Honestly, it's the only design in this game that I don't outright hate. Actually, I kinda like it. Now if only it was in a better game. And he wasn't a complete and total WUSS. Anyways, I-- ... Good fucking lord that picture is scary.
It's worth noting that this game was developed not by Data East proper, but by Data East PINBALL. Yes, the company's pinball division. I don't believe they'd ever attempted a conventional video game before. Think it shows?
Billy "Two-Moons" Cactus was his name. They say that, after his defeat at the hands of a mental skater, he retired from the assassin business and lived out his dream of being an online entertainer. He altered his now-long name, dropping the Two while keeping the Moon because he liked it. Billy Moon-Cactus (or BillyMC for short) still performs to this day.
The game was programmed by pinball programmers at Data East Pinball with a deadline of 8 months. None of the team had worked on video games before. Data East Pinball was sold to Sega near the end of production, and Sega decided not to release it. That's also why Sega's name appears at the end there.
BugPope It didn't come out! I'm not doing anything! I'm pressing buttons! I was BLOCKING! I'm not pressing anything! OH MY GOOOOOOD! ONLINE PLAY ONLY THE SHITTY MAY APPLY HUHAHEHAHAHAHIHI!
I find Prizm an actually interesting character concept, pretty much a high-risk-high reward type of guy. If you noticed, he did just as much damage to Karla with just a single attack. I reckon he would be stupidly overpowered in the hands of a skilled player.
That sound on the jungle level isn't a hit sound effect, it's an awful rendition of a kookaburra which was a popular jungle sound for old movies. Of course kookaburras don't LIVE in the jungle, but still...
Ya know, call me crazy, but tattoos giving characters different types of powers and skills would've been a cool concept for a fighting game. Too bad it was put into the pile of shameless Mortal Kombat ripoffs.
If I was ever to gather a crack team of assassins. I'd make sure that they all got a highly ornate and recognisable tattoo, that way I'd know they were mine.
I just found out that the idea and plot for this game was written by Bob Gale, who co-wrote the Back to the Future trilogy. Koldan, the final boss, is apparently his self-insert. Amazing.
Oh man, I can see why they didn't release this game. It would've gotten an Adult rating. I mean, sure, some of the Mortal Kombat women had skimpy outfits, but Prizm's was completely see-through!
I'm guessing poor Prism smashed into pieces before saying his end credit line, so they cut it out. I'm also surprised this game DIDN'T come out, but kudos to Data East for having some standards on this one.
CRILLER3 Actually, considering prisms separate light and Cobra's gun shoots lasers, which are made of light, Prizm probably would've just absorbed his shots and let them stream out his back.
***** Really? :P I have no interest in Ice Skating and I'm also pretty sure I've never even watched any, but even I know what controversy is being referred to, plus was there even more then one major controversy in Ice Skating ever? Especially in 94, I mean to the point that it's a cultural reference. But I guess not, so look up Tonya Harding.
Actually now that I think about it, forget what I said. I was probably thinking of something else. I think it has to do with the running gag of making ice skaters fart because of their poses. It's a pretty lame joke but people still made it back then.
I thought it was because her symbol was a rose, so it was supposed to be a contrast between something that smells good and something that smells bad. But really who knows, anything went in the world of 90s video game development.
I looked it up, apparently in '94 there was this ice skating diva with an attitude in the gossip world, she went to Disneyland and told Mickey that "this was the most boring thing she've ever done" and that's pretty much it.
Oh wow, I think I just figured out the farting thing. Their powers are at least tenuously related to their tattoos. And Karla's tattoo is of a rose. So the giant fart would be her shit actually smelling like roses.
"You know how spiders spit their venom at you?" Actually, slowbeef, there actually are spiders in the world that spit their venom at their prey, though I don't think the "developers" even knew that.
Fun fact: the final four opponents just had their animations sped up in order to make them more difficult, which also includes the final boss' rather nice death animation.
