Pit-Fighter is the perfect example of a video game
you rented on a Friday from Blockbuster and
instantly regretted after playing it for five-minutes,
but have to force yourself to play because you
know your parents won't take you back to the
video store and you had nothing else. The game is
a part of its arcade counterpart, but lacking
everything that made that game a neat oddity. Let's
face it, the arcade version of Pit-Fighter wasn't that
great of a game and only stood out because of its
digitized characters.
In the transition to the Super Nintendo the game
lost a number of features, not least of which were
the graphics, including the interactive audience and
the weapons that you could use during play. Even
worse is that fact that this port saw three
characters removed from the game including
Southside Jim, Heavy Metal and Mad Miles. And
because this is a port based on an arcade game
you had to try and finish the game on a single
credit, so odds are if you had this game you never
finished it.
Pit-Fighter, in all its forms, does not stand up to the
test of time unlike many of its arcade counterparts.
It was one of the first games to focus on style over
substance and when you remove that style for the
home ports you aren't left with much. If you are
having a great day and are in the mood ruin it,
simply pop this one in and get ready to hate the
world.