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* BalanceSpeedStrengthTrio: Of the three playable characters, Kato's fast but weak, Buzz's strong but slow, and Ty is a happy balance of both.
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''Pit-Fighter'' is a 1990 {{fighting game}} by Creator/{{Atari}}. It was the first fighting game to use live-action footage as the source of the character sprites, [[OlderThanTheyThink roughly two years before]] ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'' popularized it. There was planned to be a sequel which would have had a fourth character to play as.
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''Pit-Fighter'' is a 1990 {{fighting game}} by Creator/{{Atari}}. It was the first fighting game to use live-action footage as the source of the character sprites, [[OlderThanTheyThink roughly two years before]] ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'' Kombat|1992}}'' popularized it. There was planned to be a sequel which would have had a fourth character to play as.
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* SimpleStaff: The most common weapon (except maybe the barrels and kegs) is a stick used like a bo staff.
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* SpamAttack: Kato's special attack is a series of karate thrusts followed by a double palm strike. This is borderline AwesomeButImpractical as it takes around a full second to perform making it more easily interruptible by other players and enemies than Buzz's or Ty's specials and Kato goes into his overly long celebration immediately afterwards.
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* SpamAttack: Kato's special attack is a series of karate thrusts followed by a double palm strike. This is borderline is AwesomeButImpractical as it takes around a full second to perform making it more easily interruptible by other players and enemies than Buzz's or Ty's specials and Kato goes into his overly long celebration immediately afterwards.
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* AIBreaker: If you can lure an enemy into jumping onto the top of an obstacle you are behind, such as a car, you can hit them with impunity as they try to reach you, knocking them back off it. Rinse and repeat until they are KO'd.
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* BigBad: Masked Warrior
* TheBigGuy: Buzz
* TheBrute: Chainman Eddie
* BossGame: There are only 3 characters to pick. This would have barely changed in the sequel, which would have had a fourth, female character named "Tasha". As this game was developed before ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', this is obvious, as all fighters before [=SFII=] were {{Boss Game}}s.
* TheBigGuy: Buzz
* TheBrute: Chainman Eddie
* BossGame: There are only 3 characters to pick. This would have barely changed in the sequel, which would have had a fourth, female character named "Tasha". As this game was developed before ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', this is obvious, as all fighters before [=SFII=] were {{Boss Game}}s.
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* BigBad: Masked Warrior
Warrior. He periodically appears on screen to taunt you as you progress through the tournaments, then steps down off his throne to fight you in the final fight.
* TheBigGuy:Buzz
Buzz, though only in terms of the three playable characters. Many enemies match or exceed him in size and build.
* TheBrute: ChainmanEddie
Eddie. Big, well muscled and has a tendency to put his head down and bull rush you.
* BossGame: There are only3 three characters to pick.pick from. This would have barely changed in the sequel, which would have had a fourth, female character named "Tasha". As this game was developed before ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', this is obvious, as all fighters before [=SFII=] were {{Boss Game}}s.
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* DarkActionGirl: Angel
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* DarkActionGirl: Angel
Angel. She uses her high heels and studded wristbands to good effect.
* TheDragon: ChainmanEddieEddie. You meet him once as a regular fighter during the tournament, then have to fight ''two'' of him before you face the final boss.
* TheDragon: Chainman
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* EvilLaugh: Chainman Eddie
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* EvilLaugh: Chainman EddieEddie at the start of your fights with him.
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* FragileSpeedster: KatoKato has incredible hand speed but lacks Buzz's strength and Kato's agility meaning he's more likely to be hit and stunned / knocked down by enemies.
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* MightyGlacier: Buzz, Buzz and Chainman EddieEddie. Both are big muscular guys who don't move and hit as fast, but pack a lot of force when they do connect.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's very common to smash a barrel into an enemy only to reveal the powerpill which the enemy promptly picks up.
