Use code AUSTIN15 over at www.world.holzkern.com/austineruption and get yourself a lovely timepiece today! Happy 10 Years! ALSO, QUICK, what's a video topic I should do for later this month? I'm taking my favorite idea and turning it into a video FOR REAL. You can fact check me later! I've got a ton of ideas but for the decade anniversary I wanna see how fast I can put one of y'alls suggestions together! LETS GO!
you should do a video on night trap clones. you know, five nights at freddies, thhat star fox command gamee, theres a good one on the play store where you do the fixed camera switching thing
Forgotten, underappreciated and underrated DS games part 2? Could be a fun idea to revisit, since the DS library is very vast. Forgotten Licensed Games? Or maybe Forgotten Anime games? I don't know, I'm just throwing ideas around.
I can't look at Ki as a 100% clone just becuse they brought something to the fighting game community unlike other games n that was the combo system n ultra combos was Nicee you started seeing other fighting games trying clone Ki combo system🤘 I really ain't like the Xbox remake it don't hit like the old ones
I remember my mom was about to take that game away from us, but she caught me reading the bio's to my brother and thought it was cute and educational and let us keep it 😂
Street Fighter The Movie The Game deserves some degree of mention. While everyone involved seemed to be on a completely different pages as to exactly what they were making, at least some of those involved viewed the game as Capcom attempting to copy the look and success of Mortal Kombat.
@@Invidente7 The SF3 story has been debunked. It was apparently a misunderstanding on the part of some people at Intelligent Technologies. Capcom USA had denied the claim all the way back at the beginning of 1995. Polygon's oral history article is even more telling. Not only does everyone from Capcom Japan deny the idea (instead it was viewed as a spin-off), even some of the people at Intelligent Technologies deny it. While Alan Noon said he remembered the game being pitched as SF3 and even found a design document that called it such, Ralph Megosa said Capcom never approved that name and that it was likely just an (IT) internal development label. That's what I meant when I said everyone seemed to be on completely different pages as to what they were making. While some people at IT thought Capcom was looking to outside Western developers to "save" the SF franchise, Capcom Japan was just dumping off a project (making a game based on the live action movie) that they *didn't even want to make.* The whole reason SFTMTG exists is apparently because the president of Capcom had first wanted a movie made for a Capcom property, and then wanted a game made for the movie...
@@BainesMkII I wouldn't call it an MK rip off though, all it really did was use digitized graphics. Which MK wasn't even the first one to use that, Pit-Fighter was.
Fun fact about Eternal Champions: “Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's 1995 album E. 1999 Eternal, was loosely inspired by the video game, not just in title, but even as far as the use of samples, such as the character bios theme for "Eternal", and the bad ending theme being the basis of the original "Crossroad", which would later be remixed, becoming the group's biggest single and earning them a Grammy.”
The sad thing was no one could do what they did as good as they did. Many imitators but no true successors or equals. Say what you will about mortal Kombat but it had a look and feel that it nailed perfectly. And though a bit wonky by modern standards it's still comes up on top compared to the absolute Dollar store knockoffs that mostly came up against it.
There is a Mexican Mortal Kombat clone called "Kombate Mexicano X". I bought a copy of it when I went to the EGS (a gaming convention that had support from big brands) like 16 years ago in the indie section that was behind the important booths, the person demoing the game was actually one of the developers/actors who was digitized into the game. I may still have the game somewhere in my old CD collection. As a Mexican game, it had mechanics inspired from King of Fighters, references to corrupt politicians, pop culture figures, and El Chavo, plus a ton of albures. I loved bringing it to the IT classroom in high school, where we would play it while the teacher wasn't looking.
My country had one of those, but it was a flash game full of the "memes" from that era plus some foreign, legendary ones like Edgar (from "La Caída de Edgar"). The one you mentioned, how was it about the budget? Did it look serious although the themes and references or was it more like a fun, one-time little project?
@@CristianNavia0807 it was closer to Mortal Kombat, as the fighters were digitized actors. I don't know the budget it may have had, but it was an entertaining game with around 20 characters, but I may be misremembering it. It can still be found online. In their official page, which is now offline, one could download fighters for free, as back then downloading the full game at once would have taken a while, one could download one by one.
I LOVE the story that the Kasumi Ninja team literally went to a market across the street from their building to find the costumes for the game. That’s admirable determination!
If I remember correctly, Death Cargo was repurposed into "Gorebreaker" (a game that used the assets, but seemed to be more of a beat'em up/RPG hybrid).
