Pit-Fighter: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Pit-Fighter (1990) is a fighting, hack and slash/beat 'em up, arcade video game developed by Atari Games, available on Arcade. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 52/100 on IGDB.

What is Pit-Fighter about?

The gameplay is similar to Taito's Violence Fight and SNK's Street Smart. The player must jump, punch, and kick their opponent until his/her energy runs out. If the player presses all three of the buttons at a time, the character will perform a "super move". The player begins Pit-Fighter by choosing one of the three playable characters, who all have different moves, speed, and power.

In the player select screen in the arcade version, each player has a color to select the fighters with: for player one it's blue, for player two it's red and for player three it's yellow. As many as three people can play at a time, but there will be extra opponents to fight during any of this game's 15 different matches.

Every third fight is a bonus round known as a Grudge Match.[1] In a Grudge Match, the player must fight against a CPU controlled clone of his or her fighter (if playing alone) or the other

Key details

Pit-Fighter was released in 1990 and supports single player, multiplayer, co-operative. Platforms: Arcade. Developer: Atari Games.

Should you play Pit-Fighter?

Reviews are mixed, but Pit-Fighter retains a dedicated player base among fighting, hack and slash/beat 'em up, arcade fans.