- Ah, oh! - (cheering)
- He's got a rocket launcher, be careful.
- Let's go, Ellie. Let's go.
- (FBE) This Sunday, we're continuing our
Super Smash Bros tournament with the kids bracket,
but if you're here between noon and 3 PM on Tuesday,
we're live right now gaming with our subs,
so after this episode, come hang out with us
on Twitch.tv/FBELive. See you there.
♪ (8-bit intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, you are gonna be playing this.
- Oh, yes. - Mortal Kombat.
Wait, you sounded way too excited.
- This is my generation.
- I played the old version on the arcade.
- I'm excited to just see what it looks like,
'cause it's been so long since I've played the original.
- (FBE) But don't worry, because today, we're also
going to have you play this. - Yeah!
Fighting games are the only games I'm halfway decent at,
'cause I can button mash and still survive
and then I also-- I know combos.
- Cool, it's been a long time, but yep.
- It has been a long time, but I think I remember
my Cassie Cage combos, so all I can say is good luck.
- (FBE) We've brought you both in today to face off
against each other in a match of Mortal Kombat,
but to make things fair, we brought in a game
from each of your generations that you may have grown up with.
- Okay, call me not cultured-- I'm cultured.
I'm very cultured. I go to arcade games.
I played Mortal Kombat. - You played a little bit of that?
- So what if I'm born in 2000? So what if I'm a millennial?
I know these things.
- I'm a little more intimidated from him to be honest,
but I think with the Sega one, I think we'll be on even terms.
- I think so too. - Let's do it.
- (announcer) Round one, fight.
- I'm going with Raiden. - Raiden?
- He's the classic Mortal Kombat character.
- Okay. - He was my favorite
to play in the original-- actually, in all of them.
Raiden's been my go-to. - I'm gonna go with Scorpion,
'cause he, like Raiden, classic, everyone knows him
and the moves seem like, hey, everyone knows that.
- (FBE) We've got combo sheets, so you can take a look.
- Oh yeah, I remember these. - Start is block.
- Oh yeah. - Okay, now I feel like
you're gonna kill me. Either way, I don't care
who wins, one of us needs to do a fatality.
- Okay, here we go. - Hold on, wait.
Let me get a feel for it. Let me get a feel.
Okay, okay. Get over here.
Ah man, I can totally feel those punches.
- Whoa. - Oh, okay.
- Oh my God, the-- - No, no.
- I forgot about the sweep. - Wait, how did--
wait, what? - A little electricity.
- Oh, I won! Wait, it didn't let me
finish him. - (FBE) No,
'cause that's round one. - It's on the third one.
- Oh, there's rounds.
- Oh, you were ready for me that time.
Get out of here, get out of here.
Oh, nice move. - Down, up, down.
- Oh! - Whoa!
Wow. - Okay, here we go.
- Get over here. - No!
Uh oh. - Okay, you just
can do that. - I didn't mean for it
to happen that much, I swear.
- No, it's all good. This isn't looking good.
- No! It's crazy how slow it is.
- Ah. - Oh, oh, oh.
- Can you do it? - I couldn't do it.
- Ah. - It all came back.
It was like riding a bicycle.
- I'm gonna pick Sub Zero, 'cause I'm so cold.
- I pick Raiden because he has a very easy special
that I can spam a lot to win. Yeah, sorry.
That's all I got. - I don't even know.
He's coming at me so fast. - That's all I got.
Oh. - I think you already hit me.
What? Oh my God.
He's not like the PS4. You're just--
- Sorry, sorry. - I don't even know
what he was doing. He just kept diving at me.
He was like, dive, dive. Now I know what he means
when the buttons aren't responsive.
- Yeah, you just have-- it's really clunky.
- What the heck? It takes so much life.
One hit killed. I can't.
- It's really sweet knowing I'm about to take a really
sour shot when we go to PS4.
- It's time to get serious in here. I may have let you win.
You never know.
- So, I'm going to pick Sub Zero mainly because
I think he only has two moves, so it should be pretty simple.
- Liu Kang, same thing, I think he only has two moves,
so I'll go with that and also I remember as a kid,
always going-- I don't think he has
the bicycle kick in this one, but the sound effect,
the (whooping noise) We gotta go for the kick.
He wasn't even alive when this game came out,
so I feel like I have to win. It's my duty.
All right, here we go. - He does have an advantage
in that sense. Oh boy, yeah.
