I remember being at a Toys R Us in 1995 Miami,FL with my mother shopping. They had the Super Nintendo game console on display to be sampled and them having Killer instinct as the game of choice to be demoed. We bought it. What a luxury it was back then to own that combo. I’m 32 now crazy how time fly’s. But that intro is powerful bro!
It's impressive how they jammed a super powerful arcade game to a 16 bit cartridge. And this came before Street Fighter Alpha 2 was on the console. This runs way smoother.
SFA actually resembled arcade, while this falls way short. No Zooming or 3d here, characters limited while alpha looked very clear. This is the most overrated port ever because it baited kids
Back around late 1995, early 1996, my dad used to say up all night playing Killer Instinct until morning and later on him and my older brother used to compete against each other. Fast forward to present day today I still play it on the SNES today which I’m currently 27 and my little brother is 6 and I’m going to teach him how to fight on Killer Instinct.
I remember as a kid going to the arcade where my big bro use to work at to play this. Then i got it for Xmas and it was the best ever! love this game even to this day.
This game was like a mixture of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter with eerie music mixed with arcade car games, with Donkey Kong Country background style with a weird Monsanto evilness haha
It really doesn't. I haven't played this game since I was 4(26 now) and as soon as I heard that character selection music. all those memories playing this with my cousins just flushed back to me.
This game made me shit myself when I was 6. I'll watch old horror movies like, house on haunted hill, or play Silent Hill in the dark. HO HO HO but NOT this.
When you first put this game in after buying it, you didn't hit start right away, cause the theme music was that badass. You hovered over it for a while like this guy did and were just like.."Whoah..."
I remember playing this in arcades and absolutely being blown away. I gotta say though that its remarkable how good the SNES port turned out when you compare it to the arcade version.
3:25 Spinal "An unprecedented discovery in cell regeneration. Ultratech has recreated an ancient warrior from the past. Having no memory and lacking in purpose, he fights regardless."
best soundtrack in a game ever ! i can still remeber the fight location of every oponent and its soundtrack ... sooo good memories playing this game together as a kid with my friends back in the days :)
I remember this game. I was young and I was trying to play it, and then I lost. When the game over screen popped up, and I heard that creepy music, i turned it off and never played it again. XD
"You're not afraid to get hurt, are you?" Hours of fun. Used to play it with my sister and the kid next door (in fact for a short time my sister insisted on being called Jago *facepalm*). My fave was Orchid, I was so good at her special moves. Always had to do the thing where you hold all buttons plus down on the d pad on the VS screen to make it superfast. Thanks for doing the humiliation on Jago and Thunder, we only managed it once by accident, made Sabrewulf dance and we pissed ourselves laughing :)
thats a really neat and cute story. i actually think i got this game near the end of the snes life cycle and i think that the n64 was about ready to come out. if it has not come out already i honestly do not remeber what year i got the snes or n64 :( but i have extremely fond memories of playing this game. actually i think i maybe got the snes in 1996-1997 n64 came a year or 2 later i think.
The dark, aggressive, metal opening theme...takes me right back to the end of elementary school 1996. That was one of the first time periods when you start feeling like you're "growing up". The opening theme feels so familiar, yet a relic from the past at the same time. It sometimes feels like only yesterday
Fatality’s and blood Etc? KI is a mash up of SF and MK. Many MK moves are there, punching and sweeps are largely identical. Finishers all the way MK and SF and MK stole the combo meter from MK. One of those things were KI had taken a lot, but combo meter and system in turn gave other fighters some material too.
Looking back at this now, they did proper rip off both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat with character designs haha, still a classic though, and best music theme of the lot.
Not only was this the first fighting game I ever played, this was the first video game I ever played. I am a massive fighting game fan and it's all thanks to Killer Instinct.
What's with the floating skull under Spinal's health bar around 14:26, again?... I loved this game as a kid & because it's been so long since I last played this game, I can never remember.
11:09 Sabrewulf reks for 75% of your health. This shit always used to happen especially when you get to the final 4, I never finished the game as a kid because this shit would happen EVERY TIME.
One of the main reasons why SNES hardware was superior to Genesis in almost every way. This game wouldn't sound or look as good on Sega's masterful, yet slightly inferior hardware. One of my faves growing up with some of the best music on the system bar none...
