Pit-Fighter

This article is about the video game. For the 2005 motion picture, see Pit Fighter (film).
Pit-Fighter
Developer(s)Atari Games
Publisher(s)Arcade
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Designer(s)Gary Stark
Mark Stephen Pierce
Programmer(s)Gary Stark
Paul Kwinn
Artist(s)Rob Rowe
Composer(s)John Paul (Arcade)
Earl Vickers (Genesis)
Nick Eastridge (SNES)
Platform(s)Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Lynx, Master System, Genesis, SNES, ZX Spectrum
Release
  • NA: August 1990
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)1-3 players simultaneously
Arcade systemAtari G1 Hardware

Pit-Fighter is a fighting game developed by Atari Games and released as an arcade video game in 1990.[1][2] It was Atari's first fighting game. The Japanese release was published by Konami.[3] Home versions were published by Tengen.

The game uses digitized live actors captured through a bluescreen process, where the various poses and moves were performed by actors[4] in front of a video camera. The game's on-screen character animation is replays of the actual footage, not a rotoscoped (redrawn) animation. Pit-Fighter is the second fighting game to use digitized sprites, after Home Data's Reikai Dōshi: Chinese Exorcist.

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  2. ^ "News Digest". RePlay. Vol. 15, no. 12. September 1990. p. 23.
  3. ^ "ピットファイター [アーケード] / ファミ通.com". www.famitsu.com. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
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