



The game also introduced "auto-seconds", which allows players to press a certain sequence of buttons to make characters automatically perform combos on opponents. The player that depletes the other player's life bars first wins the match. Instead of fighting enemies in best-of-three rounds bouts, each player has two life bars. Killer Instinct features several gameplay elements unique to fighting games of the time. The story was adapted in a limited comic book series published under the short-lived Acclaim Comics imprint. The game's plot involves an all-powerful corporation organising a fighting tournament. It was released as an arcade game in the summer of 1994 and, the following year, ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy. Killer Instinct is a fighting game developed by Rare and published by Midway and Nintendo.
