Mortal Kombat Pt. II

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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We continue our series on Mortal Kombat and talk new games, corny dialogues, financial woes and the death of arcades. Test your might! Listeners like you help us make the show, support us on Patreon to get access to weekly bonus content!

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0:00.0	Weirons
0:03.0	We did this last time
0:20.0	Portal Mortal combat is literally You're might We did this last time.
0:23.2	Mortal combat.
0:24.4	It is literally... If there's a thing about this series, it is literally this, Jake.
0:30.3	But what happens when the 90s end and the techno music fades?
0:42.7	You know what?
0:43.9	I don't know.
0:45.0	I had to learn a lot about this fucking game series through that time because I didn't
0:49.1	catch back.
0:49.7	I remember glancing at, okay, I remember this. I remember like, fighting games went away to me for a while.
0:57.6	They went away for a lot of people. Uh, for a long while. And then I remember seeing Street Fighter 4 came out
1:03.4	well before nine. Uh, I'm not sure. Well before nine, right? It was, I think it was because Street
1:09.4	Fighter 4 kind of came back into Vogue.
1:11.8	Exactly, right.
1:12.5	They actually shelled out the money for nine.
1:14.9	To make it happen.
1:15.6	I mean, and also we're going to talk about the whole transition of Midway into Nether Realm
1:21.2	because that is definitely an interesting story about a sad story about a game publisher, a game dev company that just fell
1:31.7	apart at the seams and just...
1:35.2	I'm shocked. Shocked that the Chicago-based arcade amusement company could stay in business once.
1:40.8	Arcades stopped being a thing. Absolutely. And also,
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