As a Mk fan, I disagree, for me the best is mk2 or mk3, high level of difficulty in mk2, mystic ambience and dark atmosphere and it is transmited to sounds in a magic way, giving the sense of uncertainty and mk3 has the 90's touch in every part of the game, giving dynamism with electronic and disco sounds, transmiting the sense of speed and tension the game reaches, in fact, the fastest and demanding mk in history, and a piece of art for arcades. In fact I love every mk game in the era of Tobias, next Ed Boon got in charge of ruin the game after mk4.
The first 2 MKs had a mix of dark fantasy and oriental inspired magic that was seemingly lost afterwards. I wish they could have maintained that, starting MK3 on wards it began to get too much into sci fi and its original asian inspired martial arts themes were lost.
The original game design was based off of Big Trouble In Little China which deals heavily with Asian mysticism. After Tobias left Midway the other designers didn't really carry this theme over into the sequels although the Asian martial arts are still represented well.
I’ll never forget the first time I saw it in my local pizzeria in the Bronx back summer of 92. Subzero ripped Kanos head off his body and I lost my shit
@@idocallouts7393 i hear ya me too, raidens fatality shocked me the most back then as a 9 year old, exploded his head with a lightning bolt i was like holy shit
I was watching Bloodsport yesterday and i got all the vibes of this soundtrack... Mortal Kombat was originally supposed to be a Bloodsport videogame, but well, it never happened... And i'm happy for that.
This was the soundtrack to my 1992. I was a freshman in high school and the arcade at Brown University had an MK machine. I must have pumped $75-$100 into it that year.
Omg, i can relate only I had finished school and got a job that year so I had £100 a week to foolishly pump into arcade machines. Mk 1 took most of my hard earned money for the first few months 😖
@@FallouFitness_NattyEdition We were able to balance it out back then. It was a much different time. Back then, parents used to have the spine to whoop kids who misbehaved and didn't follow rules and reward them for good behavior and grades with new video games, consoles, trips to the mall (which back then had plenty of arcades). Nowadays, parents just give video games, money and whatever they want to kids, seperate themselves and ignore them and wonder why they don't learn anything unless the kids choose to on their own. This DOES not apply to all parents of now, it's just something that I've noticed far too often lately.
@@UltimateShadow10 I agree, thus look at the type of children that are spawning lately. TikTok is a good place to look (but don't even bother giving your info to TikTok for nothing).
I was less than six years old when I first saw this game in action and at first, it terrified me to see "actual people" being beheaded, spine ripped and so on, but as I kept watching the older kids playing this, I got a mix of terror and excitement while watching the fights. Sure, it looks "very old" to newer folk, but back then this was like "holy shit it's unreal".
Yup same here. I was this little kid going to the dark room ambiance of arcades in malls that reeked of old carpet and popcorn/Doritos with the calamity sounds of a bunch of arcades playing at once and the one arcade packed with older kids huddled around was MK1 amd the violence was unreal and eerie and scary and though I liked watching horror movies of the 80’s at the time, MK felt like it was taboo and I wasn’t supposed to look at it. The older kids didn’t care but I felt like the youngest there which I was and judged watching. But the terror lead to excitement. I couldn’t look away. Now it’s more violent and real than ever with today’s graphics and technology yet so watered down or not as impactful. The original MK feels more eerie. Could be the realistic nature of the actors used as sprites instead of today’s cgi and the music and settings being real
Part of the reason younger people think it looks ugly is because we don’t use CRT screens anymore. See, old games were built in a way to make them look better on those older TVs. Now that we don’t have that, everything looks all muddy
Mi infancia en esta canción cuando tenía el snes con adaptador bonito recuerdos que me tocó ya los actuales mortal combat no se comparan con los primeros
You can clearly tell Dan either was watching a lot of Bloodsport while composing the music for Mortal Kombat, or this was Ed's vision (which is what I'm thinking the latter was more like it). I cannot believe it's been over 30 years since this game came out in the Arcades and this soundtrack aged like fine wine. I'm not just talking about sonically/musically wise, but I'm talking about just engineering (like mastering and mixing) and production wise. It sounds so good, clean and pleasing to hear. It sounds better than even most modern video game music that came out in the last 10 years. I can honestly say Dan Forden's mixing and mastering is much better than most of these audio engineers/music producers in mainstream music of today let alone his old music composition for the old MK games knocks a lot of music coming out today into the pits. Mortal Kombat's music isn't the same without Dan's musical touches. It just sounds like generic creepy cinematic music.