Believe it or not, each character has two endings in this game. The first "resolves" your character's "plot", and the second has your character doing something horrible to Koldan if you beat him flawlessly in the second or third round (For example, the newspaper would've read this as "Karla castrates Koldan" or something to that effect.
Tattoo Assassins feels like that one Mortal Kombat-style game you see people playing in TV shows, where they try to make fun of it by either turning the fatalities into outlandish, more kid-safe things or abstract and excessive things.
There's a bit of a sorrowful business story to this - the game from a development standpoint was viewed as a good opportunity for a lot of Data East Pinball's employees, but really it became more of a hassle as it forced them to work longer hours and all that. There's also the fact that a lot of the prototypes were damaged from a basement flood, making these cabinets an especially rare sight.
So there's only like 6 playable characters? "Ok we ran out of tattoo themes to use so let's make some Goro-wannabe sub-bosses and a Not Shao Khan and call it a da- Nevermind, Sega just pulled our funding."
Fun fact: this was co-conceptualized by a Back To The Future screenwriter and the leader of Data East's pinball division. Surprising how the two of them couldn't manage to get their fighting game released.
If the concept of magical tattoos didn't work for a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers clone, how in the name of Granny Goodness was it gonna work for a Mortal Kombat clone?!
data east lost a huge market in gem, geode and mineral enthusiasts by not including such a wonderful character as prism in one of their games, such a shame
Supposedly in the backstory the Ink that all the main fighters and Koldan's tattoos are made of gives certain hosts special powers, but everybody else can only get drastic mutations from this ink. Rhina, Deke Kay, and Prism however have all received their powers through such mutations.
Well, the backstory says that the ink of the magical tattoos give special powers to people with unusual genetic makeup, thus they're known as hosts. Anyone else that tries out the ink becomes a mutant. Rhina, Deke Kay and Prizm are mutants because of that
![Making of - Mortal Kombat 3 (high quality) [MK3 Into The Outworld - Behind the Scenes]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gs4tAuiANQE/mqdefault.jpg)
Do you know what a fight in the Jungle needs? The sound of a Kookaburra. Over. And over. And over again.
I have to appreciate how well this game flawlessly executes the developers' design philosophy. That design philosophy of course being "Fuck it".
Reading an interview with one of the developers of the game...
Yeah, that actually was their attitude later on.
I think we can all agree that Prizm was the real star of this game.
That is the most horrifying picture i've ever seen
Honestly, it's the only design in this game that I don't outright hate. Actually, I kinda like it. Now if only it was in a better game. And he wasn't a complete and total WUSS. Anyways, I--
...
Good fucking lord that picture is scary.
SpiffyFishface 3 years later but what was the picture?
No idea. But it truly must've been something scary.
It's worth noting that this game was developed not by Data East proper, but by Data East PINBALL. Yes, the company's pinball division. I don't believe they'd ever attempted a conventional video game before. Think it shows?
Billy "Two-Moons" Cactus was his name. They say that, after his defeat at the hands of a mental skater, he retired from the assassin business and lived out his dream of being an online entertainer. He altered his now-long name, dropping the Two while keeping the Moon because he liked it.
Billy Moon-Cactus (or BillyMC for short) still performs to this day.
I feel like Prism's story would have been too tragic for a fighting game and they didn't want to lose people.
The game was programmed by pinball programmers at Data East Pinball with a deadline of 8 months. None of the team had worked on video games before. Data East Pinball was sold to Sega near the end of production, and Sega decided not to release it. That's also why Sega's name appears at the end there.
the best part is that the ingame sound gets a little bit louder at 4:14 just so we can listen to that awesome fart
"So, she plays a bit like Sub Zero but with Sonya's groin punch and..."
*Pause*
*FART*
"...American Gladiator's shoulder plates."
That jungle noise is supposed to be ambient noise... but it is so damn loud, it makes sense you would assume that it is the characters making it.
To me, Koldan looks like DSP with metal claws.