@YTCensorsMe Poop by lines rolling, I meant those racing games like top gear 2, which were of superior quality to their Genesis counterparts, which often used dithering to simulate more colors, while the snes used softer looking color banding. Along with that, some Genesis racing games, often end up having to use up a fm channel or two for sound effects, causing the music to drop out the synth, or bass, like IN rock and roll racing, which sounds horrendous next to the snes version. Top Gear 2 sounds much more realistic, than the Sega version too.
@YTCensorsMe Poop Ooh, Sega fanboy spotted. You also appear to be blind. The snes version has more effects in RnR, like the spinning planet rather than a static one in the intro, more smoothly blended colors, but I get it, Sega fans often damage control their ultra high contrast low color pallte by calling it vivid and calling the snes one "washed out". If mode 7 was a gimmick, then I guess Blast processing is too ( I mean the real deal, which was barely used). Take a look at games like street racer, it allowed for the snes to allow for a full 360 degree rocket League like mode, while the Genesis version couldn't. Background rotation was a huge deal, and the snes, using interrupts, could even mix in 2 modes, like in Mario Kart, where it's running mode 7 And mode 1 in conjunction.
Think this game was a bomb with a big b from Nintendo's side, when it came out. The company who until that point had delivered child-friendly games, now breaks through the market with a violent fighting game (well, not sure if Mortal Kombat came on SNES before KI did...). Total new face. ^^ Loved the arcade-version, and the console one did real well.
i remember the first time when i saw it in the arcades back in 90's i returned at home without my jaw and thinking about it for days...that's how amazing it was and still is the best fighting game ever made..
Jago had a secret 56 hit combo that cannot be blocked or stopped once you land the opening roundhouse kick. It was completely unsurvivable (they were dead by hit 22 or something) if you could pull of the entire combo.
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That riff in the intro is an absolute killer. The nostalgia it evokes is overwhelming
And the Xbox One version of it isn't too bad either
I remember being at a Toys R Us in 1995 Miami,FL with my mother shopping. They had the Super Nintendo game console on display to be sampled and them having Killer instinct as the game of choice to be demoed. We bought it. What a luxury it was back then to own that combo. I’m 32 now crazy how time fly’s. But that intro is powerful bro!
dude yes, I got the game with the Killer Cuts CD too, the music on that CD is total nostalgia bomb
Can't replace a classic like this. One of the best fighting games of the 90s.
terrencej18 the best *
Better than Mortal Kombat for sure.
@@gumdeo I was just about to comment the same thing then I saw you already said it for me
not only in 90's
FACTS
That golden R is responsible for so many childhood memories. Good times.
the original rare developers arent with rare under microsoft anymore they work independent now under the name playtonic games
This is very true!
Too true, especially in my case. This, and all three SNES Donkey Kong Country games were a HUGE part of my childhood.
007 goldeneye as well
You knew you were getting quality with Rare.
I fucking love how 90s this is.
i just thought that, while watching eyedol burn in the flames : )
Silrian777 Hell yeah
Same here, this was my childhood
The music when you're choosing a character is just fucking intense af.
Milly Solis you're so cute😍😍😘
Richard Mejia you ain't lying about that
milly solis Same thing here!
Back when they released full games
TheRandomDude
Agreed
@John Muhleisen DLC characters... ringing bells? :-)
@@capcom23 Counter argument, Street Fighter 2
It's impressive how they jammed a super powerful arcade game to a 16 bit cartridge. And this came before Street Fighter Alpha 2 was on the console. This runs way smoother.
SFA actually resembled arcade, while this falls way short. No
Zooming or 3d here, characters limited while alpha looked very clear. This is the most overrated port ever because it baited kids
Back around late 1995, early 1996, my dad used to say up all night playing Killer Instinct until morning and later on him and my older brother used to compete against each other. Fast forward to present day today I still play it on the SNES today which I’m currently 27 and my little brother is 6 and I’m going to teach him how to fight on Killer Instinct.
The nostalgia is real. This game was so fucking good. Thank you for allowing the music to play through at the start screen.
the cartridge was black. it was badass. owned this as a kid.
