MORTAL KOMBAT 1 - 1991 RAW FOOTAGE

raw footage
mk1 1991 backstage
#mortalkombat
credits ‪@insertcoindoc‬

[@neubourn]

Damn to see the REAL life Kano, Johnny Cage, n Liu Kang is crazy after all these years 🤩

[@phaikyouser9499]

Me too... 32 years later!

[@urbanwarior3134]

Hey dude what's 3 plus 3 just checking if your human

[@urbanwarior3134]

Didnt think so

[@phaikyouser9499]

@@urbanwarior3134 I first saw this game 32 years ago, what is your problem exactly?

[@urbanwarior3134]

@@phaikyouser9499 answer this The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. What do you do?

[@izmo]

4:37 "this isn't really meant for kids tho either tho is it?" "well, actually it is, that's the kind of stuff they play right now" so real

[@justareplica]

It's true. We played this and watched Chucky and Jason movies lol

[@ww4102]

I played mk2 and mk3 a lot when I was a kid, but modern MK games are not the same thing. Those are way too sadistic for me, I despise that stupid crap

[@glennd7029]

I was 13 when MK was released, it was aimed for around my age group. I was hooked from the very first moment that I saw it.

[@um8778]

based

[@Wil_Dsense]

@@ww4102 yeah man the new Mk Games have gone to shit, they lost what made MK special to begin with by going way over the top with everything. And this current gen of kids and teens thinks it’s cool! How pathetic, it’s quite sad really how they don’t know what Games were like 10/20 years ago etc.

[@thelolhounds2.0]

Crazy to see how simple the game was made back then and yet the interviewers were struggling to understand wtf was going on, it was such a foreign concept.

[@baphometh2137]

Oh hey fancy seeing you here.

[@Knight21030]

Heh, the only reason that Shang didn't have a discreet moveset, was Boon ran out of memory. So they made him morph into already existing fighters.

[@LuccianoNova]

@@Knight21030Had to squeeze every bit of that 64KB into a great game and he made the right call

[@nnaheim.]

Full Toilet set

[@redhoodm2227]

they already had interviewers nerfed

[@dream431ca]

I can't believe this was filmed in 1991. It looks so good.

[@kemy6775]

Honestly it all looked good. Nowadays we have old footage that has been captured and processed so much that it makes it look old, but at the time it didn’t look that way. Everything looked sharp and matched the resolution displays had.

[@cliffchampion5501]

Yeah TV or videos were sharp enough back then like you see here. Not as you normally see old stuff on KZbin.

[@ryanjacobson2508]

Footage sourced from professional grade 90's video masters does indeed look pretty good. Unfortunately, a lot of analog "video" footage now floating around is taken from at best a second gen copy/transfer (which remains the case with many of the "official" music video uploads of older videos). At worst, it's taken from a home VHS capture of an over the air broadcast or cable/satellite broadcast. The newest generations must think that "everything" filmed with analog video cameras looked like crap so they are caught off-guard to see what high quality first gen video footage looked like in the 90's.

[@FightersMixHD]

Why people think 90s is caveman era. Star wars, RoboCop, Alien, terminator and many more was made before the 90s

[@Lekter]

​@@ryanjacobson2508 Perfect explanation. Thank you sir 👍

[@pacmantravel2158]

These youngsters are having fun, laughing and sparring... little did everyone knew, they were making the biggest game in history!

[@nadita5600]

Doom?

[@pacmantravel2158]

@@nadita5600 Mortal Kombat came out a year before Doom. Mortal Kombat II and Doom made a bloody 1993 year. 🫀

[@NullFame]

Not street fighter 2 or killer instinct?😁

[@pacmantravel2158]

@@NullFame While Street Fighter II (1991) was a game changer, it probably wasn't going to take off if it wasn't for Champion Edition (1992), allowing players to choose bosses, which was a phenomenal privilege. But in a sense, yes Street Fighter II was an unexpected hit exploding in gaming history as well.

