It all started back around 1992, I was some were between 5 and 6 years old. I remember playing in a basement with my friends and going to there room, witch was also located in the basement. The set up of the room was simple. A bed in the middle with the head board pressed up against the wall and a little TV on a table at the foot of the bed. This person , whom I have long forgotten who, had a super Nintendo video game system. More importantly to this story they had Mortal Kombat 1. This was the first time I played the game and I remember laying on my stomach at the foot of the bed playing Mortal Kombat for what seemed like hours. After that I was hooked.

I recall My brother having Ultimate Mortal kombat 3 for the SNES (Super Nintendo) and knowing all the cheat codes, and I would always play as Scorpion (the Yellow Ninja of the game). However it is just a faint memory. At some point we must have lost the game, for I have no idea were it is now.

Here is a quick accumulation of memories before the story gets a bit closer to my age now, when I can remember things clearly

When I was young I would try and get any Mortal Kombat I could. I would Drive down with my parents to Louisiana from Missouri and play Mortal Kombat with my cousins on there Play station. They had Mortal Kombat Trilogy, witch was were I first got a chance to see my favorite boss character Kintaro (a four armed hybrid of Dragon, Tiger, and human). They also had Mortal Kombat 4, witch was the first Mortal Kombat to be rendered in 3D.

My family when to a Country Club of sorts called "Lost Valley Lake" and there they had my favorite game in its original Arcade format, Mortal Kombat 2!

I can recall as a child dressing like Raiden for Halloween and no one knowing who I was. I also recall making a Scorpion outfit out of fabrics as a child too.

When I was not playing Mortal Kombat I would go on line and study about it, witch is why my knowledge of the games story far surpasses my actual skill in the game.

It was because of the Mortal Kombat 1 movie that I started martial arts, now I am a certified self defense teacher.

My mother would take me to Toy's R Us to get Mortal Kombat action figures that my older brother eventually burned in some Bottle rocket game

My dad took me to the Mortal Kombat Live Tour, witch was a MK based play and I purchased a Mortal Kombat hat that I would use as a mitt when I played catch with my friends. There I also got some miniature Mortal Kombat Action figures that I tied thread to and made them into puppets.

Then I moved to Mississippi around the age of 10. Some were in the move I happened upon a Mortal Kombat 1 cartridge for the original Game Boy. I believe I made a trade with a friend to actually get a Game Boy to play the game on.

My father also took me to the Mortal Kombat Armageddon Movie , witch started me in traveling my doing summersaults through the house ( I was pretending to be a warp ball). I recall seeing the commercial for this movie on TV and getting so excited and my sister would poke fun at me about it.

On one particular trip to Louisiana to see my cousins, I played Mortal Kombat (Game boy) the whole way there in hopes of finally beating them at the game. . .They still kicked my butt. However it was there that I read about Mortal Kombat 2 on the game boy and heard about the up coming Fifth Mortal Kombat Game! When I got home I ordered Mortal Kombat 2 for the Game Boy. I still play that cartridge to this day.


Now this Is about the time when I actually started to take this game seriously.

My brother down loaded a program to illegally down load information. I got on and, using a dial up connection, downloaded Mortal Kombat 4! I was so happy, The game did not have the music or the ending videos, but the game play was still there! Me and my best friend Ross played shoulder to shoulder using the Lap top key board for months. Until Ross found out about ROMs (a way to down load any game for any system to your computer. ) Needless to say I downloaded all the Mortal Kombat's on every system ever. It was a whole summer's worth of downloading to do it.

At some point during that summer my family went to Lost Valley Lake again, and I got a chance to play Mortal Kombat 2 in the Arcade once more. I could not get past the first guy!!! This is what got me thinking about arcades. See I was so use to playing on a key board that I could not play the arcade (the original and best format for Mortal Kombat)

I later found a company that made Arcade perfect remotes that hooked up to any system , X-Arcade. It was $200 for a single remote! I worked for my mother for 2 weeks, doing every thing she did around the house to earn the cash for it. But I got it.