So many games I’ve never heard of. Mortal kombat was the first console videogame I ever had as a kid. My dad got us a sega genesis after we spent so many hours playing gameboy. Great memories
Congrats on ten years, Austin! I've been watching your stuff for a long time and always enjoy opening RUclips to see a new video of yours. Hope that you keep making cool stuff for a long time!
Eternal Champions was Segas best hit as an exclusive hybrid between MK and Street Fighter. Owned the original on Genenis and the CD Version is just what it always schould have been from the beginning. Could have become one of THE fighting games of today... oh - i would love to see that version of reality.
As a certified dinosaur kid ™️, my first thought for a clone was Primal Rage, so I'm glad you got to it immediately! We rented it over and over for the SNES, and I even still have an official action figure for a sabertooth tiger character from the unreleased sequel. A modern reboot could be incredible!
I never actually played it but Eternal Champions’ box art lived in my mind way too much as a kid when it came out. I would just sit there and wonder, how far does that beam out of his watch go? Is it like a lightsaber or does it just go up into space? I’m doing it again help
I feel really lucky to live an hour away from Galloping Ghost. Such a blast to take my kids there for the day. Such a smorgasbord of awesomeness wherever you look. And the history man. Holy hell it's something to behold. 🤩🤩🤩
Austin probably won't ever see this but I've been so impressed with this Chanel (I found it this year) love the style, pacing, and most of all the seamless transitions from game to game. Idk if there's a dedicated editor other than Austin but both writing the script, and editing it's a labor intensive process that doesn't go unnoticed
i’m almost certain i grew up playing battle monsters on the saturn and i had no recollection of it whatsoever until i saw it in this video. thank you for unlocking this memory for me
I wish WB would make MK spin-offs. Shaolin Monks needs a sequel or a remaster for modern consoles. Scorpion should have his own action game like God of War (classic).
One small correction; the Sonic comic with the Eternal Champions special was NOT the Archie comic, but was in fact the British "Sonic the Comic" from Fleetway. The more you know.
I discovered this channel a few months ago and honestly.. its become my favourite channel on RUclips. The consistency of these videos is awesome! Never miss one and always watch the whole video.. keep doing what you are doing Austin!
I was hoping you'd bring up Eternal Champions. I had a friend who owned it and I spent a single summer playing the hell out of it. I liked the alchemist guy with the cane.
Killer Instinct's Ultras is the reason MK's Brutalities were born. They had their own Ultras that also ended in a finishing uppercut but they exploded in MK. Funny how that connection never comes up
Funny I just comment bout I feel u can't put ki as a clone just based off they made the combo system that was what got me hooked til this day fighting games always try cloning that combo system and then I see your comment🤘🏾
Mortal Kombat would go on to get praise for being innovators of mechanics like skill-based finishers, control distortion, speed altering, and timer manipulation... 25 years after Eternal Champions did them.
Istg, every video you improve with the script, delivery, and editing. I dont think you're ever gonna reach your peak, because you simply cant stop getting better
Wow you’ve been pumping out high quality video after high quality video Austin. This was one of my favorite episodes in recent memory. Awesome work man
Omf2097 was one of my favorite games in the late 90s and I remember one of my friends contacted the creator to use the music on my city's local Comcast cable channel. While it might feel clunky by today's standards it's deep story telling for the tournament modes made it an amazingly fun dos alternative to Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter 2 (for a single player). If you had the ability to use 2 Gamepads it could also be very fun with 2 players even if it wasn't as deep on a mechanical level. Ran on everything and had a shareware (and then freeware) version. Free vs the 50 to 60 Dollars Mortal Kombat was at the time made it an easy choice for me. And damn it's soundtrack is full of bangers
I've been trying to remember One must fall 2097 but my search had always been in vain. I played this at my friend's house. He got the controller and I was stuck with keyboard. Fuckin thank you for doing what you do and letting me finally remember the name after literally a decade of searching!
This is the most blood I’ve seen in a yt fighting game vid, way more than the dedicated fighting game channels. Even the doods who say they won’t edit out the gore but still do. Just give chaos acid pee fatality from primal rage.
