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defwack · 09-14-2006, 11:59 AM

This may be a little oldschool, but so am I.

Mortal Kombat 3 was in the arcade, and featured a mysterious "Ultimate Kombat Kode" (UKK) entry screen that popped up after the credits when you beat the game. This was before the internet was helpful for things like this (no online FAQs or anything), so you just had to guess or get lucky for codes.

There were 10 symbols in the UKK, and each corresponded to one of the punch/kick/block buttons on the console. Pressing a button would cycle through the dozen or so symbols for that slot. The game had been out for a while, and nobody knew the UKK or what would happen if it were entered correctly.

I forget where I found it, but I got wind of a rumor about the UKK, and spent the day in class memorizing the number of presses for each button that it would take to enter the UKK as I had it. The machine only gave you about 10-15 seconds to enter it, and there were 10 spaces to cycle through.

That night I went to the arcade with a friend of mine, but other people were already playing at the MK3. My friend and I went over and played a few games of Killer Instinct while we waited, but soon drew a crowd because we were the two best fighting-game players in our arcade.

While in the middle of a game, I heard from behind me the sound of someone beating the MK3 game, and without even waiting to finish my match of KI, I leaped between all the people that were gathered around and started tapping in the MK3 UKK as fast as I could.

It was pretty surreal, because the entire arcade went quiet as this was happening (they must have sensed that something "important" was going down). After I put in the last digit, and the machine accepted the code, the screen started going crazy and all kinds of sounds were coming out of the speakers. The machine spoke in that deep MK voice about unlocking the UKK and everyone in the arcade went nuts.

All it did was unlock Smoke as a playable character, but the mystery adn spectacle were intense, and I got to be "that guy" at the arcade that unlocked the UKK.

09-14-2006, 11:59 AM	#5 (permalink)
defwack Awesome Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Brantford, ON. Canada Posts: 1 OS:	This may be a little oldschool, but so am I. Mortal Kombat 3 was in the arcade, and featured a mysterious "Ultimate Kombat Kode" (UKK) entry screen that popped up after the credits when you beat the game. This was before the internet was helpful for things like this (no online FAQs or anything), so you just had to guess or get lucky for codes. There were 10 symbols in the UKK, and each corresponded to one of the punch/kick/block buttons on the console. Pressing a button would cycle through the dozen or so symbols for that slot. The game had been out for a while, and nobody knew the UKK or what would happen if it were entered correctly. I forget where I found it, but I got wind of a rumor about the UKK, and spent the day in class memorizing the number of presses for each button that it would take to enter the UKK as I had it. The machine only gave you about 10-15 seconds to enter it, and there were 10 spaces to cycle through. That night I went to the arcade with a friend of mine, but other people were already playing at the MK3. My friend and I went over and played a few games of Killer Instinct while we waited, but soon drew a crowd because we were the two best fighting-game players in our arcade. While in the middle of a game, I heard from behind me the sound of someone beating the MK3 game, and without even waiting to finish my match of KI, I leaped between all the people that were gathered around and started tapping in the MK3 UKK as fast as I could. It was pretty surreal, because the entire arcade went quiet as this was happening (they must have sensed that something "important" was going down). After I put in the last digit, and the machine accepted the code, the screen started going crazy and all kinds of sounds were coming out of the speakers. The machine spoke in that deep MK voice about unlocking the UKK and everyone in the arcade went nuts. All it did was unlock Smoke as a playable character, but the mystery adn spectacle were intense, and I got to be "that guy" at the arcade that unlocked the UKK.