KILLER INSTINCT GOLD HISTORY- The game that was DEAD ON ARRIVAL!?
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Today Top Hat Gaming Man discusses Killer Instinct Gold, the Nintendo 64 fighting game that was a couple of years in the making that that was released after Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2.
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That's really weird to me...EVERYONE I knew with an N64 played the shit out of this game. Weekend tournaments without fail throughout the entirety of 1998, along with Goldeneye
But i'm guessing these people _only_ had an N64, so they didn't know any better? Because at that point Tekken 2, Fighting Vipers, Soul Blade and Virtua Fighter 2 were all available and miles better, and looked/played better. Especially the latter 2 games. I still liked KI Gold but couldn't help but be disappointed by the things mentioned in the video. It just didn't compare to PSX/Saturn alternatives. If those other fighters didn't exist then i'm sure it would have been far more popular.
@@tree_fiddy but nowdays ki2 has aged better than those early poligonal games lol
@@ikaros21 Yeah if you're talking purely about looks, but it stops there. Although i'd still say Virtua Fighter 2's excellent presentation looks nicer to this day even if it's technically graphically dated. It's all about the aesthetic.
You'er lucky it was dead by me :'(
@@mazor13 I suppose I am...I'd regularly bring my Playstation over and we'd STILL keep playing KI over Tekken 2/3 and Souledge (well Soulblade here in the States). We only stopped after the Dreamcast was released and Soul Calibur came on the market
I remember walking by an arcade and saw that there was a KI2 in there. I got so excited that I ran next door which happened to be a bookstore. Searched through all the game magazines and found a KI2 moves list. Looked up Saberwulf's ultra and ran back to the arcade. It was 50cents to play. I beat the game with that same 50cents. And THAT is my greatest accomplishment in my entire 36 years of life. I have a sad life
Bro, I love that story and it is an incredible accomplishment. I applaud you sir.
Lol I played killer instinct gold, but never played killer instinct 2. I have failed for eternity now.💀
Hahaha
Dude that’s awesome
You mean you had a great life*
USA: Everyone with a N64 played the hell out of KI Gold
UK: Released in 97' game was DOA
Well actually DOA released in 1996, but it did release on consoles (Saturn only) in Japan in 1997.
etrotm12 the Blue Wolf Well said!!
Ah that explains it. KI Gold was popular when it came out, here in Murka.
This
Yeah everyone I knew loved KI Gold and it's a well requested game for me when I sell ppl N64's here in the USA.
"Pre rendered sprites looked dated as hell on 64bit hardware"
Me seeing Orchid's ass: "Seems quite impressive to me!"
ha!
The people who complained about the combo system honestly probably didn't understand combo breakers. Lol
This
Tsk tsk, its called c-c-c-combo breaker
Nah they probably did the usual game jurno tradition of not even playing the game for more than five minutes before reviewing it.
@@darthplagueisthewise2157 BAR BAR!! I DONT WANT TO PLAY GAME< I WANT TO FIGHT?!!?!!?
I never thought of Killer Instinct Gold as dead on arrival. I played it about as much as I played Mortal Kombat and Tekken.
AirCooledMan2006 not even close to DOA. Problem is though, time hasn’t been kind to the series. At least the original ones like this.
Facts!
It was though. Even the said themselves that the whole reason the series went dormat because it sold far less than the SNES version did.
It's based on what's said in the video it's doa, weaker than arcade version, making it look dated compared to the better tekken 2 and virtual fighting. Sold bad which made it doa at the time
@bigevilworldwide1 I know a lot of people raved about the KI game on X1 but I think the piecemeal model (i.e. buying the game character by character) was a huge turnoff.
I think some also said the game felt like a huge departure from the originals (no fatalities/ultimate combos, street fighter 4-like cartoon graphics, gameplay engine) and it wasn't quite what they were expecting. I actually skipped the X1 this generation so I never got to play it myself, but watching gameplay vids didn't quite press the nostalgia button like loading KI and KI2 on MAME does.
I never followed up on it much so I wasn't aware that it sold poorly. That's a shame.
Dead on arrival? My friends and I played the heck out of this when it came out!
I think many with a n64 in America did.
We faked sickness to stay off school the day this game was unleashed.
This game was dead before it left the studio.
How many attractive fighting games were on the N64 when KI Gold got released..?? Fighting games that had the gore of a Mortal Kombat game and looked 'futuristic'..??
Got the feeling KI was the only one so yeah....no wonder it was played a lot because there was nothing better.