The story behind D.C.'s (the one you mentioned at the Rest of Clones before going with tattoo assassin') seems to be how the developers were just churning DMCAs to people talking about the game with footage for some reason...but I think there's people on Reddit with reuploads of when Super Best Friends Play tried it and made a mockery out of it (Saturday Morning Scrublords)...which might also be the easiest way to see how the game, that indeed existed but was almost scrubbed from existence because of its devs, looked like Which is still very weird to think about; all that for a MK clone lol
Eternal Champions CD has some of the most gruesome stage fatalities that I've seen in all my years, especially the mine cart one. With the log. Or the one where you're basically microwaved while still conscious. Ouch. I'm just bummed that Sega seems to have completely disowned it, since it still has potential and probably enough nostalgia to get some goodwill.
I had (and still have) Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortex. I actually preferred Kasumi Ninja, as I was able to work out better “strategies”. Also, i thought it was cool how the characters would fall in a few different ways based on how they are hit. That was actually pretty cool.
DUDE! I had been looking for Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon for decades now! I kept remembering playing a demo as some sort of Sasquatch climbing buildings and doing other weird activities, and I've finally found it after all this time in a completely unrelated video!
This video unlocked a core memory. I bought one must fall 2097 from the discount bin I’m the 90s and it only worked once on my pc with no sound. Never got it working again and tossed it.
KI had to be the first clone I played or was aware of. And similar to MK, my mom banned me from playing it. I managed to make a deal with her that would allow me to play KI as long as I only played as Spinal since he didnt bleed. Eventually I got her to allow Fulgore and Glacius since they bled "oil" and "water" respectively
There's this one very obscure fighting game on Mac and PC called The Untouchable that would've been a good fit for the video, it was released in the late 90s and had digitized characters. There's not much info on it out there so I'm not shocked that it wasn't mentioned. Looks like it was developed by the same studio that made Bikini Karate Babes lol. Great video, man. Been watching since the FFXV review!
Those Jackie Chan games are actually really good, they seem chunky and just button smashers at first, but if you keep at it, there's actually a very interesting combo system that's hard to describe but eventually you catch on. Play as that Chinese New Years Dragon thing first if you want to learn it.
I remember having a lot more fun with Eternal Champions while playing it with my brother comparing to MK1. We both knew it wasn't really good but the characters had a lot of charm, having a cyborg, a vampire, a 40s gangster and stuff, it was cool. And the music was pretty great too!
Only MK "clone" I really played back in the day was Eternal Champions for the Genesis/Mega Drive. I was never very good at it, but I still enjoyed playing it on my friend's machine. Primal Rage, too. One of my local pizza places had an arcade machine for a good while after both TMNT arcade games had more or less been played out by everyone.
Man I still have my copy of Primal Rage! And a couple action figures! Too bad we never got the full release of PM2. What a great throwback video this is!
That one kid was Maximillian Dood and i think he mentioned it in several videos when he covered the ost in old podcasts with Superbest Friends and their fighting game podcast
I loved the character "Larcen" in Eternal Champions. He was a bad ass to my young mind, reminding me of a mix of Batman and Dick Tracy (Dick Tracy being a game I also played a lot of the Genesis.)
I'm so glad you mentioned Death Cargo! I remember hearing about that game and being super intrigued by it only to never see or hear about it actually being released... Maybe a whole video on that story?
Time Killers, to this day, is still my all time favorite Fighting game. Nothing can dethrone it. So you know, i am fully serious. It was one of two retro cabinets in my community college cafeteria in 1998, and I spent more time on that than in class. Time Killers literally cause me to fail college
I was a preteen when I first played this game. Hours of fun. Sharing space on a keyboard with a friend was what we did in the 90s. Totally ok. You whippersnappers will never know the struggle.
Weapon lord is made by a dev that includes one James "Djames" Goddard, industry veteran and the creator of SF character Dee Jay, who interestingly, went on to make the latest version of Killer Instict Holding down a button before doing a motion input is called a Negative Edge, and a lot of the games on your example used that input, including Primal Rage, Eternal Champions, and Weaponlord
fun fact, studio gigante requested that fist of the lotus not be marketed as a mortal kombat successor, as it was trying to be it's own thing, however microsoft didn't care, and slapped that idea on every aspect of the advertising, this backfired when mk got it's groove back after a period of poor reception, and with microsoft caring more about another fighting game they were pushing, only for that to get entirely recalled, yeah tldr, lotus didn't sell well, and is now just kinda overlooked. the ultimate tragedy is that the studio was offered the chance to make a sequel, but after the poor sales they needed a bigger budget to do anything they actually wanted to, so they went with an offer from thq to make a wwe game, even if their hearts weren't as in it as last time …that game was wrestlemania 21, the one that instead of shipping the final build, printed the beta build, causing the game to bomb hard, killing the studio before they got both the budgets and creative control over projets to make the games they truly wanted.
