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.
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!
That's the first time I've heard someone admit they like Pitfighter. When I got my first arcade game Frogger I was offered Pitfighter too for a $100 more if I remember right and I passed. Looking at prices now I wish I had got it and just snapped in a better game, but my point here is Pitfighter is known as a 'smoke test' board in the arcade circle since it was an unloved game. It certainly didn't age well.
WoW I remember this game back in the early 90’s at the YMCA. The machine was there for maybe 2 weeks. Crapy game .75 for 3 games and would die too fast LoL. The nostalgia, couldn’t remember this games name.
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.
I learned as an adult that my town two hours from Chicago was sort of a test/dumping ground for Atari and Midway both, so that explains why my childhood was filled with playing so many barely-known-today arcade games. At the time I just thought we had some good arcades due to random luck, but clearly the multiple colleges in the area and proximity to the manufacturers was more relevant, haha.
I've been introduced to a lot of games I never knew existed almost feels like a different dimension as much arcade cabinets I've played I thought pit fall was the last iteration of that series didn't know they made another game. This game looks like terrible dog vomit, shit, and the sprites and frame rate is terrible. No wonder I didn't hear about this game. What the hell am I watching?
Yeah that's what people don't appreciate pit fighter doesn't look great now but back then it was awesome . I remember I was blown away by the intro as a kid
Pit fighter was jaw dropping, but it played like shit. There were a tonne of those kind of games back in the day, dragon's lair being another prime example
Thats what all my friends said ....and also about the first Mortal Kombat....I wasnt impressed with those games...I was impressed with Street fighter 2...games like that...I never liked those cut and paste looking graphics...well...thats what they looked like to me. My cousin had Pit fighter for the Sega Genesis when it came out, and he was ALL about it....I never could get into it...that version looking back at it today...did NOT age well.
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.
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.
The Sega Genesis version was the best one even on the sprites are small in size. Apparently Gary stark shared his arcade pit fighter code with the people who were developing the Genesis version which is why it plays so well
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.
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!
Yeah, it was constantly busy in our mall. And I remember it blowing minds that this was an Atari game. We didn't know the difference between Atari home and Atari arcade. And even when it was still alive, the 7800 and ST were not how most Americans saw the brand.
Probably the most nostalgic feeling game I've ever played. I suggest getting good at Pit Fighter before getting into this game. You have to figure out the controls in Guardians of the Hood too or else it's not as fun to play. Once you know what you are doing it is very fun. No move list online.
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.
Cathode Ray Dude has an interesting video on some footage he acquired that was the raw footage of actors doing various moves and stuff on a blue background for some PC game that didnt come out. EDIT: It was for some weird experimental VR world like thing called Cyberpark. The actual video is called "Uncovering a Cancelled 90s "Metaverse" [Cyberpark]". You get some time check it out, he also has a link for a video that just has all the footage.
Yeah, that's true, but those games were not without their charm. Pit Fighter ate a lot of my quarters back in the day, and Narc was a fun, hilarious bloodbath.
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.
"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
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.
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
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 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.
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 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.
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
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.
@pferreira1983 He covers a broader history by showing more games and culture of the times. What The Gaming Historian provides are intensly researched deep dive documentaries. Videos, like his Tetris or Super Mario World ones, may spend an hour or more focusing on just one game or piece of obscure hardware. They are both important channels.
@@rustyshackelford1413 The Gaming Historian just covers stuff that's already been covered on various other channels. He doesn't bring anything new, that's the problem.
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. 😋
"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"!