Same I always beat everyone ;D
KI Gold was the only game my parents gave me for the system, so I played the hell out of it. I'd organize tournaments with friends, did all the training modes, unlocked every character skin and extra stage and just kept going. I didn't put the game down until I got Starfox 64 one Christmas. Digging in my mind I still remember the Gargos unlock cheatcode: press ZARZAB on the gamepad I think.
It never really felt dated to me, though I do admit that wasn't a concept 13 year old me was concerned with at the time. Sure, the arcade version was crisper, had multiple endings and a higher frame rate, but I understood that you couldn't simply copy-paste everything from an arcade cabinet, there had to be cuts somewhere.
I do remember the cartridge being heavy though, like REALLY heavy compared to other games; always did wonder what was inside. My only real disappointment wasn't with the game itself, but with the lore building. Game manuals played a big part in this back in the day, setting the stage for the events of the game so developers could skim a little content off the top; the KIG manual basically read: "a bunch of fighters are gonna kick the crap out of each other and then fight a demon gargoyle".
Good times.
Would love to see more obscure 90's stuff like Cardinal Syn or Mace: The Dark Age covered.
Tyrant wow mace the dark age
I loved Mace. I was always the dwarf in the wooden robot.
He's gotta do Weaponlord on SNES, then. I'm still hoping for Hokuto no Ken from ArcSys to get covered.
@@TexasHollowEarth Weaponlord would be great too.
Great recommendation. Key word 'obscure', for folks like us
This channel is so underrated, you really do deliver a punch of content packaged in retro fighting game lore and I’m all for it! Keep up the brilliant work mr top hat
I love KI Gold. I put many, many hours into it as a kid. "Dead on Arrival" is definitely subjective in this case.
It was in the sense that it killed the franchise for many years. It's a fantastic game that was released in the worst context possible. Unfortunate really. I would have loved to see a Killer Instinct 3 from the same team
@@lajeandom Killer instinct was killed by Nintendo, because arcades died shortly after, and Nintendo was becoming a family name.
KI Gold was huge on the n64. Me and all my friends would always play this game. KI Gold, Clayfighters 63 1/3, Mace The Dark Ages, and MK Trilogy were a blast!
Killer Instinct Gold is still to this day one of my most favorite fighting games of all time! The music is easily memorable and who can forget "C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!"
Also please do Them's Fighting Herds next!
I remember a preview for this game in Nintendo Power, in which they claimed the game would be more like a MERGING of KI 1 & 2 in which you could have a match between characters from both games, and both versions of returning characters, a la MK Trilogy... A game in which you could pit Cinder vs Maya for example. Unfortunately that was never the actual plan or it got cut altogether.
Probably got cut for storage reasons. I remember that too. It wasn’t originally supposed to just be a port of KI2 for the home.
Nintendo is lucky they survived so many truly baffling and dumb decisions around the N64.
Such as? Don't even mention cartridges.
I thought most of their dumb choices turned out to add "charm" and distinction to the console in the end.
No wonder they lost the generation
Not really because despite being outsold massively by the PSone they still managed to have some of the best selling games of the generation so they more than turned a profit during that generation and with the success of Pokemon at the same time they were at no risk of needing to survive. People seem to be under the impression that a console selling less than another more mean that they still didn't turn a huge profit.
@@freddiejohnson6137 Not to mention that at the end of the day, we got some of the best games of all times and games that redefined entire genres such as Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye... Plus, even though cartridges was a decision that backfired on Nintendo's ability to secure partnership with third parties, it allowed games that wouldn't be possible in the same manner in CD rom, such as Ocarina of Time. If that was in CD.. we would have gotten a much different game.
Call me crazy, but I still find that Killer Instinct looks better than Killer Instinct 2 and Gold.
You're not crazy. I've always thought that.
No
I feel like the artwork and backgrounds really where more inspired on Killer Instinct 1 VS 2 or even Gold. Also the music seems to be more inspired too, not sure why but it feels that way to me also. Maybe they felt they had more to prove with 1 and with 2 and Gold they where just like "meh people will buy it on the name alone so why try too hard?"
That's a fact.
You're not crazy. I also think that the First Killer Instinct game (the arcade version) looks much better than KI 2 and Gold.
KI Gold is one of my favorite games ever. It had THE best training and tutorial mode of the era by a long shot. I wouldn't been into fighting games as much as I am without this release.
