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@QuestionMarking

Ай бұрын

No.

@renebarahona

Ай бұрын

Yeah, no thank you.

@RianQuenlin

Ай бұрын

Sellout, unsubbed, you're peddling a scam product and that makes you complicit in my eyes.

@kenterminateddq5311

Ай бұрын

Magic Spoon is good. I bought them from Albertsons and they are sugary great!

@franciscobrisolladeoliveir9596

Ай бұрын

I know the extra cash is needed but that stuff is just cardboard

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.

@nickfifteen

Ай бұрын

It feels like the kind of "fake" arcade you would see in a movie about a truck stop restaurant!

@robertbailey3095

Ай бұрын

Watching this, I can smell the stale beer of the place my parents used to bowl.

@marhawkman303

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@petore6

Ай бұрын

Weirdly specific but extremely accurate

@VaporeonEnjoyer1

Ай бұрын

@@nickfifteen I've seen bars with Golden Tee and whatever hunting game they could get since I could drink in 2008.

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.

@MusicFromAnotherTime

Ай бұрын

Legend has it, it's still there to this day...

@probablyjinxed

Ай бұрын

YEAH THAT MAKES SENSE

@BackdoorBarnyard

Ай бұрын

Your Walmart had a lobby?

@amani576

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@IDHLEB

Ай бұрын

​@@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.

@TheBlackSeraph

Ай бұрын

It was just waiting until 2012 so it could offer future content in seasons and battle passes.

@TonySkittleAlive184

29 күн бұрын

Well I would say 2011 (year release for Street Fighter X Tekken gems micro transaction BS 👎)​@@TheBlackSeraph

@MarceloVeronezzi

28 күн бұрын

Just wait some time to see OPTIONS becoming a microtransaction... wait...

@therealmanguyman

28 күн бұрын

Yeah, it's a shame that back then they couldn't add in the features that should've been in the game in the first place and get praised for it.

@jasonjones7461

21 күн бұрын

Hah nice

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.

@danieldelarosa2976

Ай бұрын

this guy gets it !!! it sure was !

@souldry

Ай бұрын

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.

@homerdilldoc8669

Ай бұрын

I bought it at a rummage sale when I was a kid. Kept me occupied 🤔

@kubrickscube513

Ай бұрын

Good sound too

@spezkay81

Ай бұрын

@@souldry 😂😂😂. Yeah the home port wasn’t that great. The arcade was way better!

Pit Fighter's whole aesthetic feels like one of those spoof games you'd see on a 90s sitcom.

@Skorpio420

Ай бұрын

Complete with Atari 2600 Donkey Kong and Pac-Man sound effects.

@d3th5tar

Ай бұрын

Primal Rage did it well. P-F.........yeah.

@kaimcdragonfist4803

Ай бұрын

@@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

Guardians of the Hood is one of the most 90s video game titles ever

@20thoughts

Ай бұрын

Guardians of the "Hood". Can't forget the ""s, lest someone think we're guarding a piece of clothing!

@poindextertunes

Ай бұрын

I feel robbed that I never knew this existed or got to play it 😒

@r3dr4te963

Ай бұрын

It's not just awful, but unplayable. Too many glitch and bugs

@djpegao

Ай бұрын

Nah, it's not 90's enough since it didn't spell Guardians as *Guardianz* or trow Xtreme!!! somewhere on the title

@RokuroCarisu

Ай бұрын

BORRRIS!

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.

@seanmckelvey6618

Ай бұрын

God bless that older kid, saved you guys from some real disappointment and wasting your money.

@d3th5tar

Ай бұрын

That kid did y'all a solid.

@lancepage1914

Ай бұрын

Great story. My eldest brother pretty much did the same thing when I wanted to hire Pit Fighter on SNES.

@urosario1181

Ай бұрын

Video King… are you from upstate NY?

@neoconnor4395

Ай бұрын

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.

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".

@kyokyodisaster4842

Ай бұрын

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?

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!!”

@Damian_1989

Ай бұрын

It doesn't even have AN OPTIONS MENU, let alone a catchphrase!

@42Mrgreenman

Ай бұрын

Sammy you!

@andywilliammockzek

Ай бұрын

It's catchphrase was the final boss occasionally saying you're next

@skepticpunk_

Ай бұрын

@@Damian_1989 "Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no modes left!"