Absolutely. We are going to hit galloping ghost next year at some point . The game isn't very fun to play And it's actually worse than Pitt fighter which is so bizarre to me. I spoke with Gary Stark restart the developer of both but he refused to answer any questions about guardian Saying that it was 30 years ago and everything has already been public
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Let us know when you'll be there and maybe we'll have a Patman day! It'd be great to see all of us likeminded people at the GG!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I visited Galloping Ghost a couple months ago while visiting a friend who lives outside of Chicago... The place is absolutely amazing. It's room after room after room of cabinets and not just games you're familiar with but a whole bunch you might have never seen before or completely forgot about. It was sensory overload I didn't know what to play first. My only complaints are that a lot of the games are out of order or the screens are fading out or the controllers aren't working but I understand they need an army of technicians 24/7 to keep everything running. Also some of the aisles are very narrow so if more than one person is standing in front of the game and especially if they are overweight you might not be able to squeeze past them and have to find an alternate route
@@jamesnoble3502 Yes, I agree with the aisles being very narrow. Myself trying to walk on artificial legs made it a bit of a challenge trying to get through their. It's still a cool experience so something every retro gamer should check out
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.
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.
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
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.
Thanks for the nice words and the sub. I was extremely shocked playing through this for the first time from the flashers to using homeless men as a lawn dart LOL. It's so absurd all you can do is laugh at it
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 played this a bunch and for the exact same reason I hated it. Such a quarter muncher. I remember when it was first emulated on Mame, I was like I’m finally going to beat this game. And I’ve still never gotten around to it all these years.
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.
I'd never even heard of this before seeing this video and can see why. It looks a mess. Mind you, I was never a fan of that digitised sprite look at the best of times and think the MK titles were the only ones to use it adequately. Either way, thanks for proving that every day is indeed a school day with this one! :)
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.
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.
Well... you have covered Pit Fighter and Guardians of the Hood... It's time for Ring Rage! It's not made by Atari but looks like the Prowrestling version of Pit Fighter...
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.
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.
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.
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! :)
"Hah-vee-eh". LOL, this is what happens when you take French in high school instead of the more practical Spanish, and also have minimal exposure to actual Hispanic people in real life.
Well just like you love pit fighter and that is your favorite will actually this is my favorite because it reminds me of the warriors and the rumble fish from back in the days
I'd kind of like to fix a game like this, fixing the controls of course, but having an AI go through an add in all the missing animations frames for characters.
Pit Fighter gets ragged on by everyone it seems. But in the days before Mortal Kombat, I liked Pit Fighter a lot. The digitized fighting hit differently in the days before MK.
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.
Helga/Mr Big was also the main atagonist in the Aerosmith arcade game!
Yes although that wasn't until the mid-90s
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 still enjoyed it as well
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!
At the time pitfighter was super cool. Sucked for home console but I liked the arcade. Reminded me of Bloodsport movie.
90% of the versions at home were not very good but the Genesis version was fantastic especiallyy considering the hardware
That's the first time I've heard someone admit they like Pitfighter. When I got my first arcade game Frogger I was offered Pitfighter too for a $100 more if I remember right and I passed. Looking at prices now I wish I had got it and just snapped in a better game, but my point here is Pitfighter is known as a 'smoke test' board in the arcade circle since it was an unloved game. It certainly didn't age well.
I always enjoyed it especially the Sega Genesis version
watch for these deadly moves!: taunt...okay?
LOL yes be careful
WoW I remember this game back in the early 90’s at the YMCA. The machine was there for maybe 2 weeks. Crapy game .75 for 3 games and would die too fast LoL. The nostalgia, couldn’t remember this games name.
Chief looked like buffer & more ripped Steven Segal to me
Yes he does could call
I don't know what ppl are talking about... Pit Fighter is a classic! 💪🏆
I don't either, I always enjoyed it
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries i need to get it for PS2 in that treasure game pack
I actually loved pit fighter and on the sega genesis.... don't like it? See me in the pit...
Correction! Street Fighter the movie the game.
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.
@Sudo Beerme I'm not sure why they couldn't have just gone with 'Master of Buffness Presents: Guardians of the Hood - Streets of Crack Edition'
I Guardians of the hood
II Guardians of the hood (streets of crack)
III Guardians of the hood (ghetto legends)
@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol I hear that's the Limited Run release. 😂
@@pihermoso11 Bro💀💀💀
Happy little babes in bikinis fighting game😁
It made me happy
@@FallicIdol "Beavis laugh" yeah yeah me to "Beavis laugh"🤣🤣🤣
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.