+Ratchet spiderman maximum carnage was red. it was awesome but sadly zelda was grey!
+Ratchet me too i remember it was awsome
Ratchet It's awesome! Even the theme music is awesome and badass! The game is also what I call Nintendo meets Mortal Kombat! :D
soundspark What's the problem with Doom on the Super NES? How come it ran like junk?
SuperSonicKazooie
Most of Doom console ports Didnt Run well , and SNES Doom was the "Worst" of all the console ports
I remember as a kid going to the arcade where my big bro use to work at to play this. Then i got it for Xmas and it was the best ever! love this game even to this day.
Thumbs up if u have this game
i have it I'll probably do some gameplay soon!
I still have this on SNES since 1995
Rashon Allen I gotta get a snes man
I have this game but it lent it to my sister.
acctually all my snes games are at my sister's house. lttp and super metroid.
This game was like a mixture of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter with eerie music mixed with arcade car games, with Donkey Kong Country background style with a weird Monsanto evilness haha
So true. :)
its such an underrated game and franchise.
And that curious mix gave the best damn fighting game of 16-bits era.
I always imagined this as a
Perfect SF vs MK. Rare had the formula
The SNES game came with a terrific soundtrack too. Good times...
The music gives that nostalgic feeling, even without having played the game. Nerd chills
It really doesn't. I haven't played this game since I was 4(26 now) and as soon as I heard that character selection music. all those memories playing this with my cousins just flushed back to me.
I’ve never played this but I’m gonna buy it
Did anyone else get the special edition copy with the CD for the music to the game?
yep still got it.
Killer cuts. I did
Let your body rock
Let your body move
Let your body rock
To the killer groove
I remember A B C D killer instinct theme
i did but actually it was cuz the game killer instict came bundled with snes i got lol.
My very first fighting game. So badass.
Mortal Kombat II is truly a better game , more mature , more serious , more deadly lethal
@@markhamilton3215 is better in all..........
@@markhamilton3215 absolutely NOT. KI was KING.
My brother's favorite since childhood times.
0:00 nostalgia hits even before the music starts.
Man, oh man! I knew I've seen this game somewhere before. I thought I remember playing this game when I was younger, so now I do.
One Of My Favorite Childhood Games!
I love how the new one looks but I wish it had the same type of dark atmosphere and theme
Most epic intro music EVER.
very amazing video because you actually showcase all the characters as the beautiful selection music plays
This game made me shit myself when I was 6. I'll watch old horror movies like, house on haunted hill, or play Silent Hill in the dark. HO HO HO but NOT this.
When you first put this game in after buying it, you didn't hit start right away, cause the theme music was that badass. You hovered over it for a while like this guy did and were just like.."Whoah..."
OrangeAsp 🤘
I remember playing this in arcades and absolutely being blown away. I gotta say though that its remarkable how good the SNES port turned out when you compare it to the arcade version.
sigh...childhood memories. Nothing like it
Masterpiece and one of my favorite game off all time , i was 15 when i buy snes and that black, original cartridge...so many good youth memories.
Man... no killer combos with jago?? not impressed!
I think 1994 was golden year snes they released Mk2 , Donkey Kong Country , Killer Instinct and many more
KI came out in 1995 js
Mk2 was 1993
Earthworm Jim too
This game should've been on the snes mini :(
PaloPinto indeed, i was so sad when i found out it wasn’t
This or turtles in time
You can add it... google.
Mc Mouskewitz it isn’t in the snes Classic But Microsoft owns Rare now
Hackchi ce ;)
I want this theme for ringtone.
3:25 Spinal
"An unprecedented discovery in cell regeneration. Ultratech
has recreated an ancient warrior from the past. Having no
memory and lacking in purpose, he fights regardless."
I had this game when I was a kid and I loved it! I also used to think the announcer was saying *Frederick* instead of Ready, lol.
I remember wanting this for Christmas ♡
I do not remember orchid barking every time she received damage.
Brenda Boyd yeah she did haha
That’s cause she was dominating you lol
Now that's the kinda gal I'd like to meet
Most certainly a decent cross mix between Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat.