When making chiptune music in this era, you really only had control on the loudness of individual channels. The reason it sounds so good is his choice of instrumentation and composition. Limitations can sometimes make certain other aspects shine.
Brings back so many memories. These games were my life in high school. I would come home from school after having a rough day dealing with assholes and pop in this game and listen to Wu Tang Clan while chilling with my friends. No matter what day I had these games always cheered me up.
@@LITTLE1994 in north new jersey there was a huge arcade called sports park, this game was always surrounded and it had it's volume level higher then the rest, that place is gone today but the memories live on.
I just can’t get into the newer mk games, the first two are my go to mk games, I did enjoy ultimate mk3 but something about the first one and this music soundtrack while standing there waiting to play made me so freaking nervous hands sweaty like possible death was coming 😂
THE game that dawned the ESRB. It was a very, very shocking game back in 1992 (even though it looks dated compared to recent games). But for this, every major franchise, such as Mario, Sonic, or Pokémon, all start somewhere, and this was a good beginning for Mortal Kombat. Such a DAMN shame Nintendo was scared at putting gore in the SNES version! The Genesis didn't quite match Super NES in graphics/sound, but at least it has the blood with the famous cheat (A, B, A, C, A, B, B), but I say do Down, Up, Left, Left, A, Right, Down for a better code.
I remember being 6 when this game dropped, and everybody was in uproar because they never seen anything like subzero ripping somebody’s head and spine off and out, not even in video games, just in general. Nowadays, people get mad if the fatalities aren’t gruesome or shocking enough. 😅
Still amazes me how much the Finish Him theme for Warrior's Shrine has going for it. Like you will never hear that much of it during normal gameplay but Dan put so much work into it.
kids will never know the feeling of dropping quarters and having the whole arcade stop what theyre doing and watch people play MK with the theme BLASTING. when youre done theres about 20-30 people watching you play… it was insane. Mk was a game changer…,
8-Ball Arcade, Chino Hils, CA. I'd come in there when it opened at 10am, and the owner would dial up the volume to 100 and when 3:02 The Courtyard would come on the building shook with the bass....and every uppercut. Greatest fighting game in the history of fighting games!
Esse Dan Forden merecia uma estátua bicho, merece ser lembrado em todo jogo que lancarem do MK...essa trilha é uma das melhores que existem ora jogo. Eternamente gratos pelo seu trablaho Mr. Dan!
Man, there are some tracks in every game i would totally dig hearing renditioned with all the new Ableton, vsts, sound tones, synthesizers, orchestra sound banks, or in full orchestra
The Continue Music always shredded me. So coooool. I remember being transfixed by the severed heads on the spikes as young boy at the Arcade. Definitely a far cry from Street Fighter and Mario World. Humans leveled up when this game released.
This sounds so good. Kudos to you for getting what appears to be an exact source copy. The music played on the emulators and Arcade1Up machines is so overly compressed and doesn't sound that good. I had an original 25" dedicated MK1 cabinet back in the day and this sounds exactly as it did when played through its speakers. Great job!
I was maybe only 5 when this game crashed into the arcades. All the adults and big kids were crazy about the game. The game was ALWAYS crowded, the violence, the characters, the music and story were the coolest thing at the time. And boy was this game nice and LOUD. Then when it came to Sega Genesis, the soundtrack was reworked and somehow given the special treatment for that hardware. All the kids around my age were totally crazy about memorizing the blood code and finding all the secrets. At that time the Genesis version was a really good port. One of the only arcade to home ports of a beefy fighting game besides street fighter 2 that was worth anything. So many memories.