Fantastic, glad my silly little channel can bring you some enjoyment :-)
I learned as an adult that my town two hours from Chicago was sort of a test/dumping ground for Atari and Midway both, so that explains why my childhood was filled with playing so many barely-known-today arcade games. At the time I just thought we had some good arcades due to random luck, but clearly the multiple colleges in the area and proximity to the manufacturers was more relevant, haha.
I've been introduced to a lot of games I never knew existed almost feels like a different dimension as much arcade cabinets I've played I thought pit fall was the last iteration of that series didn't know they made another game. This game looks like terrible dog vomit, shit, and the sprites and frame rate is terrible. No wonder I didn't hear about this game. What the hell am I watching?
Guardians of the Hood was in the arcades of NYC back in the 90s I loved playing Tanya....
Pit fighter was jaw dropping to look at and play in the arcades back then
People like to trash it now, but when it came out it was cutting edge. I still think they nailed the bloodsport/kickboxer style atmosphere.
Yeah that's what people don't appreciate pit fighter doesn't look great now but back then it was awesome .
I remember I was blown away by the intro as a kid
Pit fighter was jaw dropping, but it played like shit. There were a tonne of those kind of games back in the day, dragon's lair being another prime example
Thats what all my friends said ....and also about the first Mortal Kombat....I wasnt impressed with those games...I was impressed with Street fighter 2...games like that...I never liked those cut and paste looking graphics...well...thats what they looked like to me. My cousin had Pit fighter for the Sega Genesis when it came out, and he was ALL about it....I never could get into it...that version looking back at it today...did NOT age well.
That game was fun as hell!! And massively funny too!
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.
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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.
Try half of Gary Indiana
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.
The Sega Genesis version was the best one even on the sprites are small in size. Apparently Gary stark shared his arcade pit fighter code with the people who were developing the Genesis version which is why it plays so well
What a horrible game. So late 80’s. I played it once and was left in disgust as pit fighter was older and way better
pit fighter was the game back in the day before SF2
This game always looked like a guilty pleasure for five minutes and then you go back to playing something better.
It was rough playing this game all the way through LOL
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I'll bet! It was a bit of a quarter muncher on top of being a bit janky
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.
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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!
Yeah, it was constantly busy in our mall. And I remember it blowing minds that this was an Atari game.
We didn't know the difference between Atari home and Atari arcade. And even when it was still alive, the 7800 and ST were not how most Americans saw the brand.
Still wish it had released?
A bad game that is charming by being so bad. Loved your coverage on it
Probably the most nostalgic feeling game I've ever played. I suggest getting good at Pit Fighter before getting into this game. You have to figure out the controls in Guardians of the Hood too or else it's not as fun to play. Once you know what you are doing it is very fun. No move list online.
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.
Cathode Ray Dude has an interesting video on some footage he acquired that was the raw footage of actors doing various moves and stuff on a blue background for some PC game that didnt come out.
EDIT: It was for some weird experimental VR world like thing called Cyberpark. The actual video is called "Uncovering a Cancelled 90s "Metaverse" [Cyberpark]". You get some time check it out, he also has a link for a video that just has all the footage.
@@zackschilling4376 thank you for pointing that out! I really enjoyed those vídeos.
@@elmachipsfoose Excellent! Glad to be of service.
Yeah, that's true, but those games were not without their charm. Pit Fighter ate a lot of my quarters back in the day, and Narc was a fun, hilarious bloodbath.
@@swampdonkey4919 YOU RE BUSTED!
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.
"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 wish digitized sprites would make a comeback
OMG Yes! I can’t wait to watch this!
Hey Mom. I’m just gonna go to the arcade to play Streets of Crack .
Ok son have fun 😳
I will play Guardians Of The Hood to kick some ass in the Hood. 😀👍🎮
As a person who really is from what ppl call "the hood"
I have to say in response to this game...
LMFAO
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.
