MKII was my first M rated game (because they sweat in MK on the SNES). I was like 5. And the only thing that got my mom to let me play is because I already saw it being played in the arcade. I didn't even understand the concept of violence, it was just awesome!
It was mind-blowing for the time. I was about 11 when the first Mortal Kombat came out, and it was everywhere. The MK franchise in the early-mid 90s wasn't just "successful" or "extremely popular", it was a worldwide phenomenon. The 90s was an amazing decade for gamers. The good old days. I'm extremely grateful that I got to experience it myself.
@@DeadPixel1105 same here, used to ride our bikes to the Arcade all the time when I was 11-12 and play Mortal Kombat and SF2. They had MK on those big huge screen machines. Everybody was gathered around playing it and watching it.
I am a software and computer game developer... I re-developed the Mortal Komba 1 game because I played it when I was 13 years old and so far I love it and care about it... Thank you, Ed Boone, for this wonderful work ❤
Se tenía el Concepto de que los VideoJuegos eran solo para niños, me intriga ver la cara de los que decían eso al ver juegos como GTA, Red Dead Redemption, MK11 Resident Evil Entre Otros
Nothing against the new Mortal Kombat games, I love 'em to death, but the digitized sprites did have a major effect on how those early games felt. It gave them this gritty, creepy vibe that I don't think I've really seen anywhere else.
i'm just staring at the video and i don't know what to feel. those were some amazing fucking days. such a good game, such a good concept, and what memories it offered!
Same, they were having fun making it too. It's not like nowadays where everything is so corporate driven in the game world. Yea they wanted to make money, but in reality they were having fun first and foremost while making a new and original creation.
I honestly prefer these kind of graphics (the realism caused by filming actual people) and wish they would go back to this. The new graphics for so many games, although they are getting REALLY good, still have this cartoony aspect that this game never had.
+Brandon Tackett I know what you mean. This is what separated MK from SF back in the day. MKX is phenomenally awesome in the graphics department. But I can't help but miss these actors doing all this stuff as opposed to CG.
Remy Lov - to be honest, Pit Fighter did this before MK so when MK came out, most people were already familiar with the technique of digitizing live actors due to Pit Fighter
I remember playing this at a local pool hall back in 1992 when I was like 13. All of us would bring out scraps of paper to write down all the moves and fatalities and practice. I've must of pumped endless quarters into playing this game. Such memories!
+xFeeder84 but see, that would be a bitch to do the special effects on real life people footage. Much easier to work with 3D tools than painfully rotoscoping every frame of blood, guts etc.
I remember crowding around this arcade game before school at the bodega across the street. Funny to think about little kids paying in to play the best player, like a bunch of old men at a pool hall. Then when it came to home systems, seeing the commercials for it, the feeling of anticipation for the release...what an awesome time to be a kid and a gamer! Not many things excite me in the same way anymore. Pathetic? Probably. But to me, those are some great memories.
Yeah, agreed. Digitized graphics - to me - give something a rather grungy and interesting feel to it. The first game I played as a kid was Mortal Kombat 2 on Genesis, and my God, those graphics still give me some chills. I think the games just felt more real, like Midway had intended, and it gives a really good presentation to the first few games. I mean, in Deadly Alliance, you pull someone's skeleton out (Sub-Zero), it's like, "eh", but if you did it in MK3 (Kano), you're like, "Wow - FUCK!"
@xtrmst_012 Eh, trust me, after X, you're not missing anything, really. Stick to the fan games, like MKP, to really keep the vibe going, if you want something modern-retro. :)
@xtrmst_012 I feel that, I think after Armageddon, the series should have just... ended... it would have been a hell of a lot more graceful, considering what happened to it now... Yeah, I feel the hardest part of learning how to code and work with games, especially on an amateur level, is finding the right resources and help. Personally, I'd say if you're still interested, I'm sure Mortal Kombat Addict on UA-cam would be more than happy to give you some leads on how to work in MUGEN, if you try to get in touch with him. :) www.youtube.com/@MKAddict
@xtrmst_012 Ha, no problem, mate. If you ever need some lo-fi jazz or moody ambiance/noise, I’m always down, and can do it for free. Good luck out there, though. :)
Wish they would use these digitized real actors again with todays technology for the next MK game, just think how incredible it could look and it would bring back that gritty MK1, MK2, MK3 feel back with todays technology and it would seperate it from the other 3d and 2d animation fighters.
