Man people just don’t get it. When this game came out everyone was beyond hyped you could play Shang Tsung. We all literally memorized all of his morphs, fatalities and that was on top of every other character.
Same here. Shang was my man in 2 and 3. Once they took out his ability to morph into other characters? That's when I stopped playing Mortal Kombat altogether. 😢 :( :( :(
There is something about the flexibility of Shang Tsung in a pros hands who can play all the characters well, and the insult added to injury of executing someone with their own fatalities.
@@Nobunaga1983 I guess that’s true, but being able to change the matchup at will is a pretty damn strong ability, especially for single player. Against a master at high levels of play, probably not so much since you would die from one or two punishes. It would be hilarious if mk11 Shang tsung could do all this, it’d make him the most broken character online since you could just change to a winning matchup and since punishing openings is a bit harder online but executing combinations really isn’t
@@scottduncan5732 also in mk3 good players can time exactly when Shang Tsung will morph back to himself and it’s a free hit because you can’t block while morphing
This was the best Shang Tsung compared to all the newer Shang Tsung.After making him younger from the first mortal Kombat.This guy was tough to fight with and difficult to beat.
It was the best version of his morph ability by far too. The inputs got completely convoluted in MK3 and the ability got nerfed into the ground for the 3D games due to the load times of modern hardware. MK2 Shang Tsung is best Shang Tsung. He'll even give you a solid dental checkup.
To be fair, you can't play against the AI like a human player. Especially in Midway MKs. Input Reading up the ass. There are some exploits I see OP using in this video as well. Which is no shame cause this AI can be a real bastard.
Well, he's kicking Kintaro's ass with mainly one move. I don't remember Kintaro being that easy to beat. When I was playing this game in arcades there were quite good players there who must have figured it out they could've beaten him with just one move, but it definitely wasn't happening. Maybe this guy is playing on easy. Or the arcade where I was going was setting it on high difficulty. Seems dubious that on medium as he claims it would be so easy.
I still remember the first time playing MK2 at the arcade’s at Golf N Stuff and some dude was playing with Shang Tsung. He was beating everyone(including me because I was new) and was transforming quickly and when it said “Finish Him” he turned into Subzero doing the Ice Blast repeatedly(I guess to extend Fatality time) and then into Scorpion and did the breath of hell fatality. That was so cool. Great times!
LOL. if you'd think that's funny, watch Mortal Kombat the movie, Mk Annihilation (Just the fight scenes) and Mortal Kombat Conquest. They really nailed the Matrix like effect.
@@GamerGee LOL. if you'd think that's funny, watch Mortal Kombat the movie, Mk Annihilation (Just the fight scenes) and Mortal Kombat Conquest. They really nailed the Matrix like effect.
Been a fan of Shang Tsung since his return in MK 2, in MK 1 found him a creepy old boss but when he came back as a young playable characte in MK 2, I became a huge fan and would use him to beat Shao Kahn and take over the Outworld. He won the first 9 MK tournaments 500 years ago then Great Kung Lao beat him in the 10th so Shag Tsung trained Goro who beat and killed Great Kung Lao and Shang Tsung took the role of MK tournament organizer until 500 years later Liu Kang beat Goro, then Shang Tsung himself in MK 1. But in MK 2 Shao Kahn restores Shang Tsung's youth and he becomes a playable character, I used him to beat his master Shao Kahn and become ruler of the Outworld at last. I did it again in MK 9. Hace a nice day.
I could never work out why they couldn't have just added another single animatiopn for shao kahn blowing up.. If my whole body was breaking up I wouldn't be standing there with my hands on my hips, leaning back as a jaunty angle.
omg when i was a kid i used to waste so much god damn money on this game in the arcade I nearly had a wet dream when I got it for my birthday for genesis and could play it as long as I wanted for free and boy did I play the hell out of it!. Def the best MK of 1-3.
MKII Shang was awesome. He was so fun because if you were quick you could mix and match some fatalities. And don't get me started on the super secret Kintaro fatality!
Once you do the first ffd-kh "freeze" part of the fatality, the "finish him!" timer gets reset, so you have about the same time to perform the fdff-something punch.....or, perform subzero's other fatality on a frozen enemy;)
Looking back after nearly 20 years, I can't believe the AI in this game was so easy to predict and exploit. Just look for patterns in the CPU's attacks and take advantage of them.
There are many versions (revisions) of MKII. Each version has diffrent play through. So some tactics did work on some versions but not on every version.