[@factsvsemotions3981]

@@NullFame Killer Instinct sucks

[@telephantasm4070]

Kudos to the crew and the actors for putting up with that interviewer.

[@artoodeetoo3064]

For real. Dude was SO cringe and had no idea what was actually going on. How'd he even get in the room...

[@crazydrummer181]

I mean, we probably wouldn’t be seeing this footage without him and the cameraman lol. He is annoying though

[@pomat22]

@@artoodeetoo3064 like you would back then. You were probably still just a discussion at that point

[@artoodeetoo3064]

@@pomat22 Whatever the hell THAT means? But sure, be a complete asshole to someone you've never met on the internet. That's definitely how an adult behaves 🖕

[@DevaActingAcademy]

Kudos and Bravo are two words ahole use but don't know their meaning 😅

[@adamknight8127]

The 80s and 90s were great times.

[@richshafiee]

🥲

[@sublimeranger]

wasn't ruined by immigration. All this will end in some time now.

[@ozozzooo001]

rip

[@constipatedparker5879]

People who grew up in the 2000s and 2010s would say the same

[@ignacio6454]

@@constipatedparker5879 Uh no.

[@darthjason7019]

I love mortal kombat , the arcade era was so fun .....

[@GamingManual]

Everything about this clip is perfect. From the news caster's complete naïveté on how arcade games work and what kids like, to off-cue sword-play at the end, lmfao. What an era! MK forever!

[@dwc13]

And smokin a cig whilst on the game controls 🤣 I miss my decade, man

[@rossadams9203]

From Kano to Quan Chi. Richard Divizio is someone I would have loved to see at the age he is here in newer games. Definitely got the charisma. Also shoutout to WMAC Masters and Ho Sung Pak aka mk1 and 2 Liu Kang, even though I was a Hakeem "the machine" Alston fan.

[@imsorrythatimright6082]

I KNEW that grin looked familiar! MK Mythologies right!?

[@Glokas7]

I’m still working towards that Dragon Star……

[@naosoumarcelo]

OMG, Tobias is working that hair!

[@aapoetik]

I had no idea he was in Color Me Badd!

[@Tony_EZero_Proxy]

You mean Saibot

[@tpsyturvy6987]

You mean Noob Saibot...his name backwards.

[@Typical.Anomaly]

@@tpsyturvy6987 Noob is Boon's name backwards

[@tpsyturvy6987]

@@Typical.Anomaly yep your right,I knew it something like that.

[@strikegodzias4805]

“Oh my God, he ripped his heart out!” That’s actually mild for the fatalities we have today 😂

[@cosmeticscameo8277]

yeah but this was 1992.

[@FrodeFalch]

The original was better. Often the more simple is the better. Gore porn is weird and dorky

[@ClbnaVGM]

I love the journalist reaction: "OMG you just ripped his heart out !!!"

[@cagnazzo82]

First time ever done in the history of gaming up to that point.

[@um8778]

Boon: Kids Tobias: He doesn't mean kids, he means teens/adults Boon: Nah, kids

[@yapayzekakaraoke]

Noob: Kids Saibot: He doesn't mean kids, he means teens/adults

[@yeakass1]

It seems... and it looks like it was yesterday. I absolutely love the 90's

[@rizwanramzan5729]

90s is the best era ever...I have been saying this for 20 yrs... 90s the best!!! In the 90s...I was in junior high school, high school and college!! Basically American was awesome "pre" 9/11...Post 9/11, America sucked..

[@lionelhutz5137]

They should have a haduken fatality

[@OtomoTenzi]

@@rizwanramzan5729 The 90's was the very last decade of the 20th century, when everything was still everything... Back then, when life was GOOD. Nowadays, EVERYTHING is just FAKE!!! 😞

[@Tanakun09]

The founding fathers of MK. I respect them all.

[@Rico0333]

Even the haircut?