I am very happy the notorious Mortal Kombat clone showed up in this saga of a video, Tattoo Assassins which I know about due to the ridiculous amount of finishers it had, which were pretty darn hilarious, gets crushed by ship, "Eat Ship and Die". XD
In1995 My parrents left me in one arcade after another while touring Las Vegas. In MGM some dude had the job of bringing in some new machines so I chose to help him because he was dealing heavy and I was naturally strong. One of those machines was primal rage. Once he got it set up, he gave me 100 credits on the game. I beat it with every character.
Tao Feng was my jam back in the day. Loved the game and was so bad at it, don't think I ever beat a single characters story mode despite playing it nonstop for weeks
OMF was actually a decent game, as long as you had the Gravis GamePad (or GamePad Pro for two-player mode). The character-building part of the game made it worth playing over and over again.
Use code AUSTIN15 over at www.world.holzkern.com/austineruption and get yourself a lovely timepiece today!
Happy 10 Years! ALSO, QUICK, what's a video topic I should do for later this month? I'm taking my favorite idea and turning it into a video FOR REAL. You can fact check me later! I've got a ton of ideas but for the decade anniversary I wanna see how fast I can put one of y'alls suggestions together! LETS GO!
you should do a video on night trap clones. you know, five nights at freddies, thhat star fox command gamee, theres a good one on the play store where you do the fixed camera switching thing
i say night trap clones but i think there was some sherlock holmes fmv games that pre date night trap by a few years
Forgotten, underappreciated and underrated DS games part 2? Could be a fun idea to revisit, since the DS library is very vast. Forgotten Licensed Games? Or maybe Forgotten Anime games? I don't know, I'm just throwing ideas around.
The life and death of the Mega Man Legend series
PlayStation Era RPGs that time has forgotten and desperately need a sequel/remake COUGH Wild Arms, Breath of Fire COUGH!!
I still remember my original copy of killer instinct 1 being a black cartridge instead of the typical grey one. It was awesome.
Probably one of the best Clones that Soundtrack was Killer.
@@moroseloki1912 It really was
I can't look at Ki as a 100% clone just becuse they brought something to the fighting game community unlike other games n that was the combo system n ultra combos was Nicee you started seeing other fighting games trying clone Ki combo system🤘 I really ain't like the Xbox remake it don't hit like the old ones
Loved Eternal Champions when I was a kid. I remember really liking the idea of characters from different time periods fighting.
Definitely due a revival from Sega. Especially since there hasn't been news of a new Virtua Fighter for a couple years now.
Does anybody know if they’ll ever give this game a makeover?
With the recent reimaginings? Gods I hope so.
I remember my mom was about to take that game away from us, but she caught me reading the bio's to my brother and thought it was cute and educational and let us keep it 😂
I got so mad at MACE that I threw the cartridge into a bucket of water outside my apartment. F that game
Damn, you've been pumping out a lot of content lately, Austin - cheers.
Yeah im lovin dis shit
He'll probably take a break soon.
Street Fighter The Movie The Game deserves some degree of mention. While everyone involved seemed to be on a completely different pages as to exactly what they were making, at least some of those involved viewed the game as Capcom attempting to copy the look and success of Mortal Kombat.
It was supposed to be Street fighter 3 at some point, and Sheng Long himself was almost in the game. At least they had Akuma.
@@Invidente7 The SF3 story has been debunked. It was apparently a misunderstanding on the part of some people at Intelligent Technologies.
Capcom USA had denied the claim all the way back at the beginning of 1995.
Polygon's oral history article is even more telling. Not only does everyone from Capcom Japan deny the idea (instead it was viewed as a spin-off), even some of the people at Intelligent Technologies deny it. While Alan Noon said he remembered the game being pitched as SF3 and even found a design document that called it such, Ralph Megosa said Capcom never approved that name and that it was likely just an (IT) internal development label.
That's what I meant when I said everyone seemed to be on completely different pages as to what they were making. While some people at IT thought Capcom was looking to outside Western developers to "save" the SF franchise, Capcom Japan was just dumping off a project (making a game based on the live action movie) that they *didn't even want to make.* The whole reason SFTMTG exists is apparently because the president of Capcom had first wanted a movie made for a Capcom property, and then wanted a game made for the movie...
I came to say this, I was surprised it wasn't included, or even mentioned.
