The Horrifying History of Fulgore - Killer Instinct Character Documentary (1994 - 2022)

[@douglasmijangos3327]

I love how KI gave you so many types of Characters too .. the Boxer .. the Ninja .. the Robot.. the Mummy.. the Wolf .. the Vampire .. the Ice guy .. the Fire Guy .. the Ghost .. the Skeleton..so great 😂

[@anthonybernero9720]

Ghost, mummy, vampire?

[@douglasmijangos3327]

@@anthonybernero9720 ghost Hizako .. Mummy Kan Ra .. Vampire Mira..

[@anthonybernero9720]

@@douglasmijangos3327 oh, I haven't played that game.

[@jaketaylor4915]

A raptor

[@Samizouza]

Gargoyle, American Indian, two-headed monster 😊

[@MKF30]

Fulgore is cool, no doubt inspired by The Predator and Terminator I remember reading way back.

[@COPESLANDmovemaKER]

He’s a shoto. More inspired by ryu, Ken, Sean, and akuma (cyber akuma)

[@MKF30]

@@COPESLANDmovemaKER No, Fulgore is not a shoto lol 😆. The creators said way back in an interview he was inspired by predator, terminator both predate SF and its pretty obvious. If anything Jago is the closest to a shoto since he literally has a hadoken like and shoryuken like move not Fulgore who Looks nothing like any of the shotos. Also, FYI cyber Akuma didn't come til after KI was out. KI came out in 94, Cyber Akuma came out in 97 debuting in MVC. Cyber Akuma no doubt came from Terminator also being a cyborg.

[@Voodoo6592]

Cyrax sektor and smoke based off the predator too

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Fulgore truly was the face of the KI franchise as a whole! Besides being on the box art, arcade side boards and many ads... he was an awesome imposing figure that stood out amongst his fellow fighting game 'bots'! Just an insanely cool character that also had an intriguing story! ( Killbot Terminator with a hidden motive!)

[@NzaneYTTV]

Orchid was on the side too....

[@barryphillips516]

Fulgore is dope !!

[@barryphillips516]

The way he moves also so dope and I love his close up on the screen and the bass on it I have the tv bumping the sound .. I would like to for an artist to make the soundtrack to it or movie to this

[@barryphillips516]

As a teenager I’ve played it everyday day it was like in 3d mode I can only image if it should be 8k or Virtual reality and those cool close up know that would be dope

[@Curlyheart]

Spinal and fulgore are the poster boys

[@jerglow]

When the SNES version came out I sent away in Nintendo power for a 6 foot tall poster of Fulgore. Had that thing on my bedroom door for a few years. Wish I still had it

[@titations973233]

I NEED a Saberwulf video. He was my main back in the day. He’s one of my top 10 video game characters of all time

[@paulheath8711]

Just to say Eyedol was playable on the SNES and arcade with button prompts on the select screen. So technically 11 playable characters. I love your deep dive videos these are fantastic please keep this up. SNES. Play as Eyedol In either 1 Player Game, 2 Player Game, or Tournament Game, select Cinder. On the screen before the fight, hold Right and press L, R, X, B, Y, then A. Arcade v1.4 Select Riptor and hold [←]. Once the versus screen appears, hold [→] and press [MP, FP, FK]. The announcer saying "Eyedol" will confirm the selection, making Eyedol playable for the next battle.

[@kevinbenton1258]

This man knows his shit 🤣 Wild story, when I first met my older cousin he had came from Japan and this mf was a beast in games in my young mind. He had everybody ultra and finishers memorized. Then he fucked me up one day. I beat him 2 time with thunder. Next match on the character select screen went to cinder then he looked at me. This mf turned up the tv and put the code in. When I heard Eyedol I lost my shit. He beat me 4 times and never told me how he did it. I didn’t figure the shit til I was 5th or 6th grade going to gamefaqs.com and finding the cheat for it 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulheath8711]

Also in my opinion he has the best music.