And when I went back to Lost Valley Lake the next year I did much better against my old Arcade friend.

So Things began to roll quickly and I started keeping up with Mortal Kombat News on a web sight Mortalkombatonline.com. witch replaced my old news source " Scorpionsrealm.net" when it shut down. This meant I would get the new Mortal Kombat games the day they came out. My first, legally purchased Mortal Kombat Game was Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance for the game cube. I remember falling over the bushes in my front yard to get to my room to play it with my new best friend Chris. I remember Chris was awesome at the Konqwest Mode of the game (a part of the game that would teach you how to kick ass in the arcade and Versus mode).

I played that game every chance I was not doing Martial arts in my garage or going to school. All of my note books were filled with Drawings in the margins of the paper of things I saw in the game!


It was pretty much the same story when Mortal Kombat Deception came out. Around this time me and Chris's friendship was waning. I accepted a challenge from some kid (Blake) at school to play him in Mortal kombat Deception. His house had a big projection screen that made the Mortal Kombat characters life size! Now I had never played on line games before, and he had. There for he kicked my butt bad! This was were I developed what I called Arcade Rules. It was simply a set of rules to keep cheep players who would do the same move over and over from doing so. I explained to Blake that on line you can do that because the other person can't do anything about it. However in the arcade, I am right next to you, and if you play cheep, I can punch you in the face. He agreed, thinking it was fair and made the game much more fun to play. I loved playing Blake, he was awesome at the game and made me work hard to beat him. I got to the point were I was just a bit better then him, witch was nice.

Him and I eventually made a tradition we called "fatality Fridays" when we would get together on Fridays and play mortal kombat with friends! It was the best. The last Fatality Friday we had, we all made Mortal kombat outfits out of duct tape and made cheesy Mortal Kombat movies.

However in all this awesome Mortal Kombat goodness, I still felt there was something missing. Yes, I had a arcade controller, but I did not have the full glory of the Arcade machine. There for, until I had just that I would never be having the full Mortal Kombat experience.

When I moved to Indiana, I started doing blue prints (on white paper) of how I could make the Arcade machine! However, as luck would have it, a Golden Tee Arcade Machine showed up at the local good will store. My Girlfriend wanted me to have it so she gave me the money (witch I later payed back) to get it. I stood outside from five in the morning to nine ( when they opened) on there half off sale to insure I would get the game. There were plenty of dorky guys behind me who stood looking at me in disgust because they knew I was there to take there dreams away from them.

I altered the Arcade using a Play station 2, new monitor, 2 player X-Arcade controller, and new paint job. Finally my dream had come true. I purchased Midway Arcade Treasures (witch had arcade perfect Mortal Kombat 2 and 3), Play station's Mortal Kombat 4, and used the games I already owned to fill in the collection so that I had Mortal Kombat 1-7 (that's all the mortal Kombat out right now) in the arcade!

This completes the full path of obsession that led to my beautiful creation! I have tones of other Arcade games for my machine, but I rarely play them. I love Mortal Kombat. .. It's the best game I have ever played. And no mater what I do. . . it always seems to be there.
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Dude, Im sorry you feel MK is going down hill. Have fath in Mr.Boon and his team! Im not shore what happend With MK7, but i pritty shore its not there falt but midways. . .

Its good to see some one who who was born into MK like i was.

Oh god! We both are mk fantics aren't we? LOL, yes, growing up MK was great! I remeber being at walmart and my bro was like "hey theres Reptile!" it was the action figure, i was excited! Then my dad said "he don't need that", errrr. I was crushed.lol

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, aww, the memorys. Playing MK3 with Noob,Rain,Ermac,Scorp,Jade ect. You know i loved that. And MKT, whew, don't get me started. The first five mk games, MK,MK2,MK3,UMK3 and MKT, will always remain the best. I also like MK Gold. Man, these are great memorys. Heres hoping MK8 can bring all this back. Also, i remeber going bowling with the fam and seeing a UMK3 arcade machine, you know i whined until my parents made my siblings cough up their money so i could play,lol. When i heard about UMK3 coming out for the DS i was like "whats the big deal? i rather have MKT", but i forgot these memorys, what a classic UMK3 is!

