Never heard of the game until MKD came out....

I was seven at the time. "Cool!" *Inserts 2 tokens into MK4 arcade machine* And then, I got MK1-UMK3 on SNES and didn't enjoy as much as today. I played MKT with my cousins and I wasn't impressed with it much. Then, I played MK4 on N64 and became disgusted. MKM:SZ, I didn't play it until I downloaded an emulator a few months ago (Yes, I am wierd, a girl who enjoys playing emulated games) I played MKDA and MKD on PS2 with a few of my friends. I still have them for GC. I am now looking forward to MK:Armageddon.

Before it came out I was at the local video store and the guy was telling my mom that this game was coming out that was causing a commotion because it was so violent and it had realistic characters and everything. I remember it peaking my interest a bunch. But then I got to play it in the form of MK1 for Genesis and that turned me away from the series for a couple of years. Man was it bad.

I didn't know about it. My dad bought me MK3 for my birthday.

It's hard to remember my verry first thoughts. I do remember renting the genesis ports around age 5. Looking back, I'm suprised my folks let me because to this day they don't even let me watch wrestling. My first memory was making my parents take me back to blockbuster because they put MKII in the MK3 case. So the earliest feelings I had were of anger.

Shit, I don't know.

Don't know, really. All I remember was waking up on my fifth birthday with a brand new Genesis with a cartridge in it stamped with "Mortal Kombat," so I played.

I was about ten when I saw it on the news, I figured, big deal, who the heck rips spines out like that anyways, then nintendo power had it in there mag (I was a subscriber for years) and I figured, meh fighting game, but kinda cool ideas, when four came out I figured it was over, then I played da with some friends, and loved it, especially reptile, then saw mkd, eep evil thundergod, did some web surfing and here I am today

My friend and I saw it in an arcade on a field trip and I think we heard the sounds, went over and saw the attract video or whatever it's called and saw the Pit Fatality. "Wow, that's cool" cue mad dash to throw money into slots - probably the scene worldwide when it first came out.

I know I have typed this story many times before on this site...

I heard about MK1 from this guy Mike I hung out with from time to time. He was always on the pulse of anything new coming out for gaming, he had older brothers who were also into gaming so they always had a bunch of gaming systems in their animal house. So I'm at my house waiting for him and my other friend Steve to come over, they start telling about this game that just came out, better than Street Fighter, real people, blood, finishing moves, etc, going on and on about Raiden and Goro, and how Liu Kang was like Bruce Lee. I didn't get to play it until MK1 came out for the home systems and my first experience with it was on Genesis. I thought "Wow this game is terrible." I would go over their houses and play it still, but it was just a really, really, bad game, and I eventually went back to SF. I decided to rent MK1 for SNES one day and that's when I realized the Genesis version was just simply horrific, and I assumed the arcade version was like it as well. Eventually I played the arcade version at a laundry mat and I just wasn't impressed with it at all. It wasn't until MKII came out that I really got into MK. I was at a video store, which was the Mecca for a group of us in terms of MK, because they had MKII, then MK3, and eventually UMK3. I was renting SSF2 for SNES, and I heard the Fatalitiy noise, turned around, and some guy knocked Jax off the Pit II, at the time this sort of thing was enough to get me to try the game, but I didn't get to right then and there. When MKII came out on SNES I got it right away and I was very happy with it and even at this point I understood the limits of SNES and Genesis and that the games couldn't be perfect. MK3 was a big disappointment on SNES for me, but it was at West Coast Video, right across the street from my house where I could, and did play it, against a lot of people, everyday. It was an epiphany, MK for me, didn't really get started until MK3 even though I was well versed in the first two at the time.

I remember in 96 i was 10 and i went into the arcade and played mk3, scorpion was my man and havent stopped playing it since. I remember i saw the blood and my eyes just lit up lol. After that I went home and got mk1 and 2 on super nintendo and was hooked, and have been ever since.

First time I saw and played it I thought " This is hard! " but once I learned the moves (( Mostly Liu Kangs )) it was a breeze!

I was 5 or 6 when I played Time Killers at the arcade when my parents weren't looking. I became obsessed with fighting games after that and played MKII once or twice around that time. I didn't really get into it until I was 7 or 8 when my friend had the SNES MK1 and MK3 games and I'd go over and play them for hours.

I remember being little and seeing my uncle playing this game for his Super Nintendo. He was being a green ninja and he was fighting a blue ninja. I asked if I could play and he screamed NO! Not long after that, he got MKT for PSX. I played it. Now, I'm a huge fan.

renting mk 1 when i was 4. made an impact on me. loved to sit and play umk3 all day and all the other ones. good times. but there gone now since everything mk from mk4-up sucks

Well at my friends house my parents didnt want me playing Mk but he had Trilogy and I would play it there-I was like 5 or 6 at the time. Then when we moved at one of the pizza places there was a MK4 arcade machine(its still there) and I always played that when I was there(and still do now). Then I gave up on Mk for a while and started playing Tekken. After I saw a commerical for Mkd I bought it and started playing it and now im a huge fan! That's pretty much my gaming history. Now I also play Soul Calibur, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, and Dead or Alive and those are just the fighting games.

I've never actually "heard" of MK...I beared witness to it the first week of it's inception (ever) at the mall. After that it literally took the city by storm. I was swept up mercilessly in that huge wave of controversy and EVERYTHING. At the pool hall, no matter WHAT genre you fit into: Geek, Jock, Gangsta, Stoner, Skater, whatever...you immediatly bonded with the guys when MK was in the mix.

MK2 thru 4 was a different story though haha "Oh MKII is out and blah blah blah" and "this place has got MK4 now and yadda yadda yadda"

And for those games it was like eagerly awaiting xmas morning...and in most situations a pleasant surprise =) ESP. for MKII