[@YTOW85]

I used to love cheat codes

[@simonbelmont1]

Thank you for this memory!

[@AgentownshipRebelion]

I think Maxamilliondood described him as a cross between Predator and Terminator. 8:52 he's even holding Spinal's skull, hoisted up by his bandanna(too bad it's not the spinal column eh?) He is far and away, always been my KI favorite. And that's in series where I love almost every single character on the roster.

[@EWOODJ]

Storywise, it’s supposed to be Jago’s skull, but the game uses Spinal’s model for all skeleton based situations. So yeah, obviously not fooling anyone.

[@Lane311]

Fulgore has been my favorite since spending my first quarter on him at the local bowling alley. Great vid. Thanks!

[@Lord_Deimos]

I remember reading sometime in the 90's that Fulgore's design is partially inspired by the Predator as well as medieval knights.

[@jaredjacoby4621]

Everybody always asks "who is Fulgore?" but nobody ever asks "how is Fulgore?"

[@mrcrazyinstinct5822]

Dude I honestly hope that you continue to make more Killer Instinct videos about all the characters's deep lore that each of them have, cuz it's very criminal that the Killer Instinct series doesn't really have character lore videos unlike other fighting games so I really do encourage you to do more of these and this is coming from a massive Killer Instinct player who loves the story and lore~😉

[@Peeps7468]

Sabrewulf and TJ Combo were my characters in the arcade. At home, I loved playing with Riptor. Thanks for the great video!

[@BEExPyro]

DUDE. You have know idea how much video game related stress you have REMOVED from me. Thank you for saying fulgore should have been in smash! TOTALLY AGREE

[@bensmiley5301]

Jago of course. Thank you for making these videos!

[@caseyv5233]

Great video Top Hat! Looking forward to more Killer Instinct from you especially one on Orchid

[@Invidente7]

Apparently in the KI comics he's somehow Thunder's brother. Obviously not canon.

[@similaritiesendhere]

Aren't the comics basically the only K.I. lore in existence?

[@davidwhatsthatabout7404]

No, it’s still canon. In the 2013 reboot he is thunders brother still but Glacius saved him by reverse engineering fulgore A.I/ consciousness back into eagle (that’s fulgores real name) so eagle is a Native American man with cybernetics and the ability to control other A.I fulgore is basically a vessel and eagles body is in stasis until he is freed by glacius

[@JudgementalGoat]

I don't know why KZbin stopped recommending your videos, but I'm glad to see you're still pushing content!

[@HiNeighbor21]

Been watching a ton of old KI clips and this couldn’t have released at a better time for me!!

[@glw607]

Fulgore is my favorite from the original, but now having KI on the PC I'm gravitating towards Kilgore.

[@LobsterPuncher]

I've loved all three KI games. I spent a whole summer playing the first one and did it again on N64. And it has some of the most badass video game music of all time.

[@cpu64]

Fulgore was the first more complex model I made when I started learning 3D with trueSpace.

[@That1PissedOffBoomer]

Oh hell yes, you're finally doing killer instinct love you man.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Fulgore: The Ultimate Merging of a Predator, Terminator with a Medieval Knight Motif.

[@n.b.l.5709]

Pred term n robocop

[@kongking4088]

Great video and fantastic series

[@douglasmijangos3327]

I love Street Fighter … Mortal Kombat was awesome when I was a kid .. BUT Killer Instinct is the best Fighting game of all time in my opinion.. specially KI2 … and KI2013 because you have to learn how to fight wit everyone .. in order to be a great fighter you need to break combos and you have to realize and recognize what buttons you opponent is using to break the combo .. so you can’t break if you don’t know your opponent..

[@Joshhow]

Fulgore was the first character I tried to learn in Killer Instinct. I ended up using T.J. Combo and Orchid once I found out I was better at using them however.

[@sukmykrok3388]

After Fulgore it's only natural you follow up with either Jago and Orchid! Orchid more likely since Jago also has Dark Jago to cover!