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* NeckLift: Masked Warrior can do this to you. It's impossible to escape from and kills you within seconds.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's very common to smash a barrel into an enemy only to reveal thepowerpill power pill which the enemy promptly picks up.up. Learning the sideways evade move so you can leap over the enemy to get it first is highly recommended to avoid this.
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* TokenMinority: Southside Jim; Jim is the only black competitor. Ty looks Hispanic and KatoKato is of Asian origin.
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* BreakableWeapons: The large objects the player and enemies can bash people with / throw at them generally last one or two uses before breaking. The wooden staffs last several hits before breaking and the knife can be used repeatedly to stab. Thrown knives and throwing stars are single use, they disappear after you throw them.
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* LightningBruiser: Masked WarriorWarrior - he hits like a truck, moves and attacks quickly and can take a lot of punishment.
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* OneHitKill: The end boss can pick you up and strangle you. If you are playing on your own there's no way to escape and it doesn't matter how much life you have left - you're a goner.
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* OneHitKill: The end boss can pick you up and strangle you. If you are playing As it's a one on your own there's no way to escape and one fight it doesn't matter how much life you have left - you're a goner.
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* SpamAttack: Kato's special attack is a series of karate thrusts followed by a double palm strike. This is by far the worst move in the game as it has no knockdown and Kato goes into his celebration right after.
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* SpamAttack: Kato's special attack is a series of karate thrusts followed by a double palm strike. This is by far the worst move in the game borderline AwesomeButImpractical as it has no knockdown takes around a full second to perform making it more easily interruptible by other players and enemies than Buzz's or Ty's specials and Kato goes into his overly long celebration right after.immediately afterwards.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: C.C. Rider is dressed in biker leathers and carries a pool cue (often associated with bikers).
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** The bonus rounds replace these with three circles. Each time a fighter gets knocked down, they lose a circle; first to lose three loses.
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* ThreeRoundDeathmatch: Averted in normal fights, where it's last-man-standing. The bonus rounds have a variant, where it's the first to three ''knockdowns''.
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* RoundhouseKick: This is one of Ty's signature moves. Ty's most prominent signature move is even more elaborate, he leaps into the air and rolls sideways - lashing out with one leg and then the other, almost like a dual drop kick.
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* RoundhouseKick: This is one of Ty's signature moves. Ty's most prominent signature move is even more elaborate, an elaborate version, he leaps into the air and rolls sideways - lashing out with one leg and then the other, almost like a dual drop kick.kick/roundhouse kick hybrid.
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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Buzz who can take enemies down with his piledriver and other moves; Masked Warrior
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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Buzz who can take enemies down with his piledriver and other moves; piledriver; Masked Warrior
Warrior loves to grapple too.
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* RoundhouseKick: TyThis is one of Ty's signature moves. Ty's most prominent signature move is even more elaborate, he leaps into the air and rolls sideways - lashing out with one leg and then the other, almost like a dual drop kick.
* {{Sequel}}: As mentioned above, there was a plan on a direct sequel with extra characters but that got shelved. There was a sequel of sorts in the Atari game ''Guardians of the 'Hood'' which left the modern gladiator scene for a VideoGame/FinalFight-style beat'em up involving the characters who would have been in ''Pit Fighter 2''. Besides the digitized graphics, ''Guardians of the 'Hood'' was noted for being somewhat influenced by the fighting game scene, so each character had 3 shots of magic where they hurled their signature magical projectile.
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Players select one of three fighters, each with their own moveset and focus. Buzz, a pro wrestler, who emphasizes strength, Ty, a kickboxer, who emphasizes agility and Kato, a black-belt who emphasizes speed. They then fight their way through the tournament, taking on the other fighters and trying to reach the championship fight with the Masked Warrior and defeat him.
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Players select one of three fighters, each with their own moveset and focus. Buzz, a pro wrestler, wrestler who emphasizes strength, Ty, a kickboxer, kickboxer who emphasizes agility and Kato, a black-belt who emphasizes speed. They then fight their way through the tournament, taking on the other fighters and trying to reach the championship fight with the Masked Warrior and defeat him.