I first came across this game in the arcades watching a guy kicking ass as Sub Zero. I remember being blown away by the graphics (hey this was the 90s) but it was when I saw him rip Liu Kang's head off that I knew I'd fallen in love.
The music from this game that lives in my head rent free, ESPECIALLY the fighter select and Pit and the pit finisher music. Oh yeah the courtyard too. Lol
TIL that the Palace Gates has a whole crazy section i had never ever heard before and as a huge Dan Forden fan i am pleasantly surprised. Super upload! ❤
Whoever is performing a fatality at the warrior's shrine is either taking ages to do their fatality, or they have such a long fatality that it takes about 17 minutes to kill their opponent
MK1's soundtrack is my favourite of the original 3 games. The rhythms are so complex, Forden never quite attempted it again in the other 2 games. They both have great OSTs there's just something about 1, it's so strange. EDIT: the extended 'Finish Him'/round end music is so bizarre, the way it keeps changing with new bits coming in and out! Why on earth did Forden do that? It could never have been heard under any circumstances. You've made an interesting discovery with these rips. How did you get the music?
Mortal kombat 1 es un juegaso. Me acuerdo estar embobado mirando los arcade y hasta el sonido era hermoso los soundtrack eran épicos. Un juego de 10 solo le faltaba en ese momento más personajes que lo mejoraron en mk2 un lujo y hasta hoy un lujo.
31:41 Isso é o que eu mais ouvia quando comecei a jogar MK1 no fliperama 😞 29:36 Isso é o que eu mais ouvia depois que aprendi a jogar MK1 no fliperama 😀
@DRAGONUNKNOWN Differently from the next 3 Mortal Kombat games (II to 4), in the arcade version of MK1 they've used FM synthesis for the game's soundtrack just like most arcade games from the late 80s to the 90s had back in the day. Fun fact: Both the MS-DOS (With an AdLib or an Sound Blaster sound card) and the Genesis ports of the game had FM synthesized soundtracks just like what the arcade had in this time. The only audio channel in that arcade board that it's not generated by FM synthesis is the 16-bit DAC (those heavy real drum samples) part.
The music for BlackKnight 2000 is my absolute favorite work of his. Hearing the music and future voice of Shao Khan taunting me from the speakers thrilled me as a kid! I still hope to own the actual pinball table one day. He is my favorite western arcade game composer to this day. As good as MK1’s OST is, he went all out on MK2’s IMO. Just heard Goro’s Lair again...man, serious vibes from Bride of Pin-Bot. The original trilogy had some of the best music I’ve ever heard. Dan Forden is the man!
![[SEGA Genesis Music] Mortal Kombat - Full Original Soundtrack OST](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zfZ3PAKOluY/mqdefault.jpg)
This is, by far, the best soundtrack of all the games in MK series. Tense, tetric, weird time signatures, dark atmosphere. Wonderful
i dont know man, Mk 2 was solid. This definitly is a dan forden golden classic!
You damn rights it is! FUCKING A brother MK 1 FOR THE WIN for OST!
To be honest from MK1 to MK Armageddon the music is amazing. After that i don't even remember the music lol
@@nicowasd123 mk3 and even 4 had horrible music. The ps2 music was just try hard edgy music
As a Mk fan, I disagree, for me the best is mk2 or mk3, high level of difficulty in mk2, mystic ambience and dark atmosphere and it is transmited to sounds in a magic way, giving the sense of uncertainty and mk3 has the 90's touch in every part of the game, giving dynamism with electronic and disco sounds, transmiting the sense of speed and tension the game reaches, in fact, the fastest and demanding mk in history, and a piece of art for arcades.
In fact I love every mk game in the era of Tobias, next Ed Boon got in charge of ruin the game after mk4.
"Choose your fighter" is a masterpiece! 🧡🧡🧡
Do you play MK?
@@adeiltonwagner2098 I'm a fan of MK lore, but I'm not a player myself.
Absolutely a masterpiece it prepares you for the fight.
@@NataliaJuliaNowakif you lemme smash I will buy you all the mk games
@@jermaineboyd6594 Good one, but I prefer SNES version. It's a bigger banger, because of higher tempo.
