Eric Habrich

The Hab Trio (Left to Right: Eric, Luke, Troy)

This Eric Habrich person is surrounded by mystery. Because of his controversial past, he might even have been excluded from the contest. However, because he (or should we say "they"?) is such a major part of MK64 history, we felt we couldn't leave him out.

"Eric" joined the MK64 site in 2003. Within one year he made history by becoming the #1 non-shortcut player in the world, in NTSC and also in NTSC and PAL combined (although PAL player Michael Jongerius took away that title from him after some battles). "Eric" provided many videos of his records. He even bought a server to host all his videos, so everyone could download them. This was appreciated a lot by the community.

The major shock came in 2005, when Eric suddenly announced that he's been lying to us all the time. Not about the times, those were real times. He had been lying about his identity. In a video Eric and two friends of him announced that the times by "Eric Habrich" were in fact driven by three different players and not only by Eric. Those three players were: Eric Habrich, Troy Ullman and Luke Barnard.

According to that video: Eric Habrich only drove the WRs on Moo Moo Farm 3lap and flap. Troy Ullman drove the records on ... different tracks (including a very dominating CM 3lap WR). Luke Barnard drove the records on ... different tracks (including a historical 23"11 on MR flap).

They announced their retirement and said they created this confession video because they wanted us to know the truth about them before they retired.

Needless to say, this was a major shock to the MK64 community. Our extremely well trusted NTSC champion apparently lied to everyone. And an even bigger problem was that we still didn't know what is the actual truth. Were the times indeed driven by those three people, as they said in their video? Or was it that Eric wanted to retire, wanted to leave the community completely, and just thought: "heck i'm fed up with this community. I have nothing to lose, let's mess things up by making up one memorable hoax before i leave"

Unless Kevin Booth manages to meet the 3 people in person to watch them play MK64, we'll most likely never find out what the truth is. "Eric's" reputation is so damaged after his actions, that we can't trust any word he tells us about his identity anymore.

The MK64 times of Eric (and Luke and Troy?) stayed on the site, but the name Eric Habrich was removed and changed into "Former Member". Not a great solution for the site, but it's the best we could do.