Killer Instinct (Arcade)

Killer Instinct
Developer: Rare Publisher: Midway Games Platform: Arcade (Killer Instinct hardware) Released in US: December 1994 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prerelease article

Killer Instinct is pretty much what would happen if Mortal Kombat ditched the digitized actors in favor of prerendered CG characters and featured a gloriously bombastic announcer.

To do: Revisional stuff, including a patch that removed Cinder's rather infamous infinite combo exploit.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

Several unused screens are present within the game including an unused character portrait, public service announcement screens, and even a hidden stage!

Character Select Portrait

An unused icon exists as the first position in the character select portrait graphics. This was most likely used for characters that did not have completed portrait graphics early in development. It is currently unknown what the overlapping "CC" stands for.

(Discovery: Abystus)

Unknown Stage

There is evidence of an unused stage within the game. Unfortunately, there is not enough data to fully compile what the stage may have looked like, as only 6 sections exist. It appears to share props from other stages within the game, and may have been an early concept for one of the final in-game stages, or a new stage entirely.

(Discovery: Abystus & EmI81gLaCIuS)

Screens

There are four screens in the game:

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  Thriller Instinct, a possible early name for the game.

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  An advertisement for G.R.E.A.T., which is a group dedicated to preventing gang violence and youth crime.

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  Some winners do, unfortunately.

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  Ironic, considering that some of these arcade cabinets probably wound up in a landfill after they stopped working.

(Discovery: Abystus)

Unused Sounds

There are two unused voice clips of the announcer announcing characters named "Heatshade" and "Pyrotech". These were intended for the character select screen and were early names for Cinder.

Heatshade	Pyrotech

And speaking of Cinder, he has a few unused voice clips too.

Voice 1	Voice 2

Unused Text

Tutorial/Tips

What remains (found at address 8803C6A8) is very incomplete, which makes it difficult to tell where in the final game it may have appeared. Due to the lack of inputs and fully fleshed out move lists, it is believed that this idea was scrapped early on.

WP MP HP AP WK MK HK AK CG

BLOCK LOW ATTACKS

BLOCK HIGH ATTACKS

PERFORM SPECIAL MOVES WITH BUTTON HELD DOWN THEN RELEASE

AUTO-DOUBLES THE SECRET OF MULTIPLE BLOWS

HIT AN OPPONENT HIGH WHEN THEY'RE DUCKING

ENDOKUKEN
WIND KICK
LASER BLADE

ROLLERCOASTER
SPINFIST
POWERLINE

TRIPLEAXE
SAMAMISH
PHEONIX

ABSORB
POWERSWORD
SKULLDASH

FIREFLASH
TRAILBLAZER
INFERNO

EYE LAZER
LAZER DASH
LAZER UPPERCUT

TAIL FLIP
DRAGON BREATH
RIPTRAKE

LIQUID ICE
ICE LANCE
ICE BREAKER

SABREROLL
SABRECUT
SABREPOUNCE

LASERKEN
HELLCAT
FLIKFLAKFRENZY

(Discovery: Abystus)