Pit-Fighter
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| Developer(s) | Atari Games |
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Atari Games, Tengen Konami (Japan) |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, DOS, Game Boy, Lynx, Master System, Mega Drive/Genesis, SNES, ZX Spectrum |
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| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Up to 3 players simultaneously |
| Arcade system | Atari G1 Hardware 68000 @ 14.31818 MHz (CPU) Sound CPU : ADSP2105 (@ 10 MHz) M6502 @ 1.7895 MHz (CPU) YM2151 @ 3.579 MHz (Audio) MSM6295 @ 0.009037 MHz (Audio) |
| Display | Raster resolution 336 x 240 |
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| Publication | Score |
| MegaTech | 80% |
Pit-Fighter is a 1990 arcade fighting game by Atari Games, notable for its early use of digitized live actors. The Japanese arcade release was published by Konami.
The graphic animation for the player character(s) and opponents were created through a bluescreen process, where the various poses & moves of the characters were acted out by hired actors in front of a video camera. The game's on-screen character animation are replays of the actual footage, not a rotoscoped (redrawn) animation as was common in other games. Pit Fighter was the second fighting game to use digitized sprites, after Home Data's Reikai Dōshi: Chinese Exorcist.
The gameplay is similar to Taito's Violence Fight and SNK's Street Smart. The player must jump, punch, and kick their opponent until his/her energy runs out. If the player presses all three of the buttons at a time, the character will perform a "super move". The player begins Pit-Fighter by choosing one of the three playable characters, who all have different moves, speed, and power.
In the player select screen in the arcade version, each player has a color to select the fighters with: for player one it's blue, for player two it's red and for player three it's yellow. As many as three people can play at a time, but there will be extra opponents to fight during any of this game's 15 different matches.
Every third fight is a bonus round known as a Grudge Match. In a Grudge Match, the player must fight against a CPU controlled clone of his or her fighter (if playing alone) or the other players in a multiplayer game. Getting knocked down three times eliminates a player from the Grudge Match, the winner is the last man standing. Losing the Grudge Match does not eliminate a player, but the winner gets bonus money.
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