@@RetroDoneRight my bad they're indeed sprites from pre-renders, I assumed they were from clay figures which the video doesn't mention either except the dinosaur games
It's crazy how the earlier efforts such as Mortal Kombat and Pit Fighter ended up looking and playing SO MUCH BETTER than several of the games that came after.
It truly is. Before Mortal Kombat came along, it really was a very popular fighting game at arcades. Not as popular as Street Fighter II, but pretty popular. As soon as Mortal Kombat came along, however, everyone at the arcade started playing that and Pit Fighter machines started to disappear little by little.
@@RolandoMarreroPR oh yeah PIT FIGHTER has Dynamite gameplay you probably had a terrible experience on the Super Nintendo or more likely it's Sony PlayStation 2 version of PIT FIGHTER the game PLAYS a little whacky.
@@demonology2629 Actually had the Genesis version, learned that doing the cartwheels and quickly switch punches to kicks with Ty will take care all opponents! This works great on the arcade version too was able to reach last boss on a single credit. The bar fight setting was Fight Club a decade before Fight Club! There was a Pit Fighter 2 on the Genesis but was never released.
And all of them failed. Cause none of the developers of those games knew, how to make a good game. They only came up with ideas of making money and that's it, and they thought that, if you make a generic fighting game then it will bring you a tons of money. Well, they were wrong. Thus why Mortal Kombat is one of 3 successful fightig games in whole genre. Others two been Street Fighter and Tekken. Every other fighting game has their own fans but doesn't have what those 3 fighting games did.
God there was a ice rink in Ohio that had a pit fighter arcade machine in the basement for some reason like by the maintenance area and we all played hockey so I was there when my brother played too and I was always down there playing that fucking game and I never have seen it anywhere else
Not sure how you can even possibly say a wrestling game (WWF Wrestlmania) plays like Mortal Kombat. It plays nothing like it! Wrestling games by their nature played very differently to more traditional fighters. Tattoo Assassins was also never officially released.
Surprisingly it actually does play like Mortal Kombat, it has combos and plus The Undertaker has a secret fatality in the game. Ironically both games were made by Midway.
@@BSmokeyGaming Just because it has combos doesn't mean it plays like MK. You move around in a pseudo-3D plane, for a start, there's mechanics like bouncing off the ropes, exiting the ring, grapples, hitting the opponent while they are on the ground, pinning them down, etc etc. About the only similarity it has the MK is that it uses a block button. Other than that they are very different games.
@@BSmokeyGaming And don't forget that the game has special moves too, like Stun Ghosts from Undertaker... oh and it has MK Easter Eggs on the audience too :v
Some of these games could be some good silly fun like Primal Rage, Battle Monsters, and Street Fighter: The Movie. Others like Way of the Warrior, Tattoo Assassins, and Kasumi Ninja just seemed like an attempt to copy the Mortal Kombat series on a surface level without understanding the substance that made those games a fun and engaging experience. I wasn't familiar with Twin Goddesses, but it looks weird enough that I want to play it and thanks for introducing me to the game.
Dios santo que juegos tan feos 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👌 son horribles jajajajajajajajajaja... xDDDD Pit fighter puaf!! Recuerdos de Vietnam para mí D: Todavía sigo sorprendida de que Way of the warrior sea de Naughty dog 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Podríamos decir que Dino rex es la versión "beta" de primal rage, porque primal rage es por mucho más estético. Y en serio, en que cabeza les cupo a los de Capcom dar aval para hacer esto 6:54 jajajajajajajajajaja... Y fíjate que me lo jugué solo por curiosidad (emulado claro) y pues ... Tan mal no estaba en jugabilidad, pero vamos era un espanto. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👊 A la espera de un nuevo video, me divierte y me gusta tu contenido hermano.
@@BitsBeats Primal Rage and the two WWF games both sold pretty well. Also the Street Fighter movie game, even though it sold and reviewed poorly, is far from obscure. It's very well known these days simply due to how bad it was. Interestingly enough the arcade and console games are actually two different games. The console versions were not a port of the arcade game.
