![]() ![]() ![]() While Mortal Kombat is and will forever be my favorite fighting game series, Killer Instinct really showed that music in fighting games does not need to be orchestral and epic, they can be toe-tappingly good fun. Killer Instinct set the bar for fighting game soundtracks. I listen to it at the gym and I feel invincible (at least until shoulder day, I hate shoulder day). This soundtrack with its 90s electro-style track list is something that would energize anyone's day no matter how little you slept. Not only am I being transported back to the era of my youth, but I am also in the mood to get in my car and drive around the block (cus of gas prices) while blaring this album for my whole neighborhood to hear. I'm currently listening to the album as I write this article. RELATED: Yoko Shimomura Comments on Rearranged Music in Live A Live HD-2D.Each level contained an upbeat song, that could double as either a radio hit or something you would dance to at a club in the mid to late 90s. As Gordon said, the music in the original game really sounded like the music you would hear on the radio. The album contained 15 tracks and to this day is still revered by many video game fans as one of the best. Killer Cuts was the name of the album that was released with Killer Instinct in 1995. In a documentary interview, he said, "The music on Killer Cuts sounded to me as a seven-year-old kid, the same as music you'd hear on the radio". First, let's take a look at what the composer for the Xbox version of the game, Mick Gordon, had to say about it. Here's what made the original Killer Instinct soundtrack so popular, why it perfectly encapsulated 90s culture, and how its character's designs helped craft the game's sound too. Hearing the smooth beginning of the game's intro going into the iconic guitar riff rocked my world. You can imagine my awe when I played it on my neighbor's Super Nintendo for the first time: its soundtrack told me "You have never experienced a fighting game like this". To this day I remember sliding across its many green-screened stages with Spinal, cheesing my way up through different opponents. RELATED: Turning Red Music And Soundtracks: Here's the Complete Tracklist.Yours truly was seven years old, playing Killer Instinct not on the Nintendo, but on the Game Boy. The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers made their theatrical debut, Coolio released Gangsta's Paradise, and Killer Instinct made its way onto video game store shelves everywhere. ![]()
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