Mortal Kombat II Coin Operated Arcade Cabinet! Original, Full Size Machine, Not the Cardboard One!
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I miss the 90s Arcade era.
We do too!
Me also
i do too i play throwback games only
Me too
Me too... Great Times...
I remember so vividly walking into the mall arcade and seeing this cabinet. Just seeing Raiden on the side, and hearing the announcer and all the sound effects. I knew it was awesome before I ever seen the game being played. One of favorites of all time.
Yeah it was SOMETHING ELSE. I remember it was always packed and was in the back of the arcade... once I went over a few feet to where the original Mortal Kombat was, and played it a little bit while everybody else was playing MK2. All the games were horror themed, in the dark arcade it was actually pretty damn scary playing them with the sound pumped up!
MK2's Cabinet art is legendary. I don't think anyone who was at an arcade during MK2's heyday could ever forget that graphic of Raiden and the Lightning.
Yeah definitely some of the coolest sideart ever!
I remember when this game out they had just built a huge indoor amusement park/ arcade around me. They brought in no less than 20 cabinets of MK2. Everyone was packed around and all you can hear was MK2 because the sounds were cranked to Max.
Must have been quite a scene!
God... MK2 Arcade Machine is my dream...
This was the coolest game when I was a kid, we used to walk to the mall and just WATCH people play it! Even if we didn't have money. It was a completely different thing , we'd never seen anything like it at the time.
Joe's Classic Video Games I have now mk2 arcade version in my pocket
Raidens MK 2 Attire Was So Kool...
Yup... that's how I'll always remember him :)
Lames!!! Raidens mk2 attire was stoopid !!! I thought for all these years he was a baker!!!!
@@tommydesimone6106 go get your fucking shine box
@@tonycervz89 lol
Remember when I got this for Sega Genesis. I was about 12 and at that time the video game ratings really took affect so I had to convince my parents to buy it for me. . . Spent hours for weeks going through every type of finisher!
It was really something else. In my opinion that game and Street Fighter II Champion Edition were the only two that were better on the Genesis than on the Super Nintendo, of the games they made for both (at least that I was aware of)
I was never great at this game but boy did I love playing it
I kept trying to get good and I could beat the computer but anybody who was decent would tear me up, lol. My favorites were Scorpion, Sub Zero, and Millena.
Same here. There are people who played this game from day one and have mastered it. Seems I always played against these types, lol
One of the best arcade machines I have ever experienced in my life.
You got that right!
Must have spent a fortune on this game in the arcades! It's so addictive! Great video!
Yeah, it was a perfectly designed game at the time, there was nothing even coming close to it. Completely immersive experience.
I wouldn't call myself a hardcore mortal kombat fan,
I woul definitely call myself a classic mortal kombat fan!!
ESPECIALLY MK2
Yeah, that was the ONE, man!
Klassic Kombat is amazing.
Ahhh! The good old days!
My momma, hated me at that time jajaja.
It was something else, one of the games that really raised the bar.
This game still runs and plays great. That’s how we know it’s a great game. Damn near 25 years later and still fun to play
Yeah it's super smooth too, nice animations, great sound. A real masterpiece!
best of all mk games for me
MK2 will always be special to me not just because it was my first Mortal Kombat but also because it was the first time I got scared shitless as a kid. The first time I ever saw Reptile take off his mask and eat someone's head off... I was terrified.
Those were the good times :)
They sure were.
Arcade games back then were BRUTALLY difficult
Yes they were, crazy hard.
Well it's got to earn it's money some how
Mighty Lyons, that's MY game!! It's still playing perfectly and you're right the sound is fantastic although we differ in that I do support the gore haha. Just had my parents over and my dad and I got a game in. I don't know that my dad has played a video game in his life lol. It was awesome. Thanks so much, keep doing what you're doing! Fun fact, I acquired the disc AND the limited edition comic that you could send for and have it framed up next to the game.
+jara8184 Very cool that you got the comic book... glad it made it's way into a loving home :)
Ah nostalgia galore! I remember the first time I saw a MK2 cabinet. I didn't know they had a new MK. That was back before the internet is what it is today. And they certainly were not posting pop up adds everywhere.
You mean... the Good 'Ol Days!~
One day I will own this machine in my home. It’s always been a dream & yes the sound was so awesome!
You can do it man, just save a little bit at a time, there's a bunch of them out there!
Mortal Kombat 2 was the best of the series, I think Midway wanted the success that capcom had with Street fighter but never quite archived it with the first Mortal kombat but they sure did with the second one, every kid in the playground was talking about it i was 13 when it came out and it was huge!
