Killer Instinct Series

Well, for some reason me and my friends started playing these games a few days ago, out of boredom I guess, anyways, they're still a blast to play.

Was anyone else into these games back in the day.

Also, there's lots of rumors that there may be a KI3 coming to Xbox 360, which is very exciting to me, seeing as I was a huge fanatic of the other two games.

I didnt 'really' get into it until the release of KI64.. that was great stuff 😄 "Endo-kyu~ ken!"

I was shitting myself over the original, I still remember the day it came out, my family and I were going on a vacation, and I made them bring my Super Nintendo and stop off at Toys R Us to get the game, best vacation I can remember.

Hahah.

I wouldnt be surpraised if it does come out on the 360 considering Rare is owned by MS.
But it will take forever to released though.

I used to have Killer Instinct on Super Nintendo. I never knew KI was under RARE aswell. Btw, was the Killer Instinct on N64 any good?

i love the original KI droolio

the characters were great, but i remember the skeleton character had this cheap combo move which made the game kinda easy to win on a few difficulty levels.

Anyone play the Arcade version, it was cool because in the intro it read,"Ultra 64", i guess since the N64 was originally supposed to be called Ultra 64.

Yeah, I was really into both KI games in the arcade, I remember that logo. Good stuff.

If they made a 3rd one I'd buy a 360 just to play it.

I loved Killer Instinct.

The only character I was only ever truly skilled with was Fulgore (the big robot Wolverine dude on the front of the box). I could pull off some INSANE combo's (weren't they called "Ultimate" combos?) with him.

He had the best finishing move. His whole upper torso turned into a small army fortification, and just shot the opposition to sh*t.

I can remember the characters somewhat. I'd like to know what some of the characters are.

Fulgore -> Robot Wolverine
Galcius -> Ice Blob T-1000 dude
Cynder -> Human Torch dude
Eyedol -> Big boss green thing hard as grilled steak
Sabrewulf -> Werewolf dude inspired by the old Sabrewulf game
Riptor -> Velociraptor straight outta Jurassic Park
B. Orchid -> Woman with nightsticks.
?????????? -> A Balrog type boxer dude
?????????? -> Skeleton dude from Jason and The Argonauts
Thunder -> Tomahawk wielding mohawk man.

My mind is going. I can remember a few names but I can't remember them all. Would appreciate someone fillin' in the blanks.

KI Gold got rid of some cool characters and brought in utter crap fighters like Tusk and stuff - why? They were so generic.

Wasnt there a ninja dude?

Jago was the ninja guy
Sabrewulf was the werewolf
Eyedol was the last boss, he was an ogre
Riptor was 1/2 dinosaur, 1/2 human
Fulgore was the robot prototype
Glacius was the ice ailen
Cinder was the criminal of fire
Spinal was the skeleton warrior
Orchid was the agent.
Thunder was an Indian warrior
Combo was the boxer
Ultras were combos that were 20 or more hits as a finisher
ultimates were combos with a fatality at the end.

Combo breakers BROKE the combos

Combo listing:
3 triple combo
4 super combo
5 hyper combo
6 brutal combo
7 master combo
8 awesome combo
9 blaster up combo
10 monster combo
11 king combo
12 and up : killer combo
ultra and ultimates are finishers, no glich combos were around 40 hits, except with orchid.
Glich combos were infinite

My favorite characters were Sabrewulf and Eyedol, I also liked fulgore, glacius, spinal, cinder, and jago sometimes, and a little riptor to throw my opponents off.

http://kattuggla.oru.se/dmd01/dm0103/test/showgame2.asp?cGame=Killer+Instinct&sortering=ASC

I love sabrewulf....

Anyone played the N64 version?

JAGO! That's the guy! He was a little harder to cntrol, but he had a wicked uppercut where he'd whip out his sword and ninja-slce you up ten feet up. Cool. Man I knew I was mising someone! Ah Combo and Spinal! I knew their names had something descriptive about who they were, but couldn't put my name on it.

With Spinal I was like: "Skeletor? No thats taken. Skulldude? Too Ninja Turtles. Spiker? Too Mortal Kombat. DAMMIT!"

As for Combo - what a garlingly obvious name. It's actually a really, REALLY crap name now that I think about it. That's like calling a Mortal Kombat character "Fatality" or better yet "Toasty" lol.

Cheers for the info Cordera.

NP, I liked that game, with sabrewulf's double roll, or Eyedol's stomp.

Anyway Combo was a dumb name, who would name their kid that?

I missed using Cinder's incredibly cheap and easy-to-pull-off combo.

The forward-forward punch punch punch punch Lame Combo Of All Time?

Fireball, ppunch, fireball, punch kick uppercut was the result. Barely any room to break it. Get stuck a corner, you dead.

Originally posted by DarkC
I missed using Cinder's incredibly cheap and easy-to-pull-off combo.

That was easy to break IMO, spinal was better in the hands of a master...

Originally posted by BackFire
Well, for some reason me and my friends started playing these games a few days ago, out of boredom I guess, anyways, they're still a blast to play.

Was anyone else into these games back in the day.

Also, there's lots of rumors that there may be a KI3 coming to Xbox 360, which is very exciting to me, seeing as I was a huge fanatic of the other two games.

I used to have this game for SNES. Cinder had the easiest combos in the game.