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Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct
Publishers:
Nintendo, Playtronic
Release date:
Oct 1994
Summary:
Killer Instinct is a fighting game developed by Rare and published by Midway and Nintendo. It was released as an arcade game in the fall of 1994 and, the following year, ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and the Game Boy. The game's plot involves an all-powerful corporation organising a fighting tournament. The story was adapted in a limited comic book series published under the short-lived Acclaim Comics imprint.
Killer Instinct features several gameplay elements unique to fighting games of the time. Instead of fighting enemies in best-of-three rounds bouts, each player has two life bars. The player that depletes the other player's life bars first wins the match. The game also introduced "auto-doubles", a feature which allows players to press a certain sequence of buttons to make characters automatically perform combos on opponents. Also featured in the game are "combo breakers", special defensive moves that can interrupt combos.
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EGM issue #
61, Aug 1994
Page #166 ( Article )
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64, Nov 1994
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65, Dec 1994
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66, Jan 1995
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66, Jan 1995
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66, Jan 1995
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66, Jan 1995
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66, Jan 1995
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66, Jan 1995
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6, Dec 1994
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6, Dec 1994
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9, Mar 1995
Page #51 ( Tips )
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10, Apr 1995
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GamePro issue #
62, Sep 1994
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65, Dec 1994
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66, Jan 1995
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67, Feb 1995
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67, Feb 1995
Page #139 ( Review )
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67, Feb 1995
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67, Feb 1995
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67, Feb 1995
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67, Feb 1995
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68, Mar 1995
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68, Mar 1995
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68, Mar 1995
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68, Mar 1995
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70, May 1995
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70, May 1995
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71, Jun 1995
Page #45 ( Article )
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63, Aug 1994
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64, Sep 1994
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