@@WhitePointerGaming Thank you very much for your opinion! Primal Rage was released on many systems and had a relative popularity in its day, but I don't know concretely how many sales it had, and precisely its sequel was cancelled due to low commercial expectations (that makes me think that, probably, the first one didn't work as well as we all thought). WWF is a best seller just because of its name. That's how it is! My selection here was because this arcade machine doesn't usually appear in the rankings of best arcade fighting games of the time. I love it and I am very fond of it.... But it seems that time has left it a bit forgotten. Street Fighter.. features in my video because the arcade version is not known at all. And many people think it's the same game that came to consoles. Greetings!
Oh GOD, I miss old school arcades with games like these! Not all THESE, cause so many sucked, but similar ones. Games LIKE these, instead of so much of the kindsa shit they have at Dave and busters and other modern arcades
Nice vid. Man I almost forgot some of these MK clones there were. Lot of them in the 90s lol. I find it ironic how SF was one of them. There was another game no doubt mk Inspired called Thrill Kill was similar to MK 4 mixed with bio-freaks.
It’s so interesting to watch these games’ fighting styles. Some of these games were probably doomed to fail as they were going to be compared to MK, but most of the games on this list also don’t seem to have used actual martial artists/fighters to capture the motion. I mean the Jackie Chan games looked over the top, but the fighting looked good.
Fun Fact: Incredible Technologies originally envisioned the game as Street Fighter III during early development. Planned newcomers included Retsu, Lee, Gunloc, Mega Man, Sheng Long, and a female Geki (who was later the bases of Ibuki's concept), but they were scrapped early on when Incredible Technologies was informed by Capcom that the game was to be based on present film Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle (1994). The six rejected newcomers were never digitized nor even illustrated.
The Jackie Chan games actually look ok . Still upset about Street Fighter the Movie , could have been much better . I wish i could find a Mugen remake that gives justice to those great characters .
WrestleMania actually does have one finishing move still in the game. Undertaker will summon a coffin from the ground and put you in it. I remember hearing Doink also had one but I don't remember seeing it
@@WhitePointerGaming unreleased certainly, but "the game was essentially completed before it was cancelled" (Wikipedia) and prototype cabinets were released to test markets in 1994. So they planned those fatalities to be in the final product.
@@RetroDoneRight Well yeah, I'm aware, but they make it look really obvious. I've seen some behind-the-scenes stuff from Mortal Kombat, and while they had to hold the poses to film them properly, the poses actually look like they're in the middle of a well-executed move. Most of these other games look like the director went "Okay we need a punch, so stick your first out!"
@@HelpTheWretched it's because MK actors were actually martial artists... So that's why the movements were better... Like the Jackie Chan games I suppose... Apparently the other ones just hired a bunch of random people...
It's crazy how the earlier efforts such as Mortal Kombat and Pit Fighter ended up looking and playing SO MUCH BETTER than several of the games that came after.
3d is great .. but in this age i think some 2d digitized or hybrid game could be amazingly done by someone . Nobody will do it but its possible im sure to have photorealistic 2d fighters now
![Behind the Scenes - Mortal Kombat 3 [Rare Footage]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rzZsQQIRJIA/mqdefault.jpg)
You know... the video has some terrible games, but a few look worse than they really are. Emulation glitches. Sorry!!!
Jacki Chan Densetsu/Fists of Fire And Kung FU Master, Wrestlemania, Primal Rage Looked amazing!! GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS! ^
THE comments beloew are also correct: Pit Fighter is a great fighter.
And you forgot all the games with digitized robots?
@@reptilexi7172 There is no game with digitized photos of robots.
@@RetroDoneRight my bad they're indeed sprites from pre-renders, I assumed they were from clay figures which the video doesn't mention either except the dinosaur games
It's crazy how the earlier efforts such as Mortal Kombat and Pit Fighter ended up looking and playing SO MUCH BETTER than several of the games that came after.
Because they actually cared about their games. Most of the others were cheap cash-grabs with as little effort put forth as humanly possible.
Pit Fighter is an underrated classic
It truly is. Before Mortal Kombat came along, it really was a very popular fighting game at arcades. Not as popular as Street Fighter II, but pretty popular. As soon as Mortal Kombat came along, however, everyone at the arcade started playing that and Pit Fighter machines started to disappear little by little.
no it's not. the Snes port was terrible.
It was awesome on original Gameboy 😉
I want to make a Pit Fighter cabinet
Pit fighter is best on the Genesis next to the arcade
I played Wrestlemania The Arcade Game a lot. It was a pretty good game, with incredible combos and a large panel of moves for each character.
Jackie Chan Fist of Fire looked legit. Would love to play it.
