stkataran
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I was watching a short bio on the hidden characters of Mortal Kombat last night, and it got me wondering - did anyone ever naturally find Reptile/Ermac/Jade/Noob Saibot back in the day? The hints for MK2 are so out there it seems like it would have been an impossible effort to figure out.
I found the secret characters in the 90's by reading video game magazines, and I only found them in the home console version (we had no real arcade in my small town, and EGM focused on consoles). I'd imagine it would have taken a coordinated effort to share the hints and test different methods to try and reach these secret characters in the arcade. With no internet to ruin the process of discovery, were there any coordinated efforts in the arcade world to find them in the 90's? I'm sure some publication made accessing these characters common knowledge at some point - but I'm hoping some awesome story exists out there of a group of friends eventually figuring it out.
I found the secret characters in the 90's by reading video game magazines, and I only found them in the home console version (we had no real arcade in my small town, and EGM focused on consoles). I'd imagine it would have taken a coordinated effort to share the hints and test different methods to try and reach these secret characters in the arcade. With no internet to ruin the process of discovery, were there any coordinated efforts in the arcade world to find them in the 90's? I'm sure some publication made accessing these characters common knowledge at some point - but I'm hoping some awesome story exists out there of a group of friends eventually figuring it out.
