Mortal Kombat and the Cheat Code That Changed Gaming − Codex

[@ViralKiller]

People don't realise how amazing it was in the 90s when players used to figure out cheats and fatalities with no Internet..just word of mouth

[@jeffgo5742]

Viral Killer don’t forget magazines

[@CarlDoesMusic]

crazy concept

[@bryandunn4687]

Like Contra. Anyone remember that one?

[@CarlDoesMusic]

@@bryandunn4687 fav... and that music ^_^

[@supreme-ot7gd]

that was so dope. left right up up down right right left down. lol thats was dope.

[@jmass5083]

I remember my father coming home from work an he said "i have a surprise for you". I had just got my super nintendo an all i had was mario, my father pulled out mortal combat from his jacket. My fathers co-worker bought this game for his kid but didnt like the violence so he gave the game to my dad. On the main screen i had arcade mode or regular mode i remember i alwayes picked arcade mode. I loved the game so much i dressed up as raiden an won a halloween best costume at pizza hut. Raiden use to elecracute you till you blew up an ur body parts bounce on the floor in pieces LOL... Me an my father use to always play this game together. Still good memories i will never forget when he first brought the game home.

[@pkal244]

Was your father's name Shang Tsung?

[@davidnphan]

you got a pretty awesome dad! once my uncle came over when i was little and surprised me with super mariokart. its an awesome feeling to receive an unexpected gift as a child. remember to pay it forward!!! lol! 😆😆😆😆

[@coltonbyu]

my dad saw some games on clearance once while picking up dinner and picked up a copy of driver:parallel lines. He thought it was a simple racing game. I was not necessarily allowed to play M games unless my mother cleared them first, and this would not have been cleared. Loved that game.

[@martinluizaga]

amazing story man ! early cosplay vibes !

[@john_c1]

So nice! It's fantastic to have memories like these with your dad

[@buildingwithtrees2258]

Mortal Kombat, Terminator2, Beavis and Butthead. '92 was a bad year for parents lol.

[@ITRIEDEL]

BuildingwithTrees and Wolfenstein 3D and one year later Doom

[@TheHelghast1138]

Honestly I think that it was Wolfenstein that changed everything

[@nodinitiative]

but it was a "Golden Age" for young children :-)

[@jdstarek]

But a great year for a 13-year-old boy (me).

[@iridium5122]

For parents that were pussies. My Dad let me go with my friends to watch Predator at the theater when it came out. My friends parents bought us tickets and left us there unaccompanied by an adult. I was 7 at the time. Needless to say I had the first MK on Genesis when it came out.

[@dix_xib]

People don´t realise how much effort is put in to create content like this. The intro = Superb!

[@Vistico93]

I wish the CPU did fatalities in the arcade. If I'm gonna lose, at least make my 50 cents worth it...

[@teamspirits732]

A lot of the time they don't do it cause the fatalities were suppose to be secrets which the player would need to find on their own.

[@alexroyster182]

They did

[@ITRIEDEL]

They did it was just really random.

[@mugan5011]

Yeah, it was very uncommon for the CPU to make fatalities, especially in MK1, even when I played it again on an emulator a few years ago, they almost never did fatalities.

[@NobleNemesis]

It didn't usually happen unless the AI went on a very rare combo splurge so that you were blown away (and sometimes very frustrated), but also so that you didn't memorize the sequence of strikes used by AI to achieve it. It also made the visceral nature of it that much more fun, effective, and more importantly when it came to quarters; addictive, when it was so random and rare.

[@mr.speyside5240]

I remember being scared as a kid watching someone play Goro whenever he would grab you and beat your chest. The sound of the character screaming along with the growls all made for a very intense moment for a 10 year old. 😆

[@somebodytouchmyspaghet7807]

Abdelmelik Farooq Alwahid same actually

[@RS_Redbaron]

Not for me i injoyed every sound and screen pixel :) Then killerinstinct ;)

[@derrick3570]

I remember cheesing him with scorpian when I was about 5 years old. My grandma and aunt laughed and thought that I was so intelligent for my age lol. I guess my family didnt think much of the blood and violence. I think I turned out fine

[@trunkbangking]

Resident evil scared me when i was a kid.

