While I would love to say the menus unlocked Noob Saibot, Skarlet, and every other urban legend that was floating around back in the day, they sadly do not. No wonder it took somebody 20 years to figure it out. Living up to MK‘s fondness for inscrutability, it takes a lighting quick input complicated block button presses from both Player 1 and Player 2 sides to unlock. While the existence of the EJB menus has been known for some time thanks to ROM data diving, how (and even if) they were actually opened remained a mystery until now.

More than 20 years since the release of MK1, a fan going by the name Zpaul2Fresh8 has figured out how to access the long rumored “EJB menus” on actual arcade hardware on the first three MK games. From actual hidden content like Reptile to urban legends and intentional pranks like “Kano Transformations” in MK2, fans have spent years wringing every last secret out of the games. The Mortal Kombat series has a rich tradition of Easter eggs and secrets.

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