Pit Fighter - THE WORST FIGHTING GAME
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No.
Yeah, no thank you.
Sellout, unsubbed, you're peddling a scam product and that makes you complicit in my eyes.
Magic Spoon is good. I bought them from Albertsons and they are sugary great!
I know the extra cash is needed but that stuff is just cardboard
My local Walmart had Street Fighter II in the lobby. One day it was replaced with Pit Fighter. I haven't been to that Walmart since.
Legend has it, it's still there to this day...
YEAH
THAT MAKES SENSE
Your Walmart had a lobby?
@@BackdoorBarnyard they were pretty common back in the 90's. My local Walmart had a pretty sizeable lobby/vestibule area before you entered the store proper and it always had various arcade games and claw machines.
@@MusicFromAnotherTimeit's in mint condition, because nobody ever touched the thing
SNES Pit Fighter was clearly ahead of it's time. Releasing a game that's only 40% done is pretty standard "AAA" game studio policy now.
Look at the time, this game was ground breaking! People were freaking out over the “graphics”. My friends and I pumped massive amounts of quarters into this game at our local pizza joint.
this guy gets it !!! it sure was !
Yeah, I remember. I bought this shit for SNES and I remember playing it a significant amount, but every time I did, I would ask myself why I’m playing it.
I bought it at a rummage sale when I was a kid. Kept me occupied 🤔
Good sound too
@@souldry 😂😂😂. Yeah the home port wasn’t that great. The arcade was way better!
Oh my god I have a memory of this! My friend and I were in a Video King and he picked up the SNES box to read the back and an older kid near us just reached out, grabbed it, put it back and shook his head "no" in the most pitable way, then wandered off to rent whatever he picked up. We never tried to rent it again.
God bless that older kid, saved you guys from some real disappointment and wasting your money.
That kid did y'all a solid.
Great story. My eldest brother pretty much did the same thing when I wanted to hire Pit Fighter on SNES.
Video King… are you from upstate NY?
And see, I had a Genesis... and recall thinking it was pretty neat.. then again, I also enjoyed Shaq Fu and Revolution X, so maybe my opinion is null and void.
This is an oddly specific thing to say, but this game FEELS like something you'd find in a truck stop restaurant in the late 90s, nestled somewhere between some arcade deer hunting game and one of those golf games that you played by smacking a trackball with your hand.
It feels like the kind of "fake" arcade you would see in a movie about a truck stop restaurant!
Watching this, I can smell the stale beer of the place my parents used to bowl.
@@nickfifteen Yeah, I recall the vague notion that in the old days of arcades, the dawn of arcades as places to be... there was the idea of "bad" arcade games that were not really a draw to get people to spend money, and seen as the "less fun" options.
Don't personally have a lot of first hand knowledge though.
Weirdly specific but extremely accurate
@@nickfifteen I've seen bars with Golden Tee and whatever hunting game they could get since I could drink in 2008.
Pit Fighter's whole aesthetic feels like one of those spoof games you'd see on a 90s sitcom.
Complete with Atari 2600 Donkey Kong and Pac-Man sound effects.
Primal Rage did it well. P-F.........yeah.
@@d3th5tarI remember as a kid I actually forgot Primal Rage existed and just wrote it off as a fake game in a tv show or cartoon because it 100% is the type of game that would be played in the background of a tv show
The Poppa Pump Pill!
Holla if you hear me!
He's FAT
NO SYMPY.
I knew from the moment he started saying “SNES Version” with the fiery hatred of thousand suns that this would be The Worst Fighting Game.
I can’t imagine it could go lower than this, but I hope this series continues for as long as there are bad fighting games to cover.
Yeah, when I started hearing him talk about the various ports of the game before going into anything about the gameplay, I *knew* this was gonna *suck.* Matt hasn't reviewed a specific port until this game, so it's gotta be something special.
@@skepticpunk_ The home computer versions weren't much better, since they all used the single-button Atari-compatible joystick standard... that's right, if you had this game on your C64, ZX Spectrum, even Amiga, which was a damn good computer and its version of Pit Fighter is actually playable to a certain extent... then all the moves were condensed to a joystick with just one fire button.
how about the Street Fighter 1 computer ports by Tiertex? He did review Human Killing Machine already tho, and it was pretty much that but re-skinned
You know something is Worse fighting game material when it doesn’t even have a dumb catchphrase like “I have seen the amateur and it is you” or “COMBINATION!!”