@@BainesMkII I wouldn't call it an MK rip off though, all it really did was use digitized graphics. Which MK wasn't even the first one to use that, Pit-Fighter was.
Fun fact about Eternal Champions: “Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's 1995 album E. 1999 Eternal, was loosely inspired by the video game, not just in title, but even as far as the use of samples, such as the character bios theme for "Eternal", and the bad ending theme being the basis of the original "Crossroad", which would later be remixed, becoming the group's biggest single and earning them a Grammy.”
These clones just cement how truly special the Mortal Kombat franchise truly is...
i think they just cement how financially successful it is lol
The sad thing was no one could do what they did as good as they did.
Many imitators but no true successors or equals. Say what you will about mortal Kombat but it had a look and feel that it nailed perfectly. And though a bit wonky by modern standards it's still comes up on top compared to the absolute Dollar store knockoffs that mostly came up against it.
@@JohnDoe-wq5euboth of the latest Tekken and Street fighter games shit all over MK1 as a pure fighting game
There is a Mexican Mortal Kombat clone called "Kombate Mexicano X".
I bought a copy of it when I went to the EGS (a gaming convention that had support from big brands) like 16 years ago in the indie section that was behind the important booths, the person demoing the game was actually one of the developers/actors who was digitized into the game.
I may still have the game somewhere in my old CD collection.
As a Mexican game, it had mechanics inspired from King of Fighters, references to corrupt politicians, pop culture figures, and El Chavo, plus a ton of albures.
I loved bringing it to the IT classroom in high school, where we would play it while the teacher wasn't looking.
Dude I need to see this lol
Of course it has El Chavo.
Just looked it up, looks very nice
My country had one of those, but it was a flash game full of the "memes" from that era plus some foreign, legendary ones like Edgar (from "La Caída de Edgar").
The one you mentioned, how was it about the budget? Did it look serious although the themes and references or was it more like a fun, one-time little project?
@@CristianNavia0807 it was closer to Mortal Kombat, as the fighters were digitized actors.
I don't know the budget it may have had, but it was an entertaining game with around 20 characters, but I may be misremembering it.
It can still be found online.
In their official page, which is now offline, one could download fighters for free, as back then downloading the full game at once would have taken a while, one could download one by one.
I LOVE the story that the Kasumi Ninja team literally went to a market across the street from their building to find the costumes for the game. That’s admirable determination!
If I remember correctly, Death Cargo was repurposed into "Gorebreaker" (a game that used the assets, but seemed to be more of a beat'em up/RPG hybrid).
I still have the og demo on my pc 😂😂
The only imitator to stay around is Killer Instinct
Does injustice count?
@@icravedeath.1200 no because Injustice were developed by Netherealm themselves instead of another company trying to mimic them.
I just clicked this video only to see killer instinct. So I'm glad to see it in the comments already.
I was born in 88 and when killer instinct came out it was pretty damn cool and "unique".. enough haha I loved it
What you said is true! ULTRA COMBO!!
So many games I’ve never heard of. Mortal kombat was the first console videogame I ever had as a kid. My dad got us a sega genesis after we spent so many hours playing gameboy. Great memories
Congrats on ten years, Austin! I've been watching your stuff for a long time and always enjoy opening RUclips to see a new video of yours. Hope that you keep making cool stuff for a long time!
Primal Rage needs to get a modern reboot.
Yes it does
It absolutely does not
Same here and I can say the same with Eternal Champions too.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN yes it absolutely does.
Eternal Champions was Segas best hit as an exclusive hybrid between MK and Street Fighter. Owned the original on Genenis and the CD Version is just what it always schould have been from the beginning. Could have become one of THE fighting games of today... oh - i would love to see that version of reality.
I was ticked off when they cancelled the saturn one. I was hyped for that one.
As a certified dinosaur kid ™️, my first thought for a clone was Primal Rage, so I'm glad you got to it immediately! We rented it over and over for the SNES, and I even still have an official action figure for a sabertooth tiger character from the unreleased sequel. A modern reboot could be incredible!
I never actually played it but Eternal Champions’ box art lived in my mind way too much as a kid when it came out. I would just sit there and wonder, how far does that beam out of his watch go? Is it like a lightsaber or does it just go up into space? I’m doing it again help
Eternal Champions is great, especially the sega cd one.
Same. Seen it advertised in comics and wondered often 😅
I feel really lucky to live an hour away from Galloping Ghost. Such a blast to take my kids there for the day. Such a smorgasbord of awesomeness wherever you look. And the history man. Holy hell it's something to behold. 🤩🤩🤩
I really wanna play the SegaSonic arcade.