[@MrBannystar]

I bought this game second hand for my Genesis (or Mega Drive as it was in the UK) and the previous owner had helpfully typed in "blud cheat" with the correct code in to the manual. I don't know who or where you are right now, sir/madam, but thank you.

[@lburnstein196]

Imagine taking gta5 back to 1993 and seeing how parents would act about it

[@ShifuCareaga]

they'd *BURN EVERYTHING*

[@bananafone1414]

Or the brutal doom mod lol

[@antpain1156]

lol mk11

[@tysoncowan5192]

Somebody's head would've literally exploded.

[@nightwarper1760]

Parent:KIDS PLAY THIS IN YOUR TIME!? Time traveler: No, they aren’t supposed to be playing it P: Um, then why was it made if no one can play it T: People can play it, just not kids P: B- but it’s a video game T: And horror movies are movies, but adults still watch movies

[@IDKWTCT]

The blood code is the reason why I bought a Genesis back in the day. I was a Nintendo kid, but a full-on MK port was just too good to pass up. My step brother had the PC version, but I didn't have the same luxury, being 14 or so at the time the game hit the home consoles.

[@monot00nz]

My mom bought be MK2 for the Genesis and knew what it was. Because of her I got to experience the best fighting game series ever.

[@mogwix]

fantastic video. well researched, well presented, and well edited. the pacing is great - a lot of information is presented without reiterating "common knowledge" or otherwise getting too verbose. great work!

[@CodexShow]

Much appreciated Kord! Not regurgitating existing knowledge is definitely a goal I try to hit with each video. Offering something new and unexpected is the key!

[@SavantAudiosurf]

The creator "Ed Boon" was the reasoning behind the later supreme character "Noob Saibot" which was 2 of the maker's names spelled backwards. It was also the first time "Noob" was associated with video games since he was OP at the time and you would be a "noob" to pick him.

[@SuperYutoober]

Mortal Kombat & Killer Instinct were / are badass games

[@Sypaka]

You didn't play "Thrill Kill"? Add that to the list.

[@crimsontide1980]

When I was a kid,my parents flipped out when a friend of mine brought over his copy of Mortal Kombat for the Sega Genesis. I wasn't allowed to have it,wasn't even supposed to be playing it in the arcades,but come on,what do kids usually do when you tell them not to do something,lol! He snuck his copy of MK into my room and we shut the door and kept the volume low,but my sister snitched on me when she saw what we were playing. Mom ran in to my room telling me to turn it off right away but after showing her there was no blood or gore,she gave in. Little did she know about thr blood code,MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I have kids of my own now and I dont panic when my 9 year old plays a game that might have some animated blood like Skyrim or a wrestling title. I won't go as far as letting him play GTA or Red Dead just yet but as a whole I would say this generation is a little more lax about what their kids can play or see. When we were kids we saw plenty of blood and gore in horror movies and we all turned out (somewhat) ok ,lol!

[@LUCKO2022]

If I had kids, I would let them play whatever the hell they wanted. Christ I grew up on games like Forideen Forest where skeltons stabbed you, spiders ate you, dragon would burn you and there was blood in that C64 game.... and it was the 80's.

[@christianramirez7979]

Wow this is what youtube is for right here, amazing story!

[@KillSwitchNY]

Why is ABACABB burned into my memory? Lol.

[@chunkymunkey9182]

lol right. I still remember it to this day.

[@cbly]

just like up up down down left right left right b a start

[@bestever2682]

KillSwitchNY same

[@bestever2682]

blyguy what game? Contra?

[@jeremiahratliff4332]

@@cbly Man you had to bring that up. Now I'm about to fire up some Contra for ol' times sake and beat that nut sack of a final boss before heading to bed.

[@demon9554]

the congress was held the day before DooM, the bloodiest game on DoS, was released

[@MrRacine32]

The good old days of dumping quarters into this game.

[@scottrich976]

How much is it nowadays ??

[@mugan5011]

@@scottrich976 Not sure what you're asking, but, Smartphonerepairwi was referring to the act of inserting coins into an arcade game to play the game.

[@scottrich976]

@@mugan5011 I was asking how much arcades are costing nowadays. The old games here are 4 times as much to play as they used to be.