It doesn't even have AN OPTIONS MENU, let alone a catchphrase!
Sammy you!
It's catchphrase was the final boss occasionally saying you're next
@@Damian_1989 "Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no modes left!"
It lacks that certain je ne sais quoi, you know? Without a single I HAVE SEEN THE AMATEUR, COMBINATION, or SAMMY YOU! it just doesn't stick.
BoomBots (PS1).
We can do this all day, Matt. Grant me this personal wish of mine and get this extremely janky 3D arena fighter IN THE RING.
Your ultimate challenge awaits. Swear to it.
Please upvote
I'll see your BoomBots and raise you a Mortal Kombat 4 for the Gameboy Color.
So snes wasn't as good arcade version 🎮 I don't have Sega Genesis then but got it later on used
The game genie make it better
book it matt you COWARD !!!!
I'm... not sure how anything will be able to compete for the title slot now. This is like looking at the description of a used car that reads simply, "runs".
I mean, SURELY, someone had to make a worse game right?
I think it might as well be a game that catches fire as soon as you put it in...but like...its possible?
3:45
A behemoth of a man wearing a thick steel chain with cut-off booty shorts and nothing else is the scariest thing I've seen this week😂
That's Chainman Eddie. You have to fight two of him at once before you can fight the boss.
The SNES port looks like an Action 52 game.
It feels even worse. May as well be an Action 38.
OMFG CHEETAMEN BEING GUEST FIGHTERS!!!!! JUST THINK!
Hahaaa
Guardians of the Hood is one of the most 90s video game titles ever
Guardians of the "Hood". Can't forget the ""s, lest someone think we're guarding a piece of clothing!
I feel robbed that I never knew this existed or got to play it 😒
It's not just awful, but unplayable. Too many glitch and bugs
Nah, it's not 90's enough since it didn't spell Guardians as *Guardianz* or trow Xtreme!!! somewhere on the title
BORRRIS!
I had Pit Fighter for Genesis pre-SF2 and it was such a dope game. Better than Street Smart and both were leagues better than other pre-SF2 FGs. But SF2 was so revolutionary that it instantly outdated all older FGs.
Landing Ty’s special over and over will forever be endlessly satisfying.
Sometimes a Flintstones Chewable Vitamin is all you need to survive the pit.
"Flintstones Chewable morphine!"
You gotta give this game credit, it stumbled so that Mortal Kombat could walk.
More in the sense that if Pit Fighter had been a better game and spawned a successful franchise it’s possible Mortal Kombat would’ve gotten written off as a copycat, or may not have happened at all if there were enough concerns at Midway over being seen as copycats. Fortunately it was successful enough to prove the market viability of fighting games with digitized characters, but too mediocre a game to be seen as a trailblazer or trendsetter like MK was.
bsquire1, it's kinda like Street Fighter 1 in a way. Pit Fighter didn't led to many sequels but it sure led to a masterpiece called Mortal Kombat.
No, no no no... you don't understand. I have since the Genesis port of the game since I was a kid, and had a lot of fun with it. It's mediocre, but plays well enough. I played the arcade original much later, it's smoother and I see myself putting a few quarters in it. And it indeed paved the way for MK, so I have no problems with these versions.
But the SNES port... oh man, it's like they didn't even try. The SNES could've done at least as well as the Genesis if not better, but the game is atrocious. I've never played Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, but this is the most unfinished game I've ever experienced. Nothing works, the controls are overly complicated and I was only able to finish the game (completely out of spite) using Ty's 2 frame punch for the entire game, as seen on TH-cam :P You have to play it to believe it.
PS: no life bars.
@@MrBeardsley And there is no way Def Jam FNY wasn't inspired by
I played the SNES version of Pit Fighter on emulation. It is truly the worst game I ever played, so it deserves this "accolade".
Yes but it was so bad it turned out kinda good in a way
I have a feeling this one's gonna be sitting on the throne for a good while
I had the Genesis version when I was a kid. I found that spamming Ty’s jumping double kick could beat pretty much every enemy. I loved this game despite knowing that it’s bad.