Ha, Kano's vertical jump kick was way more impressive in real life! Must have cut those twist frames for a reason. Also interesting to see they had planned to have a crouching low kick that had a different animation. That appeared for the first time in MKII.
hey nice video.. im just wondering can i use this video? im making a mortal kombat misteries video, hope you respond so soon!!! thanks!!!!! il give you the credits
Man this is one of the most amazing moments in my life. Daniel Pesina replied to my comment. You know how long I have been playing Mortal Kombat! Mortal Kombat is like my father, my friend. I feel honoured. By the way. My favourite Mortal Kombat slang is, "You will never win!" It's counter intuitive, but that's a big motivation.
Besides Boon, Tobias, Forden and the rest of the technical team, the ones that really made the game possible were the mo-cap actors. They were the real stars here by giving the MK games their distinctive look. The 3D games are also great, and I like 'em a lot, but they lost that special something that made the 2D MKs (MKM:SZ included) so unique: the digitalized graphics of real actors.
i was hoping to get some insight as to why cage is the only character in the game with no idle laying position, he looks like he's about to stand even after a ko
Being a smart guy, I realise this isn't the making of. The game is made. This is a publicity video. It's still good because we're seeing a reenactment of how it was made.
It's funny just how the reporter is making a fool of himself and making all those dumb questions while the the MK Staff is taking his job seriously. It's like seeing The Office for some reason.
2:47 "this isnt really meant for kids though is it?" "Actually it is". Lol as a kid I played all sorts of violent games but funny knowing the controversy it caused
@mlopinto2k1 They do use Motion Capture today. In fact they use it more nowadays than they ever have in the past, in movies, as well as videogames.And it's almost exclusively used in conjunction with the "3D bullshit" you seem to dislike. Although,"Motion Capture"wasn't what was going on in this video.This process has never been given an official name, to my knowledge, but the product is called "Digitized Sprites". The end result is only a 2D image, so it has no application in most games today.
"Put the video in a computer" = put he frames we need into our game engine just like sprites but instead of pixel art, these are jpegs. And the animate at about 18 frames per second.
This seems very unlikely, considering that they made digitized games all the way into the 32bit era. Also I found no evidence of this, you'd think something like that would be pretty big news. I did however find that the director of one of the films sued Midway, claiming to own the rights to many of the characters.
When I did some checking I found something resembling what he said in relation to the second movie, I think it's a fair bet that he just got the movie and the game mixed up.
they actually did make the making of MK2 and my friend has the videos they are over 2 hours !!! he has them on 3 hard drives he said he wont post it on youtube my cheap ass friend wants to sell the footage ( THEY ARE EXTREMELY RARE ) they might worth gold !!!
@SupRStanG 1)Daniel Pesina was fired for participation on THE BLOOD STORM video game without permison from Midway.Also,Philip Ahn,Ho Sung Pak and Katalin Zamiar for unknown -to me- reasons. As for JT... he left Midway because he did not complied, for ''the future MK plans of Midway''...(!){i heard that from GAMEPRO-Greece} Now...i know JT is a great designer but the dark side tells me he reaches his peak about the design for the MK characters. (No new ideas further for Scorpion and the others?)
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THAT WAS BLOOD! ... Boon- "Yeah..right.."
"This isn't ment for kids..."
"Yeah, Mortal Kombat is for kids" :v
lololol
"Mortal Kombat is for kids." -Ed Boon
MKII was my first M rated game (because they sweat in MK on the SNES). I was like 5. And the only thing that got my mom to let me play is because I already saw it being played in the arcade. I didn't even understand the concept of violence, it was just awesome!
The only thing to understand is that when it comes to violence, make sure you don't do the same thing; otherwise, you'll get in trouble.
Played it as a kid all the time at the arcade 🤷♂️
Man, it would have blown my mind to see this as a kid.
It was mind-blowing for the time. I was about 11 when the first Mortal Kombat came out, and it was everywhere. The MK franchise in the early-mid 90s wasn't just "successful" or "extremely popular", it was a worldwide phenomenon.
The 90s was an amazing decade for gamers. The good old days. I'm extremely grateful that I got to experience it myself.
TheInflicted shit I’m 33 and my mind is still blown 🤯🤯🤯🤯
TheInflicted same
@@DeadPixel1105 same here, used to ride our bikes to the Arcade all the time when I was 11-12 and play Mortal Kombat and SF2. They had MK on those big huge screen machines. Everybody was gathered around playing it and watching it.