What amazing is I was young playing this at the arcades it was so much ahead of it time we were lucky kids to have these toys back then all we got these days our bloody iPhones
Preach brother!
This is my favorite arcade game of all time. I was there in 93’ as a kid and those are memories that will last forever. I hope to one day own a dedicated cab. Until then arcade 1up will suffice.
I have the Arcade Machine of Mortal Kombat 2 sinse 1997.
Evan today when I start the Machine and see the Graphiks and hear
the Sound of that Monster it blow me away!
No console version came close to the Arcade version!
To play the Arcade version is an unforgettable expirience.
It's an awesome Game Evan 27 Years later.
Yeah it really does hold up well! Very well designed... thanks for watching!
The pizzerias in the north east had these machines back in the 90s , unforgettable times ❤️
Yeah that was back when the games were still growing in technology, a new one would come up that was much better than the last one :)
What a stunning machine! Absolute Classic! One day i will own it for sure.
Greatest intro to any game EVER!
Yeah, the music was immense :) We were all hyped to see what happened after the first one, too.
If I could get an arcade cabinet this would be it! I remember waiting in line to play this and the third game too! Mortal Komat one I played on the Genesis the first time I ever played a Mortal kombat game. I was also one of the few fans of War gods. Lol. I have that on PSX and N64. The developers of Mortal kombat wanted to go on and make Star wars games after the first game I believe and they said"No! More Mortal kombat games! Now!!!" =)
At the time it was amazing!
While I'll probably never own one of these awesome machines due to their price... I do have a MAME setup with CRT/scanline screen effects which is the next best thing... I feel like I'm stealing from someone every time I "insert coin." lol
The Arcade1Up machines are cool... But a bit too pixelated for my liking. And forget about that Arcade Kollection from 2011. That was terrible and while it looked somewhat okay, the AI was different.
Nothing will ever compare to the hype of MK2's release... it was everywhere. Every videogame magazine covered it. Pure excitement! Really miss that era sometimes.
Yeah, I don't know if the kids today get the same kind of excitement when a new game comes out. Maybe, but MK2 was huuuuuuge.
Major props for knowing your Midway game history! 2 on 2 open ice challenge was the hockey game BTW
That's the one!
BACK IN THE EARLY 90'S THIS GAME WAS LIFE!!!. ENDLESS QUARTERS DROPPED...
Yup, it was about as good as it gets. At our local arcade people played it non stop, as soon as one guy was done another guy would start, sometimes had people waiting in line.
This was my favorite arcade game, and game on genesis and super N! Great times when this was released.
Yeah it was something else, a real leap forward from everything before it. It was my favorite fighting game for a long time but eventually I kind of reverted back to preferring Street Fighter II Champion Edition, this one is still my second favorite though.
So I had a Defender Arcade cabinet which was converted to MKI. Honestly it was awesome. Then I converted that to MKII, just a couple of re-pins etc.
I ALSO added a 16" woofer inside the guts of the cabinet. It was BRUTAL. I have NO idea how that sound board was able to drive that thing, I didn't use ANY amplifier of any kind, I literally just wired it up to the sound board. Think of how bassy the game is with the stock speakers and then think about it in an old rickety Defender Arcade cabinet with nothing but woofer inside!. That thing shook like a BOSS. I had it in my basement and it was a pretty decent hit at my house parties.
If I turned that thing up, this old school woofer just shook the downstairs of my house from the basement. I could only crank it up when everyone was gone.
Those little amps in those Midway games are pretty beefy, I've burned one or two up but usually they hold up really well. If you had the woofer in the bottom it basically probably made the whole box resonate... pretty cool!
I gave it a shot and man it drove that Sub hard. I furthermore cannot believe there was such low-low's. The sampling must have been very good. It was much too much though it was punishing to play with that speaker turned up!
The best Arcade Cabinet from 90'! It's very beautiful!!
Im currently making a mk 1 custom arcade machine, i picked up a used cabinet that had been running tekken on it but the monitor had blown, it wasn't originally a tekken cabinet either, if you see my slideshow video you'll probably be surprised it was turned into a tekken machine with the upright monitor, anyway it has a pal European dreamcast and American ps2 inside, i got the American ps2 so i can play the special edition mk1 and ultimate mk3 that came with mk deception & Armageddon that was only released in the US. I also have midway arcade treasures and mk trilogy (ps1) and to finish it off mk4 gold on dreamcast. Many will wonder why i didnt go with a mame pc, well this was just easier for me as i already the games and consoles plus i do have plenty of emulation discs for the dc so it made sense i think.