[@edaniels240]

Yep, Fulgore was without a doubt KI's cover boy

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Can't wait for videos on Jago,Eyedol,& Gargos

[@brittislove]

Best thing about Top Hat Gaming Man is that he releases consistently good and deeply detailed videos reguarly. Shame that no one seems to be interested in KI as much as SF which I also love. Thank you for this

[@JimboCruntz]

I think that’s completely KI’s fault. They’ve never tried to modernise and when they sort of did a half assed attempt to modernise it was console exclusive to a platform not really associated with it. Killer Instinct should be up there with SF, Tekken and MK but it just isn’t.

[@BlueMageWithSoulEdge]

I really like this one. I hope you continue this and go over the comic in full detail. Also please go over the story of the 2013 (or a retrospective of the series story). When the game came out, I didn't have a flat screen nor an X-BOX ONE. Whenever I did get a chance to play it with a friend, I couldn't read the text 'cause of my classic traditional box T.V.

[@dwightphillips7578]

Fulgore had the COOLEST music in the first Killer Instinct!

[@twizsilver]

Yes I'd love to hear Orchids story too, and Jago's too for that matter for starters...

[@EpicJasonX9000]

15:55 I would strongly argue that Cinder deserves it more since he was the literal broken character who caused Nintendo to reprogram every single arcade cabinet in the US due to his unlimited combo glitch. Fulgore maybe the star attraction of the game, but it was Cinder, my most favorite & best character in the game (as well as his theme being my personal favorite as well) who was the most influential. he was literally too hot for Nintendo to handle, that's how hardcore he truly was.

[@cpu64]

Glitches aren't relevant to the story or the game's design..

[@Gamesta100]

I didn't like fighting games back then but I still couldn't get enough of KI.

[@peekaboo21284]

This was *DEFINITELY* The goto after hours of Street Fighter!

[@JMrealgamer]

KI was sold with SNES’s. But it’s property of XB now, and Nintendo probably didn’t want to get him. Maybe too mean for Smash.

[@Screamus]

I hope this video gets views and engagement, just because I wanna see more top hat ki content.

[@d-man8570]

B. Orchid should be the next Killer Instinct character to do a video on.

[@YTOW85]

I always used to wonder why Thunder's stage from the first KI never had a stage fatality

[@Volcannon]

When I first got my copy of KI (with the OST) I was in awe of it's fighting style. It was tough, but fair...especially eyedol. To this day, Fulgore is the only fighter on the snes that I can reliably pull off an ultra with.

[@brewesharp3129]

Please make a vid on Sabrewulf kind sir

[@natecw4164]

Love it! I must have spent over $500 on this game, 50 cents at a time. As far more characters I'd personally love to hear about: Glacius, Saberwulf or Cinder would be a cool follow up video.

[@D4RKxHOR1ZoN]

Spinal was nuts... I remember that's all you can hear in the arcade...combooo breakerrr....coooombooo breakerrrr!!!

[@That1PissedOffBoomer]

And in one thing about killer instinct I've played a plenty on xbox series S. It still really really holds up

[@RickySpanish100]

Fulgore was my favorite character in KI hands down

[@seanchan4478]

I love KI's roster, they pretty much have one of everything

[@Justathereptile]

I hope you do more KI characters As for who I wanna see next. Its RIPTOR!!!! from Killer Instinct

[@kadosho02]

Been so long since I played KI. Forgot how intricate its unique endings were. Every decision made, would alter a character's path. I wish more games used this system. Gives the player more options to try different ways to play. So Fulgore has quite a story. Interesting to know.

[@Gamesta100]

That's only in KI2. Even KI Gold didn't have multiple endings because they couldn't do it on the N64.

[@hermitfolgrim6126]

Love all your character deep dives keep up the great work!! Also do saberwulf next!!!

