(James Thompson) Angel (Angela Stellato) C.C. Rider (Rich Vargas) Mad Miles (Miles McGowan) Heavy Metal (Kim Rhodes) Chainman Eddie (Eddie Venancio) Masked Warrior (Bill McAleenan) Others: Knife Woman (Dianne Bertucci) Knife Man (Milt Loper) Finale Woman (Tina Scyrater) Finale Woman (Maria Lenytzkyj) Big Kid In The Crowd (Gabriel Koura) Crowd (Rob Rowe) Releases In 1991, versions of the game were released for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Master System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum. In February 1993, the Spectrum version was released as part of the Super Fighter compilation with Final Fight and WWF WrestleMania. The Super NES version lacks the interactive audience, weapons, and three characters: Southside Jim, Heavy Metal, and Mad Miles. Handheld versions were released for the Atari Lynx and the Game Boy in 1992. Tiger Electronics released its own dedicated handheld version. An emulated version of the arcade game is in the 2004's Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox, and in Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition (2006) for Microsoft Windows. This version runs at a faster speed than the arcade original. Pit-Fighter is in the 2012 compilation Midway Arcade Origins. Reception Atari sold 6,500 arcade units worldwide, including 5,500 units in North America and 1,000 in Europe. In North America, it was the top-grossing upright arcade cabinet on the RePlay arcade charts in October 1990, and weekly coin drop earnings averaged $413.75 per arcade unit during November to December 1990. In Japan, Game Machine listed Pit-Fighter in its January 1, 1991 issue as the seventh most successful table arcade unit of the month. 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". Zzap!64 gave the game a more negative review, dubbing it an "anticlimactic beat'em up" and writing that the attract mode was the best part of the game. They criticized the limited frames of animation and compared it unfavorably to The Combatribes and Final Fight. David Wilson of Computer Gaming World approved of the Amiga version, stating that it "is the arcade game teleported", and concluded that the game "offers the two-player option missing in many fighter games and enough roughhousing to suit the most violent gamer". George and Rob reviewed the Super NES version