Humorous Footnote

When MK2 was new there were tons of weird animality rumors floating around the arcades. Kids would be talking about how they saw Sub-Zero transform into a polar bear and eat his opponent. It sounded so incredibly stupid that I never believed it. Of course I thought the same about the Babalities too. These animality rumors proved to be false in time. For some reason they decided to include this rather silly -ality into MK3 (yet another reason why I never liked that game).

At the Electronics Boutique we'd have kids ask "Do you have a magazine that lists all the animalities for MK2?" We'd reply "no that's just a stupid rumor" and they'd then explain how they saw them in the arcade and we didn't know what we were talking about.

We decided to have some fun with this. At the arcades we'd target gullible-looking players and tell them about the secret "Fruit-and-Vegetabalities". These were secret finishing moves where you'd turn your opponent into a fruit or vegetable. For example, Sub-Zero would turn his opponent into a bag of frozen peas, Scorpion would turn his into a banana and so on. We made them almost impossible to execute. First, you had to win using only special moves. Try this with Sub-Zero where sliding is his only damage-causing special move. Then we created insane button sequences; not too crazy that they weren't believable but crazy enough that they were difficult to pull-off.

It took just under a week for kids to come rushing into Electronics Boutique, adamant that they saw a "Fruit-and-Vegetabality" in action. We'd mockingly explain that we made the whole thing up to see how long before some moron came to the store to try and find the codes. The funny part is that they didn't believe us, they were 100% convinced that the "Fruit-and-Vegetabalities" were real and we were either liars or wrong. People are dumb.