[@Fenrisson]

Ever since the release of Killer Instinct (which soundtrack I DREAD) I wanted more of story of the game! Besides, Fulgure was my favorite because he looks so rad and always chilled me to the bone with his (its?) robotic sounds and what story we could get from the booklet. Thanks a bunch, mate!

[@PharaohDom]

Orchid! She's my main in KI.

[@dameTHEname]

Back in the 90s Killer Instinct was a VERY BIG DEAL! at the time you could make a strong argument that it was the only fighting game giving Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat a run for their money

[@olschoolTonyCarter]

Tbh, I prefer MK3 and UMK3 over Killer Instinct. What KI got wrong, MK got it right

[@dc7981]

@@olschoolTonyCarter I think the old Mortal Kombat games are better than the old KI games but the killer instinct reboot easily trumps Mortal Kombat X and Mortal Kombat 11

[@olschoolTonyCarter]

@@dc7981 nah MK is still better

[@dc7981]

@@olschoolTonyCarter I mean maybe X is arguably both KI reboot and X are amazing but 11 was a major disappointment

[@olschoolTonyCarter]

@@dc7981 yeah it was honestly

[@jamiemcneil9682]

Great vid.

[@Zerofightervi]

One of my best gaming memories was somehow managing to get Fulgore to wake up from his daze & then finish my opponent with an Ultra Combo. It was absolutely epic.

[@peekaboo21284]

I would love to see you cover all the characters

[@brendonjenkins462]

All the KI crew needs to be done.

[@SandroSensei]

Please do more killer instinct characters top hat

[@tomevil6]

More Killer Instinct please good sir.

[@brandonmuse5532]

Fulgore is great they took all the cool things from Terminator and Predator and make it a new thing

[@n.b.l.5709]

Robocop too

[@SharifSourour]

Always loved this character as a top pick when playing but didn’t notice how big of a deal he is! These games are great and don’t get the most attention. I love the originals especially since I have never played the newer one. I appreciate the clear update but the cheesy old designs have their charm.

[@baka-crossing]

My original impression of Fulgore's design was one part Terminator, one part Predator, and one part Protoss Zealot.

[@p6mkq]

Besides Orchid he has the best theme in the series ! Always loved paying as Orchid, Fulgore and Jago the most.

[@krishrama]

FULGORE!! this character was soo badass. yeah a combo of robocop, predator and terminator!! lolz. just epic. i prefer his KI classic look and gameplay overall to the KI2 and the later xbox KI. which kinda didnt capture the magic of the classics. redesigns were just not good. especially thunder and glacius. wtf happened there!! the female fighters look good tho. but it was epic to see KI return for awhile. it was a dream to see KI3 for so long. now sadly microsoft seems to have killed this franchise.?! not much sadness cuz never really got into that version. but fulgore was the only one that looked good. oh rash was also cool too. always felt battletoads characters fit perfectly into that world. but kinda wish nintendo would buyout the rights for KI again and make it exclusive to their consoles. those days were a magical moment in time. ya had to be there. the best KI are the ones by rare and nintendo....

[@jamesvinson3998]

I really enjoyed playing this game as a kid.

[@not_jon_vendi]

Love the KI character vids!! I see ur views are low and likes and comments which is bullshit. I loved this series and am really sick of the street fighter obsession our little community has. Thanks Big Daddy Top Hat!! LOOOOOOVE your content!

[@moseslalmuanpuia8988]

He's my favorite and I'm kind of sad they ignored the enmity between him and jago from 2013

[@BigrookieMER]

Fulgore was the only character I played in the arcade when Killer Instinct came out, It felt like Ken was made into an evil version of Robocop.

[@nobodiesfavorite1168]

He was Thunder's brother that was turned into a machine.

[@subzippo]

Jago and Orchid deserve deep dives! Might want to do them together, idk.