Oh boy. What can I do with this?
No, okay. There we go.
Nice fall. What, what?
- Cool uppercut.
- I expected that to happen. - I'm just gonna go for it now.
- Oh boy. Watch him get
a flawless victory on me. Oh wow.
I called it, I called it. Okay.
- Ah, it's fast. - (FBE) Were you going
for the finisher? - I was trying it.
I didn't know if I got it right, but that was the fastest
fatality timer I've ever seen. - And the fastest game.
- He's gonna make me eat it in the next game.
- Yeah, hopefully.
- (announcer) Round two, fight.
- Ooh, look at this roster. I think I'm gonna go
with Sub Zero. - Oh, that's a good one.
- Sub Zero's always a classic character.
Oh, I can go classic look? - Kung Lao is good, too.
- Well, I'm down. You're being Quan Chi?
- Quan Chi. I remember him from
one of the newer games. I like him 'cause he's
a sorcerer. So close together.
- Just let it feel. A little feel.
- Whoa. - Whoa, what are you
trying to do? - I have a bat now.
What does that do? - Oh, this is what we're playing?
- It's weird how they move 3d. Ooh, I don't know what
I did there, but that was cool. What's that do?
- Ah, no. Get back here.
- My bat again. That bat doesn't do anything.
- Ah, you messed up my X-ray.
- Yes. - Okay.
I have no idea what I'm doing at this point.
- Ah man. - I'm trying to come back
if you would let me. - Whoa.
I really wish I knew how to-- oh!
Oh, I think I just used a special move.
- Naturally. - That was amazing.
Oh, that was awesome. - No, wait.
You're just gonna-- you're such a cheapskate.
Oh my gosh. - Oh.
- Do it. - That was not it.
- That was it? That's all you're gonna do?
- It said push L1. - Unbelievable.
I didn't even get to do anything.
- That was fun. - The controls are so complicated.
No, it's not fun. I wanna rematch.
- I'm just gonna go with my instinct.
I think it was-- I think Ermac is really good.
- I'm D'Vorah, 'cause she's poisonous.
I'm nervous, man. - Don't worry,
you're gonna do better than last time.
Last time, I had all the advantage.
Oh no, oh no, oh no. Spam, spam, spam.
- Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, is that what we're doing?
This is so nerve wracking. My heart's beating so fast.
That's the jump string I'm gonna do.
My God. - Yes.
- Okay. - Sweaty palms.
I'm so sorry. - How do you do
the special again? - (FBE) L2 and R2
at the same time. - I already did it.
- I'm starting to kinda figure out the moves a little bit.
- I'm trying to grab him, but it's not working.
- I'm just trying to keep my distance and that's
what's good about Ermac is... - He keeps his distance, yeah.
I'm blocking. He's gonna win.
Yeah, he's got it. - I don't know the finishers.
Hi-ya. - (both laugh)
- I am picking Cassie Cage because she is the
most recent character I've learned.
Hopefully, I can still remember my combos.
- I'm picking Mileena purely because I remember that
she was just really fast and I'd rather be a really
fast character than a heavy puncher.
Let's do it. - Oh boy.
Wow, okay. Wow.
- Look at this. - Wow, I forgot everything!
Yep, I forgot everything. Okay.
Wow. - Yeah.
- I forgot everything, guys. This is not good.
- Here it goes. My heart is beating so fast.
- Same. My projectile is so slow.
- Oh, shoot. - Ah, that was the combo
but I forgot. Oh, I thought I blocked it.
Oh no. - Bite her.
In the eyes! - This is the end, isn't it?
No! No, so close.
Not so close, but I thought it was.
- I still got it.
- I loved Mortal Kombat growing up.
It was great and I think playing you guys,
playing the teens on the PS4 version,
it was a challenge.
- I love that games that were popular when I was a kid
are still out there and that's cool to be
able to just-- it's almost got a little bit
of nostalgia to me. No matter who wins, me,
or loses, him, we will always have fun
playing the games. - Totally.
- Thanks for watching us play Mortal Kombat
on the React Channel.
- Bye everyone. Guess that just shows
adults are better at Mortal Kombat.
- Hey guys, Mark here, producer at the React Channel.
Thank you so much for watching this episode.
If you enjoyed this Mortal Kombat sort of tournament,
we've got generational tournaments every Sunday.
We're playing Super Smash Brothers now, so come
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See you there.