Till this day Pit Fighter still has the best graphics gameplay , sound and storyline.
Actually I've been waiting for
PIT FIGHTER 2 ever since 1990!
Not the gameplay everything else spot on! If they had a better collision system maybe it would have been as popular as MK was!
@@RolandoMarreroPR oh yeah
PIT FIGHTER has Dynamite gameplay you probably had a terrible experience on the Super Nintendo or more likely it's Sony PlayStation 2 version of
PIT FIGHTER the game PLAYS a little whacky.
@@demonology2629 Actually had the Genesis version, learned that doing the cartwheels and quickly switch punches to kicks with Ty will take care all opponents! This works great on the arcade version too was able to reach last boss on a single credit. The bar fight setting was Fight Club a decade before Fight Club! There was a Pit Fighter 2 on the Genesis but was never released.
Primal Rage was great!
0:55 RIP Barney
Outstanding video as always many thanks my friend!😎👍🏻
Primal Rage was stop-motion animation, not rotoscoped.
wow, I had forgotten naughty dog made way of the warrior, they've come a long way
It's a shame you couldn't bring up Death Cargo, because the developer hated how it turned out and flags any video that tries to share footage of it.
Props to whoever made Ultra Vorteks. Out of all the Mortal Kombat clones, this one is the best.
And all of them failed. Cause none of the developers of those games knew, how to make a good game. They only came up with ideas of making money and that's it, and they thought that, if you make a generic fighting game then it will bring you a tons of money. Well, they were wrong. Thus why Mortal Kombat is one of 3 successful fightig games in whole genre. Others two been Street Fighter and Tekken. Every other fighting game has their own fans but doesn't have what those 3 fighting games did.
Wow, brings back memories… thanks man
That blood Warrior looks sweet
1:53 FUCK I DIED AT THE FIGURE SKATER!!!! SHE COULD JUST DECAPITATE EVERYONE
I'm missing some Amiga games in this list. This system had a few obscure digitized fighting games.
Tattoo Assassins IMHO can be classified as a so bad it's awesome game. I will die on this hill if needed.
I didn't know Dino Rex came out before Primal Rage
HELLO, good video! 🏆🙂🙏🏼
OK... Everybody saw that the purple dinosaur was definitely Barney, right?
You just forgot bikini karate babes
Has there ever been a good game with digitized graphics...?
Not that I can recall...
i used to own the wwf one it was good :-)
Mmmhh...
There is also Ragnagard for Neo Geo...
1994 Tattoo Assassins , Pesina Pesina? You mean Data East? Got Carlos/Daniel on the brain?
Data East Pinball to be exact... not Daniel Pesina, I was clumsy with the copy and paste! 🙏
Street fighter the game based on the movie based on the game
Way of the Warrior= Seth from King of Fighters
Dong dong never died
Wargods is missing
God there was a ice rink in Ohio that had a pit fighter arcade machine in the basement for some reason like by the maintenance area and we all played hockey so I was there when my brother played too and I was always down there playing that fucking game and I never have seen it anywhere else
Survival Arts looks extra shidd.
The only decent ones were Pit Fighter and Primal Fear.
Pit fighter I hated that game growing up
Not sure how you can even possibly say a wrestling game (WWF Wrestlmania) plays like Mortal Kombat. It plays nothing like it! Wrestling games by their nature played very differently to more traditional fighters. Tattoo Assassins was also never officially released.
Surprisingly it actually does play like Mortal Kombat, it has combos and plus The Undertaker has a secret fatality in the game. Ironically both games were made by Midway.
@@BSmokeyGaming Just because it has combos doesn't mean it plays like MK. You move around in a pseudo-3D plane, for a start, there's mechanics like bouncing off the ropes, exiting the ring, grapples, hitting the opponent while they are on the ground, pinning them down, etc etc. About the only similarity it has the MK is that it uses a block button. Other than that they are very different games.
@@BSmokeyGaming And don't forget that the game has special moves too, like Stun Ghosts from Undertaker... oh and it has MK Easter Eggs on the audience too :v
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Tpp violent
90% of the characters were 90's porn actors lol
I'm not sure about your definition of obscure
I preferd the arcade machine games,, compare to game console,, like Sony PS5, & the Xbox series X,, my friends,,, ☺️😀😆☺️
Huh, but only few looked good)
MK or WrestleMania had smooth animations, screen scrolling & stuff.