@Crunkman2k

Ай бұрын

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.

The SNES port looks like an Action 52 game.

@Lightblue2222

Ай бұрын

It feels even worse. May as well be an Action 38.

@952shadowman

Ай бұрын

OMFG CHEETAMEN BEING GUEST FIGHTERS!!!!! JUST THINK!

@rsalek

Ай бұрын

Hahaaa

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.

@joshsweet7512

27 күн бұрын

Always game for "Lionheart" love, nice catch! Any excuse for me to go back and watch that

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.😄

Sometimes a Flintstones Chewable Vitamin is all you need to survive the pit.

@TheGeordieTiger

Ай бұрын

"Flintstones Chewable morphine!"

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.

@trafalgar47official66

Ай бұрын

Please upvote

@Boonehams

Ай бұрын

I'll see your BoomBots and raise you a Mortal Kombat 4 for the Gameboy Color.

@Luigitime2015

Ай бұрын

So snes wasn't as good arcade version 🎮 I don't have Sega Genesis then but got it later on used

@Luigitime2015

Ай бұрын

The game genie make it better

@kazuhirokawamoto7213

Ай бұрын

book it matt you COWARD !!!!

SNES Pit-Fighter: When you've scraped the bottom of the barrel so far that you suddenly find yourself at the Earth's core.

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 Poppa Pump Pill!

@jetblack99

Ай бұрын

Holla if you hear me!

@trentonwalker8602

Ай бұрын

He's FAT

@TheInflicted

Ай бұрын

NO SYMPY.

@New_Hell

19 күн бұрын

S’FAT

Wow... The ravenloft arc ended even quicker than Expect No Mercy...

@DirgeTV

Ай бұрын

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.

@MrMooMoo088

Ай бұрын

Expert no mercy with the hall of fame run.

@DetectiveNyx

Ай бұрын

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.

I have a feeling this one's gonna be sitting on the throne for a good while

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.

Pit Fighter Pit, Pit Fighter Come on, play it if you dare (ooh) Pit Fighter Pit, Pit Fighter It'll fill you with despair!

@someonenow1

Ай бұрын

Here are the combatants for this extravaganza Ty-Knee vs. Backgrounds Look Like Taffy

@mootbooxle

Ай бұрын

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.

@TightNinja

Ай бұрын

​@@mootbooxleyeah I was blown away too, I didn't think those cartridges had enough memory for that

@d3th5tar

Ай бұрын

This

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

@supersonic20091

Ай бұрын

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.

@Adamant_Consternation

Ай бұрын

The SNES version looks like it's 8-bit.

@seanmckelvey6618

Ай бұрын

ngl, the Genesis version slaps the SNES version up and down the street, and it's hardly a great version either.

@MrVariant

Ай бұрын

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

@skepticpunk_

Ай бұрын

Could be worse. You could've bought it. Apparently it sold for $80, too.

I've been angrily awaiting this video since I was 9.

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.

@JudgmentStorm

Ай бұрын

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.

@lancepage1914

Ай бұрын

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.

@jokerzwild00

Ай бұрын

People were rabid for fighting games and SF2 hadn't hit consoles yet. They knew that the game was gonna sell decently no matter what shape it was in. So yeah, they could definitely afford to make a poor port rushed out the door. Save money and spite Nintendo. 2 birds with one stone.

@jessragan6714

20 күн бұрын

Sabotage, nothing! T*HQ just sucks.

6:04 I had no idea thats what THQ stood for

@michaelsimpson208

Ай бұрын

"Toy Headquarters"!

@spektacles1927

Ай бұрын

Must've been a toy company originally like Nintendo was

@GAMEPRODELTA

Ай бұрын

​@@spektacles1927along with Konami, Bandai and LJN.

@spektacles1927

Ай бұрын

@@GAMEPRODELTA Safe to say they knew how to do business back in the day, capitalizing on a market that just began to bloom

@judo_ashtray

Ай бұрын

​@@GAMEPRODELTA Bandai shouldn't count because it very much still is a toy company

You want to know the ultimate kick in the ass? The snes version is just the gameboy version on color

@eatassonthefirstdate

27 күн бұрын

Nah, there's more than 2 buttons in the SNES version. And better graphics

21:58 "The toxic positivity of classic Nintendo Power" 😆

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.