@@cv2895 PS2 version is really hard, AI opponent read your control and they almost block everything you use. You need massive luck and patience just to beat the game with one character
@thekillerwaldo Well its really hard to "describe" how to actually do it, all I can tell is that it works always through mame and on the Pc version, however I could never get it to work through my original arcade cabinet using the josticks. i would say you wal towards him and when you are really close you start a jump towards him, he will try to uppercut you, but goinna miss to hit you and them after the uppercut you press kick. Hope this helps. It works with everybody against Kintaro.
Have to admit - used to pick him a lot back in the arcade days just to show off :D there used to be quite a croud around the cabinet back then. Kinda miss it.
The voices, the acoustics, the sound effects, I think that's why I really like the old versions of Mortal Kombat of course the newer ones are really good, it's just that the voices and acoustics are less scary than in the N64 ones…..too bad I'm no good at the Mortal Kombat anyway, I couldn't even beat Novice cause I didn't know how to play
Because Johnny Cage's Fatality: Forward, Forward, Down, Up. has a special effect if right afterwards you immediately press Down + LP + BLK + LK and it does the 3 heads animation. If I remember correctly this was put in as an easter egg because there was a bug in MK1 where this happened on accident sometimes in a certain early version of the game - if I remember correctly.
@prytytyt You have to release block after "up" and before you press down - but its easier just to morph into somebody else while doing the pit fatality, and using their pit moves instead.
Thumbs up. Fun to watch it all through. I liked his at the last boss he says " you will die" (yapping instead of fighting) and you hit him and he dies lol
Match 1: Kintaro Fatality Match 2: The Pit II Stage Fatality Match 3: Baraka Fatality Match 4: Soul Steal Fatality Match 5: Sub-Zero Uppercut Fatality Match 6: Johnny Cage 3 Uppercut Fatality Match 7: Kintaro Fatality Match 8: Balloon Fatality Match 9: Sub-Zero Ice-Ball Fatality Match 10: Kung Lao Hat Slice Fatality Match 11: No Fatality Match 12: Soul Steal Fatality Match 13: Sub-Boss Kintaro can't be Finished. Match 14: Boss Shao Kahn can't be Finished. Total Fatalities: 11
The game is being sarcastic. It's basically saying that's what you get for playing as one of the bad guys and making him win - it's your fault Earth got conquered.
Greatest Video Game Character Ever!!!! Too bad they never incorporated another shape-shifting character into the next gen systems.....I was begging for a Clayface/Beast boy in Injustice Gods Among us
The story of how a buffed out dentist made the best playable version of Shang Tsung. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa rules, but video game wise he's been stuck portraying Shang Tsung in the 3D era when Tsung's morphing ability just can't be done justice.
Hold LP+LK, then while still holding them down get in close and hit D+HP It's the same no matter what character you use. After you upercut them hold Down to get the "Aw-ah"
Man people just don’t get it. When this game came out everyone was beyond hyped you could play Shang Tsung. We all literally memorized all of his morphs, fatalities and that was on top of every other character.
💯 Shang tsung was my main character
Same here. Shang was my man in 2 and 3. Once they took out his ability to morph into other characters? That's when I stopped playing Mortal Kombat altogether. 😢
:( :( :(
It was well hyped and it delivered ratter well
I’d give anything to be there when mk2 was in it’s prime
In GamePro magazine 😊😊😊
There is something about the flexibility of Shang Tsung in a pros hands who can play all the characters well, and the insult added to injury of executing someone with their own fatalities.
Shang Tsung is a middle tier player. Mileena , liu kang and Jax are the best. Morphing leaves you open for attacks
@@Nobunaga1983 I guess that’s true, but being able to change the matchup at will is a pretty damn strong ability, especially for single player. Against a master at high levels of play, probably not so much since you would die from one or two punishes. It would be hilarious if mk11 Shang tsung could do all this, it’d make him the most broken character online since you could just change to a winning matchup and since punishing openings is a bit harder online but executing combinations really isn’t
@@scottduncan5732 also in mk3 good players can time exactly when Shang Tsung will morph back to himself and it’s a free hit because you can’t block while morphing
This was the best Shang Tsung compared to all the newer Shang Tsung.After making him younger from the first mortal Kombat.This guy was tough to fight with and difficult to beat.
It was the best version of his morph ability by far too. The inputs got completely convoluted in MK3 and the ability got nerfed into the ground for the 3D games due to the load times of modern hardware. MK2 Shang Tsung is best Shang Tsung. He'll even give you a solid dental checkup.
On the arcade versions of mk3 there is no load time@mresturk9336
Unlike most who do these playthroughs, who tend to spam exploits, you really vary things up. Very entertaining and an impressive show of skill.
