I remember the first time I ventured into Max difficulty, thinking I was the shit. It was a slow process, but I was owning ass until I got to battle 8. I was fightin' the one and only, the ninja specter, Scorpion.
Oh, I remember it like it was yesterday.
I felt like a stingy hooker on the wrong end of her pimp's brass knuckles. As Scorpion bitch-slapped my ass to China and Cuba at the same time, all I could think about is where the ass owning potential I had before went all of a sudden.
Each continue the anxiety I would feel was on the level it would be if I had grabbed a police officer's ass just 5 seconds ago.
At first I was taking it calmly, trying to reformat my strategies, but it didn't take long before I was back to my primitive method: Yelling at the screen.
You should have heard my curses, as they ranged from blind rage to plain nonsense;

"Do something, you dumb sonofabitch! Stop lettin' 'im whup ya' ass! STOP LETTIN' 'IM WHUP YA' ASS!"

"Bastard, if you don't move 'yo 3 dollar ass, that muh-fuka gon' make change like Lennox Lewis did to Mike Tyson!"

"Tell me, what is your problem? You've gotten your ass beaten so much that a prison bitch would pity you! Is it work related stress? Ya' not getting any ass at home?"

So after this went on for about another 15 minutes, I decided to switch from Sub-Zero to Raiden. It was a rough trial, but when I won the match, I nearly cried in joy.

Then soon after, I learned of the memory card cheat (I have the PS2 MKDA), and all purpose seemed to fade away....

There is another story that pissed me off. When I brought this game over to my cousin's house, and him and another cousin were playing it at the same time, marveling at the graphics and stuff, they were asking where Liu Kang was every time their Character Select cursor went onto another person.
Being the 'party pooper' that I am, I felt obligated to let them see the intro to the game to find out themselves.
There was a problem though. The intro wouldn't show, no matter what we tried to do. They kept wanting to know, so I had to break the news to them and ruin my own damn surprise: Liu was dead. If you think this is what pissed me off the most, I later found out that the intro wouldn't play because a second controller was in the PS2. We tried every damn thing save for taking the damn controller out.