Everyone I know who had an N64 had this game reserved and went to buy it the day it was released. And with the Xbox One version of Killer Instinct, the game is so excellent that so many new people started playing it that never previously played the game.
I would love to see a Fighters Megamix for the Saturn history.
14:33 I can agree Gold's controls left a lot to be desired, but the SNES controller was Perfect for O.G. K.I.! :)
MK4 on 64 and MK Trilogy? I loved those.
I remember gettin this at a pawn shop as a kid. The cartridge stuck out to me and id seen the arcade cabinet at a pizza place my family frequented. My dad bought me the game and me and my younger brother stayed up playing for a solid 7 hours straight going back and forth until my thumbs were rubbed raw (that analog stick suuccckkkked) but god was it fun. I still hold a special place for it in my heart and recently dug out my N64 just to play it and kick my nephew around and show him how far fighters and games have come
13:26 wow, Gargos's mouth animation there is just *seamless*
Orchid jump-started certain feelings in me as a preteen. 🤣
I think she, alongside Chun-Li, did that with all of us.
@@beefiestsurprise269 Chun Li, definitely. My faves were the Sailor Scouts, Mars the most. 🤤
@@zaodedong9935 from sailor moon?
Sorry, I've never seen it
Yea she was pretty hot lol
Another great Vid, except for that "26yrs" line, that made me realise what and old sack of crap I am, Thanks
Me too! I was like 13 when that game came out.
Possibly a regional thing but this game was quite popular in North America.
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I used play both KI and KI2, when I was a small boy. Jago was always my favorite character, and the music on both games was great. I played the Killer Cuts soundtrack, almost as much as I played the games.
Loved how the announcer w0uld say Jago...”JAYgo”
Woyahhhh!
TUSK!!!!
Sad that this game was shat on at release cos it’s 2D, if it comes out today and is a competent arcade port no one would complain.
I'm so glad I found this channel. I love these elongated breakdowns and the presentations are crisp and exciting. Always quality from this channel. Mainly I love that he covers so many games a lot of people may not have heard of. In that vein Big Daddy Top Hat PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON WAR GODS!!! If not just to shed light on what seems like a largely unknown game, then please do it for my sanity! I KNOW this game existed and I played it in arcades, but me and my brother seem to be the only people I know who played it.
I actually loved Killer Instinct Gold back in the day, yet I never knew that you could actually play as Gargos. xD
Just got my MAME KI1&2 roms up and running... now it's like 1994 in my house!
They should have just ported the OG Killer Instinct to the N64 and made it work for the console
It was a shame that the original KI didn't come to the N64 also KI2 was apparently completed for the SNES but never released
I wish the n64 in Japan would have been release during its original launch date in late 1995.
I don’t think they could have even if they wanted to. The original KI used a hard drive for all FMV backgrounds, it would have been as compromised as KI Gold imo. Nintendo should have gone with CDs instead of cartridges but they liked their licensing revenue too much. KI was never going to run arcade perfect on Nintendo’s console hardware. The game wasn’t designed that way from the get go. A real arcade perfect port would have required that DD drive add on that never happened. Contrast that to Tekken and Virtua Fighter on PSX and Saturn, those games had pretty much arcade perfect ports on their respective systems.
@@apoclypse true, defitenly will be possible to do with CD, mini cd (including Minidisc) or even Floppy Disk (Superdisk, zip disk, or Hifd disk) as a primary (during its development) or add-on (a year or two into the n64 lifespand) media.
That’s the joke. The N64 COULDN’T run Killer Instinct. Just look at the very noticeable difference between KI 2 and KI Gold. It’s laughable.
@@Richterdgf the same with cruis'n usa and mortal kombat trilogy. Missing content due to using cart media.
god i love this channel so much, across the board. cover so many games and genres that i love. good shit dude.
Primal Rage doesnt get enough love.
It played well, but in the age of "next generation" when we had Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally and Tekken 2 in the home, it was a gimped arcade port with a lower resolution and tons of cut animation. That was not what we expected when we originally looked at the N64 with wonder!
The CG cutscenes was amazing in the arcade I felt cheated when I got the N64 version
I still play KI gold to be honest. This quarantine has allowed me to finish this game on master mode. :)
I've played KI since its inception and still play it from time to time even now.
The original Killer Instinct was always going to be a tough act to follow.
Having said that, I immensely enjoyed Killer Instinct Gold. The game 'flows' better for me than the original.
this is like hearing a story from a parallel universe. I remember this game being very popular.
maybe this happened only in the UK and it was a hit in the rest of the world?.