[@gemini4lyfe3001]

​@@Rico0333dont be a fuc boi

[@PsychedelicRug]

Why respect Ed boon? All he cares about is the money he makes off games he continuously destroys for profit

[@gemini4lyfe3001]

@@PsychedelicRug how is that affecting you?

[@warrax111]

@@Rico0333 what the... saying the one from age of broccoli hair

[@Feruchio1]

Mortal Kombat (first version) is the most iconic. Mortal Kombat II is the height of perfection.

[@polfachini6489]

and with 3 they screwed the pooch.

[@Feruchio1]

​@@polfachini6489I agree.

[@todessehnsucht]

@@polfachini6489 Why tho

[@yungmeldrumswag4221]

@@polfachini6489how 3 had flare and more dynamics nobody was doing it like that back then

[@slamdangles]

dude mk2 is total dogshit, it wasn't coded properly 😂😂😂😂😂

[@brunoramos9747]

You can see the charisma back in the day things were much better and simpler I miss those times😊

[@churchyjr]

It’s because of corporate greed, time is money. So now everything today is half assed and rushed.

[@daakrolb]

@@churchyjr Not entirely...This concept of "corporate greed" is just wrong. ALL companies want to make money. It isn't "greed." It's profit. Are you "greedy" if you want to get a better job & make more money?

[@churchyjr]

@@daakrolb The reason you “need” a better job and more money is because….. of greed. Money is greed. Things cost more because the corporations that control the cost let it get out of control. Do you get a raise of $100 more per hour at a job? No. But does inflation on items go up in a way that’s more than your raises? Yes.

[@daakrolb]

@@churchyjr "Greed." Just a word thrown around by people broke because they don't have the ambition to compete.

[@churchyjr]

@@daakrolb How can you compete when there’s nepotism???? Look at most countries and their families. Blackrock business, Rothchilds’s, etc?????

[@darkchris66]

The neat thing is that the actors who play these characters are local, and often show up in small conventions. They also usually frequent one of the only arcade places left in the Chicago area to do autographs.

[@cosmeticscameo8277]

im surprised they still live in the chicgao area.

[@user-ie7jg6bn9s]

They made the old games with so much love and care. Thank you for sharing this!

[@BeardofBeesPool]

I remember seeing this on channel 11 back then, but not an entire 13 minutes worth of footage here. That's Will Clinger.. The show is called Wild Chicago.

[@avalond1193]

Thank you I was losing my mind trying remember what the interviewer name was he looked so familiar to me

[@BeardofBeesPool]

@avalond1193 the original clip from years ago is still on yt

[@DruEga]

One of the best video I ever saw on KZbin. That's the purpose of this platform, I miss those days when MK was ramping in the arcades

[@mauri-Kasugano]

Mortal Kombat games of the 90s has to be one of my favorite games to play and i thank them for it🥰✌🏻

[@NPsportAR]

This material is the best I have seen in my life, incredible quality, simulated fight, everything we have been looking for for years together in 1 video. INCREDIBLE!

[@warrax111]

Sonya is missing. :)

[@Ifalvarado]

the vibe and attitude...definetely Chicago

[@crazy_hardcore_gaming]

That's cool. It looks like it was all set up just for this interview cuz they already made the game at this point!!

[@alexisjohnson]

Early revisions with limited characters & moves/animations. Notice on the arcades you only see Subzero, Johnny Cage, Liu Kang & Kano.

[@CrAzYpotpie]

​​@@alexisjohnsonit shows more around @9:00 for a long time, so that hypothesis is out the window. Did you watch the video at all? Not sure how you'd miss that. Crazy's guess seems more likely.

[@Instant_Nerf]

I thought they were working on pt 2

[@alexisjohnson]

@CrAzYpotpie I did watch it all & didn't recall seeing anyone else. Still doesn't rule out the early revisions. There was multiple arcade revisions. So the real question is why are you having a hostile attitude did daddy or uncle mcfeely touch you too much as a child?