I am a software and computer game developer... I re-developed the Mortal Komba 1 game because I played it when I was 13 years old and so far I love it and care about it... Thank you, Ed Boone, for this wonderful work ❤
"that was blood!" "oh my god you ripped his heart out!"
lol
+Volklin it is the 90s hahaha
"Is it for kids?"
"Actually it is." The 90's
He was shocked because when this game came out, blood and gore was very uncommon.
Se tenía el Concepto de que los VideoJuegos eran solo para niños, me intriga ver la cara de los que decían eso al ver juegos como GTA, Red Dead Redemption, MK11 Resident Evil Entre Otros
Nothing against the new Mortal Kombat games, I love 'em to death, but the digitized sprites did have a major effect on how those early games felt. It gave them this gritty, creepy vibe that I don't think I've really seen anywhere else.
this was the first mortal kombat game, what do you expect a high studio with advanced equipment right away?
YES!!!
Reporter: "So these are video games, not pinball correct?" Tobias: "Correct" (His look is priceless. Like No SHIT you fuckin dickweed.)
I'm like "is this 1993 or 1983"? Who would ask such a question?
I never thought I'd see Johnny Cage wearing a hoody, helping out Kano get his positions right on a miniature flight of stairs
i'm just staring at the video and i don't know what to feel. those were some amazing fucking days. such a good game, such a good concept, and what memories it offered!
Same, they were having fun making it too. It's not like nowadays where everything is so corporate driven in the game world. Yea they wanted to make money, but in reality they were having fun first and foremost while making a new and original creation.
Johnny's split punch is giving me my LYFE right now. I can't imagine doing a move like that over and over until it's perfect.
I honestly prefer these kind of graphics (the realism caused by filming actual people) and wish they would go back to this. The new graphics for so many games, although they are getting REALLY good, still have this cartoony aspect that this game never had.
Just wait. MkX is in uncanny valley right now, but the next few games are gonna kick it up another notch.
+Brandon Tackett I know what you mean. This is what separated MK from SF back in the day. MKX is phenomenally awesome in the graphics department. But I can't help but miss these actors doing all this stuff as opposed to CG.
There's always Streets of Fury EX
Remy Lov - to be honest, Pit Fighter did this before MK so when MK came out, most people were already familiar with the technique of digitizing live actors due to Pit Fighter
I remember playing this at a local pool hall back in 1992 when I was like 13. All of us would bring out scraps of paper to write down all the moves and fatalities and practice. I've must of pumped endless quarters into playing this game. Such memories!
This is the first game on the first console I ever had and it's just amazing to see now that this is how they made the game. Mind-blown.
mortal kombat 1,2,and 3 was WAY ahead of its time
Guitar Kid How?
BelatedGamer because they take vidieo and put it in the game
Guitar Kid Prince of Persia did similar things.
Absolutely
This should be in the teached in school... pure HISTORY !!
Where did you get this? This is gold man! What I really want to watch is the "Making of Mortal Kombat II".
So awesome to find this video, I played MK1 so much back in the day!
0:45 Ho-Sung Pak from Jackie Chan's epic "Drunken Master II" !!!
and WMAC Masters!
MK was better using real people instead of computer graphics they should make a MK like this again but 3D cool rare video
21:29 was awesome. It's cool to imagine these people as the real characters doing shoots, but being so down to Earth, hahaha!
Man these dudes were so uncoordinated. I don't know how it turned out to be such an awesome game :D
I think it will be great if they do the motion real characters again in the new MK with the technology it will be the best!
xFeeder84 there are 3d cameras so this would work.
xFeeder84 I think they do, I think mkx is full motion capture
+xFeeder84 but see, that would be a bitch to do the special effects on real life people footage. Much easier to work with 3D tools than painfully rotoscoping every frame of blood, guts etc.
+xFeeder84 The canceled mkhd would of been awesome
It just isn't mk to me if its just cartoony graphics.
god i really would like to go back to these times. it was so much better and simpler back then.
"So, this isn't really meant for kids, is it?"
"Well, actually, it is."
"Oh my god!!! He just ripped that guys heart out!!!"
Wow. It's so cool to see the actual recordings of the moves I've seen thousands of times in the game :p
After 30 years. Mortal kombat will always be excellent.
I remember, that back then it was awesome. Nostalgia ;P
This was a real treat to watch.