The first 2 MKs had a mix of dark fantasy and oriental inspired magic that was seemingly lost afterwards.
I wish they could have maintained that, starting MK3 on wards it began to get too much into sci fi and its original asian inspired martial arts themes were lost.
You nailed it!
Well, that's because of the locations in MK3 are not the same as MK and MKII. A subway, a bridge, a bank or a temple are not very asian places at all.
Play any PS2 MK game.
The original game design was based off of Big Trouble In Little China which deals heavily with Asian mysticism. After Tobias left Midway the other designers didn't really carry this theme over into the sequels although the Asian martial arts are still represented well.
They also seemed to be more horror influenced. MK11 kinda returns to it's roots
I listen to this LOUD at 5:00 AM every morning to start my day .. My neighbors do too
Outstanding!!!!!
Excellent
It sounds SUPERB on a 100W PA MAXED OUT!
And me also !!!
Flawless Victory!!!!!
Composed the hell out of those FINISH HIM/HER sequences. Lol
Insane 😂🔥
lol dude got lost in the moment apparently.
Dan Forden its a monster composer
Toasty
YES IN DEED DEFINTLY EH GREAT MASTER CREATOR OFF ALL TIME DEFINTLY AND VERY FACINATING ZINCHO 😅😮🎉😂❤😅😮🎉😂❤❤
Yep
Mortal Kombat has to be one of the greatest games in the world in my opinion.
I disagree, it's a very good game but I think Donkey Kong is the best game ever.
I’ll never forget the first time I saw it in my local pizzeria in the Bronx back summer of 92. Subzero ripped Kanos head off his body and I lost my shit
@@vladpiranha Donkey Kong sucks!
@@idocallouts7393 i hear ya me too, raidens fatality shocked me the most back then as a 9 year old, exploded his head with a lightning bolt i was like holy shit
Mortal kombat is one of the greatest fighting games from the music to the game play alot of memories of the original this music though is so great
I was watching Bloodsport yesterday and i got all the vibes of this soundtrack... Mortal Kombat was originally supposed to be a Bloodsport videogame, but well, it never happened... And i'm happy for that.
Well it's still kinda based on Bloodsport, Johnny Cage still has Van Damme's nut punch and having a similar look to him as well.
Kind of like how Doom was supposed to be an Aliens game, but became something else.
And now we get to have Van Damme skin for Johnny Cage in this current installment from what I been hearing
The courtyard song... just amazing
I like how it got remixed into the Street theme for MK3.
Total classic!
I agree Sub
This music is really good holy crap this music is so cool
I like listening to this music even though it's raining outside but i'm inside
Mk is great. I love it. Its part of nineties culture. The thing of its era. Long live, mk!
Alright calm down mate, we all have our own games to praise but that was pretty cringe the way you said it.
@@dualheroesgaming That's not cringe at all so watch your mouth or be in trouble !!!
@@dualheroesgaming Your comment is cringe itself nevermind.
@@dualheroesgaming if we all have our own opinions then why did you have to complain about his?
This was the soundtrack to my 1992. I was a freshman in high school and the arcade at Brown University had an MK machine. I must have pumped $75-$100 into it that year.
Omg, i can relate only I had finished school and got a job that year so I had £100 a week to foolishly pump into arcade machines. Mk 1 took most of my hard earned money for the first few months 😖
How did you guys get any studying done with all those awesome games being around back then lol?
@@FallouFitness_NattyEdition We were able to balance it out back then. It was a much different time. Back then, parents used to have the spine to whoop kids who misbehaved and didn't follow rules and reward them for good behavior and grades with new video games, consoles, trips to the mall (which back then had plenty of arcades). Nowadays, parents just give video games, money and whatever they want to kids, seperate themselves and ignore them and wonder why they don't learn anything unless the kids choose to on their own. This DOES not apply to all parents of now, it's just something that I've noticed far too often lately.
@@UltimateShadow10
I agree, thus look at the type of children that are spawning lately.
TikTok is a good place to look (but don't even bother giving your info to TikTok for nothing).
