Ha. Dou. Ken.

September 29, 2008 2:00 PM

MK vs SF 3

The third and final chapter in the greatest martial arts saga since The Karate Kid.

Part 1 and Part 2 for the uninitiated.

Once you're through with all that, check out more flash work from the artist/director Proxicide.

posted by aftermarketradio (27 comments total)

Ah, fond memories of the MK movie soundtrack... MORGHAL COMBARGH! dinky-dinky-dink-dink-dink techno, techno, techno.
posted by Artw at 2:09 PM on September 29, 2008 [2 favorites]

This is why you don't post your friends' videos.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 2:15 PM on September 29, 2008 [2 favorites]

It's snowing on Mars.
posted by From Bklyn at 2:22 PM on September 29, 2008

Might I suggest an hero?
posted by GooseOnTheLoose at 2:23 PM on September 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

That was pretty darn impressive, I must say. Although, speaking as a guy who lost track of video games somewhere around Burger Time, I felt I missed a few nuances. But those guys are basically the guys from International Karate, right?
posted by soundofsuburbia at 2:30 PM on September 29, 2008 [2 favorites]

...or, rather, one guy is a guy from International Karate and the other is the guy from Kung Fu?
posted by soundofsuburbia at 2:32 PM on September 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

I was so ready to come in here and say "Oh, I thought this post was going to be about Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter" but hey presto, it is.

So: if nothing else, it makes me happy that I thought you were talking about video games and you actually WERE talking about video games.
posted by penduluum at 2:40 PM on September 29, 2008

It;s a pity this post isn't a double or anything, because then the mods could say "FATALITY!".
posted by Artw at 2:47 PM on September 29, 2008 [3 favorites]

It's a pity I actually enjoyed it, or I could say, "They could still do that anyway."
posted by fusinski at 2:49 PM on September 29, 2008

Pony request: Spine-ripping animation in deletion reason box.
posted by Artw at 2:57 PM on September 29, 2008

I don't play video games anymore, but Akuma as Ryu's father? That shit ain't canon!

*stops to think*

Well, I suppose fighting Mortal Kombat wouldn't be canon either....
posted by Mister Cheese at 3:00 PM on September 29, 2008

Well at least it's not Marvel Universe or Star Wars characters.
posted by Artw at 3:28 PM on September 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

If would be nice if you game kiddies would post these things in something other than geekspeak so I wouldn't have to bother clicking to see that it's a waste of time.
posted by rocket88 at 3:39 PM on September 29, 2008

game kiddies? I think you just mean gamers.

Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II came out in 1991.
posted by Izner Myletze at 4:38 PM on September 29, 2008

It;s a pity this post isn't a double or anything, because then the mods could say "FATALITY!".

I beg the mods to not let that stop them.
posted by JHarris at 4:45 PM on September 29, 2008

That makes me wonder what your definition of geekspeak is, rocke88. Do you define it as slang or a dialect particular to geeks, or more when someone is speaking about stuff that usually associated with geeks? I think there's a difference. The former is esoteric communication about content. The latter is communication about esoteric content. We're doing the second. I guess either can be fairly unintelligible.

Personally, I thought the video has some cool if animation, though I can't decide whether the using highly detailed preexisting sprite animations is particularly creative. The context of the fight and the exploration of Ryu/Akuma's relationship I found to be a bit inane. Of course, the games the animation is based on don't exactly have profound plots either. Most fighting game canon evolves in a piecemeal manner with each new edition. Retroactive continuity abounds!
posted by Mister Cheese at 4:50 PM on September 29, 2008

game kiddies? I think you just mean gamers.

Yeah it is kind of redundant.
posted by Space Coyote at 5:46 PM on September 29, 2008

If it doesn't have Jean-Claude van Damme and Raul Julia in it, it's not a Street Fighter movie.
posted by box at 6:29 PM on September 29, 2008

Just like every other artistic or dramatic endeavor involving either Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, that was:

(1) too long
(2) possessed of an awful score
(3) terrible except for the fight scenes [also a significant fraction of the fight scenes were terrible]
(4) really poorly cast [which is astounding, when you think about it, but true -- Akuma should have been Ken for like 5/6 of it, and in the last sixth should have been ... well, pretty much just not Akuma]
(5) kind of really gay
(6) something I watched all the way through.
posted by penduluum at 6:41 PM on September 29, 2008

Until the very end, I thought I was watching "Brokeback Combat".
posted by erniepan at 9:23 PM on September 29, 2008

(Sorry, I meant "Brokebak Kombat".)
posted by erniepan at 9:23 PM on September 29, 2008

game kiddies? I think you just mean gamers.

Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II came out in 1991.

I was there, in 1991, on my Sega Genesis
memorizing Sub-Zero's combos with much patience
I was there when John Romero was putting together Daikatana
I told him "Don't do it that way, you'll never make a dime."

but I'm losing my edge
I can hear the footsteps every night on the DDR pads.
but I was there....
posted by hellojed at 10:09 PM on September 29, 2008 [5 favorites]

As a side note, I actually know someone who personally knew John Romero during the time when Daikatana was being developed. Romero is actually really nice
posted by hellojed at 10:11 PM on September 29, 2008

Man is it just me or was the whole guy-zooms-in-to-save-the-day-right-as-the-Mortal-Kombat-character-executes-his-finishing-move thing exactly the fucking same in both of the last two videos?
posted by shakespeherian at 10:46 PM on September 29, 2008

If it doesn't have Jean-Claude van Damme and Raul Julia in it, it's not a Street Fighter movie.

That movie was about as close to Street Fighter as this is to Mortal Kombat.
posted by P.o.B. at 2:25 AM on September 30, 2008

I'm glad i'm not the only one who thought that was homo-erotic, kind of made me think of women in love
posted by chelegonian at 8:15 AM on September 30, 2008

The world has become a very different world where something Street Fighter-related can be posted, and not immediately adulated by the very basis that it is Street Fighter-related. Sure it's gay, cheesy, and cliche, but it's Street Fighter!

Hardcore gamers are a dying breed. Not even the Konami code may save us now.

I'm packing up my joystick and going home.

But in all seriousness, I think it's neat that gaming characters of yore are being used in new and original ways. Just as artists before recreated the established characters of Bugs Bunny and Kermit the Frog in the media of the time, my generation is recreating their heroes (gaming stars) in the media of our time (flash). As a gamer, that makes me feel all warm inside. Or maybe it's the excess flesh due to a lifetime of inactivity that's contributing to my increased body temperature.
posted by aftermarketradio at 9:14 AM on September 30, 2008