 every once in a while I have to bite the bullet and do a video on a really bad game or in this case a really bad port so allow me to walk you through what it's like to play a pitfighter for Super Nintendo you turn it on you select from a whopping three fighters and then wait let me let me try it can't even how do you can you even seriously these guys move like they're being electrocuted I can't get what what what the come ah and how do you how do you do anything what am I doing and that's it that's the entire game right there there's no game modes there's no extras there's not even any music on the title screen right from the get-go you see that you have less life than your opponent okay what's the purpose of that and even if you somehow manage to win the first fight and you win some cash and celebrate on a forklift alright your health doesn't replenish on the next fight so you die and it's game over so let me recap so far three fighters no moves stilted controls bad hit detection terrible graphics lazy-ass to frame animation a soundtrack consisting of one song and no other game modes at all actually that's not totally true there is another game mode multiplayer so you can join another person and fumbling around with whatever the hell is supposed to be happening here and I did eventually figure something else out the three fighters function as the difficulty setting so the first guy is easy the second guy is medium and the third guy is hard and if you try to beat this game on hard you need to get your head examined and have I mentioned how sick I am of the same stupid song usually when I make a video I like to snag five or six tracks from the game soundtrack and play it in the background as I'm blathering on but here there's just that one song and you know what yeah that's better even Nintendo power whose primary job is to butter up Nintendo games crapped all over this game when it came out calling it the worst game Nintendo had ever released up to that point and it earned the number five spot on its top 10 worst games ever made list in its 100th anniversary issue and the Super NES players guide is several read between the lines quotes here realistic graphics together with difficult play action make this a tough game to beat sure okay I should clarify that I'm crapping all over pitfighter the Super Nintendo port the original pitfighter arcade game is still not as bad but it was definitely worth playing back in the day yeah it's pretty simple but it was one of the very first games to feature digitized sprites featuring real actors it was a pretty big technical achievement and the game itself is adequate I guess it's still goofy fun for 10 minutes or so until you get sick of it the Super Nintendo port though I mean this is what they considered a passable port back in 1991 what a disaster pitfighter also got ports on the Sega Master System Genesis Game Boy Atari Lynx and no I'm not playing any of those are you crazy so yeah pitfighter is a game that will make you appreciate literally every other game you've played that much more that's how bad pitfighter is seriously play Shaq Fu which actually isn't as bad of a game as its reputation would tell you and then play pitfighter 30 seconds of gameplay won't go by before you're scrambling back to your Super Nintendo to rip this thing out of there like a leech off your leg and you're pining for Shaq Fu to wash the pain away pitfighter the arcade game is fine but stay far away from the Super Nintendo port