[@alexisjohnson]

@@Instant_Nerf Kano wasn't playable in MK2 he only stood in 1 background.

[@hinotojr1]

Amazing quality. Thanks to share ❤

[@katherinemerriweather3734]

Mortal Kombat and Revenge of Shinobi inspired me to get into programming. I loved the Sega Genesis, thought it was a cool console.

[@danielclark241]

What a great documentary this is! Nothing like seeing what goes into the making of the first installment of one's favorite video game series!

[@yaneproduction]

4:35 my favourite part in this interview. Ed Boon didn't have any PR manager to tell him to not say this in that, he got too honest with that question

[@thesmokinggamer8149]

4:38 and thus the esrb was born

[@TonyG718]

This takes me way back. Amazing quality, thanks for the share.

[@RaijinsTower]

As a Chicago native, Mortal Kombat is a huge staple there, even though it's globally recognized, now. Experiencing the Mortal Kombat craze in the 90s, in Chicago was second to none! UMK3 remains my favorite MK game.

[@clipCommander101]

I work about 20 mins from nether Realm Studios. I always think about driving by

[@davealaya]

The first time I saw a MK machine was at Aurelios Pizza in Homewood Il

[@wagnerfrancisco7477]

Voltei no tempo com essas cenas,joguei esse jogo pela primeira vez em 1994 com meus 14 anos a 30 anos atrás, mk é e será sempre o melhor jogo de luta de todos os tempos.

[@Jesus-Te-Amas]

the guy with cigarette, playing like a boss 😎🚬 👇👊 🕹🕹

[@CainNuke]

Yet he got his ass handed to him hahaha

[@intergalacticboxing4317]

Ricardo Mayorga

[@dinodude4486]

Yoooo this was cool af. Everyone looks so happy and chill. Heavy 90’s vibes too haha. Thanks so much for this footage tho - MKII was my first video game.

[@ArieVisker]

I think Ed Boon and John Tobias have real potential. They are going to make it 😅.

[@acidspit14]

lčžjlhoh

[@dr.charlesedwardflorendobr3952]

"So your celebrity is somewhat hidden"... This is exactly why Dan Pesina lost his court case against Williams when they used his image in the home versions of Mortal Kombat.

[@aapoetik]

4:15 "That was blood!" oh he's in for a ride 😂

[@joseurielcorreanunez9310]

Tobias has the smoothes haircut

[@JonesDylan874]

Yo, this looks amazing. Props to Insert Coin for doing this! I LOVE MORTAL KOMBAT!

[@M.W.H.]

The best of days.

[@handmeadozenbeers8655]

What I would give up just to live the 90s again

[@BlakeEbertowski-tl7vy]

Back when they made original ideas still. Fresh

[@RonaldLadao]

Oh man, I remember watching the show "Wild Chicago" on PBS / WTTW. Also glad to see the host of Wild Chicago appear on Chicago PD twice as two different characters.

[@Binxalot]

Life was so much better when people interacted with each other and not screens.

[@elloowu6293]

They still do, don't worry 😉

[@CaptGrout]

But... They're playing video games... They're literally interacting with screens... You can see it... On the screen 10:47

[@okarowarrior]

You are interacting with a screen right now, you funking bozo

[@crazydrummer181]

Lmao. It’s funny how afraid of change old people are

[@elloowu6293]

@crazydrummer181 to be fair, old people are actually making technology worse. Think back to the golden age of the internet before Facebook boomers started taking every 4chan troll job as gospel.

[@Yoss2023]

This is so awesome and an important part in the Gaming History. First time I saw this! I though that I've seen all the videos of behind the scenes from the making of MK 1, but no. And I thank you for that

[@Feruchio1]

It's great to see images from the past with the same quality they had in the past. Nowadays, this is very rare.

[@matiascostanzo9893]

Same quality? Thats real life lol

[@overcastskyline1747]

Everything is just so natural in this video, peoples attitudes were different too, more laid back, back when you were still able to smoke inside places haha

[@CyanideSublime]

There are people being introduced now to MK that don't understand the origin of the name "Noob Saibot." Don't be like them.