Absolutely, thanks for watching
"The year is 2022 and he is still running strong! No, I am not talking about the Running Man. I am talking about PatmanQC!"
LOL, comment of the day. I appreciate that :-)
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
Thank you my friend. I'm glad my little channel shine some light on games that just don't get much coverage.
Galloping Ghost is great. I plan on going there within the next few weeks again.
The hell!? that karate babes is actually the best moving, looking digitized characters I've ever seen in game before
I was surpriised at how smooth it was as well
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.
Very cool
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.
It wasn't very popular which is why information is so hard to come by. I really had to do some digging to display what I had
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 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.
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
I'm pretty sure the same sound hardware Was used in pit fighter as well
Never heard or seen this gem.. but pit fighter was not bad for its time. I enjoyed playing it and still do via mame...
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.
Man you have the best Classic Game documentary series on UA-cam. I have watched every one of your videos. Keep up the good work!
If you haven't; you should check out The Gaming Historian
@@rustyshackelford1413 Pat probably does a better job in regards of covering history.
@pferreira1983 He covers a broader history by showing more games and culture of the times. What The Gaming Historian provides are intensly researched deep dive documentaries. Videos, like his Tetris or Super Mario World ones, may spend an hour or more focusing on just one game or piece of obscure hardware. They are both important channels.
@@rustyshackelford1413 The Gaming Historian just covers stuff that's already been covered on various other channels. He doesn't bring anything new, that's the problem.
@@pferreira1983 I do not agree.
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. 😋
Pit Fighter, in the arcade, was effing awesome. You are not wrong, Pat.
Thank you my friend
The most sacred 20 minutes I will spend today. Thanks my friend. 👍👍👍👍👍
How incredibly nice of you say :-)
"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"!
It's not worth the bother to MAME it. That's what I did, but it's NOT good.
Absolutely. We are going to hit galloping ghost next year at some point . The game isn't very fun to play And it's actually worse than Pitt fighter which is so bizarre to me. I spoke with Gary Stark restart the developer of both but he refused to answer any questions about guardian Saying that it was 30 years ago and everything has already been public
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Let us know when you'll be there and maybe we'll have a Patman day! It'd be great to see all of us likeminded people at the GG!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I visited Galloping Ghost a couple months ago while visiting a friend who lives outside of Chicago... The place is absolutely amazing. It's room after room after room of cabinets and not just games you're familiar with but a whole bunch you might have never seen before or completely forgot about. It was sensory overload I didn't know what to play first. My only complaints are that a lot of the games are out of order or the screens are fading out or the controllers aren't working but I understand they need an army of technicians 24/7 to keep everything running. Also some of the aisles are very narrow so if more than one person is standing in front of the game and especially if they are overweight you might not be able to squeeze past them and have to find an alternate route
@@jamesnoble3502 Yes, I agree with the aisles being very narrow. Myself trying to walk on artificial legs made it a bit of a challenge trying to get through their. It's still a cool experience so something every retro gamer should check out
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.
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.
Holy cow lol
Old White People at Atari: "I wish somebody makes a video game about the 'hood, YO!"
*WISH*
LOLYou are probably right
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.
LOL good Call
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
Only saving grace here was you got to play as a female, unlike Pit-Fighter, and you could play as the defeated bosses too.
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.
Thanks for the nice words and the sub. I was extremely shocked playing through this for the first time from the flashers to using homeless men as a lawn dart LOL. It's so absurd all you can do is laugh at it
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.
It was a definite muncher that's for sure
I played this a bunch and for the exact same reason I hated it. Such a quarter muncher. I remember when it was first emulated on Mame, I was like I’m finally going to beat this game. And I’ve still never gotten around to it all these years.
Love the bluescreen montage! Great history of this title I never knew existed! Thanks Patman!
Absolutely, thank you so much
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.
LOL it's more fun and multiplayer that's for sure but not by much
You're the man, Patman. I look forward to all of your videos.
Fantastic, thanks!
Called yourself a peckerwood within 16 seconds. Definitely worth a like.
