Killer Instinct Video Arcade Game for Rent

Killer Instinct Classic arcade game rental San Francisco

Killer Instinct Video Arcade Game for rent was released by Midway and Nintendo in summer 1984. The game’s plot involves an all-powerful corporation organizing a fighting tournament. The story was adapted in a limited comic book series published under the short-lived Acclaim Comics imprint.

Killer Instinct Video Arcade Game features several gameplay elements unique to fighting games of the time. Instead of fighting enemies in best-of-three rounds bouts, each player has two life bars. The player that depletes the other player’s life bars first wins the match. The game also introduced “auto-seconds,” which allows players to press a specific sequence of buttons to make characters automatically perform combos on opponents. Also featured in the game are “combo breakers,”; special moves that can interrupt combos.

Killer Instinct Video Arcade Game plays like many other fighting games, in which the player controls a character 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.