Also, if anyone has the Tengen version of Tetris, with the original packaging, you’re sitting on a small gold mine

@bluedragon3721

Ай бұрын

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.

@MBM1117727

Ай бұрын

​@@bluedragon3721if it's only one of them you cant say bar none.

@yankees29

20 күн бұрын

I have it somewhere not with the packaging though

You gotta give this game credit, it stumbled so that Mortal Kombat could walk.

@MrBeardsley

Ай бұрын

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.

@kenterminateddq5311

Ай бұрын

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.

@x.kalibre

Ай бұрын

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 KZread :P You have to play it to believe it. PS: no life bars.

@clauro6153

Ай бұрын

​@@MrBeardsley And there is no way Def Jam FNY wasn't inspired by

Bruh, the SNES version make Shaq-Fu look like hall of fame material.

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.

Said since the beginning of this series that SNES Pit Fighter would break it. There’s nothing worse. It’s the worst.

@cool3865

Ай бұрын

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.

Two PRESENTATION's, no waiting

@afrojimmy9318

Ай бұрын

Literally scrolled till I found someone else who brought this up

@KTKomedy2813

Ай бұрын

The game’s so horrendous it screwed up the title cards!

@tretrefairman

Ай бұрын

I scrolled endlessly to make sure I wasn’t trippin

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.

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.

Oh this game so pissed me off as a kid, yet I still plunked quarters into the cabinet anyway 😒...

@Metal_Mayhem2024

Ай бұрын

This game was in the pizzeria across the street from my home. Quarters it did get

@_M_O_E_

Ай бұрын

same, but mainly because it was like an hour wait for any of the other machines

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.

@registereduser

Ай бұрын

Aladdin’s Castle! Yes! Oh that takes me back.

Maybe it's the sleep deprivation but this was one of my favorite scripts for this series

Landing Ty’s special over and over will forever be endlessly satisfying.

(Sees the title is in all caps) Iron and Blood: *(intense nervous sweating)*

@777SasukeUchiha

Ай бұрын

Thank you for helping me realize that an all caps title means we have a new reigning champion for worst fighting game.

Like who programed this thing? Mysterious orphans?! I'm dying!

The best part of the Pit Fighter arcade game was Southside Jim yelling Come on punk! Homeboy! Homeboy! While waiting for you to put in more tokens 😂

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.

Ah, Pit Fighter, the game where the characters have the best motivation, money.

@bluedistortions

Ай бұрын

Well, that's what fighters fight for, unless they aren't capable of doing so.

I played the SNES version of Pit Fighter on emulation. It is truly the worst game I ever played, so it deserves this "accolade".

@EB-jf5oi

Ай бұрын

Yes but it was so bad it turned out kinda good in a way

@darylcastillo1439

Ай бұрын

@@EB-jf5oi It ain't good. Like... at all. It's so bad it's bloody awful.

*AWESOMELY DONE* Btw, review Fighter Within for the Xbox Kinect if you dare. That is, if you can. Then again, I imagine reviewing it is impossible when the game hardly ever works...

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%

Why do I love watching the worst fighting games of all time when I suck so bad at the good ones?

@RedVagrantD

Ай бұрын

you don't need to be a master chef to appreciate a tasty burger

@nickfifteen

Ай бұрын

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

@thehellslayer300

Ай бұрын

I played the genesis, snes and arcade versions, the snes was abominable

@manson2178

Ай бұрын

Me too, I played the arcade version only.

@althulhu8537

Ай бұрын

The master system version was an experience

@hankugly6800

Ай бұрын

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. 😂😂😂

@nickfifteen

Ай бұрын

My condolences!!

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.

The clip of the one with "DOGOON" etc at the start haha. What was that one again? So good. Another absolutely brilliant video man

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

@gagnose26

Ай бұрын

Snot true!

@bluedistortions

Ай бұрын

Kids are great

Counterpoint: The KOF games on the gameboy is actually pretty fun.

@FloridaMann123

Ай бұрын

Came here to say this. I had KOF 95 on my gameboy and it was pretty solid for the constraints it was working in.

