I have all of those also
you know your a veteran and a hardcore fan when
1.You have Reptile as you computer cursor
2.Sold all your old games except form MK1-2 and kept your sega
3.Throw a plastic knife screaming Die Somya or Im Kano(This one only applies to if you were young like me in '92

BINGO!

You have at least one copy of each MK game.

... That'd be me.

You yell "GET OVER HERE!" when you wish for someone to come your way. (BONUS POINTS if you do the roped kunai-throwing action as well).

...That's me, too.

Whenever you hear a common word that's also an MK character name (i.e. Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Smoke, et cetera), you say it in Shao Kahn's voice (sometimes also following it with "...Wins..." plus your chosen finishing move.

...Man... I'm such an MK nerd.

You have a nickname for pretty much every character.

Heino vs Smog. Winner fights Johnny Raje.

you know what a shaun attack, watchdog, and kano transformation is.

you remember getting pissed off when the asshole used the mk2 sub fatality ice during the match.

making the living forest looked like it burnt down by doing mulitple babalities.

you know how many point a dbl flawless victory gave you in mk1.

you havent played mk3 in 10 yrs, but still remember the dial combos.

you did the coin slide across the glass trick, when u put your quarter up.

you know every side art for each cabinet.

and you still swear kabal says nigga nigga when he throws in mk3.

I think you mean Kung Lao. I think he says liggy ahhh liggy!

You remember who I am. ;) [Seriously, ask the old old old veterans]

So true. Glad to see you still here Jenn.

Anyways, You know you're an MK vet when you are sick of thread like this one!

wow, now thats an old skool quote. i havent seen that one in yrs, i remember seeing ur sig back in the mk3 days, when u had all female fighters, just cant remember where.. did you have anything to do with fighters-edge???

You still like to say "Sub Zero" in the old annoucer voice from MK1 and laugh about it.

You say toasty whenever you can.

You have a girlfriend that ́s more pissed off than you about Motaro ́s missing legs!

That ́d be me!

when you laugh at those lame ass easter eggs like the subway sign (laughs..)

>wow, now thats an old skool quote. i havent seen that one in yrs, i
>remember seeing ur sig back in the mk3 days, when u had all female
>fighters, just cant remember where.. did you have anything to do with
>fighters-edge???

Nah, I was in an old Usenet Newsgroup called alt.games.mk. Spent a lot of time in there in the mid to late 90s. The sig you're thinking about is prolly the one at hte bottom of this article:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.mortal-kombat/msg/63ee8630f058aefe?dmode=source

I don't post much anymore. The new MK games are too Tekken-y for me, and while they look nice, they're not just MK for me anymore, you know? I bought MK:DA and gave it a good try, but I just didn't like it. I only got MK:D for the MK1 pack in, which got more play than MK:D. Not saying that the new MKs have gone bad, just not my cup of tea anymore.

ok, thats where it was.

When you remember how to do every combo and every fatality in MK history.

drawing MK stages and characters in school when you were younger.

Play fighting outside with your childhood friends and fighting over who's going to be Scorpion and Sub-Zero and some of you end up doing-Rock-Paper-Spear. lol

Ahhh the good ol days.

When you played Mortal Kombat II so long so as when you fight Jade, and she pops up and give you a hint on how 2 find her and she is right in front of you ready to fight

I do the same thing.

Raje: to be pronounced - rah-hey.

You know you're a Mortal Kombat veteran when...

...people around the entire world hate you and want to beat you in an MK game.

you spend every moment playing any MK game, you are getting MK Armrgeddon just because of old sk00l charecters, you were banned from the MK machine at the local arcade for kicking the shit out of it when you lose to Shao Khan, you can imitate the war grunts of any MK character, you remember when it was Noob Saibot and not Noob, you go to Wikipedia just to study MK.

i do all that and more.

you know your an mk nerd/veteran when uve gone the extremes and written down vs arcade progress reports with each charcater compiling bar charts and graphs, very sad but i did do that.

still have your my favourite characters from my favourute beat em ups list written 10 years ago. with updates on the edge of the paper.

have a collection of complete games films and series soundtacks and malibu comics.

have broken a friends toe trying to do johnny cages shadow uppercut only to come crashing down stamping on his feet..lol

have turned smackdown vs raw into smackdown and raw vs mortal kombat and streetfighter.

When u still hold a grudge against the first computer controlled character to do a fatality on yah, Sub-zero i'll never forgive you never..

when you was argueing with your pals about who got to use which female character on mk2. " No i dont want jade she a secret character i cant actually pick her" " well ive got millena and he's got kitana so there's only jade left and your the youngest so u'll have to have her"

when ur still up at 4.10 in the morning going on about it in a forum.

You know it when you call it quits on a night of gaming with some friends and step outside to laugh at people starting their morning commute.

Every summer night from 1996-1999 for us. lol