Cap 😂
To be fair, you can't play against the AI like a human player. Especially in Midway MKs.
Input Reading up the ass. There are some exploits I see OP using in this video as well. Which is no shame cause this AI can be a real bastard.
Well, he's kicking Kintaro's ass with mainly one move.
I don't remember Kintaro being that easy to beat. When I was playing this game in arcades there were quite good players there who must have figured it out they could've beaten him with just one move, but it definitely wasn't happening. Maybe this guy is playing on easy. Or the arcade where I was going was setting it on high difficulty. Seems dubious that on medium as he claims it would be so easy.
F-F-F-I-I-N-N-N-I-I-SH H-I-I-M-M
Always loved the ball of blood before dropping and splatting. Nostalgia!
5:25
That splashing sound is rather gruesome when you stop to think about it 🙉.
Shang Tsung looks like Manny Pacquiao in this game. Lol
justinjacques766 Lmao!
justinjacquez766 no, Manny Pacquiao looks like Shang Tsung, haha
Pacquiao has been hiding his powers of transformation, for the fairness of the fight.
Galing ng joke mo!
Lol super late but I always thought that too 😅
I still remember the first time playing MK2 at the arcade’s at Golf N Stuff and some dude was playing with Shang Tsung.
He was beating everyone(including me because I was new) and was transforming quickly and when it said “Finish Him” he turned into Subzero doing the Ice Blast repeatedly(I guess to extend Fatality time) and then into Scorpion and did the breath of hell fatality.
That was so cool.
Great times!
Awesome stories. War Stories
Anyone else here after Shang Tsungs trailer for the Kombat Pack?
**raises hand**
Dang that fight with Reptile became The Matrix
LOL. if you'd think that's funny, watch Mortal Kombat the movie, Mk Annihilation (Just the fight scenes) and Mortal Kombat Conquest. They really nailed the Matrix like effect.
Remember you commenting on this? The time has flown by so fast
Matrix and then all 4 sequels 😂
@@channinggoodwin6034, indeed!
The best non TAS Shang Tsung playthrough on UA-cam.
In both ways is fun to watch
Shang Tsung's stance in this game is so funny lol it's actually gangsta 😄
7:23 f-f-f-f-f-f-i-i-i-i-i-nish h-h-h-h-h-h-h-i-i-i-i-m DAT LAG
White Screen o o o o o o o h h. Dddddddddd ooooooh lol
@@GamerGee LOL. if you'd think that's funny, watch Mortal Kombat the movie, Mk Annihilation (Just the fight scenes) and Mortal Kombat Conquest. They really nailed the Matrix like effect.
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PowerPoint presentation Kombat
Oh my PC!
7:14 The Reptile fight starts to get pretty trippy hahaha
Been a fan of Shang Tsung since his return in MK 2, in MK 1 found him a creepy old boss but when he came back as a young playable characte in MK 2, I became a huge fan and would use him to beat Shao Kahn and take over the Outworld. He won the first 9 MK tournaments 500 years ago then Great Kung Lao beat him in the 10th so Shag Tsung trained Goro who beat and killed Great Kung Lao and Shang Tsung took the role of MK tournament organizer until 500 years later Liu Kang beat Goro, then Shang Tsung himself in MK 1. But in MK 2 Shao Kahn restores Shang Tsung's youth and he becomes a playable character, I used him to beat his master Shao Kahn and become ruler of the Outworld at last. I did it again in MK 9. Hace a nice day.
This is honestly the best Shang Tsung costume throughout the MK series
The best thing about Shang Tsung is that you can really vary the fatalities.
by far the best MK of all time
Damn I love this game. This and MK1 original are all time favourite. 🤘🤘💪💪
The three heads fatality by Cage is awesome.
I laughed my god damn ass off at that Reptile finish.
"have a nice day" lol
cracked me up
raiden has the same ending in mk1
Absolutely loving the vid, will definitely view some more. Thanks for producing great content!
This game had great sound for it's time
Remember you commenting on this? The time has flown by so fast
0:42 Shang Tsung turned into Kintaro.😲😲
😮😮😮
Ahhhhhhgh shang Tsung wins flawless victory
I could never work out why they couldn't have just added another single animatiopn for shao kahn blowing up.. If my whole body was breaking up I wouldn't be standing there with my hands on my hips, leaning back as a jaunty angle.
Shoa Khan lost because he talks too much instead of fighting.
ajmolaliful Lol true!
Well, his arrogance and overconfidence were always his greatest weaknesses.