[@shawndorsett13]

you stool my quarter so we gonna street fighter outside the arcade for real or give me my quarter back

[@RS_Redbaron]

For a 1 hour in line and the get your ass kick and then back to home to steal from mamie hahahah ;)

[@Weightlossjourney24]

Yeah I used to ask my parents for quarter's to play mortal Kombat at the arcade. I was a street fighter guy but when the street fighter game broke starting play mortal Kombat hooked ever since. I'm almost 40 now

[@NickIntoTech]

*Mortal Kombat Vs Censorship* *MORTAL KOMBAT WINS....* *Flawless Victory!* *F A T A L I T Y* ^^^ MK2 Blood dripping sound effect

[@jollycooperation7446]

*ULTIMATE FATALITY*

[@jayesper4390]

*B R U T A L I T Y*

[@richardbowman6227]

Whoopsi

[@streetkombat6088]

Toasty!

[@trunkbangking]

*FINISH HIM*

[@badt4life857]

ABACABB Start "Get over here!"

[@duczman76]

that was for the sega mega drive,right? for the super-nintendo it was a b,a b,a b b if i remember correctly so all datas without guarantee

[@NotABot55]

It's a nice start, but there's a better code... stop staring at the menu like a DULLARD...

[@subzero8679]

@@duczman76 there is no blood code for the SNES version. No blood, no gore. With Game Genie you can turn the sweat red, but that's about it.

[@duczman76]

@@subzero8679 😂😂 i know,dude..i only was kidding. sometimes i m a mischievously jester 😉

[@frankhouston5072]

🔼🔼🔽🔽◀️▶️AB

[@JuneRabbit32]

Codex reminds me to Ahoy, which means it's just great. I have high expectations from this channel and I hope they come true in the future, keep the great work.

[@CodexShow]

Ahoy is a huge inspiration, so I appreciate this comment a lot - thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos so far :)

[@JuneRabbit32]

@@CodexShow I'll be watching your work as soon you post it on KZbin, you deserve more fame

[@IsKor06]

That's exactly my point of view. I highly value Ahoy's vids, and Codex's vids are really good :)

[@andyjohnson4907]

I was thinking the same thing. Although, Ahoy's voice is way sexier!

[@JuneRabbit32]

@@andyjohnson4907 That's true tbh

[@buddy8559]

Thank you for not having an annoying voice the tempo is right and enunciation is spot on. Well delivered thank you sir.

[@losttribe3001]

Can’t see Joseph Lieberman without thinking about Jon Stewart making fun of him with Jon’s Droopy impersonation.

[@nps1016]

Thanks for the look back at this amazing game. I remember picking this up at Target the first week it came out and playing it all weekend. I’d have friends come over and we’d play for hours, it was during that time my friend told me about the ABACABB code and that code is forever in my memory. It’s so tame now compared to the games today, which are more advanced, but I play this on a emulator and it’s still fun to play.

[@altrogeruvah]

I like the original Mortal Kombat the most, it stays true to its Chinese martial arts theme and has a few but unique and memorable characters, all its modern sequels feel very Western and forgettable. Great episode, thank you -

[@selfproclaimednobody4614]

That was the first tournament for Earth realm. It branched out after that.

[@user-wp2pc5uj1j]

In over 20 years...I have never forgot that blood code

[@barryb4407]

Same here, I even got wasted one night out and got it tattooed to the side of my benis. No explination, I was a drunk : (

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

Takes me back to 12 years old again, playing it in the arcade for the first time, then going home and making Scorpion's spear out of a piece of flattened copper pipe and nylon rope.

[@willnill7946]

Orson Hornbeam so I guess they were right about the effects of that game on kids

[@Tetrimis]

Did you use the chain on anything?

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

@@Tetrimis it didn't really work that well.

[@Tetrimis]

@@Unpainted_Huffhines that’s sad.

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

@@Tetrimis well, 12 year old me didn't really grasp the finer points of edge geometry or metal hardness, etc. If I were to give it a go now, I'd probably do better, as knife making is a hobby of mine.

[@mjddjm96]

I love your vids, man. They feel like a classic G4 editorial

[@evanabbott2737]

I remember being bummed as kid because I only had the snes version....😁

[@Juchda]

Humanoid Nfin8 true that!

[@WarReport.]

When I first saw it as a 7 year old it gave me chills as it was so vivid and real looking when I saw the first scorpion hook move and then the spine rip

[@varoken_gamer2235]

I always thought this game had some inspiration on Big Trouble in Little China movie...

