Even though this is the first I've ever seen of this game, I feel robbed with knowing the world missed its chance of having Streets of Crack.

Helga/Mr Big was also the main atagonist in the Aerosmith arcade game!

This game always looked like a guilty pleasure for five minutes and then you go back to playing something better.

How do you consistently keep bringing us arcade games that I've never heard of? I used to think growing up with arcades meant that I'd seen it all. Love it.

Pit fighter was jaw dropping to look at and play in the arcades back then

"You'll never defeat my Dreads!" has been going through my head occasionally for 30 years now, so I am always excited when someone talks about this game. I do not remember the controls being terrible, but then again, there is probably a reason I almost never made it past the first level

I love Pit Fighter. I remember when it first debuted. Ppl went absolutely nuts. I’ve played many arcades in the 80s-90s, but I’ve never came across this one. Wow.

This is great, and I also loved Pit Fighter! One of my life-goals is to show my totally studlyness by being hoisted on a forklift while flexing, after knocking the snot out of some leather-clad pugilist.

Thank you for the history of digitized live-action humans in these games. Back in those days, the limited animation frames really affected the flow of the movements, being quite choppy looking understandably compared to smoother animation in sprite drawn character games.

I remember seeing this previewed in an issue of CV&G magazine. I was really excited for it since it looked right up my street! (Like an 80s sleaze movie). I never saw it in the arcade but have tracked down the board to play in my Pit-Fighter arcade machine. (Another one I have fond memories of). Thanks for reviewing it, it was a great watch.

Pit Fighter made had a big impact on me as a boy, I'd never seen a game which really felt like playing one of the Van Damme movies I was so fond of watching back then. The graphics looked amazing, and the "gritty" urndergroound, bare knuckle vibe of the fights gave the whole experience a really edgy feel. Never even knew about this project, I guess around 1992/1993 Atari was making a LOT of trashy games while trying to push the envelope of the emerging tech, with the Jaguar catalouge being chock full of them. Thanks for sharing the history of this oddity.

I live in Canada and the closest Pit Fighter arcade was a few hours drive to Bellis Fair mall in Bellingham. It was early 90s and I always looked forward to going down to the States with my parents just so I can play this game. I remember making about 3 trips to the arcade before the game was replaced. Back then it was SFII and PF back to back for me. Later on I got PF for Sega Genesis and played until my thumb was blistered. I loved Ty's special move. I've never seen anyone perform that double kick in real life to this day.

Besides Galloping Ghost, this channel always surprises me showing lost arcade games I've never heard of. It's crazy to think how many games can be lost to time. No matter how terrible, should still be known. Fun history of development

"The year is 2022 and he is still running strong! No, I am not talking about the Running Man. I am talking about PatmanQC!"

You're the man, Patman. I look forward to all of your videos.

Pit Fighter, in the arcade, was effing awesome. You are not wrong, Pat.

I've played and seen so many games, then here comes Patman with something I've never seen or heard of. As usual, nicely done. Like so many games of the time, tried to ride the popularity wave, but not focus on quality.

Thank you for this review. I remembered seeing very little about this game back in the 90's and now I can see why! The whole thing looks janky as heck. Compare that to how smooth other beat 'em ups released by Capcom & Konami were in the early 90's and I can see why this game was completely forgotten. I also remember how big of a deal Pit Fighter was for a short time. I have memories of going to Aladdin's Castle in Northpark Mall and seeing people crowed around Pit Fighter with a second screen placed on top of the cabinet so more people could see. I think most of the hate Pit Fighter gets these days is from the lousy home ports it received and how much better SF II, MK and other fighters that came years after it are. For a time in 1990 it was THE fighting game to play!

The most sacred 20 minutes I will spend today. Thanks my friend. 👍👍👍👍👍

Man you have the best Classic Game documentary series on KZfaq. I have watched every one of your videos. Keep up the good work!

Pit Fighter is a classic that I will admit that I enjoyed playing on the M.A.M.E emulator on a bus early one morning on my laptop, almost a decade ago. I proudly played this game on a full bus, during a long trip to work at the time. There really were a lot of people on that bus, as I sat there and played this game ... maybe not 300 ... but still a lot of people. 😋

Streets of crack? That’s America now just come to downtown denver. I need that amazing guardians of the hood trailer in my America to save it.

Love the bluescreen montage! Great history of this title I never knew existed! Thanks Patman!

Love your videos. They bring me back to my days as a teen when my friends and I would hit up the arcade in our local bowling alley and wait to play whatever the hot game was at the time. One game that came to mind after hearing here about others with digitized characters was High Impact Football (1990) and Super High Impact Football (1991) which were basically the predecessors to NFL Blitz. I would love to see a full history of those especially with the new NFL season coming in the fall.

I also really enjoyed Pit Fighter. It was positively mesmerizing when I first saw it. I never saw this particular game anywhere until MAME many years later. Also, Conner is super stylin' in that crop top and mom jeans.