You'll have to film a video. Also, we want more bloopers :)
Haha :) yeah i will do, its surrounded by loads of junk at the moment but ive just had a new shed put up so ill clear some of the out soon and get a video done, still got a fair bit to finish so i'll hopefully be getting on with that fitting it in inbetween my motorbike projects.
THIS GAME WAS BOSS BACK IN MY ARCADE DAYS WHEN I WAS A YOUNGSTER LMAO!! THIS GAME WAS THE SHIT BACK IN THE DAY!!
+seneca stevens All one summer I walked to the mall to watch people play it every day, it was really something special at the time!
Bro this would be a dream come true to have this in my man cave. Huge mortal Kombat fan
These full size original cabinets are getting harder and harder to find unfortunately!
Yes, I agree, it goes like this: 12 year old me: "Fatality! Cool"; 38 year old me: "How in the world did I endured playing such a violent game like this?!"
Man i'm getting to the point I can't even watch horror movies anymore and I used to love 'em, I watch them now and think "What the hell, it's all women being murdered over and over again!"
awesome , awesome !
Wish there was something in between the original and the 1up arcade cabs that someone could buy. The 1ups are somewhat too small & are made out of particle board & then the original are bulky / heavy & somewhat too expensive...
I've heard others say the same thing
If you add a riser and a light up Marquee there amazing!!! My mk2 arcade is from them is killer!!
not to bad of scorpion playing luv this game I remember playing it in the arcades but more owning my friends on the snes
I used to get it HANDED TO ME in the Arcade....
Arcade 1 UP is great and I give them props but nothing comes close to the real deal cabinet. Awesome video!
I don't have this OG one but I was able to get the Arcade 1up Legacy one, the fam and I love it!
Very informative
Thank you Nine Zero!
That looks like a real MK2 cab it even haves the 5 button layout
I used to play this in arcades everywhere back in my childhood. I have the Mortal Kombat countercade from arcade 1up. It's got MK1, MK2, MK3, and UMK3 included, Nope, no MK4 included, I wish it was though. I have that soundtrack CD that was advertised on the screen. Mortal Kombat is my #1 favorite fighting game, Street Fighter being my #2, and Killer Instinct Being my #3.
The sound was crisp due to DCS sound system used on this arcade. Plus Dan Forden is legendary with sound and effects! I wish I had bought that advertised mk2 soundtrack cd that would randomly pop up on this game. Its now going for $300 plus on ebay when one is listed in an auction!
I'm so curious--I notice there they have the BLACK bat top joysticks. Some I've seen are RED. Did Midwat=y originally have them in both colors?
No the originals were all Red. You got me! Good eye.
BRO thats the fuckin dream machine of ALL
Yeah, it kinda is....
Hi there!! That's a million dollar question: where can you find an original MK II Midway arcade cabinet and what's the average price? I'm from Italy and I'm really fond of old arcade games, even though I gotta recognize the price is actually high and if the object comes from the US there are huge import duties to pay as well!! Anyway, I've really appreciated this video and I hope you're doing fine and staying safe during these quite hard times!!! Peace 😁😊
One still pops up over here every once in awhile, but usually they're in pretty rough shape, a really nice one like this one would be about $1800 or so in our shop, maybe one in lesser shape would be $1400. We never get them in anymore though.... We are doing great, but we've been worried about yall over there in Italy! Glad to see it's getting better, we love Italy in the United States.
@@LyonsArcade what type of monitor is it using trying to much the colors on mame got the color temp at 8500k example 8:56 where you see the dead guys on mame its like a dark pink not blue. you would think it would be easy to change that to blue but its not , not sure how to just change that part
SWEAR ANY GAME CONSOLE of Mortal Komnbat II was never sounding or graphics as the arcade...even did it on my pc i cant find the beautiful quality the arcade brought!!!
Yeah, it was so smooth. When the Super Nintendo one came out though, that was better than anything had ever been up until then so we were all pretty amazed by it.
I always love the soundtrack on MK II
Awesome to see an original cabinet thanks for sharing!! Do you know what type of buttons were used in the original cabinet?
They were just the typical Happ concave pushbuttons that were in most American arcade games at the time. Thank you for watching 25Robbo25 !
Awesome thanks for your reply much appreciated 🙏
Super awesome MK2 cab.
Thanks Arethrid, we appreciate you watching!
This game is really hard on midway arcade treasures 2 because it's so fast and the computer always beat me.
Is it faster than the arcade version?
Joe's Classic Video Games yep it's faster than the actual arcade version because I play it on the ps2 sometimes maybe you should try it yourself if you have a ps2 just to see what I'm talking about.