Man, I had a ton of fun with my Big Brother this Christmas. We went around to old houses to see what they were like inside, went to the Arcade to eat, and he played me in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on my Arcade Machine at home.

Now that was huge to me. See, my brother is the one who taught me how to play. And Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was the Mortal Kombat game we had as kids. He Always kicked my ass in the game. He taught me how to play fair and not be “Cheap”, witch most gamers now a day are(cheap), because of online gaming. When I was young, when ever I beet him I would get a swift and painful punch in the arm as to say “I can still kick your ass in real life little bro.”

However, he has an adult life now, and I play mortal kombat all the time, so needless to say I beat him. Badly. It was so cool to finally own my brother at that game. As my brother stepped away from the machine he gave a gentle punch to my shoulder. Like a symbolic gesture to say “don’t forget little bro.”. It was nice

awww....Now thats some good shit. Yea, I still play MK wit my older siblings, but rarely, cause they grown.

Guess I'll post on this thread, of my cherished memories of MK (keep in mind I'm alot younger then all of you {14}, so bare with me.)

At Age three, in my New York City apartment, my older brother who was five, recieved a SNES for our house. Of course, at age three, I was still interested in Power Rangers, so the video games held no appeal to me.

One of those fine winter days, where the snow is falling, and we're all happily at home, my brother Cory said to me "Hey Keith, check this out." I walked out into the living room, seeing my brother on his stomach, his eyes glued to the screen, and there, my infautation with Mortal Kombat began.

He finished his fight, and I got down next to him, grabbing the other control. He was playing his newly acquired Mortal Kombat 3, which looked impossible to play (I still can't beat the game, to this day, unless I'm Liu Kang, Sektor, or Sub-Zero). I picked up the controller, not knowing what to do, and recieved a royal ass-whooping.

At that point, I didn't immideatly fall in the love with the game, hell, it frustrated the crap out of me. A few years down, I must've been eight, I dug up the SNES from the basement storage room, and brought it up stairs. I had been playing my N64, and quickly grew tired of some of those games. I popped in Donkey Kong 2 (the real reason I brought SNES back), and played for a while. I wanted more stimulation, however, and there, laying on top of the stack of video games, sat Mortal Kombat Three.

I popped it in immedieatdly, and there, my love for Mortal Kombat began. I played daily, and would never move off of it. My Brother challenged me, he thought I still sucked, but he was taught that I reigned supreme in this house (to this day, he'll challenge me in any MK we own, and still get his ass whooped). The girl upstairs, Jessica, owned MK2, which I was completely unaware of. One day, as my sister (who is five years older than me), was baby-sitting all of us, when Jessica hopped up and said "Wait, I'll be right back." A minute later, she ran down the stairs, holding a game cartridge. She popped out MK3, and inserted MK2. I beat the game immideatdly (four-five hours of practice, then I beat it in one straight try as, my eventual favorite, and character who has haunted my dreams, notebooks, and computer, Scorpion.).

I bought the game off of her for ten bucks (alot of money when I was little), and I played it non stop. In the sixth grade, I met a kid who was in Seventh Grade named Anthony. I found it, that he lived in the same building as me, which I was completely unaware of. He owned MK:DA, and he invited me up to his apartment. We played for a little bit, when his younger brother Tristan (who's a year younger than me), challegned me to Mortal Kombat. I was surprised at how easily I beat him, as I didn't consider myself that good.

A year later, at my dad's house ( he had moved out when I was young), he brought me to block buster video. He gave me an XBOX for christmas, and he wanted me to choose any one game to rent. I scanned through the aisle, and a game caught my eye. Halo: Combat Evolved. I ran to it, picked it up, and ran to the clerk. But my dreams were smashed, the game was all rented out. I felt like crying, and dad didn't want to wait for me to choose another game. "Let's go Keith" he said in a stern voice, and I felt my eyes water. I looked back at the Xbox section, when another title caught my eye, which filled me with more excitement than the first. "Dad wait! I found a game I want!"