[@intergalacticboxing4317]

Mirror, please.

[@JayBlackthorne]

I had seen other behind-the-scene footage before, but this is entirely new to me. It's really cool to see. What a throwback! I'm asking myself why they are still recording character moves, when they've already seem to have the fully featured game standing, right there.

[@MoneyManHolmes]

That’s bizarre to say the least. And their costumes are way off so this can’t be last minute reshoots. What on earth is going on here?

[@SammyRenard]

Good old Richard Divisio, having fun with the camera from the start

[@goinmyway_]

10:02 The man, playing MK 1 and smoking a cigarette on camera, holding it in his teeth. The most badass moment, imo

[@ponaskompetencija]

It is nice to see young Noob Saibot merging into one. Saibot's hair is going through the roof, vanilla ice, baby.

[@Nickecho7979]

He has the "No Fear" shirt on. You know his badass.

Am I the only one who thinks that video quality is super impressive for a camera 1991?

[@Joeross213]

Awesome footage 👍👍💪💪. Ed Boon + John Tobias = Noob Saibot "feel the power", TOASTY........

[@alexl.4362]

It's awesome how they have the actual arcade next to them. They can play anytime.

[@raiderscorpio5629]

90s coolest nerds 🤘🏽

[@dannybaz6354]

Im literally about to cry right now , I was a kid eating at pizzahut when I first saw this arcade I was so excited when played it I didn’t even catch the name of it I thought it was called “midway” until after a week I saw a commercial on tv for it. 😢

[@CodyTheBeerBear]

And thankx to this game, We got the ERSB rating. Just goes to show how awesome this game is. Been a big fan since it was released on the Megadrive/Genesis

[@RealmsofPixelation]

I still remember seeing Mortal Monday advertisements on the back of all my comic books back then. The 90s were just incredible. Nothing has come close since.

[@mattb9664]

That's so cool! With the enhanced video, it's really like stepping back in time and seeing even more behind the scenes!

[@ercieyyy]

I was kid when I started playing the game Mortal Kombat. It was such an addiction once you would learn how to defeat the fighters and get to the top where Shang Tsung was and do the fatalities which required the key buttons and moves.

[@MonsterJuiced]

Ah 1991, a time of great innovation but of optimism and comfort

[@vahidmirkhani]

I was definitely NOT expecting this amount of patience and kind response to those... ummm.... "questions".😅

[@mr.selfimprovement3241]

Back when people literally didn't understand what a video-game was. They understood pinball, but just couldn't wrap their head around using buttons to make things happen on the screen. Also the fact that Ed Boon said Mortal Kombat was for kids on the record several times was actually used against him and the industry during the vidoegame scare of the mid-90s (a few years later), and is a direct reason why the ESRB ended up being formed as a knee-jerk reaction to keep videogames from being controlled by the government. Ed Boon was essentially the reason it happened, because John Carmack (who was also a focus of theirs) atleast was wise enough to not say DOOM was for kids. Ed made it clear that their product was aimed at kids, and that did not sit well with Lieberman or congress. I remember those days well enough.

[@xMaGuSx888]

Video games had existed for almost 2 decades at this point though. By 1992 when MK came out, there were already 30 million NES systems sold in the US alone. Video games were very popular at this time. This interviewer was just an insufferable moron. Also, it was MK, Lethal Enforcers, and Night Trap that were the main games involved in the creation of the ESRB and what was brought up in the hearings. Doom came out in 1993, after the first ESRB hearing was even had. So it wasn't even on the radar yet. Doom didn't become a big deal or in the spotlight until the columbine massacre because the killers played it and made it part of their plan. After that the war on Doom started. Ed Boon and what he said, also had nothing to do with it happening. Joe Lieberman's chief of staff had his son ask for Mortal Kombat on a console, when he saw how violent the game was, he freaked out and brought it to Lieberman to see if anything could be done as it was deemed completely inappropriate for kids. Lethal enforcers was the next big one because of the gun it came with. Whether Ed or Midway marketed to kids was irrelevant. The point was that with current laws, there was nothing stopping kids from going into a store and buying something that may have had questionable content. That's why the ESRB was made. It's not to censor a game but to let buyers know what the game consists of, so they can make appropriate decisions for their kids. Lots of parents didn't care and bought their kids M rated games anyway. So it had nothing to do with Ed Boon making statements about kids. It was going to happen one way or another.

