It introduced the world to the awesome tornado kick. It was Ty's supermove, which they called the "double kick". In real life it is a technique of Kung-Fu and Taekwondo (I think). Later in Street Fighter II Zangief has a tornado kick. And later in Tekken II, Lei Wulong's unblockable attack is a spinning tornado kick. And in the discipline on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, there is actually an escape technique from the bottom of the North-South position which is like a tornado kick on the ground. (But it is used for wind-up, not to hurt your opponent)
Pit-Fighter was a head-turner at arcades back in the day and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Even when Street Fighter II hit, it still got lots of play. When people didnt want to wait for their turn at SFII, and MK was too crowded, it was a nice option. Ty was the best character too.
I would love to see some new digitized based games with today's technology. Super high resolution pictures, very high frame and animation rate. It would be great to see something done with all high-res sprites.
Word of advice: If you are going to play Pit-Fighter, play it on MAME & NOT on Super Nintendo! Or, if you are the owner of an Atari Lynx like a certain Top Hat Gaming RU-vidr I know of, play Pit-Fighter on that! it's surprisingly faithful to the arcade game.
The génesis versión was such a hit that a Pit Fighter 2 was almost released for the génesis featuring recycled sprites from the infamous arcade blunder Guardians of the hood.
I just play it on ‘Midway Arcade Origins’ for the 360,which I’m assuming is arcade perfect as I nvr came across this in the arcades back in the day.Maybe I did but if I did I don’t remember playing it. I have a blast playing it now though.I prefer it to the 1st 2 Mortal Kombat games.
When I was a kid I wrote a school assignment ranking arcade games and Pit-Fighter was number one. It had just come out and I was very impressed. In retrospect, it's very simple and there were probably better games.
Refreshing you called Frank Dux a con-artist. To this day people still try and tell me he broke a world record putting his "palm" through bullet proof glass or had the most consecutive wins in an underground tournament that really.... never existed. Despite him being a fraud, really liked the film. Thanks for the video on Pit Fighter. I remember playing it only once and thinking it was a horrible version of a side scrolling brawler that wanted people to think it was a fighting game. Never knew anything else about the game.
We were so stupid back then, it's like we saw these karate movies and thought we were watching a documentary. I fell victim to such bullshido fraud like frank. I got sexually assaulted, and learned the hard way that the 2 years I spent in karate classes doing bs limb disabling nerve strikes etc, were just that, bs. Thank goodness for MMA to help expose this nonsens
@@dbycrash back in the 80s/ early 90s though, we didn't know any better. Sure we could test it but... But .. the dude once killed a bull when he exploded it's heart with a 1 inch chi punch!
I remember playing the cabinet on its last day operational at a Pizza Hut when I was 10 and I was the very last patron to beat it at the restaurant The manager said after I beat the cabinet the lunch was on the house
Remember each fighter could attack a temporarily downed opponent. -Ty - ax kick -Buzz - body press -Kato - double palm heel strike I remember on the Genesis I would play as Buzz and then jump over a downed opponent and then attack in midair, to do a "flying body press". My college roommate and I got a kick out of it.
This was another great video from you Mr. top hat. pit fighter has always fascinated me I feel like the best port is easily the Genesis version I still have it.
I have a Pitfighter arcade cabinet. It was the second arcade machine I ever picked up. Thank you for making this video. It’s so much fun to play. I can’t bring myself to sell it 💪🏻
i felt my eyballs jumping out of my skull when i wandered into the arcade and saw this cabinet for the first time. the genesis port was fabulous janky fun. i still pop it in and play it today, but i can only beat it with ty. i like the buzz character's moves but his show-off taunt after a bodyslam takes too long and lets the opponents recover and wreck you.
Couldn't you "cancel" out of Buzz's show-off taunt by doing the forward-forward body roll? I think you could "cancel" out of Ty's post-supermove taunt by doing the cartwheel.
You wanted to make sure you had that pocket full of quarters in reserve - so that you did not have to run back to the change machine before the continue-countdown finished!
It was such an amazing game for the time and I always thought they missed a trick of not continuing with more Pitfighter games. I chucked £s into the original machine in my local back in the day. I had the LCD version, (that my gran gave to me😂) and many years later the Mame version. On a side note, I think they could have done a Pitfighter vs Mortal Kombat crossover.
I remember playing this while waiting for the bus at the convenience store near my house. Thank you for reviewing this. Also, it seems that this has a lot of influence for Def Jam: Fight for New York.
I totally agree with you. I think the reason Pit Fighter gets a bad reputation was due to some of the abysmal home ports, namely the SNES, which had every reason to be good considering it's graphics and sound capabilities, but it wasn't. I had this on the Genesis/Mega Drive, and I felt it was a decent port. But the rest of them...good heavens were they ugly.
In the arcade version, you could never use the pick-up on the Chainmen, even if you were energized with the power pill. In the Genesis version you could. What was really great was if you got energized with the power pill, picked up a stick and then wacked that spectator who semi-came into the ring to interfere with the fight. You could wack him across the room!
