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Goatseye on 18 June 2013
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ethomaz said:

Michael-5 said:

Like the other guy said, 2 was bigger. MK2 was the game that made MK.

Just like Street Fighter, SF2 was THE Street Fighter, the big one.

Still MK is a bigger franchise then Killer Instinct because KI is only 1 game, and a kind of remake for N64. MK has around a dozen different games.

Guys I have 31 years... I lived MK and KI ages... I was a hardcore game already.

Before MK2 Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Jonny Cage, etc were already worldwide icons... the first MK combat made the MK famous... after that the MK2 because a high expected sequel (and it didn't disapointed)... the hype for MK2 was crazy due MK original.

Ed Boom and John Tobias were cult names already before MK2.

The sales in VGC are wrong... I don't have any data but I'm pretty sure MK did close to 5 million for SNES/MegaDrive and MK2 over 5 million for both too.

KI never did that... I lived the hype for MK and KI... and KI never had the same hype level than MK.

MK1 maybe had been very famous in Brasil but US and the rest of the world started talking about MK like today, after MK2.

MK3 was the first game to introduce a combo system and even then it was trounced by KI when it came to that. Johnny Cage was never worldwide icon, you might like him my friend but he wasn't that important. Actually he was omitted in couple of games in the series. Liu Kang, Scorpion and Sub-Zero on the other hand yes.

Why were Ed Boon and Tobias cult names? First time hearing that.