The hell!? that karate babes is actually the best moving, looking digitized characters I've ever seen in game before

I love Pit Fighter, such a fun game. Guardians Of The Hood is fun too. It's so fun to slam peoples head into walls and the ground. There's no move list online so you have to figure it out. You can pick up weapons, throw objects and as I mentioned slam people into walls and the ground.

"You'll be sad you did..." love it! Tempted to MAME it as I was a fan of Pit Fighter when it was a new release also. I'm also lucky enough to be close to Galloping Ghost to visit pbs or twice a year! Might wait to play the real deal! Thanks for all these well researched hidden "gems"!

Fantastic video! As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s I also loved pit fighter when it came out! Looking back it hasn't aged well but will always have fond memories at Playland museum and that game.

I wish digitized sprites would make a comeback

The fun you have with the word “endowed” is joyous! Great video on a game I never heard of.

thank you for your videos i really appreciate them good work

I played this a few times in an arcade back in 93. I gave up playing it because it would waste my quarters too quickly. They had a time killers machine and martial champions at that same arcade... good memories.

I was 13 years old when Pit Fighter came out, it was the best thing I ever saw at the arcades. I miss those days. Thanks for the reviews.

Called yourself a peckerwood within 16 seconds. Definitely worth a like.

Awesome. Hope we get one from you for tattooed assassins lol. Also, while not an arcade game, if you ever do a history of Karate Bikini Babes 1 and 2, my friend was one of the characters in the game.

I spot you on a panel with Pat the NES Punk at 2:57 ! Really cool when world's collide...

Youre such a good editor.. Loved that craptacular montage hype video

I have never heard of "Chinese Exorcist" but I LOVED "Narc". I played that for hours upon days upon weeks. Another great video!

I can honestly say this is the first game on this channel I've never heard of so thanks Pat

entertainingCed sent me. glad he did. wow forgot about this game. great coverage! looking forward to more of your videos.

I love your voice. It’s like I’m listening to an Uncle share cherished arcade memories

another great video. i remember playing this game. it's good to see this one.

That bit where you pick up and throw the subway perv like a weapon was hilarious!

Pitfighter wasn't bad.. I mean, it was, but the arcade was fun. Home conversions were terrible and I know it aged poor but it was exciting for that special sliver of time that it was in arcades and when I was 8 and not capable of drugs and alcohol yet.

I was a wee lad when pit fighter came out, i was in awe. I liked it, too

Thank you Pacmanqc great work Sir

Love yours films, thx for your work👍

OMG Yes! I can’t wait to watch this!

thanks for another great vid, also a pit fighter fan.

9:13 Patman's VO reminds me of Ric Flair's promo when hes gonna wrestle Arn Anderson in WCW (The "We cried together" promo)

A bad game that is charming by being so bad. Loved your coverage on it

Guardians of the Hood was a good experiment on how to not make a digitized beat em up, However it should be showcased the Museum of Modern Art, or Museum of Moving Image as a nice try. The movie The Original Gangsters ripped off of the plot, very similar. I discovered this game on Mame 10 to 15 years ago, and I found it entertainingly funny. When you see the old lady with the broom sweeping it was hilarious, also its little touches like the flasher on the subway which is spot on living in NYC and taking the subway. I thought the game needed better controls and its digitization a little more polished. I am glad you covered this game Patman. Also Kudos to you being in the center with the other gamer youtubers, you deserve to be on there bro!

Great video thanks...Pit fighter was amazing and ground breaking at the time!

I never even knew this game existed! Great commentary btw!!!!

The Bob Ross Paint Guy that was so funny, I like your commendation. I'm a new subscriber. .

Haha, I've always loved Pit Fighter. And that's not the extent of my illness: I also own a Guardians of the Hood arcade PCB.

Games like this needs to come back out

For the first time in my life I'm hearing of the existence of this game. Growing up and going to the arcade I used to enjoy playing every now and then pit fighter and now it has a nostalgic effect on me.

I enjoyed the play on your own ending with "You'll be sad you did" haha

This game made a pretty big splash in my local arcade at the time. If it's a bit of a coinmuncher later you can certainly knock 5 minutes out of it relatively easily. While people got super hyped about compromised digitzed visuals of Donkey Kong Country or Rise of the Robots I always felt they were a pretty modest graphical spectacle after rinsing GotH two years earlier. The colour depth is a lot better than a console game. On a CRT at least digitzed graphics don't translate well to LCD. Needless to say this was the most bodacious arcade game out at the time unless you caught Danger Express on location test.

"You'll be sad you did" hahaha as always, great work!

Guardians Of The Hood has such a strange nostalgic charm. It's a sequel to Pit Fighter but has more moves. You can tell the game was made to be a coin muncher by the way the timer punishes you even when you are winning and you have to die just so you can continue lol

17:16 haters would say this is photoshopped. 🤣🤣🤣 Anyways this is a good video. Can't believe Marble Madness 2 was cancelled for this. I hope you get around to doing videos on games like Bomb Jack, Metro Cross (Namco), Rampage, and Strikeforce (Midway) someday.