Wow... The ravenloft arc ended even quicker than Expect No Mercy...
Notably, these reigns are getting shorter and shorter. I'd ask how you top not having options, character endings or an actual soundtrack, but I'm gonna guess that somehow THAT game does exist and WILL knock Pit Fighter off the throne.
Expert no mercy with the hall of fame run.
criticom's reign lasted 2 years, expect no mercy lasted about one year, ravenloft lasted six months. by my calculations, the next one will happen in 3 months, then in six weeks, then in three weeks, until fighters have barely _days_ on the throne. by the end of 2024 we could see a reign of just minutes.
Insofar as bad fighting games, I have a suggestion that hits a lot of the high marks:
- Horrible PC exclusive 3D fighter
- Development hell scenario for over 7 years
- Contested sequel to beloved PC exclusive 2D fighter
- Patches changed storylines and character stats wholesale
- So bad it completely ended its dev studio
- Possibly some Epic Games IP shenanigans in the background
I speak of One Must Fall: Battlegrounds, the janky second (and last) child of Diversions Entertainment, who had previously put out the excellent One Must Fall 2097.
One Must Fall was a great little PC fighter, played the hell out of it with my brother. It's a shame about the sequel that I didn't know existed.
@@bluedistortions Sad part is, music was good and art design was decent (even the robot redesigns were fairly interesting) but the engine and gameplay both handed like hot trash, not helped by the devs slamming out patches that radically rebalanced characters and robots alike without warning, occasionally causing some combinations to be almost unplayable and making others wildly OP. They also had a 'campaign mode' that forced you to play certain characters and certain robots, often at severe disadvantages that made things artificially difficult.
There was a time where the meta involved playing Pyros and spamming your standing flamethrower special to charge your supers as fast as possible. This was because Pyros did so much damage and also had stunlock, so you could get a 1000+ combo chain if you landed his fireball super on the right map.
@@bluedistortions I wrote an article for a website called Hacker Noon singing OMF 2097's praises, having played it myself as a child... I played OMF Battlegrounds when it came out and I was so disappointed, I removed it after 5 minutes (the music is really the only saving grace).
RIP Iron & Blood. Your brief moment of recognition has come to an end, and now back to the forgotten dustbins of wasted potential
Pit Fighter
Pit, Pit Fighter
Come on, play it if you dare (ooh)
Pit Fighter
Pit, Pit Fighter
It'll fill you with despair!
Here are the combatants for this extravaganza
Ty-Knee vs. Backgrounds Look Like Taffy
This gave me some nostalgia tingles hahaha! I was so blown away by Clay Fighter having actual vocals on the track! Pretty mindblowing to me back then.
@@mootbooxleyeah I was blown away too, I didn't think those cartridges had enough memory for that
This
(Sees the title is in all caps)
Iron and Blood: *(intense nervous sweating)*
Thank you for helping me realize that an all caps title means we have a new reigning champion for worst fighting game.
Maybe it's the sleep deprivation but this was one of my favorite scripts for this series
Fun Fact- two characters from the game (Ty and Southside Jim) can be seen in the Van Damme movie Lionheart during the fights under the bridge scene. Ty wins the first fight and Jim is Van Damme’s opponent.
Two PRESENTATION's, no waiting
Literally scrolled till I found someone else who brought this up
The game’s so horrendous it screwed up the title cards!
Also, if anyone has the Tengen version of Tetris, with the original packaging, you’re sitting on a small gold mine
My family used to have that one on a bootleg Plug-n-play system. Tengen Tetris is one of my favorite versions of Tetris, bar none.
@@bluedragon3721if it's only one of them you cant say bar none.
Pit Fighter was produced on a 4Mbit cartridge for the SNES but and on Genesis they opted for a 8Mbit cartridge. Intentional sabotage at its finest.
After being forced to recall their Tetris game and taken to court by Nintendo over the Rabbit chip (10NES clone used for making unlicensed Tengen carts), Atari Games might have harbored a grudge. Race Drivin' is similarly terrible on SNES but not too bad on Genesis.
Great point, I completely forgot about that but now that you have mentioned it - makes total sense. Back in the day we needed to read game magazine to know things like that.
