Did he do the Toasty voice too? lmao

not at all suprised actually. His voice is pretty recognizable even after the sample shifting

"Toasty" voice and dude that pops out at the corner.....that is Brian Eddy. That is why you hear that toasty drop in MM when you slay the dragon sometimes. True story, brah.

Here's a compilation of all of Steve's MKII sound bytes:

"Friendship! Friendship!"
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I asked Steve to do an impression of Mortal Kombat at MGC, and he said "It's not an impression, it's the real thing!"

"Lui Kang Wins!"

Awesome-sauce!

No, that was Dan Forden who did the sounds for MM and all the MK games.

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Steve ritchie did a bunch of voices over they years for midway and williams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ritchie

Black knight / bk2k
space shuttle
space station
no fear
firepower
ac/dc

Don't think that's correct.

F-14 - Now you die! BWAHAHAHA

You geeks don't have a club for this yet?

Serious business. http://www.mortalkombatonline.com/content/forum/showmessage.cds?id=127529

Street Fighter Capcom 34 million (as of 2012)[114]
Mortal Kombat Midway/Warner Bros. 26 million (as of 2007)[115]

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/salesdata.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20071023152817/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/news_060707_mortal.html

Street Fighter is the more successful franchise.

I *think* Steve was also the voice of Sinistar.

Maybe I made that up, but I am pretty sure I heard that at one point.

Chris

Hmmm...I thought everyone knew Steve was in MK. He wasn't happy that they uses his voice in the movie & didn't pay him.

Here's another MK fact for you, Bakushan!

Ho Sung Pak (Liu Kang) was in the Raphael suit for fight scenes in the original Ninja Turtles movie
Daniel Pesina (Johnny Cage) was a Foot soldier!

Love this thread

I probably stuck a fortune in both of those machines. I remember exactly where MK 1 was the first time I saw it in the arcade. It blew my mind. MK2 was even better and probably the best one. SF was good because it seemed to port better to home consules.

Street fighter 2 got me into arcades and I remember playing the SNES port all the time. We then made the switch to MK, MK2, and MK3. I still like the MK series, own a MK2 and MK3 machine. However as I went back and played these games as an adult, I think SF is the better series. After watching and realizing how deep these games actually are, I think SF takes the cake.

Speaking of which. I need to get working on my cabs so I can actually play these games again.

He also does a couple of "NO WAY"'s in smash TV and Total Carnage

I agree that Street Fighter has sold more games than Mortal Kombat, but you really can't use numbers of Mortal Kombat games sold upto the year 2007 versus Street Fighter games sold up to 2012.

Nope. John Doremus.

What would be funny on Star Trek is, on the penultimate shot to take down the Vengeance, Steve said "Finish him!"

Not sure if Franz from Champion Pub was modelled on Steve Ritchie? I think there is a resemblance
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I was quoting a wikipedia article and its sources that had those numbers.

But you'll agree that 2007 is way past the prime of both those games. Anything after 2007 for either game is negligible.

I remember being pissed I had a snes and the port removed the finishers in the mk port.

They weren't removed, they were altered. No blood/gore.

Nintendo always made 3rd parties censor their games...but I don't think the gaming public noticed/cared until Mortal Kombat ....and even though the Genesis port was shit - just the fact that it had the gore (ABACABB) pretty much turned the tide in the console wars toward Sega - Nintendo was deemed "kiddy" and Sega was crowned "cool". Nintendo finally had to abandon their censorship policies for the sake of business...and SNES MK2 turned out great. Kinda funny to think a few years down the road Nintendo would release one of the FILTHIEST games of all time - "Conker's Bad Fur Day" ...and then years after that, the Xbox remake would be more censored than the Nintendo version!

I would disagree. SF2 was the first which spawned a whole spew of fighting games. By the time MK was even made, SF2 was already on the championship edition.

I'm a huge MK fan and I am thrilled with this news! I was a video gamer first and pretty new to the pin addiction. I grew up with the fighting games. I probably told ten people today...like they give a $h!^ who Steve Ritchie is. But I just had to share this with somebody.

The Sega Genesis was out way before the SNES, and Nintendo was playing catch up the whole time. The tide only turned once, in Nintendo's favor, when Sega stopped developing for the Genesis in '95 to push the Saturn. Because the Nintendo 64 was delayed until '96, Nintendo kept the SNES alive and pumped out some of its best games long after Sega gave up on the Genesis. This allowed Nintendo to win the 4th generation of consoles, 49 million to 40 million.

this thread needs a sf vs mk popularity poll

Steve Ritchie put the "K" in Mortal Kombat as well.

I worked for the publisher that did the port. I was an associate producer at the time. Even worst than the removal of the finishers is Nintendo insistence on not showing red blood. We settled on green and the blood was supposed to represent "sweat".

But nintendo had slightly better graphics, plus with a game genie you could change the color from green back to red

Before I found pinball, I grew up with the Mortal Kombat franchise and had to own each one.
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Then I sold them all to buy pinball Machines
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And then about a month ago, I bought my favorite mortal kombat back
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MK3 ultimate and pins seems like a great choice.

Fun Fact OP thanks for sharing.

Yeeeeeaaaahhhhh!

No I wouldn't agree with that at all. Street fighter may have past it's prime but Mortal Kombat was still making games that we're selling well long after that. They made the DC vs MK game and more recently the one for PS3 that was super successful and became a greatest hits title for PS3. So I would be interested to compare the current figures to make it fair.

I think I need help. I find nothing weird about seeing someone with 10 pins lined up in their game room, but show me four video games and I instantly think "Dude, that's crazy!" Now if it had been a Tempest, Star Castle, Star Wars (vector) and Battlezone I'd immediately think "What a well-rounded visionary collector." It's a weird day when you realize just how screwed up your internal compass really is..

Penultimate shot? Wouldn't this make more sense for the ultimate shot?

I worked at a game store when MK came out, and Genesis/SNES seemed pretty neck and neck. Genesis had won over the sports game fans (The EA Sports games were better on Genesis), SNES had the Mario/Zelda/RPG fans. That fall that MK came out though....we sold SOOO many Genesis consoles w/ the MK game - and lots of people were trading in their SNES's for Genesis.

Look, Genesis was awesome with tons of amazing exclusive games ...but I truly believe that MK was the turning point that made people think Nintendo wasn't cool.

One of my favorite names of all time. If I were a rapper I would drop Ho Sung Pak's name in every rhyme.

I don't thing Steve was the announcer on MKI and therefore not him in the "dance hits' that were released. Even so...the "dance hits" kick ass.

I bought an UMK3 flyer to take to Expo this year in hopes of getting Steve Ritchie and Ed Boon to sign it.

Also rhymes with Tupac.

I think the fact they wook out the blood on SF2 on SNES also pissed a lot of people off. So the combo of the 2, really gave Sega the edge.