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* SpecialAttack: All three playable characters have one. Buzz uses a piledriver, Kano a series of rapid palm strikes and Ty a double roundhouse kick. Unlike most other games of the same era they do not cost any energy to move and are easy to perform by pressing the jump, punch and kick buttons simultaneously. The only downside is the players character will celebrate after performing one successfully leaving them vulnerable to a swift counter or another onscreen enemy.
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* {{Expy}}: Ty is Creator/JeanClaudevanDamme's character from ''Bloodsport'', all the way down to being shown doing the splits as part of his training.
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* {{Expy}}: Ty is Creator/JeanClaudevanDamme's Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's character from ''Bloodsport'', all the way down to being shown doing the splits as part of his training.
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* OneHitKill: The end boss can pick you up and strangle you. If you are playing on your own there's no way to escape and it doesn't matter how much life you have left - you're a goner.
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* WaifFu: Angel can do handsprings and is invulnerable while doing them, although otherwise her fighting style is as gritty as anyone else's.
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Players select one of three fighters, each with their own moveset and focus. Buzz, a pro wrestler, who emphasizes strength, Ty, a kickboxer, who emphasizes agility and Kato, a black-belt who emphasizes speed. They then fight their way through the tournament, taking on the other fighters and trying to reach the championship fight with the Masked Warrior and defeat him.
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* CriticalExistenceFailure: Both players and enemies continue to fight at full effectiveness until they lose their last bar of health, at which point they promptly fall over.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's very common to smash a barrel into an enemy only to reveal the powerpill which the enemy promptly picks up.
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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Encouraged - you get a "brutality bonus" depending on how much damage you do like this if you win the fight. The enemies will also do this to you (with the exception of Southside Jim). Both you and the enemies can also do this to eliminated enemies/players though this has no gameplay effect.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The game encourages you to attack your opponent while he's downed by giving you a "brutality bonus" for doing so at the end of the round (assuming you win!). You can also attack certain members of the crowd, usually gaining a weapon if you do.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The game encourages you to attack your opponent while he's downed by giving you a "brutality bonus" for doing so at the end of the round (assuming you win!). win!) and you and the enemies can continue to attack KO'd players and enemies (though this has no in game effect). You can also attack certain members of the crowd, usually gaining a weapon if you do.do, however they are usually trying to hit you anyway.
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* SetAMookToKillAMook: Enemy attacks can hurt each other, and they can also be damaged by the crowd attackers. While it's hard to get them to hit each other in actual gameplay a viable tactic if you get KO'd but want to continue and there is more than one enemy on screen is to wait until the last second to hit continue and then wait till the last second to select your fighter letting them occasionally hit each other during the wait. This is most effective in the penultimate battle where you face two Chainman Eddies - they will often use their very damaging UseYourHead attack on your downed body and can hit each other with it.
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* WouldHitAGirl: None of the the characters you play have any problem beating up Angel or any female crowd member who tries to interfere.
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''Pit-Fighter'' is a 1990 {{fighting game}} by Creator/{{Atari}}. It was the first fighting game to use live-action footage as the source of the character sprites, [[OlderThanTheyThink roughly two years before]] ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' popularized it. There was planned to be a sequel which would have had a fourth character to play.
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''Pit-Fighter'' is a 1990 {{fighting game}} by Creator/{{Atari}}. It was the first fighting game to use live-action footage as the source of the character sprites, [[OlderThanTheyThink roughly two years before]] ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' ''VideoGame/{{Mortal Kombat|1}}'' popularized it. There was planned to be a sequel which would have had a fourth character to play.
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''Pit-Fighter'' is a 1990 {{fighting game}} by Creator/{{Atari}}. It was the first fighting game to use live-action footage as the source of the character sprites, [[OlderThanTheyThink roughly two years before]] ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' popularized it. There was planned to be a sequel which would have had a fourth character to play.
