It was successful in making me anxious to get my hands on one! I don't remember much from the ad, but I do remember it announcing the release date for the Ultra 64 as being at least a year before the date the N64 was released. Killer Instinct was the first arcade game released by Nintendo in nearly a decade, and it contained an advertisement for the upcoming " Ultra 64 Gaming System", now known as the N64. These were hard to pull off, and in early versions, were possible to do when the opponent was low on health on their first life bar! Needless to say, when matches were ending in half the time (and players were losing $0.50 per game), this was fixed quickly. Finally, and most impressively, No Mercies could be combined with a combo, creating an Ultimate combo. Humiliations were performed in a similar way, taking a direct cue from Mortal Kombat 2 however, each character merely made the defeated opponent dance. These were just like Fatalities from Mortal Kombat, and served little purpose other than to stroke one's ego. Characters also had No Mercy moves (named so because early versions of the arcade game would yell "No Mercy!" after a character lost the rest of his energy). If you knew all the character's normal moves, you could do a Ultra by guessing). When a character was near defeat, it was possible to do an Ultra combo, different for each character, but for each, was certain a move executed at the end of a combo that under normal conditions would just execute that special attack. While it was possible to do 10,11,12, to 24-27 and even infinite(!) * combos, each successive hit did much less damage than the hit before. Characters could juggle characters after executing a combo, and combos could be broken, causing the player to 'power up', and capable of doing a few more hits per combo. Each combo, when finished, would cause the announcer to yell out the combo type, with more fervor in the voice as the amount of hits increased. While Mortal Kombat revolutionized the during-combat announcer with cries of " Excellent!" and " Outstanding!", Killer Instinct took it a step further. Killer Instinct simplified this process greatly, and among some fighting game purists, was shunned for doing so. you had to have good timing, and had to be quick. While combos could be done in other fighting games to date, they were done manually, i.e. Pressing (a) certain button(s) after using an attack could allow the move to be chained with another move, thus creating multiple hit combos. Each character had 4-7 special attacks, much like previous games (the standard hurl a fireball, do a flip kick, throw yourself as a human projectile). The game play hinged on KI's combo system. This made for shorter fights than most traditional 3-round fighting games. When a player loses his first bar, he starts over again with the second, and the other player keeps his current life. Instead of rounds as in previous fighting games, each player has two life bars. While the textures were not very detailed by today's standards, at time it was a graphical experience not previously seen in any fighting game.
The only popular fighting game to use polygons at this point was Virtua Fighter, and that made use of shaded polygons. The graphics seemed light-years ahead of other games, as the characters were rendered as texture mapped polygons set against scaling 3 dimensional backgrounds. Thunder flips into the air and performs a two-footed stomp onto their body, with lightning striking him on impact to fry the opponent.Killer Instinct was released in the arcades in 1994, when most of the arcade goers were tied up with Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition and Mortal Kombat 2. He stops inches within his opponent's face, headbutting them before slamming them down with both tomahawks.
Thunder charges his tomahawks before rushing forwards in a murder of crows. Thunder triggers a stage-specific finishing blow. Thunder chops with both tomahawks to end the Ultra Combo. Thunder delivers 28 hits to finish the match.
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