Same here! 9th grade making lots of trips to play this game at the arcade.
I was less than six years old when I first saw this game in action and at first, it terrified me to see "actual people" being beheaded, spine ripped and so on, but as I kept watching the older kids playing this, I got a mix of terror and excitement while watching the fights. Sure, it looks "very old" to newer folk, but back then this was like "holy shit it's unreal".
The game that started all the controversy with the ESRB...
@@DRAGONUNKNOWN .,.
I also saw MK when 6yr it's almost perfect !!!!
Yup same here. I was this little kid going to the dark room ambiance of arcades in malls that reeked of old carpet and popcorn/Doritos with the calamity sounds of a bunch of arcades playing at once and the one arcade packed with older kids huddled around was MK1 amd the violence was unreal and eerie and scary and though I liked watching horror movies of the 80’s at the time, MK felt like it was taboo and I wasn’t supposed to look at it. The older kids didn’t care but I felt like the youngest there which I was and judged watching. But the terror lead to excitement. I couldn’t look away. Now it’s more violent and real than ever with today’s graphics and technology yet so watered down or not as impactful. The original MK feels more eerie. Could be the realistic nature of the actors used as sprites instead of today’s cgi and the music and settings being real
Part of the reason younger people think it looks ugly is because we don’t use CRT screens anymore. See, old games were built in a way to make them look better on those older TVs. Now that we don’t have that, everything looks all muddy
Los que crecimos en Latinoamérica con estas instrumentales en las maquinitas, esta ingeniería musical es epica, Toluca México.
Se me vinieron todos recuerdos
Mi infancia en esta canción cuando tenía el snes con adaptador bonito recuerdos que me tocó ya los actuales mortal combat no se comparan con los primeros
@@santiagoespinoza745 *Kombat*
Vuelvo a ser un niño, mi padre me enseño este clásico y amaba arrancar cabezas uwu
También recuerdo que había una versión medio pirata y los golpes del uper cut no se escuchaba igual, pero la musica del curtyard sonaba bien.
You can clearly tell Dan either was watching a lot of Bloodsport while composing the music for Mortal Kombat, or this was Ed's vision (which is what I'm thinking the latter was more like it). I cannot believe it's been over 30 years since this game came out in the Arcades and this soundtrack aged like fine wine. I'm not just talking about sonically/musically wise, but I'm talking about just engineering (like mastering and mixing) and production wise. It sounds so good, clean and pleasing to hear. It sounds better than even most modern video game music that came out in the last 10 years. I can honestly say Dan Forden's mixing and mastering is much better than most of these audio engineers/music producers in mainstream music of today let alone his old music composition for the old MK games knocks a lot of music coming out today into the pits. Mortal Kombat's music isn't the same without Dan's musical touches. It just sounds like generic creepy cinematic music.
now van damne is in the game
He was inspired by the Shaw Brothers Hong Kong films, which does show.
When making chiptune music in this era, you really only had control on the loudness of individual channels. The reason it sounds so good is his choice of instrumentation and composition. Limitations can sometimes make certain other aspects shine.
Jesus the Warrior Shrine track seemed like it would never end.
they added like 10 minutes of the same repetitive tune, it was really crazy!
It’s still playing
*Excellent!*
*Forden WINS!*
*FLAWLESS VICTORY*
Brings back so many memories. These games were my life in high school. I would come home from school after having a rough day dealing with assholes and pop in this game and listen to Wu Tang Clan while chilling with my friends. No matter what day I had these games always cheered me up.
I bet you miss those days in the '90s, do you? So do I, though I'm born in '94.
Molrtal Kombat 1, the best days of my young life loved it MK2 came out and all went to SHIT from there the charitors look cartoony totl shite!
@@LITTLE1994 in north new jersey there was a huge arcade called sports park, this game was always surrounded and it had it's volume level higher then the rest, that place is gone today but the memories live on.
Well i was born in 2007 so you are all lucky. (I still love mk1 though.)
