Pit Fighter World is a fighting game developed by Atari Games and released as an arcade video game in 1990. It was Atari’s first fighting game.[1] The Japanese release was published by Konami. Home versions were published by Tengen.
The game uses uses digitized live actors captured through a bluescreen process, where the various poses and moves were performed by actors[4] in front of a video camera. The game’s on-screen character animation is replays of the actual footage, not a rotoscoped (redrawn) animation. Pit-Fighter is the second fighting game to use digitized sprites, after Home Data‘s Reikai Dōshi: Chinese Exorcist.
Gameplay – Pit Fighter World
The gameplay is similar to Taito‘s Violence Fight and SNK‘s Street Smart. The player must punch and kick their opponents until their energy runs out. If the player presses all three of the buttons at once, the character will perform a “super move”. The player begins by choosing one of the three playable characters, who each have different moves, speeds, and powers. Up to three people can play at a time, but there will be extra opponents to fight during any of the game’s 15 different matches.
Every third fight is a bonus round known as a “Grudge Match”.[5] In a Grudge Match, the player must fight against a CPU controlled clone of the fighter if playing alone, or against the other players in a multiplayer game. Getting knocked down three times eliminates a player from the Grudge Match; the winner is the last one standing. Losing the Grudge Match does not eliminate a player, but the winner gets bonus money.
Characters – Pit Fighter World
Pit Fighter World features 3 playable fighters:
- Buzz (Bill Chase[6]): A big and strong ex-professional wrestler.
- Ty (Marc Williams[7]): An agile kickboxing champion.
- Kato (Glenn Fratticelli[8]): A quick 3rd degree black belt.
Pit Fighter World has 8 unplayable opponents. Several of the characters share the names of the actors who played them:[4]
- Executioner (John Aguire[9])
- Southside Jim (James Thompson[10])
- Angel (Angela Stellato[11])
- C.C. Rider (Rich Vargas[12])
- Mad Miles (Miles McGowan[13])
- Heavy Metal (Kim Rhodes[14])
- Chainman Eddie (Eddie Venancio[15])
- Masked Warrior (Bill McAleenan[16])
Others:
- Knife Woman (Dianne Bertucci[17])
- Knife Man (Milt Loper[18])
- Finale Woman (Tina Scyrater[19])
- Finale Woman (Maria Lenytzkyj[20])
- Big Kid In The Crowd (Gabriel Koura[21])
- Crowd (Rob Rowe[22])
Releases – Pit Fighter World
The original Atari Games arcade game was released to strong market acceptance in 1990. In 1991, versions of the game were released for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum.[23]
In February 1993, the Spectrum version was released as part of the Super Fighter compilation with Final Fight and WWF WrestleMania.[24] The Super NES version lacks the interactive audience, weapons, and three characters: Southside Jim, Heavy Metal, and Mad Miles.
Handheld versions were released for the Atari Lynx and the Game Boy in 1992. Tiger Electronics released its own dedicated handheld version.[25][26]
An emulated version of the arcade game is in the 2004’s Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox, and in Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition (2006) for Microsoft Windows. This version runs at a faster speed than the arcade original. Pit Fighter World is in the 2012 compilation Midway Arcade Origins.[27]
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Title Screen
Select Your Fighter
In-Game BGM
Victory
Game Over