What I'm saying is that DSP should be the final boss of every video game.
Most of his special attacks miss, and somehow he blames you for it.
BugPope It didn't come out! I'm not doing anything! I'm pressing buttons! I was BLOCKING! I'm not pressing anything! OH MY GOOOOOOD! ONLINE PLAY ONLY THE SHITTY MAY APPLY HUHAHEHAHAHAHIHI!
Someone should make a game where you get to fight DSP.
Special Weapon: Coolant
Which he obviously didn't equip but still somehow is stuck using all the time.
I laughed so hard at prisms desperate flailing at 9:15
Prizm fucking killed me lol.
Prizm died as he lived, fragile and with a broken heart.
so glad to see the return of crystal boy, my favorite character
Jared Leto's Joker confirmed for the Tattoo Assassins X DLC.
I find Prizm an actually interesting character concept, pretty much a high-risk-high reward type of guy. If you noticed, he did just as much damage to Karla with just a single attack. I reckon he would be stupidly overpowered in the hands of a skilled player.
Prizm only, no items, Final Destination
I don't think Beetus realizes how close he was to being named "Truck" considering his place of birth.
Billy's fatality is to make his opponent play a level of Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels
I think Karla and Scotsman McCrotchfireballs should get together.
Prizm looks like he would fit right in with the Killer Instinct cast.
So Karla, you were in one of the most embarrassing fighting games we've seen to date, what are you going to do now?
"I'm going to Disneyland!"
That sound on the jungle level isn't a hit sound effect, it's an awful rendition of a kookaburra which was a popular jungle sound for old movies.
Of course kookaburras don't LIVE in the jungle, but still...
If that's the case they have a point...
Even though Prizm died quickly the one time he hit you he did a ton of damage. I guess you could say he's a... glass cannon.
Ya know, call me crazy, but tattoos giving characters different types of powers and skills would've been a cool concept for a fighting game. Too bad it was put into the pile of shameless Mortal Kombat ripoffs.
If I was ever to gather a crack team of assassins. I'd make sure that they all got a highly ornate and recognisable tattoo, that way I'd know they were mine.
It's just polite.
Jordan Etherington You should hire some Yakuza. Their tattoos are very elaborate.
I'd be getting them mixed up with all the other Yakuza. What I need is frozen skeletons.
There's something about these old-school Mortal Kombat ripoffs that are just innately hilarious to me.
Woah, a hot ice-skater chi...(FART!)
...nevermind.
Rest in pieces Prism
I just found out that the idea and plot for this game was written by Bob Gale, who co-wrote the Back to the Future trilogy. Koldan, the final boss, is apparently his self-insert. Amazing.
Well, as you can clearly see, his writing has only improved.
A shame when you get 99% into the development of a video game before you realize that releasing it would be a bad idea.
99% is a little generous, don't you think?
It's funny you say that when there was a Cricket game released a few weeks ago, which got pulled and cancelled after the fact.
I don't think this thing got anywhere about 20%. So many program errors and just overall unfinished materials.
Actually, the game had test runs and from that feedback, they scrapped the game...
I'm not sure I would call it a shame in this case...
Oh man, I can see why they didn't release this game. It would've gotten an Adult rating.
I mean, sure, some of the Mortal Kombat women had skimpy outfits, but Prizm's was completely see-through!
I'm guessing poor Prism smashed into pieces before saying his end credit line, so they cut it out. I'm also surprised this game DIDN'T come out, but kudos to Data East for having some standards on this one.
Well, after seeing Prism I think we can just stop with this whole "character design" thing in videogames. We hit perfection. It's over guys. Go home.
Finally, a fighting game that caters to the crotch punching and fart joke audience.
This is like a game that Eric Cartman would make and force Kyle to play.
Fun Fact: Billy Two Moons actually predates Nightwolf
If only Prizm could've been the villain in Cobra, it would've made the game much shorter.
