Pit-Fighter

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Two years before Mortal Kombat made digitized fighters a household phenomenon, Atari Games was already filming real performers and turning them into arcade sprites. Pit-Fighter hit arcades in 1990 as a bare-knuckle tournament where a pro wrestler, a kickboxer and a martial artist battered their way through a gallery of underground brawlers, and it looked like nothing else in the room.

The Super Nintendo version, published by THQ and developed by Eastridge Technology, arrived in North America in March 1992 and is a much leaner affair. The arcade's rowdy, interactive crowd and its weapon pickups did not make the trip, and three of the arcade's opponents were left out as well, so what you get is the core idea: grainy, photographic fighters trading heavy blows in grimy pits, one bout after another, all the way up the bracket.

Honesty matters here. Nintendo Power's reviewers found it extremely hard to control and questioned whether it was fun at all, and the conversion has carried that reputation ever since. Yet that is exactly why it is interesting to own. Pit-Fighter on the Super Nintendo captures the brief window when digitized graphics looked like the future of fighting games and Street Fighter II had not yet rewritten the rules, a snapshot of the genre before it settled on a formula.

It belongs on the shelf of anyone tracing how fighting games got from the arcade's experiments to the 16-bit boom, and it makes a fascinating side-by-side with the digitized brawlers that followed it.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1991
Publisher
THQ
Developer
Atari Games
Players
Single player, Multiplayer

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