Descpription:
Killer Instinct is a fighting game developed by
Rare and published by Midway and Nintendo. Initially released in arcades
in 1994, and rumored to use an "Ultra 64" hardware engine, in reality the
proprietary arcade hardware was co-developed by Rare and Midway.
Killer Instinct plays like many other fighting games, in which the player
controls a character in order to beat an opponent in a one-on-one encounter.
The game borrows the attack set of Street Fighter and is also
inspired by the finishing moves from Mortal Kombat. There are also
several features that distinguish it from other franchises:
A double energy bar
Automatic combos
Finishing moves
Ultra Combo
Combo Breaker
Killer Instinct was the first arcade game to use an internal hard
disk drive in addition to the games ROMs. This allowed it to store
massive amounts of data thereby giving it the ability to have more
detailed graphics than other games of this genre.
The game used pre-rendered sprites for characters, created with Silicon
Graphics, Inc. computers and the backgrounds were pre-rendered as a
'movie', which simply adjusted frames based on your current location.
All this data was stored on the hard drive.