Naa Cobras gun is to weak to do anything :)
CRILLER3 Actually, considering prisms separate light and Cobra's gun shoots lasers, which are made of light, Prizm probably would've just absorbed his shots and let them stream out his back.
And Prism as himself.
Oh and funny thing about the farting, it does NOTHING to your opponent, it is just there to be "funny".
So do these tattoos grant super fart power, or is that something she just.. does.. I wonder. Mostly though, I just wonder.
Maria Isabella I believe all can do the farting as a "joke" to be "funny". I apologize for using two air quotes in one sentence XD
I'm so happy Crystal Boy recovered from his battle with Cobra.
Prism exploded upon reaching the right side of the screen. He stubbed his toe.
I would have dumped quarters into this machine.
"Karla, you were just portrayed in a shitty unreleased game, what are you going to do next?"
"I'm going to Disneyland!"
No slowbeef Johnny Cage has the groin punch not Sonya. By the way yen isn't a lot of money.
So Karla is based off of some Olympic ice skating controversy way back in '94? Yeah, I'm sure that joke will never get dated!
Ok, now I'm curious, what Olympic ice skating controversy of '94 are you talking about? I didn't figure that out!
*****
Really? :P I have no interest in Ice Skating and I'm also pretty sure I've never even watched any, but even I know what controversy is being referred to, plus was there even more then one major controversy in Ice Skating ever? Especially in 94, I mean to the point that it's a cultural reference.
But I guess not, so look up Tonya Harding.
Actually now that I think about it, forget what I said. I was probably thinking of something else. I think it has to do with the running gag of making ice skaters fart because of their poses. It's a pretty lame joke but people still made it back then.
I thought it was because her symbol was a rose, so it was supposed to be a contrast between something that smells good and something that smells bad. But really who knows, anything went in the world of 90s video game development.
I looked it up, apparently in '94 there was this ice skating diva with an attitude in the gossip world, she went to Disneyland and told Mickey that "this was the most boring thing she've ever done" and that's pretty much it.
Oh wow, I think I just figured out the farting thing. Their powers are at least tenuously related to their tattoos. And Karla's tattoo is of a rose. So the giant fart would be her shit actually smelling like roses.
"You know how spiders spit their venom at you?"
Actually, slowbeef, there actually are spiders in the world that spit their venom at their prey, though I don't think the "developers" even knew that.
Or maybe they thought that _all_ venomous spiders did that.
The developer in charge of her moves had been playing Resident Evil the night before
Y'know, I actually remember seeing this in an arcade somewhere when I was a little kid. Weird.
Prizm's career really took a downward spiral after his brief modeling gig for the cover of 'The Dark Side of the Moon'
Fun fact: the final four opponents just had their animations sped up in order to make them more difficult, which also includes the final boss' rather nice death animation.
oh man the sacred 666th video
this has gotta be spooky
Edit: Okay, the game is pretty spooky with how bad it is, but that's it.
The fact that I didn't get to hear prism is bothering me alot
Time to play arcade fighting game: barely disguised fetish(es).
#JusticeForPrizm In an alternate form of Rock, Paper, Scissors; Ice Skate beats Crystal.
Prism, "Oh I forgot...I'm fragile" lol
For all the Prizm fans, he doesn't say anything at the end.
They go to the trouble of licensing Bayou Billy and they DON'T release the game?
Boyou Billy: Enough with the fucking zombie games 2!
Retsupurae's 666th video. This game is a spawn of Satan.
I want Retsupurae convention to happen so a Tattoo Assassins tournament can be held at it.
"Sonya's groin punch"
You just lost a lot of your gaming credentials.
4:17 - "I wish my name was Truck."
Diabetruck? Truckabetus?
evilegg288 truckabetus gets my vote.
+evilegg288 Truckasaurus
Time for an HD remake on steam.
NOT!
That's a pretty good comment, I'm gonna hit like... *NOT!*
DatWittyName I like how my avatar is Max and your avatar is the guy who kills Max.
exiledPostman
Now it's both MadMatty from Jeopardy.
street farter
Darkstinkers
is there some weird ice skating/ farting connection that we're not getting? Like are ice skaters known for farting a lot?
