I mean I just didn’t expect a “new” KI game anytime soon. First, I didn’t know that a heartbeat could accelerate that fast in just half a second, but also I just couldn’t comprehend that a sequel to the original was already there. And… well, when I turned around and saw it… to be completely honest I just couldn’t believe it. He tells me that he let me get destroyed by my opponent three times before he decided to tap on my shoulder to let me know that I had to turn around. My cousin watched for a short moment until (as he often recalls himself when we reminisce the moment) he just turned around to look for other games when - soon enough - his heart skipped a beat when he saw the cabinet that was basically just behind us all that time. We eventually stopped by KI1 to play it, one guy was playing and I decided to challenge him, so I did. So sometimes we had our view slightly blocked and couldn’t see some games well even from a short distance (that’s why we didn’t see it immediately as we walked down that aisle, because I think we’d have seen it otherwise). The thing is, there were people in that aisle, some playing games, some just walking back and forth between cabinets, etc. I also knew that facing the KI cabinet (in the same aisle) was a House of the Dead game (can’t recall which one it was though). So we walked down one specific aisle, one that I knew had Killer Instinct at the very end of it. Obviously, one of them was the first KI, which you could literally hear from the far back of the room to the entrance when the announcer yelled Ultraaa Cooombooo!!! And so we entered and, as usual, we would just walk around trying to decide which games to play, sometimes we were stopping by as someone played ‘x’ and ‘y’ games (I loved to watch others playing racing games especially, such as Daytona USA, San Francisco Rush or Hydro Thunder, among others). When we entered that place there were a few select games that stood out from the others because they were louder then the rest. I do remember that I was completely floored by the fact that they (the devs) actually made a sequel at all! As far as I can remember, it was a ‘normal’ day like any others, going at a local arcades place with my cousin. Well, If you do remember any details that is! What were YOUR first reaction when you first saw KI2 at the arcades? What are your memories concerning KI2? Where did you see it first? Were you alone? Etc. But anyway, the gist is that KI2 is 20 years-old this year! I genuinely didn’t remember that small detail! Does anyone know which actual month it was released in? I do mean the Arcade version here (and the North American release too, I suppose). Then I checked KI2’s wiki page, but that one too only says “1996” as well. It simply said “ 1996”, no specific month though although I suspect that it might have been mid 1996, during the summer maybe. I was reading some articles about the game, and one of them had its release date mentioned.
However, it came as a ‘surprise’ for me (just didn’t remember that it originally came out a year following the original).
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