Once again nominating Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion XL as the first platform fighter for this series.
You want to know the ultimate kick in the ass?
The snes version is just the gameboy version on color
Had the sad misfortune of renting the SNES port as a child, looking back now as a adult, the arcade version runs rings around the snes version
I played the arcade version on my copy of Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for the Gamecube. I had a lot of fun with it despite how barebones it is mechanically compared to what came after.
The SNES version looks like it's 8-bit.
ngl, the Genesis version slaps the SNES version up and down the street, and it's hardly a great version either.
Yeah no idea why the vid doesn't title for the snes port. It's confusing. Glad arcade version is on xbox (midway classics) and is way better. Do miss pretty women for ring girls/ornaments in fights lol
Could be worse. You could've bought it. Apparently it sold for $80, too.
I remember one Christmas asking for street fighter 2 on snes , finding a snes box shaped present under the tree, tearing off the wrapping paper like I was preforming E Hondas hundred hand slap to reveal... buzz? worst childhood ever.
At least we had the chance to see Ty (Marc Williams) on Van Damme's Lionheart movie the first fight under the bridge in New York!
man, how the heck you knew that is amazing. He doesn't even fight Van Damme, but just another guy for a little bit.
@@thejake267 I know man! I wanted him to have a match against Van Damme, that would had the gaming fans even more hyped at that time, but he was beat up already lol
I played Pit Fighter back in the day and used to see the end credits out of curiosity to know who the actors played the role and then when I saw Lionheart the moment the movie finished and saw the end credits that's when I found Marc Williams oh by the way if you saw the movie Only The Strong, the main antagonist was also in Lionheart as well, Paco Christian Prieto was the one fighting Van Damme in that swimming pool match.
6:04 I had no idea thats what THQ stood for
"Toy Headquarters"!
Must've been a toy company originally like Nintendo was
@@spektacles1927along with Konami, Bandai and LJN.
@@GAMEPRODELTA Safe to say they knew how to do business back in the day, capitalizing on a market that just began to bloom
@@GAMEPRODELTA Bandai shouldn't count because it very much still is a toy company
Like who programed this thing? Mysterious orphans?!
I'm dying!
People forget that's the real problem with so many 90s games was that it was a real gamble. You could take home something that looked better than the arcade and was really eye popping, or you might get something that wasn't fun for even one playthrough.
The Genesis port has all the boss characters selectable with a Game Genie code. They're a bit glitchy but extremely playable, you could tell it would not have taken much more effort to implement them as legit characters. Shame the devs didn't do that, it would have greatly improved the game.
Said since the beginning of this series that SNES Pit Fighter would break it. There’s nothing worse. It’s the worst.
honestly i think so because i dont think the game was finished, its going to be hard to find another game with less mechanics and UI than this one.
Oh this game so pissed me off as a kid, yet I still plunked quarters into the cabinet anyway 😒...
This game was in the pizzeria across the street from my home. Quarters it did get
same, but mainly because it was like an hour wait for any of the other machines
This made me really happy. In the 90s I used to read a SNES magazine called Super Play and this was their lowest-scoring title of all. It got 14%
My uncle owned this on Sega Genesis when I was a kid. My sister, me, my cousin and everyone else would play 2 players when ever we visited. It was hard as crap to beat. I remember this one time I lost it when we were fighting those two big twin guys, I think before the final boss. Occasionally you would get trapped, they would be kicking your butt and no button press could help you. I got away with one life left and was on the other side of the room, and the last big twin guy was all the way on the right side. Before the 2nd player killed the other twin He reached out as if I was standing beside him, suddenly I was teleported from the other side of the room and appeared in his hands. With one punch, I was out dead. My mouth dropped and I lost it! Everyone watching was just laughing at what just happened, but my face was red! I was informed I should stay away from the game for the night. We still had a lot of fun even though the game could be a pain in the butt sometimes.😄
Counterpoint: The KOF games on the gameboy is actually pretty fun.
Came here to say this. I had KOF 95 on my gameboy and it was pretty solid for the constraints it was working in.
Mortal Kombat 2 also had a really solid port on the gameboy. The only MK entry to do so.