@@carsonblair489 don't worry when we're older and greyer you'll still be having the time of your life 🤣🤣🙌
Mortal Kombat Arcade machine had an FM chip like the mega drive.
I just can’t get into the newer mk games, the first two are my go to mk games, I did enjoy ultimate mk3 but something about the first one and this music soundtrack while standing there waiting to play made me so freaking nervous hands sweaty like possible death was coming 😂
THE game that dawned the ESRB. It was a very, very shocking game back in 1992 (even though it looks dated compared to recent games). But for this, every major franchise, such as Mario, Sonic, or Pokémon, all start somewhere, and this was a good beginning for Mortal Kombat. Such a DAMN shame Nintendo was scared at putting gore in the SNES version! The Genesis didn't quite match Super NES in graphics/sound, but at least it has the blood with the famous cheat (A, B, A, C, A, B, B), but I say do Down, Up, Left, Left, A, Right, Down for a better code.
Press F to pay respects to arcade and genesis versions !!
And shit on censored MK games and versions !!
The blood code was too hard to enter so I would do Down, Up, Left, Left, A, Right, Down. That code was easier.
wtf the music is sooo much better on the Genesis version, just listen those amazing drums provided by one of the best genesis composers, Matt Furniss
@@benjaminzuniga4911 also some of the songs just go on a 2-5 minute outro for some reason
I remember being 6 when this game dropped, and everybody was in uproar because they never seen anything like subzero ripping somebody’s head and spine off and out, not even in video games, just in general.
Nowadays, people get mad if the fatalities aren’t gruesome or shocking enough. 😅
Still amazes me how much the Finish Him theme for Warrior's Shrine has going for it. Like you will never hear that much of it during normal gameplay but Dan put so much work into it.
kids will never know the feeling of dropping quarters and having the whole arcade stop what theyre doing and watch people play MK with the theme BLASTING. when youre done theres about 20-30 people watching you play… it was insane. Mk was a game changer…,
Holy fuck, The Palace Gates "Finish Him" bit is a fucking journey.
THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO WORK SO HARD TO KEEP THIS WONDERFUL GAME MK IN BUSINESS SINCE FIGHTING GAMES BECAME A LEGACY IN HOME ENT.
This is for all the diehard fans
8-Ball Arcade, Chino Hils, CA. I'd come in there when it opened at 10am, and the owner would dial up the volume to 100 and when 3:02 The Courtyard would come on the building shook with the bass....and every uppercut. Greatest fighting game in the history of fighting games!
Esse Dan Forden merecia uma estátua bicho, merece ser lembrado em todo jogo que lancarem do MK...essa trilha é uma das melhores que existem ora jogo. Eternamente gratos pelo seu trablaho Mr. Dan!
Soon as the FATALITY part shows up, that's when the player knows that this title is a game changer.
Interesting how the SNES tracks are faster than the arcade. IMO it sounds better slowed down a bit.
Man, there are some tracks in every game i would totally dig hearing renditioned with all the new Ableton, vsts, sound tones, synthesizers, orchestra sound banks, or in full orchestra
HELL YES!!! The character select screen theme in particular needs to be heard with full-on live war drums behind it.
Eurke may be of interest to you as they have done remakes of classic MK themes.
@@wolfgangfrost8043 And for you, I remember this classic upload:
ruclips.net/video/fi7Ft60ha00/видео.html
0:09 Goosebumps
That ending at 27:53 sounds like death itself. Like... bruh it's over RIP.
The Continue Music always shredded me. So coooool. I remember being transfixed by the severed heads on the spikes as young boy at the Arcade. Definitely a far cry from Street Fighter and Mario World. Humans leveled up when this game released.
'Battle plan '-is the best because its indicates somehow a hierarchy
continue? and game over hit so hard ngl
This sounds so good. Kudos to you for getting what appears to be an exact source copy. The music played on the emulators and Arcade1Up machines is so overly compressed and doesn't sound that good. I had an original 25" dedicated MK1 cabinet back in the day and this sounds exactly as it did when played through its speakers. Great job!
The original MK Trilogy still has the best soundtrack to this day.
