Of course, anyone used to modern fighting games will probably find Killer Instinct‘s bare-knuckle menu screen a little underwhelming at first. Despite my lack of fighting prowess, however, I’ve always enjoyed playing them– even if I do have a tendency to button-mash sometimes– and considering Microsoft have just renewed the “Killer Instinct” trademark after years of hushed silence surrounding a sequel to this cult classic, what better game to kick off our next instalment of Square Roots than the SNES original? I have been known to crack open a few cans of whoop-ass in my time, but those have mostly been confined to late-night bouts of Soul Calibur II on GameCube, which is perhaps the only fighting game I’ve ever truly “mastered” (and that’s in very literal inverted commas, too).
My brothers and I also had Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting in our small but select SNES collection, but there’s nothing like a bit of blood and gore to set a seven year old’s heart on fire.īut much like my track-record with strategy games, fighting games have never been one my strong suits either.
Having only had brief glimpses of Mortal Kombat at friends’ houses or the very occasional ferry arcade, this was probably the first “mature” title I’d ever been properly introduced to (or mature for 1995, at least!). Killer Instinct is one of those games which I always remember fondly from childhood.
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