One of the most mind blowing games in arcade history. Just over 10 years we went from Asteroids to digitalized actors. One of my friends worked at a local arcade and I saw this game for the first time in great awe over the realistic graphics. I knew then arcade games would never be the same. In the not too distant future we watched the arcades flooded with games like Street Fighter II, Fatal Fury, Primal Rage, Mortal Kombat, etc with a different type of gameplay leaving Pit Fighter as a game that is still unique to this day.
I remember seeing Pit Fighter for the first time, 10 years old me thought that We had reach the limit of graphics perfection and nothing could get any better then Pit Fighter lol
Love this game. Unfortunately I've never played the original arcade version but have the Mega drive port and I just love the atmosphere and the gritty nature of it. It just has a wonderful 'B movie' nature too it.
Before there was MK people were fighting in a crowd where weapons would randomly be thrown out… no fatalities but the winner got dat pit. Don’t you dare f with Southside Jim. Atleast this is more of a fighter than smash bros lol
I LOVED Pit Fighter. Actually loved the Genesis version, stripped down as it was. Even though the characters were small with no scaling, the Genesis version did a pretty good job bringing the arcade game home.
I Loved this game as a kid, me and my mates pumped £££ into the arcade and would piss ourselves at the silliness of it. I then bought it on the megadrive and fairplay it was descent enough. It defo goes down as why of my all time fave arcade games and endearing megadrive games
The atmosphere of this game used to scare me when i was kid, idk the music, the environment, the aggressive characters, specifically the last Boss threatening sometimes between fights, anyway good memories from my childhood arcade times.
Considering this was basically trying to do the same thing Mortal Kombat later successfully did, they had thr right idea the execution just wasn't there.
I remember this from when I was a kid. I never saw anyone play it, though. I never knew there where other characters than the ones in the demo that plays when the machine was idle.
I used to love this game in the arcade, also the Sega Genesis version, spent a lot of time playing it and thought it was a pretty good port, i didn't realize the snes version was that bad i never played it.
Most people knew it better as shitfighter lol. I played it in the arcades back in the day and I can certainly see why it got attention. But a pretty looking game in the arcades that's worth a few credits purely due to it's interesting visuals doesn't nessesary translate well to a home port. Nice to see you got your channel back
All sorted then now? Hope so... no matter what - I hate sudden bouts of having to lose half a G for pretty much nothing.... (washing machine or car...or copyright for 3 seconds) Well... its always amazing that your audience cares and helps; you've probably profited in the end. I've had help plenty of times from my audience in the past. Outsiders treat them like they have a gun to there head. They have a choice and are coherent. No one has too. Just make sure you thank them properly; that's all I guess?! Best of luck.
I still have this game on my genesis and I slapped it on my genesis mini. Game is hard as hell and I always lost to the two chainman before the last boss.
It’s funny, i heard this mentioned in a CinemaSins video and decided to look it up as I remember playing this when I was a kid, I feel like it looked so different in my head but it still brought back memories, but man was this a mess.
Weird that I never saw a pit fighter arcade game as a kid. I did have the genesis version though and I loved it regardless of what any negative reviews had to say about it.
This one was actually popular in my local arcade as a kid. I won't lie, I enjoyed playing this a lot. The Sega Genesis port was pretty decent and was one of the first games I had for the system. But it did get really easy, really fast. But I do remember it for the most part fondly.
One time I donated blood and went to play Pitfighter later on in the same day. Big mistake. The stress of the playing the game was too much for me to handle in my weakened state.
I ended the Genesis port with a turbo controller. >_< Speaking of JVC, I think the dude that performed the Buzz character played a goon in the movie Cyborg. Hmm, this game was uniquely awesome. It had a super original look. It was ultra violent. Instead of one on one, up to three players can take on the game. 9/10
I made the big mistake of asking my parents for this game as a kid after seeing an ad for it in GamePro. At least I got the Genesis version instead of the one for the SNES...a tiny victory.
I remember seeing this game at arcades. Crazy how much it was capable of, later inspiring tons of games. Final Fight and others definitely had a hand in showing games can be so much more
@@trudownsouth8490 Pitfighter did it first. Although if we're specifically talking about digitised graphics then the arcade game journey (based on the band of the same name) did it first.
@@trudownsouth8490 only of you were a 13 year old sexually frustrated edgelord that wanted to pretend at being grown uppy. Otherwise streetfighter 2 did it best
I hope when you address the issues you currently are under, will bare good news. Hope everything is going well for you, your wife and your family. Cheers.
Kim Rhodes of "Supernatural" and "Suite Life" fame got her start in this game. I might have missed your mention of her so please forgive me if you had. Thank you as always for an awesome video.
Please talk about dungeons & dragons:tower of doom & shadow over mystara arcade games,the bouncer & urban reign on ps2,mortal kombat shaolin monks,scott pilgrim vs the world game,dragon's crown,& mighty morphin power rangers mega battle
