Mortal Sucking
Last week I bought Midway Arcade Classics Volume 2. It was only $26 and has lots of cool older arcade games (such as Xenophobe, Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Primal Rage, Rampage World Tour, Narc, etc). I played most of them briefly last week but I never really played any of them in-depth until today.
I fired up the Cube today and sat down to play Mortal Kombat 2, one of my favorite SNES games and a game that I wasted countless hours of my younger years playing. I'm not sure if I'm rusty, or it was just that I had forgotten about 75% of the moves but boy do I suck. It took me like 3 tries to beat freaking Jax.
So then, in an effort to make myself feel less incompetent I challenged my sister to a few rounds. She's plays games very rarely and has little aptitude. I figured crushing her a few times would make me feel slightly better about my sucking. Turns out that wasn't the case. While I never actually lost a game to her, there were some close calls and I did lose a round (each match is best 2 out of 3 rounds).
Apparently my Mortal Kombat skills have gotten quite horrid over the last few years. I know that if I were to travel back in time and play 12 year old me, current me would be getting a sound thrashing.
Toxodont's supposed to be back in Pictou County on Saturday night so maybe I'll get a chance to see if I can shake some rust off then. Time shall tell I guess.
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I bought MK2 for my SNES over the summer and I had the exact same problem. It was even worse with Killer Instinct, which I also bought. From MK2 I can remember Sub-Zero's freeze move and Scorpions spear. Still need to get my hands on M3 and its ultimate version.
Yeah, I remembered those two moves. I also remembered Baraka's slash-y move, Raiden's I look like an idiot when I do this in MK: Annihilation move and a few otheres. There are quite a few moves I almost remember, just can't seem to get them done though. Probably have to hit FAQ land at some point.
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