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In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it received 7, 7, 7 and 5, for a total of 26 out of 40, and reviewers commented, "It does not have the impact of the arcade version" and "The overall quality is good, but there is still a strain".
Julian Rignall of Computer and Video Games rated the arcade version 90%, calling it a "thoroughly enjoyable beat 'em up which really packs a punch" and "one of the most enjoyable arcade fighting games in a long time".
In February 1993, Your Sinclair gave the ZX Spectrum version a 28% score.
Electronic Gaming Monthly and GamePro had previews of a planned sequel named Pit Fighter II by Tengen, which the former magazine claimed was more than 75% finished and would be released for Sega Genesis in the fourth quarter of 1993.
Before the polygon era of the late 1990s, in the first half of the 1990s outside Japan, digitized live-action footage took the place of pixel art and caused a great whirlwind with games such as Mortal Kombat (1992), but in Japan the direction taken was to draw pixel-art animation in even greater detail, with Street Fighter II (1991) and Art of Fighting (1992), so digitized live-action did not catch on in Japan.
Capcom's head office at the time Street Fighter II was in development did, however, buy a new upright cabinet of the overseas version of Pit-Fighter, which had not been released in Japan.
Outside Japan it was ported to MS-DOS, Commodore 64, Amiga, SNES (Super Famicom), Game Boy, Master System, and Lynx, in addition to the Genesis (Mega Drive).
Capcom's head office at the time Street Fighter II was in development did, however, buy a new upright cabinet of the overseas version of Pit-Fighter, which had not been released in Japan.
Julian Rignall of Computer and Video Games rated the arcade version 90%, calling it a "thoroughly enjoyable beat 'em up which really packs a punch" and "one of the most enjoyable arcade fighting games in a long time".
They criticized the limited frames of animation and compared it unfavorably to The Combatribes and Final Fight.
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