay an xbox 1 game. I swear the controls are are to broken to make it worth even playing, sucks.

please upload more videos of sabrewulf!

Thanks for the tutorial again bro👍