[@CodexShow]

Yes, I should have mentioned that Western kung fu and action movies were also a big influence! That's my bad :)

[@adamcharlesdavies]

The other way around maybe. Big trouble is around 10 years older

[@80sBaby925]

Any one got a dl link havent watched that in years

[@mugan5011]

it had, Raiden is one of those "inspirations" from that film, by the way, in the case of other characters, Terminator was an inspiration for Kano.

[@selfproclaimednobody4614]

@@adamcharlesdavies 6 years earlier. The creators had a lot of inspiration to choose from.

[@ATD909]

So glad to have been born in ‘85 and witness this era; I remember this entire story being in my GamePro Magazine

[@alwaysbearded23]

Finding out cheat codes when there was no internet.. Man talk about a sense of achievement 😂. Reminds me of the cheat code on the sonic menu 🤔

[@hakimESC]

OOooh the 90s, i got to play MK on old 386 PC, but boy those days, having tournaments with friends. It was truly marvelous :)

[@tagone05]

Nowadays parents don’t care but I remember the impact MK shook up the world.

[@computronium8]

ArtGod Actually I used to play MK with my father xd

[@ESFAndy011]

@PZntti That's fucking awesome

[@VinnyDoesLife]

I remember being a kid and MK was headlines in the newspaper. My dad the this game in the garbage constantly but we would always take it out. It was pretty insane.

[@iysisrose]

*Never was a gamer but loved this Game when it was first released, Till this day its the only game i play - With my son only...*

[@e.w.3989]

Ahh, the 90's. How i miss them. And to think we all thought the future would be this incredible utopia filled with flying cars and world peace.

[@littlehorn3401]

I remember having this on Sega megadrive 16 bit back in the 90s I completed it like 6 times I loved it

[@zichiro]

I have to admit that having to get ahold of cheats in that decade, with no internet had a cool sense of achievement and misterious ring to it

[@nikolatesla8508]

I'm not against blood and violence in video games in any way, but Barry Rhodes rationalization is hilarious. 6:12 ..... Yeah because every time I attend a martial arts event . Someone gets knocked off a platform into a pit of spikes or has their spine and head ripped right out of their body ..."It's a part of life" lol

[@nathanbruce1992]

Nikola Tesla: i hate when that happens to me

[@icantfindagoodytname6667]

Yeah I hate when I go to karate and I have to fight this guy with a yellow ninja suit who always uses his harpoon while yelling 'Get over here!', then after some more fighting pulls out his mask to reveal a skull on fire and precedes to spit fire out of his mouth and burn me to my bone.

[@johnolson5538]

That picture of a packed arcade in a mall makes me wish I were back in the 80’s/90’s.

[@CodexShow]

WOW this episode was a bit late, my apologies! Lots of life changes but things are settling down meow. Should be getting back to monthly releases! Also, full captions for this video are coming soon! Thanks for sticking with me, friends :)

[@chefofthetrash]

You kept us waiting for a really long time

[@CodexShow]

@@chefofthetrash Absence makes the heart grow fonder my dude

[@chefofthetrash]

Codex You know what I won’t complain about your absence since it can cause more quality than quantity You deserve 500k for making such good content btw

[@nothingbutchappy]

Correction: barbarian decapitation was not health based. It was distance and height based, ie you had to hit in range and they can't be ducking.

[@CodexShow]

@@nothingbutchappy That makes sense, thank you for the information Mark! I hadn't played Barbarian since I was a kid, so I made the mistake of assuming.

[@abdomination]

I met Ed Boon in Chicago 2005. Was so cool. It was at a house party in a converted warehouse.

[@Floattersintheeye]

c64,c128,amiga500,amiga1000......... remember the fun we had?? i get tears in my eyes when i remember my first atari cartridge adventure game wich was pit fall :) and the fun we had while playing it (back in the days you use to share the fun with your friends,gathering in your room with ya mates , dammm i miss those days.

[@gnodab2036]

Dude, yes... It was my older brother, me, my older cousin and my younger cousin. (2 pairs of brothers) Asking the others to ask the parents to let us stay cause they wouldn't say no to their nephew. We had the dreamcast, and played powerstone, the house of the dead, and mk on his old super nintendo. Those were the days. Like... 18 years ago..