With donkey kong graphics.
best soundtrack in a game ever ! i can still remeber the fight location of every oponent and its soundtrack ... sooo good memories playing this game together as a kid with my friends back in the days :)
The fact that I can just watch this and enjoy every minute of this classic game... sigh memories!!
definitivamente esto es parte de mi niñez , que buen juego fue .este marco una etapa de la vida.un gran juegazo. buenos tiempos.
I remember this game. I was young and I was trying to play it, and then I lost. When the game over screen popped up, and I heard that creepy music, i turned it off and never played it again. XD
Please Hollywood make the movie version!!!!! Start petition lol
OMG... So nostalgic, playing with my older brother when I was a kid (I'm 14 now). We still own that SNES and we have to KI cartridges... So awesome.
Shit home you 21 now you still got that?
Noobs favorite move/combo, with Cinder: forward, forward, medium punch(Y)
hard to believe this is nearly 20 yrs old shit
The game, music, noise effects and sounds the opponents make when they die are dope too!!
"You're not afraid to get hurt, are you?" Hours of fun. Used to play it with my sister and the kid next door (in fact for a short time my sister insisted on being called Jago *facepalm*). My fave was Orchid, I was so good at her special moves. Always had to do the thing where you hold all buttons plus down on the d pad on the VS screen to make it superfast. Thanks for doing the humiliation on Jago and Thunder, we only managed it once by accident, made Sabrewulf dance and we pissed ourselves laughing :)
thats a really neat and cute story. i actually think i got this game near the end of the snes life cycle and i think that the n64 was about ready to come out. if it has not come out already i honestly do not remeber what year i got the snes or n64 :( but i have extremely fond memories of playing this game. actually i think i maybe got the snes in 1996-1997 n64 came a year or 2 later i think.
The ultimate competitiveness with your friends in 1996 was too fucking intense!!! Loved it!
This game blended SF+MK concepts well while managing to have its own identity.
Just beat this game today with cinder!
I wish I could summon cars.
That Intro.. Sweet Sweet memories
What a great game. Still absolute worth to play.
My first mission game..thank you brother for sharing. I'm happy to watch again and I'm completed in this life.
The dark, aggressive, metal opening theme...takes me right back to the end of elementary school 1996. That was one of the first time periods when you start feeling like you're "growing up". The opening theme feels so familiar, yet a relic from the past at the same time. It sometimes feels like only yesterday
I would ALWAYS play this game but I never liked turning the game off because the music was too spooky for me and I think I even cried once LMAO
haha game music made you cry! cry baby. (just kidding)
how old are you?
I was scared of the characters in childhood. xD
milly solis u played it on xbox1?
boom G Nintendo 64
Playing this on easy ? Lol not the killer instinct I know letting you beat the game so easy
illenessOne yes they usually do combo breakers by the 3rd person
KI & MK are nothing alike... The only thing similar is that they're fighting games.
Fatality’s and blood
Etc? KI is a mash up of SF and MK. Many MK moves are there, punching and sweeps are largely identical. Finishers all the way MK and SF and MK stole the combo meter from MK. One of those things were KI had taken a lot, but combo meter and system in turn gave other fighters some material too.
Jago is 5'6 and 190 lbs? Im 5'6 and im overweight if i go above 150lbs lmao.
Looking back at this now, they did proper rip off both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat with character designs haha, still a classic though, and best music theme of the lot.
I used to play this with my sister and our childhood friends; thanks for the memories! 😁👍👍👍👍
Gotta love that SNES synth guitar sound
im getting chills ! nostalgia has taken over ....
I used to play this with my younger cousin, man those good times.
Alex Cuevas me and my brother used to play this game constantly those wrere some glorious times .
Not only was this the first fighting game I ever played, this was the first video game I ever played. I am a massive fighting game fan and it's all thanks to Killer Instinct.
Blue Cinder = Dr. Manhatten
What's with the floating skull under Spinal's health bar around 14:26, again?...
I loved this game as a kid & because it's been so long since I last played this game, I can never remember.
So true. What happened to rare. Last I heard the remnants were bought by Microsoft.
Game scared me as a kid. My brothers used to play it while I looked on in abject fear.
Now that Donkey Kong Country is out now on Nintendo Switch Online, I wish Killer Instinct would do the same
11:09 Sabrewulf reks for 75% of your health. This shit always used to happen especially when you get to the final 4, I never finished the game as a kid because this shit would happen EVERY TIME.