Before even seeing the Sega logo, I associated Rhina's stage with Deep Fear.
Billy "Two moons"? More like Bayou Billy.
I *cannot* stop laughing at Prizm.
Oh my god lol
With the profit from the mocap, Billy bought his first Lost Levels cartridge
See's prism..... Reminded of Shawshank Redemption
Believe it or not, each character has two endings in this game. The first "resolves" your character's "plot", and the second has your character doing something horrible to Koldan if you beat him flawlessly in the second or third round (For example, the newspaper would've read this as "Karla castrates Koldan" or something to that effect.
After all these years, it just dawned on me that this video should have been called “Tatt your might”.
Lets be honest. If this came out people would of loved it.
Tonya Farting
Tattoo Assassins feels like that one Mortal Kombat-style game you see people playing in TV shows, where they try to make fun of it by either turning the fatalities into outlandish, more kid-safe things or abstract and excessive things.
Still waiting on that Battle Monsters rp.
i would love that so much you don't even fucking know
their reactions towards albiole, strawbelly jam, kuja and heart heat harn
god
There's a bit of a sorrowful business story to this - the game from a development standpoint was viewed as a good opportunity for a lot of Data East Pinball's employees, but really it became more of a hassle as it forced them to work longer hours and all that. There's also the fact that a lot of the prototypes were damaged from a basement flood, making these cabinets an especially rare sight.
00.07 I like how Mullah Abba looks like he's saying, "Look, I don't know what the hell this is anymore than you do."
I don't think Prizm was cut out for the job.
Congratulations, Shadow: War of Succession. You now have something to feel superior to.
oh my fuck when Billy hit himself with his own hatchet....
Prism for SSB4
So there's only like 6 playable characters?
"Ok we ran out of tattoo themes to use so let's make some Goro-wannabe sub-bosses and a Not Shao Khan and call it a da- Nevermind, Sega just pulled our funding."
There are nine playable characters and four bosses.
Fun fact: this was co-conceptualized by a Back To The Future screenwriter and the leader of Data East's pinball division. Surprising how the two of them couldn't manage to get their fighting game released.
If the concept of magical tattoos didn't work for a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers clone, how in the name of Granny Goodness was it gonna work for a Mortal Kombat clone?!
The vs menu scrolls down to AC Current and then just skips to Truck Davis. Now we'll never know what great character potential we missed.
I remember GamePro featuring this game.
The fart projectiles don't even deal damage.
data east lost a huge market in gem, geode and mineral enthusiasts by not including such a wonderful character as prism in one of their games, such a shame
4spooky2me. This actually looks really lulzy to play on lan parties over in the corner or something.
Karla! I remember her from Saltybet
I remember Billy Two Moons from Saltybet.
*Sees new retsupurae video* "OGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOG" *Turns into the Mona Lisa.*
I hope Prizm becomes a popular character.
The idea of living tattoos is almost interesting.
Prism didn't die, he just used his powers to shatter and later put himself back together so he could leave.
Petition to add Prizm to MK11
Why the hell is Prizm in this game anyway if it's a tattoo based game?
HE IS THE TATTOO GUN.
maybe?
Supposedly in the backstory the Ink that all the main fighters and Koldan's tattoos are made of gives certain hosts special powers, but everybody else can only get drastic mutations from this ink. Rhina, Deke Kay, and Prism however have all received their powers through such mutations.
He really wanted the tattoo but he got no skin.
So he want to kill all who has tattoo.
Well, the backstory says that the ink of the magical tattoos give special powers to people with unusual genetic makeup, thus they're known as hosts. Anyone else that tries out the ink becomes a mutant. Rhina, Deke Kay and Prizm are mutants because of that
I want Valve to release this as Half Life 3
...and no one would notice.
Slowtruck and Dieselbetus