[@FloridaHockeyFan]

Mortal Kombat was my favorite game growing up. I had a sega and remember trying to learn the finisher moves lol. 90's were lit.

[@JeremyY]

Great vid. I remember renting a Sega Genesis with MK1 JUST so we could enable the blood code!

[@wethepeoplehi883]

I absolutely loved playing this with my step brother on the SNES back when I was 6 years old. 80's and 90's were the best time to be a kid!

[@Duke_Togo_G13]

Hate to admit it.... But back in the day.... I bought the Sega version because of the blood code. 🤣😂

[@bburnnone]

Why hate? It was the best at that time.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

I mean, even without the blood code, it still controlled more like Mortal Kombat than the awful SNES port. Only thing the SNES had better for MK1 was the visuals.

[@Kikwatz]

Mortal Kombat 2 better and SNES only.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

@@Kikwatz I preferred the MD version of MK2. And sadly MK3 and UMK3 were both awful ports on both systems lol

[@grimreaperts1]

Duke Togo we all did

[@clokobeats]

Man this brings back so many memories of the 90s, miss them days

[@infesticon]

Meanwhile the amiga version just had all the blood by defult. Micro computer users gave zero Fs

[@CodexShow]

PC FTW!

[@teamspirits732]

The Amiga version came out way later similar to the Sega CD port. By that time MKII already came out and the blood are no longer a secret but is a common feature in all ports. It wasn't a surprise bonus like the Genesis and Game Gear versions.

[@BluntforceJ]

@Randy L was jealous of my friends with the sega version

[@RogueBoyScout]

I have to ask... Amiga version.... Are we talking the CD32, or the A-model computers... I had SF2 on A500.... I would rather stick pins in my eyes then go through that again....

[@infesticon]

@@RogueBoyScout Shocking the amiga 500 port of mortal kombat. I remember at the time not thinking about it cos' of how terrible sf2 was. But even notorius grumpy man Stuart Cambell like mortal kombat 1 on amiga.

[@johny04071]

Loved that MK music/mix in the beginning...

[@siluxkhan6544]

I love mortal Kombat so much. It is the best fighting game of all time.

[@biggypoppa2294]

Wow now one is appreciating how well put together this video was. Best video I’ve seen in a while

[@DRnab1983]

The code was actually DULLARD down up left left a right down - in mk2 left down left right down right left left right right - still remember them will not forget that

[@PSYCLOWN185]

Little known fact: Phil Collins actually wrote Abacab about this cheat code because of the influence MK had on his life after returning from a time warp in which he played MK 1 for a year straight.

[@serbinator8529]

That intro was superb

[@CodexShow]

Thank you my dude!

[@serbinator8529]

@@CodexShow the whole video was fantastic! I was glued!!

[@freddysevolution9]

Name of the intro song?

[@damin9913]

People don't appreciate what they had in the 80s and 90s we had everything todays don't have that magical feeling

[@MrVoltySquirrel]

the song at the beginning of this video slaps so hard, i really want a full version

[@SECONDQUEST]

Yeah me too!

[@CodexShow]

It's in the video description :)

[@imaginationcentral6406]

one of the rare youtube narration voice that doesn't sound annoying.

[@Bluechief6]

The only thing this told me is I should watch Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain

[@Dr.SariHamoud]

I am watching this after 15 years from playing a borrowed SEGA genesis. I don't know why, but it seems important to me to know these things. I was just a kid back then immersed in the world of video gaming, wait a second. I am still immersed :D Long live gaming!

[@meepcar1]

Another fantastic video Codex!

[@CodexShow]

ty krak

[@saiprasad1413]

Looked up the music at 0:30. Stumbled upon Owl Vision. Thank you :)

[@wh7988]

This channel gonna blow up I'm glad I'm here when it's small:)

[@spacejamgoliath]

@Abysmal Horrors lol thank you

[@wh7988]

@Abysmal Horrors thank u :)

[@spacejamgoliath]

@@wh7988 you don't get to talk

[@dogmosatchmo]

The guy that popped out and said "Whoopsie!" Got old real fast

[@thomaswoodman6523]

The first mortal kombat was flippin cool.

[@williamdougie6213]

Seemed so real at the time.

[@Towerr72]

LOL this is the ONE code that I remember from my youth. I never played much of Contra, which seems to be a popular one as far as being remembered, but this one, I will NEVER forget

[@riccccccardo]

In uk I used to get my cheat codes off a magazine called *CVG* 😎. I owned mk3 ultimate and pit fighter on my megadrive.