@@marts4169Yeah, I was gonna’ say MK II is surprisingly competent on Gameboy. That being said, the limited amount of buttons is what held fighting games back on Gameboy.
I don't think I walked into the Aladdin's Castle in the mall without plunking a token into Pit Fighter, even after far better fighting games started to show up.
Aladdin’s Castle! Yes!
Oh that takes me back.
So fun fact the reason Tengen lost their case with Nintendo is that they needed to reverse engineer the 10NES lockout chip to publish unlicensed NES games... but they were too lazy to actually do that, so they literally just lied to the US patent office to get their hands on a copy of Nintendo's patent and then read it.
Pit Fighter’s Sega ost has been living rent free in my head for 30 years🤣 and my mom’s as well as she used to play it with me when I was a kiddo.
Why do I love watching the worst fighting games of all time when I suck so bad at the good ones?
you don't need to be a master chef to appreciate a tasty burger
The way I see it, there's a sense of "if I'm the worst at the best, then maybe I can instead be the best of the worst" mentality involved. Like, you can't be an expert on Street Fighter, but you could be somewhat respected in a lesser game like Pit Fighter. 😊
Of all the worst fighting games in this series, ive probably played this piece of crap the most
I played the genesis, snes and arcade versions, the snes was abominable
Me too, I played the arcade version only.
The master system version was an experience
I remember not liking the snes version, but one weekend when a friend and I rented it, we did beat it. I remember we used Kato and basically just spammed the double kick. Never even thought about the game after that. I hate you Matt. 😂😂😂
My condolences!!
I've been angrily awaiting this video since I was 9.
SNES Pit-Fighter: When you've scraped the bottom of the barrel so far that you suddenly find yourself at the Earth's core.
I will defend the Genesis (Mega Drive) version of Pit FIghter until i die!
I agree. It's one of those, "it was okay for when it came out", but then we got SF2: Special Champion Edition, Mortal Kombat, and Fatal Fury.
That’s the version I had i also had an snes but I never played it on there
From the video's description... Yeah, the genesis and even the arcade versions seem ok. Pretty good, even.
Absolutely! The Genesis version has worse graphics, but it's gameplay is actually superior to the arcade. When you get good you can go absolutely hog wild.
Same here. That game was awesome!!
Ah, Pit Fighter, the game where the characters have the best motivation, money.
Well, that's what fighters fight for, unless they aren't capable of doing so.
I am once again nominating Fighters Uncaged for the xbox 360. It is currently on sale before the 360 shop turns off and it is lost forever. It is not backwards compatible and requires the OG kinect. It has no story, no endings, and no multiplayer mode, and requires a 150 dollar big of external hardware to even play.
I guarantee that takes the top spot.
Dude, I had NO IDEA the SNES version was that bad!!! I actually grew up playing the Genesis version and have decent memories playing it (even though Chainman Eddie still haunts me). But growing up, I never knew of the existence of the other two versions and did not know it was an arcade port (I didn't go to a lot of arcades back then). I think I saw the SNES version randomly one day like YEARS later, but I paid no attention to it. But wow, NO OPTIONS SCREEN?! I had no idea!!!!
I had the Gameboy version 🤓😂
Ah, Chainman Eddie. Or Eddies, for that matter ^^ I especially liked how, if you were caught on certain frames, his running headbutt would do double damage and almost leave you dead. That's how you built character back on those Genesis days ^^
And yes, the SNES port was a tough cookie to eat. Finished it out of spite using Ty's normal punch 'cos it was a frame shorter than the rest (as seen on TH-cam :P). Nothing works, lots of lag after button press and they decided to map each character's different moves to directional input. As in you don't use the elbow 'cos you're close, you use it 'cos you pressed diagonal front/up, for example. No options screen, no objects, no nuthin'. It's a masterpiece of crap ^^
NGL, I started questioning my sexuality when I saw myself wanting to boot Pit Fighters in my SNES to look at Buzz's pecs in the character screen selection but refused to start a match bc the game was really boring.
It takes special talent to make a game look worse on SNES than Sega Genesis, congrats
The SNES version seems like a pitch/proof of concept to greenlight full production but instead THQ just published it as is. Kinda like Pacman for the Atari 2600
when i was a kid playing this in uk, we thought the money pile was snot. money isnt green here and my kid brain just decided that if something green was piling up bellow my fight man it must be snot
Snot true!