This is one of my top 3 Super Nintendo games.
One of the main reasons why SNES hardware was superior to Genesis in almost every way. This game wouldn't sound or look as good on Sega's masterful, yet slightly inferior hardware. One of my faves growing up with some of the best music on the system bar none...
@YTCensorsMe Poop The SNES farts on the Genesis.
@YTCensorsMe Poop I prefer storybased rpgs, mode 7 racing games, linescrolling racing games and platformers over boring shmups anyday,
@YTCensorsMe Poop by lines rolling, I meant those racing games like top gear 2, which were of superior quality to their Genesis counterparts, which often used dithering to simulate more colors, while the snes used softer looking color banding. Along with that, some Genesis racing games, often end up having to use up a fm channel or two for sound effects, causing the music to drop out the synth, or bass, like IN rock and roll racing, which sounds horrendous next to the snes version. Top Gear 2 sounds much more realistic, than the Sega version too.
@YTCensorsMe Poop Sure I did find games like Contra on sega fun, but most of them aren't. Then again, I didn't like most shmpus on the snes either.
@YTCensorsMe Poop Ooh, Sega fanboy spotted. You also appear to be blind.
The snes version has more effects in RnR, like the spinning planet rather than a static one in the intro, more smoothly blended colors, but I get it, Sega fans often damage control their ultra high contrast low color pallte by calling it vivid and calling the snes one "washed out".
If mode 7 was a gimmick, then I guess Blast processing is too ( I mean the real deal, which was barely used).
Take a look at games like street racer, it allowed for the snes to allow for a full 360 degree rocket League like mode, while the Genesis version couldn't. Background rotation was a huge deal, and the snes, using interrupts, could even mix in 2 modes, like in Mario Kart, where it's running mode 7 And mode 1 in conjunction.
Can you say "copyright infringement"
Think this game was a bomb with a big b from Nintendo's side, when it came out. The company who until that point had delivered child-friendly games, now breaks through the market with a violent fighting game (well, not sure if Mortal Kombat came on SNES before KI did...). Total new face. ^^ Loved the arcade-version, and the console one did real well.
Wizzrobotix Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter came out before Killer Instinct. KI just rivaled and ripped off MK.
Mortal Kombat X Killer Instinct
Damn this takes me back, iwas 4 playing this
Those backstories are horrifying.
When i get a North American NES, this will be my mom's Mothers Day gift to her. She loved this game when she was younger.
Eyedol is a 2D Genie in killer instinct...
David sierra snes un buen video juego venezuela brasil argentina chile uruguay daniel padilla en santa teresa gracias 🇻🇪🇧🇷🇦🇷
6:58 Green Jago decides to dance after being defeated
i remember the first time when i saw it in the arcades back in 90's i returned at home without my jaw and thinking about it for days...that's how amazing it was and still is the best fighting game ever made..
This game got close to SFII - much better than Mortal Combat.
Funny how Nintendo didn't want blood in Mortal Kombat, but Killer Instinct, the game they published themselves was OK to have blood.
***** You're right. Man I miss the Rare/Nintendo days.
24 years later, this music still holds up
Everyone who watched this video is a legend, because i know you searched for it
Donkey kong music , that’s rare for you
Jago had a secret 56 hit combo that cannot be blocked or stopped once you land the opening roundhouse kick. It was completely unsurvivable (they were dead by hit 22 or something) if you could pull of the entire combo.
Un excelente juego pero así de fácil no es por si algunos se lo preguntan 😂😂😂
Dude, you play like a legend. Awesome video.
Man didn't even know they had a Super Nintendo version always thought it was just on the N64!
Damn you Microsoft. It's too late.
The cartridge is also badass I remember mine was black .
You bought this video game free t-shirt with video game proof of purchase campaign so cool
Good old days man. back when I played it on a emulator and now is hard af to get a snes emu to play killer instinct :, (
I feel this.. I emulate it on my psp but its slow and glitchy
Super Nintendo was something serious back then and that time
I miss this game. I never knew which one I loved the most but I loved mortal kombat equally. Now I love watching both walk throughs.
Before FPS there was fighting Games
can u play as cinder