@theidiotchildren

Ай бұрын

Not too surprising, considering what SNK was doing regularly on the Neo Geo Pocket. Killer Instinct on Game Boy was also solid. Rare was a master of shrinking console experiences down for the handheld, so GB KI felt almost like the SNES KI despite them having to condense 6 buttons down to 2.

@marts4169

Ай бұрын

Mortal Kombat 2 also had a really solid port on the gameboy. The only MK entry to do so.

@DatBeastard

Ай бұрын

Street Fighter Alpha for Game Boy Color was also really well made given the limitations.

@lazyspacecat2143

Ай бұрын

@@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.

One time in 2018, I brought my newly acquired SNES Classic to my friends. As a surprise gag, I hacked and added a "DO NOT OPEN" folder in the menu filled with ROMs of the worst SNES games I could (predictably, they selected it immediately). This game's port was among those games - games that included Batman Forever and Hong Kong 97 - and we unanimously considered it the worst of the lot.

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😂

@jazzygeofferz

Ай бұрын

That's Chainman Eddie. You have to fight two of him at once before you can fight the boss.

@DarkSideOfTheBrightSide

Ай бұрын

@@jazzygeofferzis that the same actor that plays the same character in Beast Master?

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.

@skepticpunk_

Ай бұрын

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.

@OnafetsEnovap

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@RaposaCadela

Ай бұрын

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

That SNES version's music still haunts my nightmares to this day.

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

8:41 hey its The Shockmaster like 2 or 3 years before he crashed through that wall and into our hearts.

@aidanklobuchar1798

Ай бұрын

Legit screamed out "It's the Shockmaster!" at that part.

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!!!!

@archiedx

Ай бұрын

I had the Gameboy version 🤓😂

@x.kalibre

Ай бұрын

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 KZread :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 ^^

The Empire of Ravenloft has crumbled! Now... How long do we have to dwell... In the Pit!

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.

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.

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.

@RolandoMarreroPR

Ай бұрын

Also spamming Ty’s cartwheel worked too. And this works with the arcade version too!

@damin9913

Ай бұрын

He's not the best fighter tho chainman Eddie is

@TonySkittleAlive184

29 күн бұрын

Ty's kick was the best thing about this game 🎮

@damin9913

29 күн бұрын

@TonySkittleAlive184 he ight but not better then chainman Eddie headbutt is

@TonySkittleAlive184

29 күн бұрын

@@damin9913 oooh yeah...forgot 'bout that!!

I was a NES, Genesis, PS1 guy. Never had a SNES. Finally got one from a pawn shop in like 2001. First game I bought was Pit Fighter for $4.00. I couldn’t believe how horrible it was compared to Genesis. It gave me SNES PTSD and it’s one of the consoles I neglect the most when collecting.

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.

Play Best of Best, please. The world needs to know about this abomination. It is a 1994 Korean fighting game.

@20thoughts

Ай бұрын

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.

@BlakouttheMM

Ай бұрын

@@20thoughts You're thinking of Best of the Best: Championship Karate, which is from Europe. He's talking about Best of Best, which is a goofy fighting game that Matt and the boys played back in the day: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZVhxa9qoJbbnsY.html

@izayoirokkuu

Ай бұрын

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.

@dariogonzalez8989

Ай бұрын

@@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.

I will defend the Genesis (Mega Drive) version of Pit FIghter until i die!

@chrissawyer1484

Ай бұрын

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.

@taym510Oak

Ай бұрын

That’s the version I had i also had an snes but I never played it on there

@someguy1ification

Ай бұрын

From the video's description... Yeah, the genesis and even the arcade versions seem ok. Pretty good, even.

@Bird_Dog2099

Ай бұрын

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.

@blacksocrates1

Ай бұрын

Same here. That game was awesome!!

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!

Ending it with the in game music loop was chefs kiss

RIP Iron & Blood. Your brief moment of recognition has come to an end, and now back to the forgotten dustbins of wasted potential

Wait a second....... Tengen is Atari?!

@DinobotTM2

Ай бұрын

If I might recommend it, the Gaming Historian has a long, amazing video about that and the lawsuit. Very worth watching.

@TheFancifulNorwegian

Ай бұрын

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.

