Lost In Translation/Pit-Fighter

About The Game
Pit-Fighter is an arcade video game beat-em-up.

Three digitized brawlers face off co-operatively against a variety of street thugs, with game-play featuring crowd interference and usable weapons. Players also get to fight each other in a 'Grudge Match'. Pit-Fighter featured impressive camera zoom and side-to-side pan but was somewhat flawed as a game-play experience. On the dedicated cabinet version, up to three players can play simultaneously.

Trivia
Released in September 1990. This was the first ever beat-em-up to feature fully digitized protagonists - released two years before Midway's Mortal Kombat.

Pit-Fighter was available in both dedicated cabinets and as conversion kits. The converted versions were usually only housed in two-player cabinets, while the dedicated machine supported up to three players. The dedicated versions had 25" arcade monitors but, due to the lack of commercial and critical success, many of these machines were turned into "Street Fighter 2 - The World Warriors" before they were even a year old.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (That's Atari Music : G.S.M. Atari Games 1 - PCCB-00066) on 21/07/1991.

Staff

 * Project Leaders / Designers:
 * Gary Stark
 * Mark Stephen Pierce


 * Programmers:
 * Gary Stark
 * Paul Kwinn


 * Digital Imaging:
 * Rob Rowe


 * Engineers:
 * Sam Lee
 * Doug Snyder

Cast

 * Buzz:
 * Bill Chase


 * Ty:
 * Marc Williams


 * Kato:
 * Glenn Fratticelli


 * Executioner:
 * John Aguire


 * Southside Jim:
 * James Thompson


 * Chainman:
 * Eddie Venancio


 * Mad Miles:
 * Miles McGowan


 * Heavy Metal:
 * Kim Rhodes


 * C.C. Rider:
 * Rich Vargas


 * Angel:
 * Angela Stellato


 * Masked Warrior:
 * Bill McAleenan


 * Knife Woman:
 * Dianne Bertucci


 * Knife Man:
 * Milt Loper


 * Finale Women:
 * Tina Scyrater
 * Maria Lenytzkyj

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Nintendo Super Famicom (1991)
 * Sega Mega Drive (1991)
 * Nintendo Game Boy (1992)
 * Atari Lynx (1992)
 * Microsoft XBOX (2004, "Midway Arcade Treasures 2")
 * Nintendo GameCube (2004, "Midway Arcade Treasures 2")
 * Sony PlayStation 2 (2004, "Midway Arcade Treasures 2")
 * Sega Master System


 * Computers :
 * Commodore C64 (1991)
 * Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1991)
 * Amstrad CPC (1991)
 * Commodore Amiga ("Pit-Fighter", 1991, DoMark)
 * Atari ST (1991)
 * PC [MS-DOS, 5.25"] (1991)
 * PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (2006, "Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition")