Austin probably won't ever see this but I've been so impressed with this Chanel (I found it this year) love the style, pacing, and most of all the seamless transitions from game to game. Idk if there's a dedicated editor other than Austin but both writing the script, and editing it's a labor intensive process that doesn't go unnoticed
i’m almost certain i grew up playing battle monsters on the saturn and i had no recollection of it whatsoever until i saw it in this video. thank you for unlocking this memory for me
Same same same.
Matt McMuscles would be proud that someone else knows just how bad Expect No Mercy is.
I wish WB would make MK spin-offs. Shaolin Monks needs a sequel or a remaster for modern consoles.
Scorpion should have his own action game like God of War (classic).
You could unlock scorpion in shaolin monks if i remember correctly.
I remember getting Eternal Champions and my friends asking,"What the Hell is this?" While l loved the game my friends thought it was pretty sluggish.
One small correction; the Sonic comic with the Eternal Champions special was NOT the Archie comic, but was in fact the British "Sonic the Comic" from Fleetway. The more you know.
I discovered this channel a few months ago and honestly.. its become my favourite channel on RUclips. The consistency of these videos is awesome! Never miss one and always watch the whole video.. keep doing what you are doing Austin!
I was hoping you'd bring up Eternal Champions. I had a friend who owned it and I spent a single summer playing the hell out of it. I liked the alchemist guy with the cane.
Despite being clones Primal Rage and Eternal Champions are absolute gems and games that stood out. Always picked them up with out hesitation.
Eternal Champions. Another example (among many) highlighting that Sega really mastered the art of shooting themselves in the foot.
Primal rage was prob one of my biggest letdowns when it came out. MK/dinos was like a dream for a jurassic park kid
I was so excited to see you talking about Eternal Champions. That was my favorite fighting game as a kid
War Gods just unlocked a core memory. Oh my goodness.
Killer Instinct's Ultras is the reason MK's Brutalities were born. They had their own Ultras that also ended in a finishing uppercut but they exploded in MK. Funny how that connection never comes up
Funny I just comment bout I feel u can't put ki as a clone just based off they made the combo system that was what got me hooked til this day fighting games always try cloning that combo system and then I see your comment🤘🏾
Mortal Kombat would go on to get praise for being innovators of mechanics like skill-based finishers, control distortion, speed altering, and timer manipulation... 25 years after Eternal Champions did them.
While watching this video I couldn't help but wonder what a Eternal Champs remastered might be like !?
Or an eternal champions remake in general.
Istg, every video you improve with the script, delivery, and editing. I dont think you're ever gonna reach your peak, because you simply cant stop getting better
Surprisingly one of my first knockoff of MK was dong dong never die
Wasn't expecting to see another video from you so soon. Thanks for making my day a bit better.
Wow you’ve been pumping out high quality video after high quality video Austin. This was one of my favorite episodes in recent memory. Awesome work man
Omf2097 was one of my favorite games in the late 90s and I remember one of my friends contacted the creator to use the music on my city's local Comcast cable channel. While it might feel clunky by today's standards it's deep story telling for the tournament modes made it an amazingly fun dos alternative to Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter 2 (for a single player). If you had the ability to use 2 Gamepads it could also be very fun with 2 players even if it wasn't as deep on a mechanical level. Ran on everything and had a shareware (and then freeware) version. Free vs the 50 to 60 Dollars Mortal Kombat was at the time made it an easy choice for me. And damn it's soundtrack is full of bangers
I've been trying to remember One must fall 2097 but my search had always been in vain. I played this at my friend's house. He got the controller and I was stuck with keyboard. Fuckin thank you for doing what you do and letting me finally remember the name after literally a decade of searching!
It has a great soundtrack!
So good to see Eternal Champions get some much deserved recognition.
THANK YOU FOR SHOUTING OUT KILLER KUTS!!
That shit is just a straight-up legit studio electronic dance album
This is the most blood I’ve seen in a yt fighting game vid, way more than the dedicated fighting game channels. Even the doods who say they won’t edit out the gore but still do. Just give chaos acid pee fatality from primal rage.
"Austin references Elfen Lied in a violent video game video" was indeed on my bingo card
I had the Primal Cuts CD as a kid and I felt like I was a man amongst children while listening to it.
"Bloody Roar Time" is how I call every time someone asks me to talk about a fighting game I like.
Dude, this doc is extremely impressive. The amount of information you’ve included, in such an informative fashion, is truly incredible.
Thank you!
Congrats on 10 years Austin and team!
The story behind D.C.'s (the one you mentioned at the Rest of Clones before going with tattoo assassin') seems to be how the developers were just churning DMCAs to people talking about the game with footage for some reason...but I think there's people on Reddit with reuploads of when Super Best Friends Play tried it and made a mockery out of it (Saturday Morning Scrublords)...which might also be the easiest way to see how the game, that indeed existed but was almost scrubbed from existence because of its devs, looked like
Which is still very weird to think about; all that for a MK clone lol
I still have the og demo on my pc 😂😂
Eternal Champions CD has some of the most gruesome stage fatalities that I've seen in all my years, especially the mine cart one. With the log. Or the one where you're basically microwaved while still conscious. Ouch. I'm just bummed that Sega seems to have completely disowned it, since it still has potential and probably enough nostalgia to get some goodwill.
I had (and still have) Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortex. I actually preferred Kasumi Ninja, as I was able to work out better “strategies”. Also, i thought it was cool how the characters would fall in a few different ways based on how they are hit. That was actually pretty cool.
Eternal Champions was awesome. Great story, graphics and music. The story in the book was awesome too.
DUDE! I had been looking for Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon for decades now! I kept remembering playing a demo as some sort of Sasquatch climbing buildings and doing other weird activities, and I've finally found it after all this time in a completely unrelated video!
Primal Rage I would love a remake of! With claymation in 4k! Would be awesome.
This video unlocked a core memory. I bought one must fall 2097 from the discount bin I’m the 90s and it only worked once on my pc with no sound. Never got it working again and tossed it.
KI had to be the first clone I played or was aware of. And similar to MK, my mom banned me from playing it. I managed to make a deal with her that would allow me to play KI as long as I only played as Spinal since he didnt bleed. Eventually I got her to allow Fulgore and Glacius since they bled "oil" and "water" respectively
“Everything so far has been pretty vanilla and that needs to change right now.” Looks like my gaming group has a new motto.
Eternal Champions was pretty damn good. It still looks good, too.
BIG fan of Eternal Champions Sega CD, so glad you mentioned it.
The wild hidden characters is almost as iconic as its violence.
There's this one very obscure fighting game on Mac and PC called The Untouchable that would've been a good fit for the video, it was released in the late 90s and had digitized characters. There's not much info on it out there so I'm not shocked that it wasn't mentioned. Looks like it was developed by the same studio that made Bikini Karate Babes lol. Great video, man. Been watching since the FFXV review!
The Eternal Champions comic was a special from Sonic the Comic, from Fleetway, not Archie.
Those Jackie Chan games are actually really good, they seem chunky and just button smashers at first, but if you keep at it, there's actually a very interesting combo system that's hard to describe but eventually you catch on. Play as that Chinese New Years Dragon thing first if you want to learn it.
It is absolutely nuts to me that primal rage's is STILL proving difficult to crack.
I remember having a lot more fun with Eternal Champions while playing it with my brother comparing to MK1. We both knew it wasn't really good but the characters had a lot of charm, having a cyborg, a vampire, a 40s gangster and stuff, it was cool. And the music was pretty great too!
Some people act like the game is sooo bad but it's definitely a serviceable fighter. I liked it better than MK1 too because it had way more content.
@@Gatorade69 ever played the Sega CD sequel?
@@Invidente7 No but I know about it.
I should emulate it. Can't you play as a chicken in it ?
Only MK "clone" I really played back in the day was Eternal Champions for the Genesis/Mega Drive. I was never very good at it, but I still enjoyed playing it on my friend's machine. Primal Rage, too. One of my local pizza places had an arcade machine for a good while after both TMNT arcade games had more or less been played out by everyone.
Man I still have my copy of Primal Rage! And a couple action figures! Too bad we never got the full release of PM2. What a great throwback video this is!
Omg I forgot about primal rage wowwww
One day somebody needs to put great effort in determining which has more clones, MK or SF, simply to satisfy my curiosity.
Now we need a 10 Part series on 'The Forgotten World of Street Fighter II Clones (SFII)'
That one kid was Maximillian Dood and i think he mentioned it in several videos when he covered the ost in old podcasts with Superbest Friends and their fighting game podcast
I loved the character "Larcen" in Eternal Champions. He was a bad ass to my young mind, reminding me of a mix of Batman and Dick Tracy (Dick Tracy being a game I also played a lot of the Genesis.)