[@runn1nwith5izzorz]

I was never able to just figure out chest codes. Thank God for the video game magazines and friends I had that already knew DULLARD

[@SimilakChild]

Mortal Kombat and Carmageddon changed gaming period. ESRB ratings were invented because those two games were incredibly violent.

[@HeyLaserLips]

Yeah, in the case of Carmageddon, from my understating, even the ESRB wouldn't pass the game so Stainless went to the BBFC, who usually only classify films, and got them to pass it on what is essentially an 18 certificate for movies. I think this was the first game to ever do that. (Since the ESRB was only a recommendation at the time and the BBFC certificate made it the legal minimum age to buy the game.)

[@jaredjones1752]

Holy shit! Thanks to this video, I realized I played SmashTV when it came out and then forgot about its existence entirely until this very day! Thank you for bringing back a cherished childhood memory.

[@supermario1348]

Gone but never forgotten 🤜🏽📺

[@great159]

Cheat code is: A,B,A,C,A,B,B. You're welcome.💯👍🏻😁

[@JustLikeHeaven77]

When this game first came out there were lines at the machines. Arcades were packed and this was the only game played.

[@great159]

In order to add blood to the SNES verson you needed to use Game Genie!💯 The SNES was closer to the arcade overall than Sega was.

[@selfproclaimednobody4614]

Not when it came to blood an gore! That was kind of the point..

[@VegetoStevieD]

The Game Genie code did nothing but turn the 'sweat' red. Believe me, I spent hours upon hours trying to do more.

[@MrZillas]

You cannot put the SNES-version over SEGA

[@keitrasanders1398]

I've always thought Ed Boon & John Tobias were inspired by the movie Big trouble in little China

[@Shiirow]

I love looking back at this nonsense, considering the original MK looks positively quaint and child friendly compared to MKX.

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

It was fucking awesome at the time.

[@eli6797]

Shiirow yeah, my cousin and his step brothers have mkx because it doesn’t require gold for 2 local players and litterally everything you do shows blood and things like Johnny cages X-ray shows the opponents nuts broken. I often argue now whether or not I/people around me would be affected by seeing someone get killed first hand, after being hardened by multiple movies/realistic games as much as if I hadn’t seen those movies/games

[@mattman8436]

I LOVED that montage of the game you did at the beginning.

[@melody_florum]

How could you depict death race in this video? That’s such a violent and gruesome game!

[@dominikspangenberg9712]

you are wrong about BARBARIAN. you could decapitate the opponent regardless of their health. It could also be the first hit of the fight.

[@ryanborishamilton818]

It's true.

[@donmorton4597]

Amazing how far we’ve come and how tame the violence looks compared to MK now.

[@akazakaz9513]

bless you Barry

[@CodexShow]

bless you

[@MikeLightning]

Opening of this video brought me back :) I had a lot of fun playing MK as a kid on Sega. My mom rented it from Blockbuster for me, the manual came with the game and the blood code was written inside it :)

[@GeorgWilde]

I don't want any politics interfere with my game. Thank you.

[@emoldandriel]

This channle is amaziiing! Love this kind of content. Very professional. I'm totally subscribing.

[@TheBamaguy334]

I just do not give a damn what politicians or some religious figures think,video games are a stress reliever for me,politicians only care about two things "money money money and kissing the butt of others just to get votes and get elected" and religious figures only want your money and to brainwash and control you with the phrases " believe like me or be like me or you will suffer eternal damnation or give a huge donation or god wont bless you or save you" they have no business in trying to tell people what they can or cannot play or watch or cannot watch.I say this to everyone,have a mind of your own and think for yourself.do not be controlled by politics or religion .

[@slavvingsquats2146]

Yeah because this has anything to do with religion

[@TheBamaguy334]

@@slavvingsquats2146 yea but there are people out there that when something happens they want to find something to blame it on like for example the mass shootings they want to turn around and blame violent video games.

[@wakkaseta8351]

@@slavvingsquats2146 Maybe not Mortal Kombat in this case, but let us not forget the Religious Moral Panic regarding Pokemon back in the 90s. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if there was religious backlash against MK on the grounds of the Chinese mysticism and Raiden being a god.