Player select theme is 🔥
I came for The Courtyard 3:01 to be honest...
How it all began huh.
FIGHT!
Yes! The music in the courtyard reminded me of bloodsport
This is one of those games where the more you play it, the more you wish you were friends with the creators.
Seriously though I hear this and I’m 11 again pumping every quarter I can find into these machines
I do not remember the game over/continue music going so hard. Unreal.
They should really modernize this for the new movie's sequel, for when the tournament starts! 🐉
I've been listening my whole life to the 'choose your fighter' song, and I JUST realized that the Fsus2 is a sus 2 chord, and not a regular F chord.
22:27 the first time I fought Goro, that tune made the whole moment unforgettably scary.
29:36 when I get my university degree
Needs more likes this made me die
Hahaha!!!!
31:41 at my funeral😂
@@GaryR4791 lol!!! 😂😂😂😂
LMaooo
Si verdaderamente es un juegas hasta la fecha en ese entonces mi personaje favorito?
I love the title screen music to mk 1
The warrior's shrine extended mix is fantastic 🤘👌
I was maybe only 5 when this game crashed into the arcades. All the adults and big kids were crazy about the game. The game was ALWAYS crowded, the violence, the characters, the music and story were the coolest thing at the time. And boy was this game nice and LOUD. Then when it came to Sega Genesis, the soundtrack was reworked and somehow given the special treatment for that hardware. All the kids around my age were totally crazy about memorizing the blood code and finding all the secrets. At that time the Genesis version was a really good port. One of the only arcade to home ports of a beefy fighting game besides street fighter 2 that was worth anything. So many memories.
Back when videogames weren't souless.
Absolutely love blasting the intro to “The Pit”!! 17:30
I first came across this game in the arcades watching a guy kicking ass as Sub Zero. I remember being blown away by the graphics (hey this was the 90s) but it was when I saw him rip Liu Kang's head off that I knew I'd fallen in love.
The music from this game that lives in my head rent free, ESPECIALLY the fighter select and Pit and the pit finisher music. Oh yeah the courtyard too. Lol
TIL that the Palace Gates has a whole crazy section i had never ever heard before and as a huge Dan Forden fan i am pleasantly surprised. Super upload! ❤
27:53 a melhor! Tem um clima pesado e macabro ao mesmo tampo. Foi a música que mais me marcou na infância.
this is the best fucking soundtrack to a fighting game period... nothing tops this
Probably my favorite Game Over track in a video game.
Nothing, nothing can compare to the OG Mortal Kombat!
劉康(CV:星野貴紀)
『MOTAL KOMBAT』
通常必殺技の名前: 鳳凰南拳
通常必殺技の解説: 劉康が繰り出す強力なパンチ技。相手に鳳凰の如く炎を放ち、一撃で敵を倒すことができる。
横必殺技の名前: 鳳凰北拳
横必殺技の解説: 劉康が繰り出す素早い拳技。相手に連続のパンチを繰り出し、敵をふっ飛ばすことができる。
上必殺技の名前: 逆龍脚
上必殺技の解説: 劉康が繰り出す蹴り技。相手を高く蹴り上げ、空中で連続攻撃を行うことができる。
下必殺技の名前: 空打裂傷脚
下必殺技の解説: 劉康が繰り出す足技。地面を蹴って衝撃波を発生させ、周囲の敵を攻撃することができる。
最終技の名前: 激地真龍尾拳
最終技の解説: 劉康が最大の力を解放し、龍のような拳を繰り出す。周囲の敵を一掃するほどの強力な技。
隠し技の名前: 咬龍破惨撃
隠し技の解説: 劉康が秘めたる力を解放し、敵を一瞬で粉砕する。まさに惨撃と言える技である。
The original had the best and most bleak Fatality music of all time, no other comes even close to this
This brings back 30 yo memories
daamnn thanks for uploading this.. got goosebumps
You're welcome.
The original theme isn't really the original theme, this is!
We should petition to have it removed and replaced with the ‘original’ 😂
I was born in 89' my older sister had this on game gear, some of my earliest memories.
Dan Forden still the best.