It's so funny how back in the day blood was rarely seen in games. Now every game has some intense brutal bloodsheet and nobody gives a damn anymore
I remember crowding around this arcade game before school at the bodega across the street. Funny to think about little kids paying in to play the best player, like a bunch of old men at a pool hall. Then when it came to home systems, seeing the commercials for it, the feeling of anticipation for the release...what an awesome time to be a kid and a gamer! Not many things excite me in the same way anymore. Pathetic? Probably. But to me, those are some great memories.
Yeah, agreed. Digitized graphics - to me - give something a rather grungy and interesting feel to it. The first game I played as a kid was Mortal Kombat 2 on Genesis, and my God, those graphics still give me some chills. I think the games just felt more real, like Midway had intended, and it gives a really good presentation to the first few games. I mean, in Deadly Alliance, you pull someone's skeleton out (Sub-Zero), it's like, "eh", but if you did it in MK3 (Kano), you're like, "Wow - FUCK!"
@xtrmst_012 Eh, trust me, after X, you're not missing anything, really. Stick to the fan games, like MKP, to really keep the vibe going, if you want something modern-retro. :)
@xtrmst_012 I feel that, I think after Armageddon, the series should have just... ended... it would have been a hell of a lot more graceful, considering what happened to it now...
Yeah, I feel the hardest part of learning how to code and work with games, especially on an amateur level, is finding the right resources and help. Personally, I'd say if you're still interested, I'm sure Mortal Kombat Addict on UA-cam would be more than happy to give you some leads on how to work in MUGEN, if you try to get in touch with him. :)
www.youtube.com/@MKAddict
@xtrmst_012 Ha, no problem, mate. If you ever need some lo-fi jazz or moody ambiance/noise, I’m always down, and can do it for free.
Good luck out there, though. :)
I like how they use the Genesis music at about 1 min in.
That was really cool to see.
holy fuck, thats amazing when you can expand your memories of MK1 arcade with this footage.
Wish they would use these digitized real actors again with todays technology for the next MK game, just think how incredible it could look and it would bring back that gritty MK1, MK2, MK3 feel back with todays technology and it would seperate it from the other 3d and 2d animation fighters.
"That was blood!?"
Ed Boon: *"yeah right... Lot's of blood 😀"*
"This isn't really meant for kids though either, is it?"
"Ahh, actually it is"
It's almost such an simple tech they use here. I love it.
Ha, Kano's vertical jump kick was way more impressive in real life! Must have cut those twist frames for a reason. Also interesting to see they had planned to have a crouching low kick that had a different animation. That appeared for the first time in MKII.
@2:46 "It really isn't made for kids is it"? "Ugh... well actully it is". 😆
hey nice video.. im just wondering can i use this video? im making a mortal kombat misteries video, hope you respond so soon!!! thanks!!!!! il give you the credits
THIS IS AMAZING!!
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE THAN THIS!!!!
PLEASE POST THE OTHERS CARACTERS TOO!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
"Oh my God, you just ripped his heart out." - Heh. That was only the beginning.
"Women shouldn't be allowed to fight. That's how Johnny C do!"
-Johnny Cage
You've seen it too?
High Definition 3D Photograph texture with minimal compression laid over motion-capped 3D models is where they need to go next. Make it so!
Looking back at old days now you see the worldwide the sucess the MK is.
Flawless Victory!
Man Johny Cage is fucking flexible
LOL thanks
Man this is one of the most amazing moments in my life. Daniel Pesina replied to my comment. You know how long I have been playing Mortal Kombat! Mortal Kombat is like my father, my friend. I feel honoured.
By the way. My favourite Mortal Kombat slang is, "You will never win!" It's counter intuitive, but that's a big motivation.
Seeing the real Johnny Cage reply to you just made my day as well, man. That was awesome.
Same here, life is good.
2:55 - "Oh my God, he just ripped his heart out!"
Yes, he did, news reporter... Yes, he did... :)
Besides Boon, Tobias, Forden and the rest of the technical team, the ones that really made the game possible were the mo-cap actors. They were the real stars here by giving the MK games their distinctive look.
The 3D games are also great, and I like 'em a lot, but they lost that special something that made the 2D MKs (MKM:SZ included) so unique: the digitalized graphics of real actors.
i was hoping to get some insight as to why cage is the only character in the game with no idle laying position, he looks like he's about to stand even after a ko
Fun Fact: the original idea for mortal kombat was to be a game based on Jean Claude Van Damm hence Johnny Cage looks like Van Damm in blood sport.