Kids are great
8:41 hey its The Shockmaster like 2 or 3 years before he crashed through that wall and into our hearts.
Legit screamed out "It's the Shockmaster!" at that part.
I remember getting the SNES version of this as a kid. I knew it was terrible, but I was determined to beat it, which I did one time with Ty. I never played the game again after that.
Rented it from blockbuster as a kid, I felt so robbed it was traumatizing. I still talk to my therapist about it to this day.
OH MY GOD PITFIGHTER.
Every time I would see that in the arcades, I would wonder, "How can a game look so advanced, and so Janky at the same time?"
This came out *before* mortal Kombat and digitized graphics were amazing, but also... janky as hell.
If you think THAT was janky, you absolutely need to play the SNES port :DDD
@@x.kalibre Oh, I've played it. Man was it a mistake to rent it from the store that weekend :(
If "Metal & Lace, Battle Of The Robo Babes" for PC hasn't been on this show, it damn well should be 😁.
21:58
"The toxic positivity of classic Nintendo Power" 😆
My mum used to rent this for me and id play on my Megadrive. 7 yrs old thought it was really rad. Had no idea what was happening but loved it!
Play Best of Best, please. The world needs to know about this abomination. It is a 1994 Korean fighting game.
I kinda had the same thought, but dunno if I'd classify that as a fighting game. It plays more like Karateka put into a tournament setting.
Oh yeah, that mess of a game with THAT SONG as soundtrack. SunA rips off stuff from other sources in every of their games btw.
@@20thoughts Oh no no no no. You might be thinking of Best of _the_ Best.
The absence of a "the" is important in this case.
Wait a second....... Tengen is Atari?!
If I might recommend it, the Gaming Historian has a long, amazing video about that and the lawsuit. Very worth watching.
Yeah, after the crash the home and arcade divisions split into separate companies, each with exclusive rights to the Atari name in their respective fields. Tengen (which is a term from go, just like "atari") was started as a way for the arcade company to get into the home market without being able to use the Atari name.
@@TheFancifulNorwegian Yeah, the whole Atari Corp. & Atari Games thing is something that most gaming TH-camrs sadly don't bother to ever explain (Gaming Historian obviously being an exception), and instead simply continue lumping them together as simply "Atari", despite that just creating confusion & misinformation. It's why games like Pit Fighter, Gauntlet, any of the Drivin' titles, the Rush series, etc. weren't a part of Atari 50, as those were Atari Games titles (Atari Corp.'s last arcade game was Major Havoc in 1984) & currently are owned by WB.
Janky as Hell but the arcade version will always have a special place in my heart. This game walked so that Def Jam: Fight for NY could run.
If there were a "Game of the Year" awarded, not based on sales, critical reception, or fan sentiment, but instead purely on how well a game encapsulated the essence of that year, then the arcade version of Pit Fighter would be the game of 1990.
DAMN, I played so much Pit Fighter when I was Kid with my brother and friends, we had the Genesis version and when I played the Arcade version for the first time it was like playing a real movie!! 🤣
I had the Sega Genesis version of this. Which was not a very good fighting game, but WAYYYY better than the SNES version. lol
Dude, the SNES port gave you a perfect opening for a Steiner Math joke.
If you want the background to the SNES port, it was apparently ported by a guy by the name of Nick Eastridge - he pretty much single-handedly ported a whole bunch of arcade and C64 games to the NES (Paperboy was probably the one which turned out best, if that's any indication of their usual quality), and then did the same for a couple of early SNES games before spending the rest of that generation mostly working on sound programming for other companies. All that being said, Mr. Eastridge apparently refuses to talk about his video game work, so a lot of this is based on second-hand information.
Gotta give them this, it's probably one of the finest cases of roadkill being flattened by something infinitely more successful ever invented.
_There's a whole-ass Mattel HyperScan with two fighting games on it that deserve placed in this proverbial ring, McMuscles._
Oh god, the X-Men game with the characters and moves all being locked behind fucking trading cards that you had to buy separately? And the graphics looked like they were from a mid-90s Windows game? Yeah, I think Matt would lose his shit completely if he played that.