Never heard or seen this gem.. but pit fighter was not bad for its time. I enjoyed playing it and still do via mame...

Wow...I was in my late teens during this time and thought I knew every fighting game from this era but I've never heard of this one! I wasn't the biggest fan of Pit Fighter but I had lots of friends who enjoyed it since it didn't require as much practice and memorization as SF or MK.

Back in college, a friend and I played this on MAME. We'd run around yelling GUARDIANS OF THE HOOD. The game was bad but a guilty pleasure.

Wow. I’m usually up on obscure arcade games (being a Navy son) I’ve seen quite a few things growing up in the 80s and 90s. But this one I’ve never played.

Wow this is like one of those games you break out to show people what the early 90s were all about. It might be offensive if it wasnt so hilarious, I will be downloading and showing this one off. P.S. just subscribed, great content.

awesome review!.

Yeah I am with you, for what it is, I really liked Pitfighter as well! I do remember even back in the day there were naysayers, but I always found it fun! :)

I will play Guardians Of The Hood to kick some ass in the Hood. 😀👍🎮

Great video,never heard of this game. By the way I love Pit Fighter.

I used to play pit fighter all the time at the time. When that came out you couldnt imagine how mindblowing it was.

Nowadays,that intro video could be considered "lost media". I commend u for finding & showing it👍

Tanya is my favorite character to play as. She has some nice kicks like her helicopter kick.

Never herd of it but it sounds fun.. Pit fighter was a damn good game and will forever be!

Atari arcade games always seemed to have a certain sound to their music different to every other game maker as if they were using a sound chip different to every other company

Pat please please do a doc for Survival Arts. Its another digitized fighter that most people have not heard of because it was pretty bad but for some reason I just love the game:)

Pit Fighter was amazing on release, to my 80’s brain it looked & played so smooth, for a very short time it was the best fighting game.

Great video

Hey Mom. I’m just gonna go to the arcade to play Streets of Crack . Ok son have fun 😳

I have a modified OG Xbox with various emulators installed. I spotted this and had high hopes that it would be a revolting jankfest. I was happily not disappointed. No, seriously, this is one of those games that's worth a playthrough just once out of morbid curiosity, as long as you go into the game with no expectations of it being good.

That video was so 90s I'd expect it to reair after the late edition of the local news at 2 am

I too loved Pit Fighter😂😂😂my older brother and I were addicted for a few weeks

You mentioned how the arcade unit left a stench long after it was removed and not for nothing none of the characters in the game look like they have good hygiene.

I like Pit-Fighter as well, I have an original Pit-Fighter arcade machine in my collection.

I do wish they bring back digitized people in fighting games like Mortal Kombat. Ever since Pit Fighter and MK came out, so many digitized graphics like Primal Rage for using clay models came out, Warhawk for PS1, Twisted Metal, Duke Nukem, NARC, etc.

You have shown me a number of arcade games that I never even knew about and wish I could have played... this is not one of those. 😂 It was fun to watch anyway.

Pit Fighter in the arcade is a fun game. I think its a victim of Internet Revisionism, mainly due to the poor quality of the home console versions and people like the AVGN (no shade toward James intended, but some people dont understand the AVGN isnt real...well thats not completely true as its an obvious homage to Mike Matei with James' spin on it ). I had never seen GotH until the days of the internet, and not even the early internet. I went to arcades all the time as a kid but just never saw it anywhere - Not at Celebration Station, Aladdin's Castle(Woodmar Mall location in Hammond, IN and the one in Southlake Mall Merillville/Hobart, IN), Friar Tucks(I got pick pocketed for token there as a kid, same place where the Cursed Berzerk machine "killed" a kid), Times Square, Wright's Barnyard/DZ's Country Junction(I think there was 3 of them, the main one in Lansing, IL - another one in Alsip/Crestwood, and on US 30 past Southlake Mall toward Deep River Water Park), Woodmar Arcade (although I think that shut down before it was released)

I loved Pit Fighter too. I eventually bought it on my Genesis.

I wish I had played this game back in the day, but at least I still got to play Pit-Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

Many years later this game would get a "spiritual sequel" of sorts called Streets of Fury EX. It's what Guardians of the Hood always dreamed to be and much more. The game is sold on Steam and it's pretty cheap.

I've played this game multiple times over the years & have never got past level 2 due to boredom.

Happy little babes in bikinis fighting game😁

I loved Pit fighter, hadn't heard of this one before, wish i had

Awesome buddy

5:02 I believe is a scene from the hit movie: "Wargames" with Matthew Broderick

At the time pitfighter was super cool. Sucked for home console but I liked the arcade. Reminded me of Bloodsport movie.

Never saw this one in my local arcade. I did play a lot of Pitfighter though which was made also made by Atari