Shoa Khan is way to cocky
"He was always more ego than skill" - Shang Tsung 2019
omg when i was a kid i used to waste so much god damn money on this game in the arcade I nearly had a wet dream when I got it for my birthday for genesis and could play it as long as I wanted for free and boy did I play the hell out of it!. Def the best MK of 1-3.
10/10 game and 10/10 playthrough.
Highlight: Shang tsung mirror.
One of the best mortal kombat games of all time.
The absolute best of all time!!!!!!
Thé best !!!
Double flawless against Kintaro?!
Respect.
That triple head decap fatality from cage has always been INSANE
MKII Shang was awesome. He was so fun because if you were quick you could mix and match some fatalities. And don't get me started on the super secret Kintaro fatality!
The fact that you had time to transform into Sub Zero and do one of his fatalities on Johnny Cage overwhelms me. ;-;
Once you do the first ffd-kh "freeze" part of the fatality, the "finish him!" timer gets reset, so you have about the same time to perform the fdff-something punch.....or, perform subzero's other fatality on a frozen enemy;)
On the genesis, you could grief foes by doing the deep freeze REPEATEDLY as it would keep working and keep resetting the timer.
4:34
* Uppercut *
People in the back: Oooooh! ! ! 😱😨😧😦😮😯😲🫨
Bravo you're so good. I like your counter kicks and combos when the opponent jumps at you Good Job...
I never tried mastering shang tsung but looking at this he potentially looks like the dominant character
Looking back after nearly 20 years, I can't believe the AI in this game was so easy to predict and exploit. Just look for patterns in the CPU's attacks and take advantage of them.
Yeah I've watched all your uploads and liked a few of 'em. Amazing work on that arcade build - that thing's a work of art!
7:25 wtf lol. MADDD LAGGGGG BRO
This tactic doesnt work on the actual arcade, played through the original cabinet. However in Mame you can easily pull it off. No idea why.
There are many versions (revisions) of MKII. Each version has diffrent play through. So some tactics did work on some versions but not on every version.
@@cv2895 PS2 version is really hard, AI opponent read your control and they almost block everything you use. You need massive luck and patience just to beat the game with one character
Shang Tsung Wins: Fatality 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That oooohhhhhhhhhhhh was always hilarious to me
0:44
It's cool watching Shang transform into all the players like he's supposed to.
@thekillerwaldo Well its really hard to "describe" how to actually do it, all I can tell is that it works always through mame and on the Pc version, however I could never get it to work through my original arcade cabinet using the josticks. i would say you wal towards him and when you are really close you start a jump towards him, he will try to uppercut you, but goinna miss to hit you and them after the uppercut you press kick. Hope this helps. It works with everybody against Kintaro.
3 Heads?! O_o
Yes, like a sort of homage to MK I Johnny Cage's first "beheading punch", and its most known glitch, 2 heads instead of just one
I can't help but to laugh at 13:28 that threat followed by a drop kick
Mortal kombat 2 is the first game i played now i have mortal kombat 11
Shang Tsung: Your soul is mine!
Mileena: Nuh uh.
Shang Tsung: Yuh huh.
Mileena: Nuh uh.
Shang Tsung: Yuh huh.
Mileena: Nuh uh. You killed my father.
Shang Tsung: No, Mileena, I am your father. >:)
Mileena: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!😭
Shang Tsung: 1:25
I like the build up at 7:15 . Then fatality afterwards makes it worth it.
7:17 when you realizing you're not actually morphing, you're just tripping out.
I forgot how terrifying Shang Tsung was!!
I wonder how Shang Tsung became young in this game. Because in the original MK, he was old.
"Have a nice day "
Sure Shang sure XD
this player is the best
absolutely perfect that victory!!!!!
4:20 the only time the legs left standing straight up after dismemberment makes sense.
Never saw his ending lol. Have a nice day.lmao
Shang tsung is awesome
I'm only now noticing they made Shao Khan look really... Porno in this game
ohh brings back memories playing this game on Emulator King CD on my windows 95/98 PC 🙌🏻
LOL 13:27
shao kahn- "you will die"
shang tsung - *kick* nope
Shang Tsung probably was the fan favorite character because he was originally the final boss
No shit
I remembered pronouncing his name as Shang Teesung
The best fighting game ever (Shang Tsung who else ?!) 🌈
0:44 *GROWL* AAGGHH!!
Ahhhhgh Shang Tsung Wins!
The freeze up on the reptile fatailty part is funny as hell ha ha and awesome
If a player has all his morphs memorized, he's pretty unstoppable. Only weakness is the lag that happens when he morphs and un-morphs.
great playthrough :)
DJ Shang Tsung
Masterpiece ever. Greatness
@razorbulan Well the same trick does work in the PC version as well, at least I used to do it.
