I LOVE the super nintendo version. I played that SO MUCH during my college years. NO ONE could top me with Fulgore lol! It has gameplay upgrades that are NOT talked about compared to the awesome arcade version. You can link combo openers that you simple cannot do on the arcade. From a gameplay standpoint, the Super Nintendo version is the best. I actually HAVE a Killer Instinct 1 and 2 arcade machine with the original tube monitor....LOVE that game, nintendo should NEVER have let rare go. I so much hope they release KI SNES for switch(still have my cart!)
As far as fighters, SNES had the best of the two IMO....Killer Instinct was a fabulous port of the arcade version and was exclusive to the system
So I'll take SNES with SF, MK, and KI(best fighting game of all time IMO) every day of the week and twice on Sunday. SNES had the best catalog, was my system of choice. Blood didn't matter to me as much as gameplay back then, and considering MK was pretty sparse in some aspects compared to SF and KI....I'd always choose the SNES.
@JDORS I'm going to have to disagree....in fact I'd say that it really had not much to do with the consoles at all as much as it did the transfer from the Arcade, as far as how skill development and competing against other opponents were concerned. Fighters like smash don't appeal to me as much since I cut my teeth on the games listed above, but even smash has skill sets...the skill just transferred to one challenge to another(making the moves through joystick + button combos vs....whatever I guess lol)....a skilled smash player will still destroy someone new to the game because they took the time to develop their skills...ain't nothin' for free....you just have to take an arsewhoopin' until you get good, no way around it...it's the nature of a FIGHTING game. Practice honing your moves, strategy, reflexes and ect. is still a thing....most newbs just button mash anyway lol.
IMO, those golden years for fighters will always be what set the bar and carved the path that fighters take to this very day.
Ninty, you were foolish to let Killer Instinct out of your grip....that would be another current feather in your cap of exclusives that IMO to this day still hasn't been surpassed in the genre. You should have held on to Rare. Don't make the same mistake again(Bayonetta.....ahem)....looking at other companies profit so much of the Genre you created with Metroid, you look like you're slipping there too.....better step it up with MP4
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Re: Feature: 25 Years Ago, Nintendo Took On The Might Of Street Fighter With Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct 1 theme song/arcade intro....just because it's awesome damnit!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMLHHxV0vWU
Re: Feature: 25 Years Ago, Nintendo Took On The Might Of Street Fighter With Killer Instinct
@Kidfunkadelic83 OMG, still have my Killer Cuts CD too! Right on man!
Re: Feature: 25 Years Ago, Nintendo Took On The Might Of Street Fighter With Killer Instinct
@nab1 Not wild about the new one either. Original KI is the ONE. All time classic fighter!
Re: Feature: 25 Years Ago, Nintendo Took On The Might Of Street Fighter With Killer Instinct
I LOVE the super nintendo version. I played that SO MUCH during my college years. NO ONE could top me with Fulgore lol! It has gameplay upgrades that are NOT talked about compared to the awesome arcade version. You can link combo openers that you simple cannot do on the arcade. From a gameplay standpoint, the Super Nintendo version is the best. I actually HAVE a Killer Instinct 1 and 2 arcade machine with the original tube monitor....LOVE that game, nintendo should NEVER have let rare go. I so much hope they release KI SNES for switch(still have my cart!)
Re: Feature: How Mortal Kombat Defined The Console War Between Sega And Nintendo
As far as fighters, SNES had the best of the two IMO....Killer Instinct was a fabulous port of the arcade version and was exclusive to the system
So I'll take SNES with SF, MK, and KI(best fighting game of all time IMO) every day of the week and twice on Sunday. SNES had the best catalog, was my system of choice. Blood didn't matter to me as much as gameplay back then, and considering MK was pretty sparse in some aspects compared to SF and KI....I'd always choose the SNES.
@JDORS I'm going to have to disagree....in fact I'd say that it really had not much to do with the consoles at all as much as it did the transfer from the Arcade, as far as how skill development and competing against other opponents were concerned. Fighters like smash don't appeal to me as much since I cut my teeth on the games listed above, but even smash has skill sets...the skill just transferred to one challenge to another(making the moves through joystick + button combos vs....whatever I guess lol)....a skilled smash player will still destroy someone new to the game because they took the time to develop their skills...ain't nothin' for free....you just have to take an arsewhoopin' until you get good, no way around it...it's the nature of a FIGHTING game. Practice honing your moves, strategy, reflexes and ect. is still a thing....most newbs just button mash anyway lol.
IMO, those golden years for fighters will always be what set the bar and carved the path that fighters take to this very day.
Ninty, you were foolish to let Killer Instinct out of your grip....that would be another current feather in your cap of exclusives that IMO to this day still hasn't been surpassed in the genre. You should have held on to Rare. Don't make the same mistake again(Bayonetta.....ahem)....looking at other companies profit so much of the Genre you created with Metroid, you look like you're slipping there too.....better step it up with MP4