Ancient Web: Motaro's MK Page Still Knows the MKII Fatalities

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Somewhere between remembering Scorpion's spear move and trying to pull off a Friendship, early fighting-game fans needed a reference page that didn't vanish when the arcade closed.

Visit the Mortal Kombat II moves and secrets pages.

The section belongs to Motaro's MK Page, created by Greg Leedberg. In his unusually informative website history, Leedberg dates its launch to October 28, 1995. He says the project followed his first web experiments, hosted on an America Online account that offered just one megabyte of storage.

Leedberg remembers the MK site receiving mentions in print magazines and says he stopped changing it in 1997. That is the creator's recollection, not a separately verified traffic count. The important part is that the old pages can still be read.

Finish him, in plain text

The MKII page introduces the game's Outworld storyline, then offers moves, secrets, and associated files. The moves list starts with a small abbreviation table: forward, back, up, down, high punch, low punch, block, and the two kick buttons.

It then marches through the playable characters, documenting special moves, Fatalities, Babalities, Friendships, and stage finishers. Kung Lao gets his hat attacks, Scorpion has his spear and teleport, and Mileena's entries include both combat moves and finishing sequences.

The guide carefully qualifies its own testing. It says the commands should work on most releases, but that only the Genesis and Super Nintendo versions were tested. That little disclaimer captures the difficult work of assembling fan guides when an arcade game had several home conversions with different buttons and mechanics.

The secrets page extends the game-manual approach into hidden features and tricks. This was knowledge passed around by friends, magazine tip columns, and networked hobbyists well before a walkthrough video could demonstrate everything.

Leedberg's history also tracks a distinctive hosting journey: from AOL's tiny allocation to SimpleNet, and eventually to his own domain after Yahoo acquired the hosting service. The Mortal Kombat pages survived those migrations without being transformed into a generic modern game portal.

Browse the original MKII move list.

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