Other... Nah, seems like a stop-motion garbage)
Dude salutes w his left hand. Gtfo here
figure skating fighter?🤣🤣🤣
Primal Rage is not obscure
This gave me nausea 🤢
YOOOO There was a digitized dino fighter before Primal Rage that looked half decent?! NOICHE! ^
Pit Fighter is an underrated classic
Primal Rage was actually good, should not be here.
Some of these games could be some good silly fun like Primal Rage, Battle Monsters, and Street Fighter: The Movie. Others like Way of the Warrior, Tattoo Assassins, and Kasumi Ninja just seemed like an attempt to copy the Mortal Kombat series on a surface level without understanding the substance that made those games a fun and engaging experience. I wasn't familiar with Twin Goddesses, but it looks weird enough that I want to play it and thanks for introducing me to the game.
That twin goddesses game was more or less a pve fighting game. You have to fight against very unfair AI, lol
Primal Rage actually has a pretty beefy combat system. It isn't as shallow as it looks.
I swear, we Need Primal Rage brought back via either a remake or a reboot
I think Survival Arts is awesome
Dios santo que juegos tan feos 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👌 son horribles jajajajajajajajajaja... xDDDD
Pit fighter puaf!! Recuerdos de Vietnam para mí D:
Todavía sigo sorprendida de que Way of the warrior sea de Naughty dog 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Podríamos decir que Dino rex es la versión "beta" de primal rage, porque primal rage es por mucho más estético.
Y en serio, en que cabeza les cupo a los de Capcom dar aval para hacer esto 6:54 jajajajajajajajajaja... Y fíjate que me lo jugué solo por curiosidad (emulado claro) y pues ... Tan mal no estaba en jugabilidad, pero vamos era un espanto. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👊
A la espera de un nuevo video, me divierte y me gusta tu contenido hermano.
La verdad que street figther the movie the game , era demasiado injusto la ia .
Never forget Dong Dong Never Die as a squirty fighter that was made on a digitalised maker to do this.
You know what obscure means? Some of these games sold millions of copies.
Which ones? Primal Rage?
@@BitsBeats Primal Rage and the two WWF games both sold pretty well. Also the Street Fighter movie game, even though it sold and reviewed poorly, is far from obscure. It's very well known these days simply due to how bad it was. Interestingly enough the arcade and console games are actually two different games. The console versions were not a port of the arcade game.
@@WhitePointerGaming the first WWF was very famous... but that sequel didn't even know that exists.... and didn't sold pretty well neither.
@@WhitePointerGaming Thank you very much for your opinion!
Primal Rage was released on many systems and had a relative popularity in its day, but I don't know concretely how many sales it had, and precisely its sequel was cancelled due to low commercial expectations (that makes me think that, probably, the first one didn't work as well as we all thought).
WWF is a best seller just because of its name. That's how it is! My selection here was because this arcade machine doesn't usually appear in the rankings of best arcade fighting games of the time. I love it and I am very fond of it.... But it seems that time has left it a bit forgotten.
Street Fighter.. features in my video because the arcade version is not known at all. And many people think it's the same game that came to consoles.
Greetings!
Pit fighter started the genre
Oh GOD, I miss old school arcades with games like these! Not all THESE, cause so many sucked, but similar ones. Games LIKE these, instead of so much of the kindsa shit they have at Dave and busters and other modern arcades
Nice vid. Man I almost forgot some of these MK clones there were. Lot of them in the 90s lol. I find it ironic how SF was one of them. There was another game no doubt mk Inspired called Thrill Kill was similar to MK 4 mixed with bio-freaks.
Didn't pit fighter come out before mk?
Yes it did.
It predates even Street Fighter II by about a year.
It’s so interesting to watch these games’ fighting styles. Some of these games were probably doomed to fail as they were going to be compared to MK, but most of the games on this list also don’t seem to have used actual martial artists/fighters to capture the motion. I mean the Jackie Chan games looked over the top, but the fighting looked good.
I loved Streetfighter the Movie on my Sega Saturn, the arcade version though was awful.
Fun Fact:
Incredible Technologies originally envisioned the game as Street Fighter III during early development. Planned newcomers included Retsu, Lee, Gunloc, Mega Man, Sheng Long, and a female Geki (who was later the bases of Ibuki's concept), but they were scrapped early on when Incredible Technologies was informed by Capcom that the game was to be based on present film Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle (1994). The six rejected newcomers were never digitized nor even illustrated.