[@slavvingsquats2146]

Well I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to be weary of these types of things. I mean yeah if you're just scumbag politician who's looking to stir up unwanted trouble then that's idiotic and wrong. Let me give an example of this same type of occurrence and controversy that happened in the past. In the 1950s when Elvis was popular on TV, the people then thought it was bad that he was shaking his hips on TV (or something along those lines, I'm not sure what the exact controversy was). This to us today may seem trivial and stupid, but at the time many parents were concerned by this. And of course people said "oh it's no be deal" and they were honestly right in one sense because nothing bad really happened directly after it aired. However, if the people of the 50s saw what our society's sex ethics and morals are like today I doubt they would have aired that on television. Now I like Elvis and I 100% doubt he single handly caused our morals and values to change, so it was harmless in a way. But people continue to say "ah this is ok" over and over until they are desensitized to things that were once clearly wrong seem ok. That's not an organic growth of society and civilization, that's forgetting morals. It doesn't necessarily have to do with religion either. Now back to Mortal Kombat. We see that it's the same situation as before, just a bit different with what it's dealing with. I love Mortal Kombat and, once again, Mortal Kombat is not the direct reason for all the violence today and I even doubt video games at all have anything to do with it (I mean, people have always been violent throughout history but desensitization to it doesn't happen without a cause). We can't see the consequences of this controversy with Mortal Kombat. It was controversial among parents for a reason and I think it would be wise for some of us to be a bit more cautious about shrugging things off as okay for all of society. Now please don't say I'm supporting any of the people who say "video games are evil and cause violence" because I like video games and Mortal Kombat. I am saying people should keep their morals that are right in higher regard than societal trends that may not be right.

[@xenxander]

Old, crusty guys don't agree with you, and old, crusty guys represent you. If you want to change that, then start petitioning for younger representation.

[@slither42]

i played that game over 20 years ago when I was a kid and I still remember the blood code lol.

[@notstonedmason]

I still remember going to the mall and watching this scrubby kid in red sweatpants beat the game with one quarter in front of a crowd of people

[@yesandno2217]

How did you manage to begin this video perfectly with an absolute dance floor mortal kombat theme banger is beyond me. You hooked me well this time.

[@gabrielanthony1325]

Takes mortal kombat XL back in time with av cable Rules the world

[@leemcb7297]

2:37 that same fatality returned in MKII, but with the uppercut causing the frozen opponent to explode

[@desmofan1864]

Toasty!

[@markm4033]

My bro and I bought Mortal Kombat on Mortal Monday. We were looking for that game and others, then this one kid just walks near us, grabs a slip, looks at us for a moment, then walks to his mother to buy it. We bought the Genesis version and were disappointed when it didn't have the blood until a few days later we heard about the blood code. Then it was on! Lol. Setting the difficulty at very hard gave you the arcade difficulty level. I used that to practice and at school during lunch, I was almost unbeatable lol. Mortal Kombat is my game! I still have the copy too.

[@therealkingfrances3242]

The code for CONTRA!!! 99 guys.

[@yeahyukerson4511]

i don't mean this sarcastically but there are not enough of these retro gaming channels. i am so stuck in the past sometimes because this kind of stuff is all i watch on youtube.

[@cerealkiller3175]

I did three uppercuts in my classmate so I ripped three heads from him

[@Elintasokas]

3:37, wow, for the first time ever, I hear the full version of that scream. Usually it's just the tail of it that you hear being used. Sometimes just the first second. C&C Tiberian Sun used both the beginning and the end. The game Medievil's (1998 game from PS1) intro also used that scream at least.

[@mervcobault6604]

Ok but what does "BYC" attend for?

[@CS-ui4qj]

Merv Cobault because you cheated? 🤷🏻‍♂️😁

[@TEXAS2459]

@@CS-ui4qj lolllll

[@gnarlymcgnarlson6952]

Bring. Yayo. Cocaine.

[@blizteredthumbs7911]

Ha. You have 20 seconds to comply... You now have 10 seconds to comply. :D

[@tysonmoore8857]

The ESRB turned out to be a great thing to happen to the video game industry. It was a win win on both sides.

[@babakemarcusj.8301]

I can see my age mates in the comment section. Born early 80s.Give me a like👍

[@ShifuCareaga]

HELL YEAH