[@user-qc6wi3dw5x]

I was 10 when MK hit the scene…man what a cool time to be alive…the 90’s were special

[@Deezter16]

casually smoking ... lol the 90's, crazy times

[@valenesco45]

our times are so dull that we find people smoking in the 90's crazy...

[@Loiguy]

0:18 Kano역을 맡은 배우님 카메라 의식하는거 되게 귀엽네. 비록 맡은 역할은 산사람의 심장을 뽑는 무시무시한 캐릭터지만 다른 여러 영상에서도 워낙 유쾌한 모습을 많이 보여주셔서 굉장히 호감가는 사람이네요.

[@RedHunter.]

모탈팬이신가요? 한국분 뵈니 반갑네요 ㅋ

[@0505121968]

Is mk not banned in Korea and some other Asian countries?

[@fazares]

one of the OG that got to play this in the ARCADES and at home (sega MD)..here i am! xD

[@broza82]

Holy crap this video is unreal! Growing up in the 80s & 90s were such a fun time I miss it so much 🥺

[@TheRealJPhillips]

I miss WILD CHICAGO. It used to air every weekend on channel 11 here in Chicago. I tried to catch every episode

[@PassengersMusic777]

Ed and John got a lot of their buddies involved in the original game. Over 30 years later and still going strong!

[@Kededian]

2:20 lol i think he got hit for real there.

[@kanivakil198]

This was 33 years ago; can you imagine what it is like to see something of this content if you existed in 1991? That would be 1958 where there were no microprocessors, no Pong, no Pac-man, no nada.

[@RebelKingfrom1995]

Its crazy how simple the OG costumes were. Minimalism at its finest.

[@intergalacticboxing4317]

Minimallism = tight budget. Don't forget they still had to stop-motion Goro.

[@Tatdude]

Winner stays on the left, and a line of challengers on the right. I remember being in the arcade as a 6 year old n seeing all the middle n highschool kids playing n thought what a cool game this was. This had prob one of the biggest bursts on the scene in gaming history.

[@FraserA1987]

The Liu Kang actor is so Beautiful

[@warrax111]

you didn't notice on blurred person in game, right? :)

[@shadowlaw809]

These people influenced an entire generation..thats true power!

[@wadewilson-xi1zs]

I can kinda see what they were trying to do with the Jean Claud Van Dam resemblance but it didn’t translate to the game but in real life he did look similar.

[@jaym5118]

Younger me would have LOVED to watch this. It's sad that I couldn't back then.

[@user-ul5ui4jw4e]

Cameraman was a little bit drunk😅

[@intergalacticboxing4317]

Just grabbing some b-roll 😁

[@gregwilliams4926]

The beginnings of MK is so fascinating, no large amount of crossover movie characters or highly detailed gore. Just basic concepts that put them on the map when SF2 was the biggest fighter on Earth. What I would give if there was footage of this in the arcades and pulling off a fatality and hear the screams of kids in the arcade witnessing a brutal finish. That's like an event of a lifetime.

[@neilyringworm]

Tobias is as socially awkward as usual haha

[@mikeylovespizza4012]

Love this game!

[@daveespi8101]

Omg this is priceless ...thank you to everyone here for making my childhood happen

[@kingbaby8761]

History in the making.

[@Scorpiove]

Wow, what a treat this is! This was so fun to watch. To see what I got to play as a kid in a new light is just phenomenal.