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!!''Pit-Fighter'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AssKickingPose: All three player-characters strike a pose after hitting their special attack. Doubles as a VictoryPose since they do the same pose after winning a match. And, yes, winning a match with a special attack results in the character doing [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the same pose twice in succession]]. Also leaves your character vulnerable during it which can lead to a world of pain if your opponent gets up quickly or if you're fighting more than one enemy - which leads to a tendency to use Ty in preference over the other characters as his pose is a brief air punch as opposed to Kato's which is a full second and a half of poser tai-chi moves. Buzz is somewhere in the middle with around a second of bicep flexing.
* BigBad: Masked Warrior
* TheBigGuy: Buzz
* TheBrute: Chainman Eddie
* BossGame: There are only 3 characters to pick. This would have barely changed in the sequel, which would have had a fourth, female character named "Tasha". As this game was developed before ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', this is obvious, as all fighters before [=SFII=] were {{Boss Game}}s.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: Blue (Player 1), Red (Player 2) and Yellow (Player 3). Even though there are only three characters, unlike other similar games of its time, more than one player can use the same character if they desire.
* DarkActionGirl: Angel
* TheDragon: Chainman Eddie
* DrillSergeantNasty: Mad Miles, if his outfit is any indication.
* {{Expy}}: Ty is Creator/JeanClaudevanDamme's character from ''Bloodsport'', all the way down to being shown doing the splits as part of his training.
* EvilLaugh: Chainman Eddie
* FightingGame: Came out just before the boom created by ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' and ''VideoGame/FatalFury''
* FragileSpeedster: Kato
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Kato bows at the start of every match and after landing his "Combo Punch" special move. Unfortunately, this elaborate display of respect leaves him wide open, and his opponent(s) WILL take advantage of it.
** Also the enemy "Southside Jim" will not attack downed opponents, even if they attack him on the deck first.
* JackOfAllStats: Ty
* LifeMeter: Standard for the genre but with the twist that it did not refill between battles -- so as you progressed your character was less and less durable, to the point where you could win a fight but a single [[CherryTapping light slap]] from the next opponent could finish you -- and as you only had one life the only way to continue after losing all your health was to pump more coins in....
* LightningBruiser: Masked Warrior
* MesACrowd: The round before the Masked Warrior features two Chainman Eddies regardless of how many players are in the game at that point.
* MightyGlacier: Buzz, Chainman Eddie
* MirrorMatch: The bonus rounds in single-player mode. UrExample -- This is the first FightingGame to use the feature (''VideoGame/KarateChamp'' implied the two fighters were different people, even if they did look alike).
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The score is represented in dollars and there is no real characterization for anyone, so this is the only logical conclusion to why anyone is here.
* RealMenWearPink: Southside Jim's default palette.
* RoundhouseKick: Ty
* RummageSaleReject: One of the main criticisms about this game was the clothes used by most of the bosses. Almost all of them wear clothes fitting for a ''porn movie'' rather for a fighting tournament. This is even worse with both Angel and Chainman Eddie: The former looks like a Hollywood-style ''prostitute'' and the later seems to came out from a gay porn film.
* SimpleStaff: The most common weapon (except maybe the barrels and kegs) is a stick used like a bo staff.
* SpamAttack: Kato's special attack is a series of karate thrusts followed by a double palm strike.
* StoryAndGameplaySegregation: The opening cinematic shows Kato being very proficient with a staff. In the actual game, he doesn't use it any better than any other character.
* SuperSerum: The power pills hidden in barrels in some stages causes the user (player or enemy) to [[PowerGlows gain a green tinge]], knock down any opponent in one hit, deal more damage, and [[NoSell not react when an opponent attacks]]. Also, in the arcade version the user becomes slightly larger.
* TokenMinority: Southside Jim; Ty
* UseYourHead: Chainman Eddie uses this move. It's hugely damaging and can send you flying the full length of the playing area to bounce off the crowd/wall. Especially deadly when fighting two of them together as you do in the penultimate round.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The game encourages you to attack your opponent while he's downed by giving you a "brutality bonus" for doing so at the end of the round (assuming you win!).
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Buzz; Masked Warrior
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