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Thursday Night Throwdown 09/02: Mortal Kombat Double Feature!

It's going to be a Fatal Thursday as we play Mortal Kombat II for PSN and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for Xbox Live Arcade!

Mortal Kombat is pretty serious business here at Giant Bomb, and our two resident Shaolin Monks--Brad Shoemaker and Jeff Gerstmann--have conflicting perspectives on which Mortal Kombat, exactly, is the best Mortal Kombat. Any attempt at a compromise would just leave the office littered with rib cages and femurs, so for this week's Thursday Night Throwdown, you'll be able to pick your poison, outlander! Brad will be manning the sticks on Mortal Kombat II for PlayStation Network, while Jeff will be handing out fatalities left and right in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on Xbox Live Arcade.  
  
If you want in on the action, there's still room on the GBTNT friend list on both platforms, though keep in mind that if you don't already own UMK3 on XBLA, you're out of luck, as it's no longer available for sale on the Marketplace. If you don't own it already, MKII is still available for purchase on PSN, and for a mere $4.99 at that! 
 
You can watch the pixelated bloodbath in the video player below, or hop over to the Giant Bomb chat page and kick it with like-minded fight fans. Yes, it will be two glorious hours of palette-swap ninjas, spiked pits, fatalities, babalities, friendships, and more, all starting today at 4PM Pacific Daylight Time! Join us, won't you?  
 
UPDATE: A fatali-tastic was had by all! Thanks to everyone who played and caught the live stream, but if you missed it, we've got the whole show archived below in two easily-digested parts.
  

   
  

    

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Was a fun TNT, GiantBomb. Thanks to Jeff and all who played me, Codonomicus, on UMK3. Also, apologies for my awkwardly slow connection. For shame!

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It was fun.
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Next time I actually have the game they play on TNT, I am changing my name to something in the beginning of the alphabet.
 
They sometimes decide to switch it up mid-way through, and start inviting people from the back end of the friends list, but most of the time Z is never reached.
 
Oh well, can't complain. There were more people playing UMK3 tonight during TNT than I have ever seen in the last year, lol. So I got some good play time with a variety of people.

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Was a fun TNT tonight - That was a close MK2 fight for me.

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I'm gonna miss that banner...
 
Anyway, good show as always!

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This was great!  Just watched my game of UMK3 about 25 minutes into the video...  Didn't think I would win against Jeff, he is definitely great at the game. I think just a weakness of Liu against Sub-Zero.  And yes I was also on the PS3 but couldn't figure out how to accept the game invite in time -_-  Haha. 

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As the first person on the Stream to play. man that was Close. XD

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More old ass games for TNT!

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there is one view and 58 posts wtf?

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@Scrumdidlyumptious said:
" I have never actually played a Mortal Kombat game before and I've probably seen less than 1 minute of gameplay of it in my entire life. This should be an enlightening experience. "
Holy good God! Well... after watching TNT, what'd ya think?
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It didn't last long and I knew I was going to lose, but it was awesome.

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@TheGreatGuero said:
" @Scrumdidlyumptious said:
" I have never actually played a Mortal Kombat game before and I've probably seen less than 1 minute of gameplay of it in my entire life. This should be an enlightening experience. "
Holy good God! Well... after watching TNT, what'd ya think? "
I posted that comment and then dozed off 20 minutes later... I guess it wasn't meant to be.
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Work of Art!

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Hahaha I love the staring at the end of both streams :)

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I can't look at Johnny Cage without thinking of my brother kicking my ass over and over again with him.

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Jeff is just preposterously good at UMK3, I mean good God, it was just lambs to the slaughter.
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@Scrumdidlyumptious:  Heartbreaking, dude. Guess you would have needed to have been there back in the day to fully appreciate it.
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@Brackynews: That is a justin.tv ad, not a Giant Bomb ad.
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