This is my first post and I've had quite a bit of fun reading the stuff written by people that seem to appreciate the classic MK games like I do.
I grew up outside of Chicago near Glenview where Ed Boon was based and my neighborhood was one of few official testing spots for the MK games. I was lucky enough to play MK 1 and MK 2 in their different test phases and it was so unbelievably fun!
Anyway, enough of the backstory. This may sound funny to some of you but one of the reasons I love MK 1 so much is becuase of the awesome glitches. I've never seen a true comprehensive listing before (there's usually a few here and few there) so let's get a list going of all MK 1 glitches!
**PLEASE NOTE: I'M ONLY INTERESTED IN ARCADE GLITCHES AND NOT SNES/GENESIS ONES**
I'll start off with my favorite of all time which, unfortunately, was not in the test version of MK that I played at E3. Instead of throwing Kano just falls down and dies. I hope they change it back!
Kano death/throw glitch
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This works on any Kano right but is much more fun when you do it in an endurance match. Basically, fight Kano until he's down to "danger" level. Get him to do his ball move (uppercutting from a safe distance will almost always cause him to do it) and block the ball. As he's coming down from it, hold forward and start pressing low punch as he's at about waist height. If you do this correctly, you will hear the "ow" sound effect knowing that he got hit but instead of dying Kano will duck your low punches! If you continue to low punch he will continue to duck until time runs out or you go into your winning stance. If you stop punching, however, Kano will stand up and throw you before falling down dead!
Here's the fun part: do this during an endurance match and the 2nd player will jump in while you're still low punching over Kano! The possibilities are literally endless and depending your your timing and what moves you/they do the screen can look very chaotic!
My favorite was with Sonya. I had very little energy left and I was punching over Kano when Raiden jumped in. I let Kano throw me but in midair I did the leg throw move and grabbed Raiden off the ground! The thing is, the throw killed me when I hit the ground and Raiden got slammed to an invisible patch of ground in midair then stood up and did his victory stance in midair! It was hilarious...
I seriously hope they put this in the MK game in the collection. Like I said before, Kano doesn't throw you and that takes the whole fun out of it. If anyone from the MK team is reading this please put it in!
OK, now it's everyone else's turn. Post up your best glitches! I'll add more later :)
KM
