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Midway Year: 1993 Class: Wide Release Genre: Fighting Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Competitive Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player Controls:
Sound: Midway Digital Compression System (DCS) - Amplified Mono |
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Mortal Kombat II DescriptionA 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.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe side art shows a close-up shot of Raiden in front of a dark blue, lightning filled background.Cheats, Tricks and BugsAt 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! ConversionA 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 IntroductionFight competitors in hand-to-hand combat and destroy the main boss, Shao Kahn to become the Ultimate Mortal Kombat competitor.Game PlayThe 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.Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 162 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 64 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 73 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 52,016 video games (3,347 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. - There are 19 VAPS members currently looking for this game. 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. TechnicalSOUND: ADSP2150TriviaThis 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. eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Mortal Kombat II Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Midway. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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