I had a blast with this game I enjoyed doing the combos with all the fighters
Can you look at Primal Rage🦍🔥🦖
Another solid video. The games that would really pique my interest would be more SNK titles: more Fatal Furys, King of Fighters, and Samurai Shodowns. Oh, and Darkstalkers 3 too.
I played this nonstop. Still one of my fav fighters of the past.
Great video as always. I actually can't think of any fighting games I'd want you to cover. I think you've covered all the ones I care about. But I do look forward to whatever one you decide to do next :D
There were other great fighting games on N64. Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Smash Bros 64, Fighters Destiny & BIO Freaks were all games I had a lot of fun playing at the time.
I have the N64 and Arcade versions of this game on my X Box One , it's a lot of fun
Killer Instinct Gold is legendary...the title theme used to get me so pumped as a kid. Nintendo Power sent a VHS months before the N64bcane out and it showcased Some upcoming games like Mario64, Mario Kart 64, StarFox 64, Pilot Wings and Killer Instinct Gold. I watched that thing hundreds of times and was so excited for N64 that for 2 days prior to it coming out I didn’t sleep at all. One of the coolest things was when I was in middle school and someone came into the classroom and told me my dad was there and for me to pack my stuff and head to the office..I was like wtf...when I got into his truck he wouldn’t tell me where we were going...then we pulled up to the mall and went into Walden Software...my wonderful father had already paid for the N64 in full along with the only games available at launch, Mario64 and Pilot Wings64...I lost my shit...I was the only i]kid in school with the N64 for a few months...pretty sure it was released in the fall and some kids got it for Christmas...was hard to get though...was sold out everywhere...then Shadows of the Empire, the Mario Kart64...StarFox64....man I wish I had a time machine
Love the coverage of fighting games, I watch these every week as soon as I get home from work. I would be intrigued to see a video on Battle Arena Toshinden, as though it hasn’t aged well at all, it was the game that convinced me to get a PSX back in the day. Regardless though, great work.
I felt the same way about the game. It prompted me to get the system & was super impressive, for its time.
Prerendered sprites were all the rage in 94 - 96 but the bloom came off that rose. Especially with the technology making everything look like shiny plastic or clay. Rare’s character designs are pretty good though
Ki 1 was so great, at the time we couldn't tell if it was CGi or what, it was astonishing in the Arcade, and to think the N64 games could look like that was just crazy...i liked Ki gold. Its still great.
Me and my friends played the hell out of this game. I played this as much as I played Tekken 3, MK4, MK3, Super SF2,and X-men vs. Street fighter.
What's funny is around when it finally dropped on console, in arcades it was games like Street Fighter 3 Alpha (in particular A3's V-Ism), X-Men vs Street Fighter and Vampire Savior that had similar combo systems with just as fast or faster gameplay.
Mortal Kombat Trilogy on the 64 was better than KI Gold. That being said, do a video on MK Trilogy!
MK Trilogy on N64 was trash compared to the PlayStation version.
@@MoetChandonHollywoodlifestyles facts, but still better than Gold
The drugs in this thread are too strong. Hopeless.
Trilogy the best Fighting game ever hands down
It definitely wasn’t dude
I can’t believe the quality of this video and how much information you incorporated. Mad props. If I had one suggestion it would be to breathe! You are talking at the end of functional lung capacity and can tell by your voice. Quibbles aside, Keep up the good work!
Damn, you got a N64 with 4 games for Christmas? Either your parents are rich or they just loved you more than mine did me.
I had it day one...I grew up lower middle class in Baltimore...I guess your parents hated you....jk dude...or am I?....I am.......or....
I got an n64 and mario 64 the day it came out. The only reason I didn't get any other games was because it only launched with 2 games, and it was a surprise gift from my father. I'm pretty sure he looked at mario 64, and then pilot wings and thought pilot wings looked dumb.😆 Rented it later on anyway. It definitely wasn't mario 64.
In 97 my ma got me two games shadows of the empire and Mario kart. A few months later my gma got me Mario 64 she used to take me to rent games every weekend she bought me all the rest of my n64 games she was the best I really miss her
The best traditional fighter on the N64 eh? I think Mortal Kombat Trilogy would like to have a word with you. Mortal Kombat 4 as well really.
4 was literally the worst in the series
@@bort_hill No, deception was the worst. A mortal kombat with fake fatalities.
6:18 the man behind my favourite weapon: KLOBB
Nintendo 64: When Nintendo had won the console wars, and then handed over the next generation to Sony on a CD-ROM lacking platter!
