Is Pit-Fighter on Steam?

No. