Reception
Upon its release on the SNES, VideoGames reviewer Tyrone Rodriguez gave the game a score of 8 (Great), stating his preference of it over Mortal Kombat 3 (the other editors' additional scores being 8-6-6). Computer and Video Games gave the game a 93%, adding, "Rare weren't lying when they said the home version would play better than the coin-op: no-one realised they were talking about the SNES!"
In retrospective, Killer Instinct was ranked as the 148th best game made on any Nintendo system by Nintendo Power in 2006 and as the 19th best SNES game of all time by ScrewAttack in 2008. In 2007, CraveOnline users ranked it as the sixth top 2D fighter of all time, the staff calling it "the bastard child of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat." In 2008, ScrewAttack listed it as the fifth best fighting game of all time. That same year, GamePro ranked it as the 18th best fighting game. Virgin Media ranked it as the eight top beat 'em-up of all time in 2009, adding that Killer Instinct was "most famous for having the longest combos in the business." In 2010, it was ranked as the 10th top fighting game of all time by UGO.
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
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