"(Punk.)"
Damn I was right in front of that Primal Rage II cabinet and didn’t realize I was in front of the holy grail.
Time to go back
back to the past
I remember playing Eternal Champions as a kid. Rented it from blockbuster. Good times
The voice clip anubis you have been chosen has been stuck in my head since I played wargods at my cousin's house when I was a child
4:15 the stop motion scanned models looked so good. I wish they had survived to the modern day.
I'm so glad you mentioned Death Cargo! I remember hearing about that game and being super intrigued by it only to never see or hear about it actually being released... Maybe a whole video on that story?
Time Killers, to this day, is still my all time favorite Fighting game. Nothing can dethrone it.
So you know, i am fully serious. It was one of two retro cabinets in my community college cafeteria in 1998, and I spent more time on that than in class. Time Killers literally cause me to fail college
My parents never bought me Bone Storm.
They went to Hell.
I've seen a few other RUclipsrs cover this topic before. You covered more games than the others I've seen, so that is cool. Good job.
Congratulations on 10 years
I was a preteen when I first played this game. Hours of fun. Sharing space on a keyboard with a friend was what we did in the 90s. Totally ok. You whippersnappers will never know the struggle.
Man Killer Cuts was the first CD I owned, I couldn't listen to if for years until my family go it's first CD player!!! :D 5:48
1 Must Fall!! DUDE!! my brothers and I played this on the computer. Lots of fun.
I loved Mace the Dark Age on the N64 and Pojo is GOAT.
Weapon lord is made by a dev that includes one James "Djames" Goddard, industry veteran and the creator of SF character Dee Jay, who interestingly, went on to make the latest version of Killer Instict
Holding down a button before doing a motion input is called a Negative Edge, and a lot of the games on your example used that input, including Primal Rage, Eternal Champions, and Weaponlord
You forgot the most surprising MK klone of them all... STREET FIGHTER THE MOVIE
24:00 YESSS!!!!! "I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR AND IT IS YOU!!!!"
fun fact, studio gigante requested that fist of the lotus not be marketed as a mortal kombat successor, as it was trying to be it's own thing, however microsoft didn't care, and slapped that idea on every aspect of the advertising, this backfired when mk got it's groove back after a period of poor reception, and with microsoft caring more about another fighting game they were pushing, only for that to get entirely recalled, yeah tldr, lotus didn't sell well, and is now just kinda overlooked.
the ultimate tragedy is that the studio was offered the chance to make a sequel, but after the poor sales they needed a bigger budget to do anything they actually wanted to, so they went with an offer from thq to make a wwe game, even if their hearts weren't as in it as last time …that game was wrestlemania 21, the one that instead of shipping the final build, printed the beta build, causing the game to bomb hard, killing the studio before they got both the budgets and creative control over projets to make the games they truly wanted.
Whenever Austin uploads I stop what I'm doing and watch
I am very happy the notorious Mortal Kombat clone showed up in this saga of a video, Tattoo Assassins which I know about due to the ridiculous amount of finishers it had, which were pretty darn hilarious, gets crushed by ship, "Eat Ship and Die". XD
I have zero recollection of anime portraits in one must fall. Loved that game as a kid and definitely did play it two player
Eternal Champions was way to difficult, I spent all my time in the practice area.
In1995 My parrents left me in one arcade after another while touring Las Vegas. In MGM some dude had the job of bringing in some new machines so I chose to help him because he was dealing heavy and I was naturally strong. One of those machines was primal rage. Once he got it set up, he gave me 100 credits on the game. I beat it with every character.
10 YEARS OF AUSTIN ERUPTION
Oh wow, this must be my birthday, can't wait to watch. Thank you!!
I love this channel and I love you Erupti. Thanks for wonderful 10 years.
Thanks for the timestamps, I don't want to buy a watch so this saved me skipping over your actual content! Keep up the good work!
My friend Mark and I were the kids pulling off the finishers and combos in One Must Fall on my keyboard when we were 11.
Tao Feng was my jam back in the day. Loved the game and was so bad at it, don't think I ever beat a single characters story mode despite playing it nonstop for weeks
Mortal kombat had both mortals and combat
Also a cool ass story and fatalities
OMF was actually a decent game, as long as you had the Gravis GamePad (or GamePad Pro for two-player mode). The character-building part of the game made it worth playing over and over again.
(The GamePad Pro could support at least two joysticks on a single 15-pin port.)