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I... don't know QUITE what to make of this one... Well, it was
shown at both Philly Classic and the Classic Gaming Expo as Pit Fighter, so presumably the original
board was marked indicating this was Pit Fighter... however this game
bears very little resemblance to the game we all know as Pit
Fighter. It has a few things in common with the arcade game I suppose -
you beat people up until they fall, the crowd is cheering you on in the
backround (albiet in shadow-only, their sprites are not in the game) and
the arena sort of looks like something out of Pit
Fighter, but the gameplay isn't anything near how Pit Fighter played.
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It may just be the fact that
this was a very early demo of a game that would one day be
a 7800 version of Pit Fighter, but this ROM plays more
like a Double Dragon type game than like a Pit Fighter
game. Another oddity is that the game seems to play
entirely too fast - almost as if it was playing at double
speed. Gameplay, like most 7800 games, is simple. You are the guy
in the purple pants and you need to beat the shit out of the people
in the other colored pants. There's only one level
in this game, and when you knock all four of your
opponents out, nothing happens - you just continue on like
nothings changed. Its not a bad little game, and probably
would have been a whole lot better if it was completed.
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One fun bug exists in this
demo. If you walk all the way to the bottom of the screen
and press the JUMP button, your character flies into the
air and hangs over the crowd as seen in the second
picture. While this may not be the best prototype ever
released, it is certainly, from my opinion anyway, one of
the most appreciated. When the first reports of an Atari
7800 Pit Fighter came out after PhillyClassic 2001, there
were a lot of questions about the game. Now we all know,
just like the people trying to tell us this after they
played it at PhillyClassic that this game wasn't much to
get excited over. It makes me wonder however - what was
the Atari 7800 capable of that we never got to see thanks
to the bumbling of the Tramiels?
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