LOL, thank you :-)
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.
The controls are just way too stiff and unresponsive for it to be any fun in my opinion.
17:15
Teens? Ha ha that's a good one. This game got their teens from the casting director of Porky's apparently.
LOL, I thought the same thing
Music reminds me of the Megadrive. Could of seen a port of this on the Megadrive or Atari Jaguar
Oh definitely
Kwan is literally Liu Kang. The look and some of his fighting style is Liu Kang.
I agree, very similar
Pls, for the next episode... Bikini Karate Babes
😂👍
You perv!!! Lol :D
thank you for your videos i really appreciate them good work
Games like this needs to come back out
I'd never even heard of this before seeing this video and can see why. It looks a mess. Mind you, I was never a fan of that digitised sprite look at the best of times and think the MK titles were the only ones to use it adequately.
Either way, thanks for proving that every day is indeed a school day with this one! :)
Well thank you very much, :-)
Please can we do a video together 😃😃😃 love your work.
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.
LOL, comment of the day
This feels like a game I’ve heard of but nope not at all. Looks fun from a distance at least 😂
Yes, it looks good if the game was on the moon and you were on earth
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries precisely
I would have certainly played Streets of Crack!
LOL!
I never even knew this game existed!
Great commentary btw!!!!
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you
I was a wee lad when pit fighter came out, i was in awe. I liked it, too
I really think the lousy snes port destroyed the arcade reputation too
I dunno, it looks kinda cool although. It has that Pit Fighter vibe and stuff
I agree, made by the same designer
I have a question for you who is Who is your favorite video game lady
That's a good question and one I've never been asked. I guess perhaps Chun li or technically Elvira Since they made a game based on her :-)
play on 1.5x speed
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.
Well... you have covered Pit Fighter and Guardians of the Hood... It's time for Ring Rage! It's not made by Atari but looks like the Prowrestling version of Pit Fighter...
I like Pit-Fighter as well, I have an original Pit-Fighter arcade machine in my collection.
How cool is that? Nice
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Thanks to your video I may get a Guardians of the hood pcb for my cabinet to try looks great
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.
Thank you. Cheers
I would've played this. It looks like it needed more development time though to clean the visuals and gameplay.
Never herd of it but it sounds fun..
Pit fighter was a damn good game and will forever be!
I agree 100%
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries man I loved playing with buzz he was a badass 👊
@@masterj4777 I agree, loved his wrestling moves although to be honest I got the furthest with TYE
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries anytime lost a life I always picked him next 😁😁😁
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.
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.
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)
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'm glad I'm not alone, thanks
"Hah-vee-eh". LOL, this is what happens when you take French in high school instead of the more practical Spanish, and also have minimal exposure to actual Hispanic people in real life.
The game music may sound jarring to some.... It just hit so much better in an actual arcade.
Well just like you love pit fighter and that is your favorite will actually this is my favorite because it reminds me of the warriors and the rumble fish from back in the days
AH yes the 90's. When "teens" looked like 30 year old's who have a mortgage and two kids they never see without supervision.
I've played this game multiple times over the years & have never got past level 2 due to boredom.
I'd kind of like to fix a game like this, fixing the controls of course, but having an AI go through an add in all the missing animations frames for characters.
I spot you on a panel with Pat the NES Punk at 2:57 ! Really cool when world's collide...
I remember this game. I used to love it. 😆 🤣 😂 I guess I never knew what a good game was back then. I was only eleven at the time. 😆
I thought the game was actually really fun! Just make sure you pick Tanya when playing it in mame.
Pit Fighter gets ragged on by everyone it seems. But in the days before Mortal Kombat, I liked Pit Fighter a lot. The digitized fighting hit differently in the days before MK.
If anyone has played Pit Fighter then you should play this
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.
Exactly, morbid curiosity at its finest :-)
Wow this game looks terrible, no wonder I don't remember it lol... Nice video tho
I too loved Pit Fighter😂😂😂my older brother and I were addicted for a few weeks