I would take notes on how to do the motions and then practice in a paper with a drawn arcade pad on it (stick with a rectangle, buttons as circles…) can’t find the pad drawing tho I know I have it somewhere. Found someFulgore notes! The typing machine, lol.
I was able to go to the arcades only during summer time, when spending my vacations in another city. Knowing the motions before helped me a lot when I was at the real thing. Well, it was the best way I found to deal with the impossibilities of playing often. Until I got the SNES version (but the arcade was what I liked the most).
I still have my KI and MK books with note book paper and move lists like yours. I also have the Brady games Ki and MK books from 94. Those were the days!
I remember doing this. I would spend time studying the move lists I wrote so that when I got the chance to play it on the SNES, I would be ready. I also wasn’t able to hit the arcade back in '95 by myself, so instead I would spend a lot of time attempting my own art and letting my imagination run wild with it.
The good thing for me was when summer hit, my brother and I had a house sitting job, and they had an SNES. We were able to rent Killer Instinct and play that for a while. By the time I moved out, I had thrown away all of my notes. Didn’t think I would need them. I never realized I would buy an SNES in '08. Of course by then the internet had tons of moves lists, but still, there is something powerful about writing it down yourself.
I remember when I was playing Samurai Shodown 2 on emulator in times when I had no Internet connection. When AI was doing special moves, the inputs were shown under his health bar, and I was noting them.
I never got to play the arcade version of KI, but I played the crap out of the SNES version and had Nintendo Power’s KI player’s guide, and I used it so much it fell apart. I wish I still had it, but I don’t remember what happened to it.
(but the arcade was what I liked the most).