Whoever is performing a fatality at the warrior's shrine is either taking ages to do their fatality, or they have such a long fatality that it takes about 17 minutes to kill their opponent
But isn't that what makes it special?
MK1's soundtrack is my favourite of the original 3 games. The rhythms are so complex, Forden never quite attempted it again in the other 2 games. They both have great OSTs there's just something about 1, it's so strange.
EDIT: the extended 'Finish Him'/round end music is so bizarre, the way it keeps changing with new bits coming in and out! Why on earth did Forden do that? It could never have been heard under any circumstances. You've made an interesting discovery with these rips. How did you get the music?
It's a Shaolin secret. 🤫
@@DRAGONUNKNOWN That's a big secret I see !!!!!!🤔😎
Mk3 has signature tracks; Church Pit 3 Subway Level Menus etc
One and Two got a real creepy soundtrack...
This is one of those themes you can get in the first second hearing it if you are a fan
This should be in the new movie!
Why is this 30 minutes long when the official soundtrack for mk1 on CD and vinyl is only 12 minites
Why the Finish Him phases are sooooo long.... 😂
why is warriors shrine overly long? 2nd half just got annoying
1:49
LMFAO that scared the hell outta me 😂
TIMELESS ❤️🔥 💯
Choose your fighter needs a comeback!!! I don’t know if it’s just me but man that song always had me pumped going into a fight!! 🥹🔥
We all missin our childhood times…
Que epoca de mi Generacion X
I listen to the game over on loop when doing voodoo
This soundtrack will always and forever be.....TOASTY!!!!!!
Nostalgia pura!
Com certeza meu amigo!
it was a good idea that Matt Furniss in the sega genesis version took the game over theme of this version and gave it to goro.
I used to love the sound it made when you put a quarter in the arcade.
Flawless Soundtrack!
Que increible ni los MK actuales tienen esta banda de sonido... una autentetica joya
Claro querido hermano sud zero la banda sonora esta muy bien editado
Así es Bro la vieja escuela rifa
@@misterj9619 totalmente..que epocas,cuanta magia habia en esos locales de videojuegos
I played the subzero
Mortal kombat 1 es un juegaso. Me acuerdo estar embobado mirando los arcade y hasta el sonido era hermoso los soundtrack eran épicos. Un juego de 10 solo le faltaba en ese momento más personajes que lo mejoraron en mk2 un lujo y hasta hoy un lujo.
31:41 Isso é o que eu mais ouvia quando comecei a jogar MK1 no fliperama 😞
29:36 Isso é o que eu mais ouvia depois que aprendi a jogar MK1 no fliperama 😀
The Warrior Shrine is so underrated
How come the fast techno soundtrack with the guy shouting mortal Kombat is the official soundtrack and not this?
Because sucky rave music was hip?
@DRAGONUNKNOWN Differently from the next 3 Mortal Kombat games (II to 4), in the arcade version of MK1 they've used FM synthesis for the game's soundtrack just like most arcade games from the late 80s to the 90s had back in the day.
Fun fact: Both the MS-DOS (With an AdLib or an Sound Blaster sound card) and the Genesis ports of the game had FM synthesized soundtracks just like what the arcade had in this time.
The only audio channel in that arcade board that it's not generated by FM synthesis is the 16-bit DAC (those heavy real drum samples) part.
MK1 was on a whole different level than MK2, MK3 and beyond.
Goro's Lair is really scary
29:36 S/O to immo342
The music for BlackKnight 2000 is my absolute favorite work of his. Hearing the music and future voice of Shao Khan taunting me from the speakers thrilled me as a kid! I still hope to own the actual pinball table one day. He is my favorite western arcade game composer to this day. As good as MK1’s OST is, he went all out on MK2’s IMO.
Just heard Goro’s Lair again...man, serious vibes from Bride of Pin-Bot. The original trilogy had some of the best music I’ve ever heard. Dan Forden is the man!
This helps me take on projects and deadlines.
0:09 Choose your Fighter
The Palace Gates stage music is still the best MK music in all the games!
Damn this music takes me back