Being a smart guy, I realise this isn't the making of. The game is made. This is a publicity video. It's still good because we're seeing a reenactment of how it was made.
hahah nice, paradise for fighting gamers and animators game dev. ^^
Thought I was the only one, I remember that too.
It's funny just how the reporter is making a fool of himself and making all those dumb questions while the the MK Staff is taking his job seriously.
It's like seeing The Office for some reason.
this makes me feel like playing mk1 again
@BDMachinimas They have to make the moves easy for an old man. (But of course, Lui Kang's actor who played Tsang Shung.)
Awesome!!
2:47 "this isnt really meant for kids though is it?" "Actually it is". Lol as a kid I played all sorts of violent games but funny knowing the controversy it caused
AWESOME! Thanks for sharing!!!!
These people learned how to fight from acting for a guy in the arcade
Man, that interviewer is the WORST
He's pretty corny.
AWESOMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
too bad warner forbid him to upload the other videos. I would LOVE to see classic scorpion and subzero in action as well as rayden.
@mlopinto2k1 They do use Motion Capture today. In fact they use it more nowadays than they ever have in the past, in movies, as well as videogames.And it's almost exclusively used in conjunction with the "3D bullshit" you seem to dislike.
Although,"Motion Capture"wasn't what was going on in this video.This process has never been given an official name, to my knowledge, but the product is called "Digitized Sprites". The end result is only a 2D image, so it has no application in most games today.
I wish there was more characters in this video
Good video
"Put the video in a computer" = put he frames we need into our game engine just like sprites but instead of pixel art, these are jpegs. And the animate at about 18 frames per second.
Twitter made me come here
Johnny Cage actor makes Sub-zero(and scorpion too) , he said in the beginning of the video.
Sonya farts 01:14
looooooooooooool
@jonykakuyo Im gunna go make some cheese soup. I forget who invented it, but if you're ever in a bind, it works great for spotty recoveries.
Nice :).
@OZZIEWARRIORWVHS I think so. I know there was a making of Mortal Kombat Tour.
Actually isn't those videos are from the Midway's collection 2 or something, for PS2?
THAT WAS BLOOD!!!
Did you know that the name Noob Saibot was gotten by reversing the surnames of the two creators of Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon and John Tobias?
@xtrmst_012 Hmm, okay
@DenOfVipers what do you mean? They still use MoCap...
did they ever make a making of mortal kombat 2?
fuck a combo. just slug it out till someone stays down. good shit.
@DenOfVipers I don't think it would be backward if it genuinely looked better than 3D models.
Ed Boon resembles Kaka from Real Madrid in this video, wait, also the reporter in the beginning.
This seems very unlikely, considering that they made digitized games all the way into the 32bit era. Also I found no evidence of this, you'd think something like that would be pretty big news.
I did however find that the director of one of the films sued Midway, claiming to own the rights to many of the characters.
so much fun :>
impressive
When I did some checking I found something resembling what he said in relation to the second movie, I think it's a fair bet that he just got the movie and the game mixed up.
What's with the shadows? They couldn't properly light the recording room?
18:21 FAIL¡¡¡¡
@critThreat well, whatever that technique is wherein the photos of the characters are used as sprites. That was such a silly idea.
they actually did make the making of MK2 and my friend has the videos they are over 2 hours !!! he has them on 3 hard drives he said he wont post it on youtube my cheap ass friend wants to sell the footage ( THEY ARE EXTREMELY RARE ) they might worth gold !!!
I'm so glad motion-capture went away.
Elizabeth Malecki (Sonia Blade) e Ho Sung Pak (Liu Kang) onde e como estão hoje?
@mlopinto2k1 Really? So today's technology should be used to make a photograph sprite? Do you have any idea how backward that would be?
3:10
I bet that somewhere that guy is a mugen character now
@SupRStanG 1)Daniel Pesina was fired for participation on THE BLOOD STORM video game without permison from Midway.Also,Philip Ahn,Ho Sung Pak and Katalin Zamiar for unknown -to me- reasons.
As for JT... he left Midway because he did not complied, for ''the future MK plans of Midway''...(!){i heard that from GAMEPRO-Greece}
Now...i know JT is a great designer but the dark side tells me he reaches his peak about the design for the MK characters.
(No new ideas further for Scorpion and the others?)
Boon looks like Sylar from Heroes
3:10 new character for mortal kombat 11 with aqua from mortal kombat project
am i the only one who can hear Cage's theme in the background at around 3:15 ?