Pit-Fighter is a 1990 arcade by Atari Games, notable for its early use of digitized live actors. The graphic animation for the player character(s) and opponents were created through a bluescreen process, where the various poses & moves of the characters were acted out by hired actors in front of a video camera. The game's on-screen character animation are replays of the actual footage, not a rotoscoped (redrawn) animation as was common in other g...
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Pit-Fighter is a 1990 arcade by Atari Games, notable for its early use of digitized live actors. The graphic animation for the player character(s) and opponents were created through a bluescreen process, where the various poses & moves of the characters were acted out by hired actors in front of a video camera. The game's on-screen character animation are replays of the actual footage, not a rotoscoped (redrawn) animation as was common in other games. Live-action shooting reached a brief highpoint with later arcade titles such as Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam, before gaming trends shifted away.
Pit-Fighter features 3 playable fighters:
Pit-Fighter also has 8 unplayable opponents:
The gameplay is similar to Taito's Violence Fight and SNK's Street Smart. The player begins Pit-Fighter by choosing one of the three playable characters, who all have different moves, speed, and power. As many as three people can play at a time, but there will be extra opponents to fight during any of this game's...
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