The Jackie Chan games actually look ok . Still upset about Street Fighter the Movie , could have been much better . I wish i could find a Mugen remake that gives justice to those great characters .
WrestleMania actually does have one finishing move still in the game. Undertaker will summon a coffin from the ground and put you in it. I remember hearing Doink also had one but I don't remember seeing it
Losing to Southside Jim in his sweat pants was always a frustrating experience.
Not more than losing to the big guy in diapers!
@@reno82 Chainman
Another awesome video
Pit Fighter, WWF WrestleMania and Primal Rage were not obscure man!!! Played the hell out of it in the arcades and had it on Mega Drive/Genesis
I never knew about Dino Rex!
It's hilarious that most of tattoo assassins fatalities are just random images 😂
That's probably because the game was never actually finished and was never officially released.
@@WhitePointerGaming unreleased certainly, but "the game was essentially completed before it was cancelled" (Wikipedia) and prototype cabinets were released to test markets in 1994. So they planned those fatalities to be in the final product.
@@JuanRodriguez-eq8zp Again, they were just prototype cabinets. The game was unfinished.
@@WhitePointerGaming ok Daniel Pesina
I only came because of the woman who played cammy thumbnail
Virgin Mortal Kombat and Primal Rage vs. Chad Pit FIghter and Dino Rex
4:23 this game really gives me a feeling of being in another country! This isn't a game you'd see around these parts. So interesting
Anyone here just for the nostalgia lol
What is meant by side view?
Why did the 3DO have so many of these?
Just witnessed Barney get murdered.
Cada um + cavernoso do que o outro..kkkkk.
I'm still waiting for someone to remake Wrestlemania The Arcade Game! Make an updated version for 2022!
I remember pit fighter
Loved primal rage
OMG that sound from Survival is literally what you back form the Arcades at that time.
What if we used this technique today? would it look good? maybe add in a few more frames?
3:58 that fool say "NO UNDASTANDA MY BAD!!" 🤣🤣🤣
Violent Fighting Games May Contain Cussing. Including Mortal Kombat 11 On Johnny's Fatalaty
I’d take anime-style fighters any day over digitized ones.
And I’d take Japanese fighting games over western ones any day of the week.
Most of these look like they filmed the actors doing still poses instead of natural movements.
Of course they did, that's the only way it could be done at the time.
@@RetroDoneRight Well yeah, I'm aware, but they make it look really obvious. I've seen some behind-the-scenes stuff from Mortal Kombat, and while they had to hold the poses to film them properly, the poses actually look like they're in the middle of a well-executed move. Most of these other games look like the director went "Okay we need a punch, so stick your first out!"
@@HelpTheWretched it's because MK actors were actually martial artists... So that's why the movements were better... Like the Jackie Chan games I suppose... Apparently the other ones just hired a bunch of random people...
@@suelouca22 TBF if I were a random person asked to star in an arcade game in the 90s, I'd say hell yes to that.
Pit Fighter was huge when it came out. I wouldn’t call it obscure.
It's crazy how the earlier efforts such as Mortal Kombat and Pit Fighter ended up looking and playing SO MUCH BETTER than several of the games that came after.
Primal Rage is in a different league from the rest of these, way better quality.
3d is great .. but in this age i think some 2d digitized or hybrid game could be amazingly done by someone . Nobody will do it but its possible im sure to have photorealistic 2d fighters now
Where is Dong Dong Never Die?
Heck yeah Pit Fighter!
Only good thing about Way of the Warrior was the soundtrack. Boy did Naughty Dog come a long way!
Other game Devs trying to cash in on the massive success of Mortal Kombat and failing miserably.
So glad this is no longer a thing. Always thought this looked cheesy and stiff as fuck.
Why play sf the movie the game when you could play sf alpha
Primal Rage and Wrestle Mania are anything but obscure
Wrestlemania the arcade is not obscure. It’s perfect🔥
They need to make mk games like thisw again. The 3d graphics on the new one these days sucks
Wrestle mania!! You know everyone played and loved
Twin Goddesses ripped off The Kinks-You really got me
3:32 I didn't know Mr. Hughes was in a fighting game.
The black guy is named Dreadloc - LOL 5:50