[@zakman6471]

I loved the black snes cartridge

[@NzaneYTTV]

Jago was the face to me.... Maybe kuz of the sword💪🏿

[@krishrama]

Jago was epic. with his ninja vibes and ya the sword. the voice was awesome too. endoken!! wayaaaah!! :) used this guy and fulgore most in KI and Ki2.

[@dc7981]

He’s a lot like Liu Kang And that he’s the actual main character but is still completely overshadowed by the more popular antihero

[@angelvilla2568]

Wasn't Fulgore Thunder's brother and forced to become a cyborg after beating the former prototype? Which technically makes Fulgore Native American?

[@trapsolekage]

More Killer Instinct!!!

[@TheBM213]

This game was amazing even on The game boy to 😆

[@Super_Cinder.Inferno]

Please Make Cinder's Video

[@Chrisezo]

If Fulgore had been in Smash instead of Banjo I would have lost it, because he is my all time favorite fighting game character, but I think that Masahiro Sakurai didn't choose him, because he wanted to make a kid friendlier roster, and its the reason why even Mai Shiranui from KOF isn't allowed to cameo as a background character at the KOF stage.

[@malhaomalhoa7486]

Eh, I mean there are a lot of edgy characters in the game, some even from M-rated games like Snake, Joker and even Bayonetta. Fulgore at least comes from a (mostly) T-rated videogame series, besides in terms of design and moveset he'd be a great fit imo.

[@VHNexxus]

Could you do a video on Riptor? He's been my main ever since my first playing!

[@barryphillips516]

My favorite game I want make the game myself would like to challenge Ed boon and mortality kombat to an fight I want to see an cross over game that would be dope

[@charlieparks2015]

He is someone that needs the Shred dude

[@shaneventuri4305]

Man Glacius and Cinder on Smash would have been amazing

[@snickrs77]

its "full gore" not "valgore" even the game pronounces the it mate, rookie mistake

[@SandroSensei]

Maybe you can tell it about the lore of killer instinct. Touch upon the characters, ultratech and the likes.

[@devingiles6597]

Top Hat Gaming Man, you should definitely do a Killer Instinct character documentary video on Orchid! She has a special attack which she show her cleavage at the opponent. Would you mind doing a video on her?

[@greenkoopa]

Ben Harradine, Sajmeister, and House of the Ted are necessities for gracious living 🐢

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

He is the younger brother of chief Thunder called Eagle.

[@shinguyee]

Woo, a fulgore video

[@user-pb65]

Hey Top Hat Gaming Man, can you talk about Fighting Layer? The Japanese only arcade game made by Arika and Namco that plays like the EX series?

[@bobbykotick2642]

How about Eddie Gordo of Tekken 3

[@AssassinoSighted]

He was the last character before the boss and used to piss me off royal with his uppercut laser eye combo bullshit lol

[@bahamut191180]

i want to see spinal and saberwolf

[@johnwhiteside4698]

Whoa! Never knew there were multiple endings. Although I only ever played KI Gold on the 64, I don't think it had them but I could be wrong.

[@Gamesta100]

Only KI2 has them. They were removed for the N64 version and KI never had them.

[@gizaha]

5:03 in the same way they did with the T-1000

[@miggypeso909]

Hey Top Hat,have you ever done a video on Eternal Champions or World Heroes? I could’ve sworn you did but I can’t find them. If not,would you? I would love to hear your breakdown of both franchises. Love the channel,long fan and subscriber. Cheerio guv!

[@miggypeso909]

Could you do a profile on Larcen? Any of the World Heroes?

[@Iqzzy-KO]

Please cover more KI characters!

[@blakecastillo2474]

Maybe do orchid or saberwolf next

[@jamesmoss3424]

Fulgore is bloody cool. 😀👍🎮

[@Goobatheman-f7z]

Fulgore is my favorite but sabrewulf has the best theme

[@joelperez7980]

Joel command list

[@oftheone1856]

"lets bloody discuss what the hell he is..." _Sounding like something he doesnt want to do_ "Yeaaah" Mate, you dont have to this if you dont want to