Yeah I definitely remember enjoying it more than MK for a while, though to be fair I was never a huge fighter game player. I mean like, once I stopped playing in arcades, I stopped playing the MK series. But I really enjoyed the art/animation style of KI, and I got to play as a werewolf...so you know...that's just a win right there.
Yeah, like, I vaguely recall a KI 2 in the arcades I think? But that was around the time when I wasn't going to arcades anymore, so it didn't really hit my radar. Like I said, personally fighting games never held my interest for too long, at least not after a certain age. It might be that a lot of my free money started going to my drug habit, and just a general shift in personal interests away from those style games. But yeah, KI 1 always was a fond memory whenever it would come up.
There was plenty of KI-2 in arcades. My brother had been too many an arcade. Do admittedly, once we got killer instinct gold for Nintendo 64, we didn't touch the arcade machines as much, unless we were going against another player.
Yeah I just checked the release date for those 2 games, and KI 1 came out when I was in like my 3rd year of highschool, and KI 2 came out after I graduated. Which would put me around 19-20. By that point I just wasn't hitting arcades. Most of the games they had weren't the types I enjoyed, and I was just sort of over the "feed money/minute" style of gaming. That and I was more interested in buying pot and acid during that time, and would just play online games like EQ or DAOC or whatever, and single player PC games.
Man I don't even really remember what games I was playing at 7 years old. Granted I've never really tracked that stuff mentally. I dunno if this is unusual or not, but despite being a gamer for my entire life (some of my earliest memories are being in elementary school, so about 5-6 years old, and going to the local Alladin's Castle arcade after school), but I just don't really remember details like release years for games and stuff. I play them, I love them, I move on to new games. Some of them are more memorable than others, but they're just sort of a nebulous background part of who I am. So yeah, no clue what titles I was playing at 7, but it would be whatever was out early-mid 80s, that are probably considered classics today. xD
