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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“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)