When did that happen? 🤔
Matt Kennedy Nintendo’s choice to go cartridge on the 64 put it at a disadvantage behind the PlayStation. As we saw in this video content had to be scaled back due to size limitations, not processing power.
Tim D. I read that wrong. You’re right
Matt Kennedy I never forgave Nintendo for that! A year after getting my 64 I sold my it to Gamestop and bought a PlayStation. I never bought a Nintendo console again until I had kids.
They tried to rectify that by developing the *64DD* add-on.
But then THAT ended up getting canceled!
:|
Come on man you been avoiding Tekken for like a year now time to rip the Band-Aid off lol
A game reviewer reviewing tekken is like a drink reviewer reviewing water. He'll get to it, but it will be super generic when he does.
Please do a Killer Instinct 2013 history and call it “The Redemption “
Auto combos don't belong in fighting games. It was a gimmick to try and stand out from the other fighters at the time. The newest KI entry decided it would be cool to bring them back. It feels even more gimmicky when you compare it to games like Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd and other competitive fighters. I guess Dragon Ball FighterZ has a bit of the "auto combos" but it's precisely why I think of that game as a casual fighter and not a competitive one.
Charles Garcia shut up no one asked you.
The critics arguing that Tekken looked better than K.I. were pretty much wrong.
They must have been blinded by the flashy-ness of 3-d models, because back in that time era, 3-d models looked horrible, while 2-d sprite models, rendered in 3-d backdrops, looked damn impressive.
funny how KI gold has aged WAY BETTER than tekken 2
WOW! Sir Top Hat, that´s a huge list of Patreons! Congratulations!
This game deserved a big big competitive scene, would love to see it pushed to its limits
1:34 You showed Time Killers. I loved that game. I have it on an emulator now. I never hear anyone talk about it.
... & its follow-up, Bloodstorm.
man i ran into your vids after seeing your rescuepalooza review, which I am a big fan of. Haha your content is brilliant cheers.
It is still the greatest N64 fighting game ever, one of the best from its generation, the only true reason why this game was ignored back in the day was the 3D fighting game trend, ironic, every one trash talks the N64 because of its trend to have only 3D games in comparison with the 2D games the Saturn or Playstation had and one of its greatest 2D games was ignored because of Tekken and Virtua Fighter... Incredible video as always, please make another one for KI on the Xbox One
Fabulous, mate 🎩!
It's strange how things change. Back in the day, the N64 was berated for having a very poor selection of racing games. Where the Playstation had Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo and Need for Speed, the N64 only had kart racers. Fast forward 20 years and I watch a video about whether one should collect for the system or not and suddenly it's highly recommended for its broad range of high quality racing games in particular.
Just wanted to say that ki and ki2 are 2 of my favorite games when it comes to soundtracks. I think it's really easy to overlook the music since video games are such a visual medium, but yeah both those games have a few tracks each that I think are still pretty good.
I'd like to see a video about Cosmic Carnage or Primal Rage.
I remember as a child going to the corner store and having pizza and playing the hell out of this at the arcade and then console.
I have a game you should check out and possibly do a video on. This game was also on the N64, and I feel like it's a hidden gem. It's called Fighters Destiny. That game was more closer to Tekken than SF in term of fighting games. Even though it was a bit clunky, it also was the ONLY fighting game I ever played back in the day that was fun af on the N64 and kinda went in a different direction and broke the traditions of round based play and also added a point based system to progress through the rounds. They even had a judgement system when there was a time out, and you won based on how you fought in the match instead how much life was left. I feel like if that series came back, was modernized, given to the right hands, AND had GGPO netcode. I feel like it would kill in today's fighting game market.
I always thought killer instincts was a good mix of both street fighter and mortal kombat more fluid of a fighter than the earlier mortal kombat games but keeps a pace and good combo system like street fighter.... Ps I'd love a gaming sesh with this guy.... Thanks for the vid top hat
I got a vhs tape of donkey kong country preview as a kid in the mail. If you let the tape play for an extra minute at the end you would see a sneak peak to killer instinct on the ultra 64.
I remember getting this for either my birthday or Christmas and my friends and I spending hours every day playing it! I remember the first time I did an Ultra Combo (I think that’s what it was called) where I entered the combo and then tossed the controller down like a gangsta while my character did like a 20 or 40 hit combo on screen! My friends were just blown away! I got an 64 for Christmas of 1996 and besides Mario I believe I also got “Killer Instinct Gold” also. While I loved the first game, “KI: Gold” just didn’t grab me the way the SNES game did.