[@im_cart8656]

-sees heart get ripped out- 'so this isn't meant for kids' 'actually, it is'

[@mailmanfavors1588]

I remember being a kid and seeing this game in a corner store in philly when me and my bro was visiting our grandma for the summer it change our life 4ever

[@ricksomething]

This wasn't recorded in 1991. The game was released in 1992, and as you can see, the game was already released at the time of filming this. This can't be any earlier than 1992.

[@psychopoison]

My thoughts, probably production for MK II, Even Divizio said that a kid didnt recognize him while playing it or maybe the machine was a prototype and the kid was playing in some arcade where companies would consumer test the game prior an official release

[@marianpe5773]

11:21

[@Coolremac]

The white board @8:44, says Monday, August 26. According to my phone's calendar, that was in 1991 which baffles me. Unless this was filmed sometime in 1992 or 1993, and no one erased the board at that time. The next Monday, August 26th was in 1996. I know it wouldn't have been that late.

[@ryanrose9786]

Boon always had that "random goon in a 70s Mafia movie" look. The hair. The eyebrows. Definitely the eyebrows. Great to see though! I remember where I was when I first played Mortal Kombat. We had just opened up our second comic and card shop on the nearby all up in Silver City Galleria. Taunton. So whenever I wasn't "helping"(they'd just gimme stuff to do to keep me outta their hair) out I'd pop up to the second floor. I think. I know it wasn't the lowest level. I went up once and their was a line nearly out the arcade. Definitely past the Capcom Knights of the Round table I used to play a lot (also Death Adders revenge). Good times. Miss arcades. Was able to make it to Galloping Ghost to breathe in a healthy dose of nostalgia. Endoldmanramble

[@RogerCasella]

We NEED a proper remake!! Break out the old tapes and redo it as the original but in UHD and make the whole thing 3D with combos!!

[@CoolGobyFish]

I wonder if they still have the original HD footage to make new sprites.

[@ESTYMANAGRANIATV]

Arcade times... sweet 90s... bring back the Arcades!

[@kamikaze82]

Wondering what the timing is on this shoot. They obviously already have the game out in at least some arcades. Is this like the gaming version of pick up shots for a later revision?

[@misterbeatzit]

It seems like something done specifically for a news report or TV special, definitely not an actual "making of" the game but still really cool to see Dan, Richard, Ho and Noob Saibot themselves in-costume.

[@PhantomOSX]

Based on that it makes me think that this is later than 1991. Maybe late 92 or 93.

[@misterbeatzit]

@@PhantomOSX it very well could be. It would have to be before the lawsuit for sure since Dan and Ho are there, and I'd assume it's pre MK2 or else I'd imagine that would be the game being promoted. The fatality seems to shock the interviewer too so I'd reckon its still pretty early on

[@blakfloyd]

@@PhantomOSX I thought the same but at one point they point to something that says "Monday August 26". I googled a 1991 calendar and 8/26 was a Monday that year. It's weird too cuz MK1 didn't come out til October 1992 if what Google has is correct so this would be the game being in a finished-looking playable build a full year before then.

[@PhantomOSX]

@@blakfloyd when I saw the date I had the same idea as you but I was too lazy at the time to do it. LOL it makes sense that they would still be working on it in 1991 but it was certainly surprising to see them playing a finish build it appeared. It's very strange, they must have been sitting on it and doing testing. The people at the end playing games are probably the testers they hired to test the game and they were filming reworks for a revision I assume. Very interesting piece of film just based off of its ambiguity alone.

[@Logan-lk1qp]

"OH THAT WAS BLOOD!" I sensed that excitement

[@jecksoncerqueira3828]

God bless the nerds ❤

[@FliptheFrog]

Thanks for uploading this honestly ❤

[@danielclark241]

1:45 A-ha! So THAT'S where Triple H got it from! 😂

[@THECHRISAL3X]

Haha!!! I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught that 😂