I ran to the aisle, and I lunged at the game. I grabbed it, and held it tight, bringing it to the clerk. "Mortal Kombat: Deception?" My dad asked. "Yes." The clerk started explaining to my dad that there was heavy violence, blood, gore and the works. My dad looked and me and said "He's seen it all, give him the game." I grabbed it, ran home (about a half mile) popped it in, and played for five days straight. For the next year, I would keep renting Deception, not getting enough.

As I got into the eight grade (last year), I met my good friend Casey. He was a Mortal Kombat freak, just like I was. He told me about this website he started to go on, www.mortalkombatonline.com. (Streetking is his account, but he gave it to me after it became apparent that I used it much more than he did.). I learned that MKA was coming out later that year, and the anticipation started (I read about it in January, so nine months of nerve-racking anticipation awated me). In that time, I purchased MKD and MKDA.

Finally, October came. I walked home from the school that day, the sky was clear blue, the temperature in the low sixties. I was happy, and my hands wouldn't stop shaking that whole day. I must have called my mom a million times (she works at Toys R' Us), but she never answered. I stayed in the park until four thirty, then I walked into my apartment. My mom was sitting there, dinner already being cooked. "Mom, did you get it?" I immeideatly asked. She played it off, as if Toys R' Us didn't have the game, and I ran into my room, trying to whipe the tears off before she followed me in. I called Toys R' Us to confirm that they were out, and the guy said "No, we have about sixty copies left." That raised a question mark in my head.

On my bed, I flipped over, and there stood my mom, in the doorway, holding the box to the gateway of my Dreams. There, in her hands, I could make out the MK dragon Logo, and one letter after MK.... I saw the letter A, and I yelled out in happiness. Of course, it's a year later, and my infautation with Mk hasn't decreased a bit. MKA slightly disappointed me, but I still love it.

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Professor dude, don't leave MK. Have faith in Boon and his team. MK8 promises to be one for the ages. Just hold out, it's coming out this year (Midway confirmed that, I think).

The first MK game I ever played was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. I was about 9 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by the fact that Scorpion and Reptile almost resembled each other. Every game I would play as Scorp, and now look at me, I'm a Scorpion fanatic. Pretty stupid, since i played the game at an Indoor Sports arcade, and the title for the game was just Ultimate Mortal Kombat.

Anyway, then my friend tells me about this game Mortal Kombat, and I tell him that I played UMK at an arcade. He told me it was called UMK3 and I told him I played the first one... lol I was such a noob back then

One of my friends got MKDA for the PS2 for his birthday so we slept over at his house and played it until 4:00 in the morning... I was a master at mavado and kicked my friends' asses every time : ) I still do

Then I got an emulator called Console Classix (lol still have it) so I can play MK1, MK2, MK3, and UMK3.

I played MKD at my friend's house religiously (not kidding) and learned more about Baraka, which is my 2nd favorite character. Then both my friends got MKA for the PS2 special edition in the mail and we played it for HOURS... I eventually bought the regular version...

then, when I was on a vacation in Costa Rica, I went on the hotel computer and found this MK fansite... and that's how I got here.

But aside from that, my older bro, he was an MK1 addict and was a huge fan of the MK movies. Now he has no idea who the fuck "Baraka" is. Sad, huh?

yeah... i'm gettin real tired here... it's 2:32... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i played it when I was 2 as well, my brother got me into MK2 Genesis, he showed me Mileenas fatality

lol lori. cool.

LOL, I played the game when I was 11, that is when it first came out in 1992.

I was a big kid (I mean mentally) and I could handle it. But you people were just babies! LOL 2 years old! Wow.

lol, thats probably why i get that warm gitty feeling when i hear about deaths in the news....

LOL too funny.