Lol you put the pad down, luckily they didn't know to break out with the super move, unless you locked the ultra combo with your own super move
Excellent as always!! Could it be possible that you may consider doing a check on Weaponlord?
Definitely needed 👍. Great lore & gore!
I loved Weaponlord with friends but the AI was just brutally tough with no let-up.
@@DangerKennyB yeah, I tried the game a couple of years ago and I was absolutely destroyed, even in the easiest settings. I just think it is a nice story to bring up as in the end many of its concepts would be used in the Soul Calibur series
Great info, great detail. Much appreciated....
Orchid was so hot. I loved it KIG. Fulgore was my dude
I loved this game. I remember I wore out so many analog sticks playing this game.
I loved Killer Instinct Gold for the Nintendo 64 (and Arcade), however it was KI2 that was still my favorite in the series. I still wished that there was an N64 (enhanced) port.
I like the Super Nintendo effort, but an N64 version would’ve been much closer to the arcade experience.
I still imagine what the Nintendo 3DS library would have looked like with RARE onboard; Enhanced ports & new IP’s.
Thas why you need an xbox
Buy the Rare greatest hits
To this day i still cant pull off a decent KI combo 😪
@@BZARGUY true but I'm k.i. 1 cinder was so player friendly and easy combos they had to nerf him and eventually remove him for k.i. 2. If spam forward forward punch and button mash with him you'd look like a pro lol
@@gcforreal Yeah Dash combos I remember Thoes! You could also do this with Spinal! Keep Dashing, MP, MK, HP! Instant sweet looking and satisfying Combo! :)
Me and my friends played this game like crazy. On weekends we would stay up til 5 am. None of us couldn’t afford a PlayStation or a Saturn so this was the only fighter we could play besides mk trilogy
The sound track was 🔥
When both Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct Gold were released, I never played either of the arcade machines as they were not in any of the local arcades at the time. Given that fact, I didn't have anything to compare the home console versions to. I had the first one on my SNES and I really enjoyed it. I bought KI Gold with my N64 back in 1996 and enjoyed that version despite its alterations and flaws. It was a great game for as long as I had it. Unfortunately, my copy for whatever reason decided to stop functioning. It was dead. I would have liked to know why it died on me, but I threw it away before I found out.
That is tragic 😱 I've never known any of my 64 stuff to stop working
I loved that on the N64. We had tournaments at Miicroplay featuring it was lots of fun.
See , I still love those long combo sequences, it's much better than the overly reliant on juggle combo systems used today to pull off long combos.
This game was never dead to me. Loved it ever since i played my very first match back at the Bronx arcade good times. But it's upsetting that they couldn't find a way to make the home version as good as the arcade version
I loved KI Gold! One of my favourite games of the era, and it made me really love having an N64.
I rented this as a kid... loved it!
Ooh, a video on the two Fighter’s Destiny games!
I'm new to this channel, so if you haven't already, I'd love to see you tackle the Virtual Boy. Ahhhhhh, the memories
Killer Instinct died when Orchid put pants on
This was legit the first and only game I got at launch. (Got my console for Xmas) Also the first time I stayed up until dawn to play a video game. KI Gold for life
Since I was sure the N64 controller was a bad deal for fighting games I only rented KIG on a local video store for a weekend. The game was ok for a brief moment
The SNES version of Killer Instinct was INSANELY popular during the late SNES days. I remember being bummed as a kid because I didn't like fighting games and that's all my friends wanted to play when I visited their home, and they only talked about Killer Instinct in the schoolyard. Looking back at it, it's unbelievable that Rare and Nintendo managed to tank this golden child of an IP down to complete insignificance within a few years. What a train wreck.
This was prolly one of my most played games on the N64 if not the most played one. I loved it! I did wish the original one was ported to the N64 tho too (as an arcade truthfully port)
mk4 on the n64 was a 3d fighter
Did it have exclusive fighters? The PS1 version had Goro & Meat, I believe.
I don't know a single person during that era who complained about this game. I respectfully disagree. This was one of the most prominent and widely played games on N64 in the United States.
In this 2020 I got KI Gold for my N64, the gameplay is a great advanced in it's day, you can make throw, Juggle combos, Counters & you can extended Ultra Combos with of special bar, obviously this game no wasn't like KI 2 Arcade ( Cruisin USA have similar problem) but I play this game today, is so awesomee like its time!