One of my favorite arcade cabinets.
It's definitely something special!
@@LyonsArcade yes it is
I live in Spain and i would like to buy one of these cabinets.
They're getting hard to find Carlos even over here!
Joe's Classic Video Games I know but i dont lose the hope.
I miss this game also, it was the hardest, I spent at least $20 on it to beat it.
Money well spent!
I'd like to own that one too.
Awesome! It's a nostalgia 👍
It sure is!
how much did or does that costs if a whanded to baye
I think this one was $1299 when we sold it.
Joe can you also build a custom fightstick for home consoles? No one sells twin stick arcade sticks fur games like TOTAL CARNAGE or ROBOTRON and those games are out on Xbox one under MIDWAY ARCADE CLASSICS.
Unfortunately I'm not too great with the custom stuff man it'd probably look like crap and work worse :)
The AI is a pain in the ass in this fucking game, especially when it gets to the later stages. It's nearly impossible to punch or kick them or even do an uppercut or a sweep and even your special moves don't work anymore. You have to wait for the computer to walk towards you and then jump backwards and that's where they're most vulnerable to an attack, but it sucks that you have to resort to that strategy to beat them.
I think there was a difficulty setting, I wonder if it's easier if they turn it down to pull off your special moves....
yea that game an also i see that old ass brown tv wit a sega genesis on top
Where Scorp's fatality on MK1 is just ↑↑, in MK2 it's ↑↑HP. (I use the secret version, though - ↓↓↑↑HP - because it can be done from anywhere.)
Man, I forgot all about that! I can't remember why they changed it...
60fps perfect
Sure was cool
Yup, what a game!
I have the "cardboard" one, lol which is the Arcade1up MKII Deluxe model released last spring. It's just slimmer than a real cabinet and has a 17" LCD instead of a 25" or so CRT monitor and has cheaper buttons and sticks and the games are emulated, there are 14 Midway/Williams/Atari games. Paperboy was a a 1985 Atari game. Midway/Williams bought the arcade division of Atari called Atari Games around 1988. Midway went belly up by 2000 and some employees formed Raw Thrills in 2001 including Eugene Jarvis creator of the Cruis'n games. I didn't build the MKII yet. They could make a bigger XL version in the future with a 19" BOE monitor and Happ now SuzoHapp buttons and sticks like the KI Pro they did, I have that and didn't build it either. It cost me over a grand from Arcade1up direct, and the MKII $499.99 plus tax from Best Buy shipped to me.
What is your website you sell them on and the other ones
www.LyonsArcade.com
@@LyonsArcade ok
Best arcade game ever
Interesting it started on that board and not the lava one.
I see you have the proper screen ratio on this cabinet.
It's the original monitor!
That makes sense. I've seen recent MK cabinets improperly display the game where you can see graphics on the far left or right that should be cropped out by the aspect ratio. Easy way to tell is on the right side of the screen during the MKII opening story.
Looks like crap the screen is flickering like crazy.
@@thegreatecb the screen is flickering because the camera can see the scan refresh line crts monitors produce.. this happens with all crt monitors when filming
he got a sega genesis on that old brown tv
classic
Yes... one of my favorites of all time.
Anyone here know about cabinets? All my roms show up red on the daughter board/memory expansion board, can I just replace them and will my machine be back in perfect working condition?
Jesus, I doubt that will fix it, if you have all of your roms coming up red it's very unlikely that all of them just went bad all of a sudden (although possible, but it's a longshot), there's probably a chip somewhere that interfaces with all the rom chips that has went bad so the CPU can't talk to any of them. There may be a jumper setting somewhere that's been removed too, something like that. If you look there are little jumpers all over the board that are described in the back of the manual.
@@LyonsArcade honestly I don't know much about them, just basics. I barely picked it up two days ago and it's been sitting outside for a good while, in awesome condition still! Very surprised but I was thinking maybe the changes in weather maybe messed them up or something but I'm having someone come look at it tomorrow or something, he was saying something about the voltage or watts also but I know nothing about any of that lol
@@LyonsArcade so I figured out the problem, it wasn't pushed in all the way lol thanks for all your responses man
That theme right at the beginning is permanently suck in my head
...from playing pool in an arcade for many many hours back in the day.
Sir can you find another original like this?
We never see them anymore unfortunately!
What does it mean when they say it's a "dedicated arcade machine"???
Each arcade game is either 'dedicated' or a 'kit'.... the 'kit' games came in a little kit, that you installed in a cabinet you already had or bought somewhere else. So some of them were put in old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cabinets, or something that had been painted black by the operator.