And I would enjoy the hell out of that episode.
@@sheeplessinohio The problem is to find that crap. Eyther it's expensive as hell or have beying banished to it.
And a port of that crap woulld not make it justice, so it would be a hard call, and very unfair to the whole gist of this show.
I mean, he is comparing the games against each other, and against the possibilities of the gaming sistems they were ported to. HyperScam had what, 6 games total? None good may I add...
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 maybe it could be emulated?
The worst part about the X-Men game? Nearly half of the X-Men cards weren't even released... AT ALL. They discontinued the thing before they could even release all of the cards
That SNES version's music still haunts my nightmares to this day.
Bruh, the SNES version make Shaq-Fu look like hall of fame material.
I’ve been wondering when Pit Fighter would grace the golden shores of Worst Fighting Game. The only place I remember seeing a cabinet was the Dream Theater arcade at my local mall, and until they got Street Fighter II you couldn’t even get near that thing without a lot of patience. Naturally my first experience with it was on the Super Nintendo, I rented it one weekend and all I could think was “This is what everyone was lining up for? What a piece of shit!”
I like how the SNES censored the female fighter in game to have pants but the box still shows her with the skirt BUT the Gameboy Game dose have her in her skirt
That was the Game Man version 🤣🤣🤣
@@Hirosongor game dude..!
@@TeruteruBozusama r/YourJokeButWorse
It's because the resolution is so bad on the game boy it barely resembles human
Arcade version: I played Ty, I believe it was backflip / cartwheel and use the elbow to beat the whole game.
Way back in the early 90’s, I actually played this arcade game in a place called Greens, inside Memorial City Mall.
Then one day street fighter 2 showed up. I never played this game again. Good times.
The PS2 arcade port plays at Twice normal Arcade speed so is a unoffical Pit fighter Turbo Edition.
Oh shit, we finally got to the Fireworks Factory!
I still find it wild we haven't gotten Pit-Fighter until now. Now do Cosmic Carnage!
Dude, when this game hit the Arcade in the early 90's I dropped so many freaking quarters beating it that I could have probably covered half the towns library late fees. This game was awesome pre-console.
Yo! Someone finally remembered Best of the Best! I swear, everyone I've ever mentioned that movie to has no idea what I'm talking about, or that it even existed. Eric Roberts is a BA in it, with his lucious, flowing locks.
Why does it look like the SNES version is just a colorized version of the Gameboy version, lol.
Wouldn't surprise me if the GAME BOY port was being worked on first before THQ got ahold of the SNES dev kit.
Because it basically is iirc.
After all the great times at my local Pizza Hut, I was so excited when I got this for the SNES....then I played it
Such a classic! Thank you for the nostalgic memories🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
The arcade version got an accurate port in a Midway Arcade Treasures collection...the same one that featured MK2, UMK3, and the 'poor port thanks to the encryption' version of Primal Rage v2. The version on MAT2 was servicable enough, definitely was close to being accurate from what I've seen in the video
Yeah, but not only that, it was also included in Midway Arcade Origins as well.
The version in Arcade Treasures had a weird bug where it runs twice as fast as it should.
Oh yeah! Here it is! I only played the SNES version and it was like "What the hell is this!!"
Pit Fighter for the SNES really did a *combination* of a *barely animated slide kick* followed by a Nat20 roll on a *"I have seen the amateur and it is you"* taunt input.
Not gonna lie, after watching literally all of this series thus far, there's a certain pride to knowing the current champion of worst fighting games is a title I've known about since the late 2000s when a (then small-time) French reviewer just included it in his review of multiple bad fighting games.
the SNES version was also ported by Tengen.
but the engine/middleware came from Eastridge Technology, Inc.
Ok, now i cant wait to have "the ravenloft saga" compilation
Only Shadow War of Succession can top this off.
Ending it with the in game music loop was chefs kiss
Out of Pure Respect.
This game was right next to TMNT: The Arcade Game at our Multi-Cineplex.
Had a pretty good claw machine, and usually a Neo-Geo multi-game.
And an old Atari machine.
Often Galaga or Galactica.
Pit-Fighter in Arcades was how little kids got elbowed by older siblings.
Pit-Fighter ported to anything else somehow hurt more.