@Obscusion2

Ай бұрын

@@TheFancifulNorwegian Yeah, the whole Atari Corp. & Atari Games thing is something that most gaming KZreadrs 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.

I still find it wild we haven't gotten Pit-Fighter until now. Now do Cosmic Carnage!

I remember seeing an arcade cab of this game at a 7-11 in Napa, CA, back in the day on a family trip. Of course, I had to drop some quarters.

Once again nominating Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion XL as the first platform fighter for this series.

If "Metal & Lace, Battle Of The Robo Babes" for PC hasn't been on this show, it damn well should be 😁.

When I was a little kid my parents would take me to Jerry's restaurant as a special treat. Besides the hot fudge sundae, I really looked forward to playing the arcade games they had. My favorite was Pit Fighter because to my wee eyes, it looked real!

In the immortal words of Nintendo Power's 100th issue: "Slow, awkward, and dumb is no way to go through life, son."

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.

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.

@bluedistortions

Ай бұрын

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.

@subtlewhatssubtle

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@OnafetsEnovap

Ай бұрын

@@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).

@Thewilyranger

Ай бұрын

One must fall battlegrounds was horrible, I remember playing a bunch of the original and loving it. To my surprise during my college years I found a copy at EB games and was super excited since I didn’t know there was a sequel and oh dear god did I wish I didn’t know if its existence, game was horrible!!!

@subtlewhatssubtle

Ай бұрын

@@Thewilyranger Want to hear the biggest joke about OMF Battlegrounds? The devs wanted to make it moddable, and they were right. It was! You just had to have access to extremely niche 3D rendering software not widely available to modders in 2003. In brief, if you wanted to mod their game you basically had to already be a 3D game dev yourself.

I remember playing this a ton at my local ski resort as a kid. Any Seattle kids remember playing it at The Summit @ Snoqualmie in the 90s?

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.

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!

@thejake267

Ай бұрын

man, how the heck you knew that is amazing. He doesn't even fight Van Damme, but just another guy for a little bit.

@juanrosario5842

Ай бұрын

@@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

@juanrosario5842

Ай бұрын

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.

@TonySkittleAlive184

29 күн бұрын

Exactly... You are absolutely right 👍 ​@@juanrosario5842

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.

@x.kalibre

Ай бұрын

If you think THAT was janky, you absolutely need to play the SNES port :DDD

@etansivad

Ай бұрын

@@x.kalibre Oh, I've played it. Man was it a mistake to rent it from the store that weekend :(

There's something so gratifying about catching a new TWFG episode AND it being of a new champion as well.

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.

Oh shit, we finally got to the Fireworks Factory!

_There's a whole-ass Mattel HyperScan with two fighting games on it that deserve placed in this proverbial ring, McMuscles._

@sheeplessinohio

Ай бұрын

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.

@carloshenriquezimmer7543

Ай бұрын

@@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...

@PhoebeTheFairy56

Ай бұрын

​@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 maybe it could be emulated?

@ItsJustTrevor

Ай бұрын

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

When I was a kid I'd drop quarters into the Pit Fighter cabinet at the pizza shop. I thought it was pretty sweet back in the day, especially since the alternative was sitting quietly at the table waiting for pizza to come!

I'll be perfectly honest: I thought Matt was gonna be like, "But you know of any other contenders that might give Pit Fighter a run for its money? ...oh, god, no! Please don't show me anything worse than this." Beyond that, I'm not sure how you make something worse than that, fighting game wise. "No options" is going to be quite a bar to clear, I can tell you that for free.

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.

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!! 🤣

Arcade version: I played Ty, I believe it was backflip / cartwheel and use the elbow to beat the whole game.

I was curious as to whether the one track for the SNES version was a bug or not, so I decided to do an online search to see whether it had other tracks or not. Turns out not only it indeed has only one track, it's not even rippable into the SPC format! Good times. 🙃

Gotta give them this, it's probably one of the finest cases of roadkill being flattened by something infinitely more successful ever invented.

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 remember this was in our local arcade when I was around 14. At the time, it stood out because it used those sprites before Mortal Kombat came along and did it properly.

I have fond memories of this game. A local mall had a Pit Fighter and a WWF Wrestlemania next to eachother. I was absolutely fascinated by both games even though I could never progress very far.