The "dedicated" game was the one that shipped from the factory in the cabinet it's in... they usually had more artwork and are generally considered more desirable because most of the ones you would have seen back in the day would be in a dedicated cabinet.
This particular one is the Dedicated Mortal Kombat II cabinet....
Love this!! I am searching for an original MK2 arcadecabinet myself for quite some time now... But can't seem to find one over here in The Netherlands :-( Do you have any tips on where to look for / find an MK2 cabinet?
6:18 i think you gonna die with easy with Baraka 😂😂😂
Back back forward. Who's/what move is that again? It's the only move I remember ^_^
raiden fly
Awesome, i've never player MK2 cabinet, there was Only street fighter here. What Is the price of this cabinet?
my first love :D
LOL
I’m Looking for Mk 4 arcade machine
They're getting harder to find!
Wow
Hi, I recently got an MK 2 arcade machine, looks exactly like the one you have here but it's without blood and I cant find a way to turn on the blood, do you know if there is a way to turn it on? I couldnt find any info online about a version without blood.
Sure you need to go into the test menu, open the door and you'll see a switch behind the door inside the machine that if you move it to one side or the other it goes into the test mode.
You can change a bunch of stuff in there, if you look around you'll find the setting to turn the blood on or off. You can also turn off or on Johnny Cage's low blow. If it says something about you need to change the dipswitches then there is a set of small switches on the actual game pcb that need to be set up. If you get a copy of the manual online it tells how to do all this stuff.
@@LyonsArcade I've looked around in the test menu but can't find any settings for blood nor johnny cages low blow (which is in the game by default it seems) That leaves me with the dipswitch tip which is something im not familiar with, so theres a physical button I need to press? I'll search for the manual online, thanks for your reply! appreciated!
@@hv992 You could have one of the early revision roms that didn't have blood. If so that's extremely rare and I'd hold onto that.
Now THAT is a MK II game. These Walmart miniature knock off cabinets are cool for your home but they are not meant for intense gameplay because these OG cabinets took some serious punishment. There was always like 15 kids hanging all over the machine and beating the FUCK out of the controls.
MORTAL KOMBAT II ARCADE CABINET MAME WITH REVERSED MIRRORED MONITOR
Where can u buy this arcade?
Not sure, we sold this one quite awhile ago unfortunately.
Hey I got one but it will power on but the screen won’t light up or work how do I fix it
Why is the screen flickering?
When you point a camera at a CRT, the CRT refreshes at a different rate than the camera so you see scan lines scroll through the screen in the video. In person you don't see them.
Can you get the new Killer Instinct on arcade?
the sound .... is even superior to any other version, including the pc one, Is it possible to get the arcade version on pc?
Yes you should be able to, look up MAME , Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
@@LyonsArcade thank you!
is building a replica the same feel?
I've never built a replica but if you used the IL Joysticks it should feel the same!
Joe's Classic Video Games I may consider building one, if I don’t find I’m in cali & most places cost too much money for freight, but i’ll keep searching.
Was all downhill after mk2.
Yup. Even MK3 which went further wasn't the magic that MK2 was, it was perfect. They were doing the same thing on Street Fighter, once Champion Edition came out and Super street Fighter II came out, it was 'more' but it wasn't better. Nearly as good though. MK3 was almost as good as Mk2 but not quite.
i know im 11 but i some how like to buy mortal kombat acrade machines . i can't say im a hardcore mortal kombat fan but you can say im a mortal kombat kollector
Nothing wrong with Kollecting, I'm not very good at playing them either...
isn't a 11 year liking to collect acrade (real arcade)and mortal kombat is weird ?
It's pretty cool but I wouldn't call it weird!
hey joe how many acrade you have ?
JackychowYT well we buy and sell them so all the ones you see in this video we no longer have. We have about 250 arcade games at the moment counting all the broke ones we have to fix
It hard to find this arcade
It is, people like to keep them if they have one!
Such a classic.
Do u have any more for sale
How much does it cost
We already sold it back when we shot the video, I believe it was $1299.
How much do you sell them for
It depends on the game, I think this Mortal Kombat II sold for $1200.
@@LyonsArcade do u have more that you are selling or the website that people go to
Yes we're at www.LyonsArcade.com .
You’re right. You’re not very good lol. BUT YOU BROUGHT BACK SO MANY MEMORIES! You get a pass.
You're not very good at commenting on videos either, but you got better later on in the comment
Joe's classic video : how much is this machine arcade of mk2 ?
We already sold this one, it was $1499.
Joe's Classic Video Games : what pit ! I would like to buy this one
donde conseguir la original..que funcione con monedas ..