"Where is Kano?" Whats up with that message at the end?
To get people talking since Kano didn't show up in this game. Same as "Invisible Penguin?"
Thanks, I ve used the PC keyboard only for this one.
MK2 Shang Tsung is his best desing in the entire franchise, and MK3 is the worst. You can't change my mind.
Uohhhh punchhh auchhhhhh
Ouhhhhhhhhhh punchhh (fwt fwt fwt)
Houuu punchh, Ohhhhhhhh (fwt fwt fwt)
Puunchh, oHHHH (mua ha ha ha ha ha ha)
Ouuuuu, Iahhhhh Hiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,
Puchhhhhhhhhh (FINISH HIM (with echoes))
TURUTUTUNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
...
Ahhhhhrgggg, aggggg,
...
...
!OUHH!
...
...
!UHH! (shhhhhhhfttt)
SHANG TSUNG, WINS (with echoes, as Baraka)
FATALITY
***** LOL!
"How did all those femurs come out of a torso?"
"A wizard did it."
Crazy 🤪
The absolute best character in the game. That's what you want in Mortal Kombat.
Have to admit - used to pick him a lot back in the arcade days just to show off :D there used to be quite a croud around the cabinet back then. Kinda miss it.
The voices, the acoustics, the sound effects, I think that's why I really like the old versions of Mortal Kombat of course the newer ones are really good, it's just that the voices and acoustics are less scary than in the N64 ones…..too bad I'm no good at the Mortal Kombat anyway, I couldn't even beat Novice cause I didn't know how to play
Because Johnny Cage's Fatality: Forward, Forward, Down, Up. has a special effect if right afterwards you immediately press Down + LP + BLK + LK and it does the 3 heads animation. If I remember correctly this was put in as an easter egg because there was a bug in MK1 where this happened on accident sometimes in a certain early version of the game - if I remember correctly.
I used to luv the screams the flaming skulls made from Shang Tsung in MK1.
Good job!
10:47
Shang Tsung decides to forego the usual fatality hijinks and settles for taunting Kung Lao by turning into a better-looking man than he.
"Have a nice day" 💀
0:41 Kintaro 😱
@prytytyt You have to release block after "up" and before you press down - but its easier just to morph into somebody else while doing the pit fatality, and using their pit moves instead.
Johnny Cage at 4:12 "YOU GOIN' TO JAIL NOW!! YOU GOIN' TO JAIL NOW!!"
Its crazy for me growing up i was terrified of the fatalities when my brother did them lol
Thumbs up.
Fun to watch it all through.
I liked his at the last boss he says " you will die" (yapping instead of fighting) and you hit him and he dies lol
Match 1: Kintaro Fatality
Match 2: The Pit II Stage Fatality
Match 3: Baraka Fatality
Match 4: Soul Steal Fatality
Match 5: Sub-Zero Uppercut Fatality
Match 6: Johnny Cage 3 Uppercut Fatality
Match 7: Kintaro Fatality
Match 8: Balloon Fatality
Match 9: Sub-Zero Ice-Ball Fatality
Match 10: Kung Lao Hat Slice Fatality
Match 11: No Fatality
Match 12: Soul Steal Fatality
Match 13: Sub-Boss Kintaro can't be Finished.
Match 14: Boss Shao Kahn can't be Finished.
Total Fatalities: 11
9:50. BEST FATALITY EVER!!!
I pretty much wasted a fortune on it too, infact I think all of my pocket/saved money.
I really like Shang Tsung for MK2, but I've never tried to beat Kintaro and Shao Kahn on the arcade version.
You are the best mortal kombat player of the world
See a crotch shot by morphed Shang tsung into Johnny Cage would have been a perfect opportunity to finish it off with a throw.
If Shang Tsung took over Earthrealm, then why does the game say “Have a nice day”?
The game is being sarcastic. It's basically saying that's what you get for playing as one of the bad guys and making him win - it's your fault Earth got conquered.
Greatest Video Game Character Ever!!!! Too bad they never incorporated another shape-shifting character into the next gen systems.....I was begging for a Clayface/Beast boy in Injustice Gods Among us
I like the sound effects of morph and fireball
The story of how a buffed out dentist made the best playable version of Shang Tsung. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa rules, but video game wise he's been stuck portraying Shang Tsung in the 3D era when Tsung's morphing ability just can't be done justice.
Hold LP+LK, then while still holding them down get in close and hit D+HP
It's the same no matter what character you use. After you upercut them hold Down to get the "Aw-ah"
FEEL THE "RATH" OF SHAO KHAN ehhehehe