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Mortal Kombat II

Mortal Kombat II - Japanese Title

Mortal Kombat II - marquee

Manufacturer: Midway
Year: 1993
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Fighting
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: JAMMA+
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Competitive
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 5 [High Punch|Low Punch|Block|High Kick|Low Kick]

Sound: Midway Digital Compression System (DCS) - Amplified Mono

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Mortal Kombat II Description

A fast-paced, head-to-head fighting game with twelve characters to choose from -- each one with his or her own special moves. Lots of blood and gore with special endings (e.g. Fatality, Friendship, and Babality) that depend upon the combination of moves performed by the winner at the end of the match.

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Cabinet Information

The side art shows a close-up shot of Raiden in front of a dark blue, lightning filled background.

Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

At the portal when uppercutting an opponent, watch for Dan Forden to pop his head out and say "Toasty". If he does, hold "down" on the joystick and press Start to travel to Goro's Lair and fight Smoke.

To fight Jade, use only the Low Kick button on all matches before the "?" square.

To fight Noob Saibot, win fifty times in a row!

Conversion

A software "upgrade" exists that was sold to operators after Mortal Kombat II was released. Known as the Immortal Kombat upgrade, this simple EEPROM swap switches the order that opponents are fought (fighting the bosses and sometimes the secret characters first rather than later) and makes the game's software adjustable difficulty settings non-existant (as the only setting now is hard). It also gives you unlimited Fatality time and allows you to play the hidden Pong game much more frequently during two-player fights.

Game Introduction

Fight competitors in hand-to-hand combat and destroy the main boss, Shao Kahn to become the Ultimate Mortal Kombat competitor.

Game Play

The joystick lets your character move forward, back, duck or jump. The buttons let you high punch, low bunch, high kick, low kick, or block an opponents attack. The object is to beat up or kill your opponent before he/she does the same to you.

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Very Common - There are 179 known instances of Mortal Kombat II owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 68 of them are original dedicated machines, 25 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 86 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,098 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 54 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 15 VAPS members currently looking for Mortal Kombat II. There are 5 VAPS members looking for Mortal Kombat II board sets.

For Sale - There are 10 VAPS members with Mortal Kombat II machines for sale. There are 10 VAPS members with extra Mortal Kombat II circuit boards for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

SOUND: ADSP2150

Trivia

This game was the first Midway release to use the DCS Sound System.

Kintaro was originally intended to be a humanoid tiger, similar to the creature in Japanese mythology. This idea was scrapped, however, due to the fact that creating the costume would not have been feasable. However, thanks to this original idea, the Shokan we know as Kintaro has the tiger stripes on his back.

John Tobias once said that the friendships were created as a parody of the bad opinions that many expressed about the fatality concept.

Many players claimed to have seen Sub-Zero morph into a polar bear in Mortal Kombat II. This may have been the origin of animalities used in Mortal Kombat 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

In the bookkeeping screens for Mortal Kombat II, a line reads "Kano Transformations". One can only wonder what significance this has, but apparently it holds some in Mortal Kombat 3. Sometimes, when Nightwolf's friendship is done, he says, "I have never seen a Kano transformation" when he morphs into Raiden.

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Legacy

  1. Mortal Kombat
  2. Mortal Kombat II
  3. Mortal Kombat 3
  4. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
  5. Mortal Kombat 4

Manuals

  1. Operations Manual  7 Pages, 806 KB File.
  2. Operation Manual  79 Pages, 6887 KB File.
Mortal Kombat II - Cabinet Image

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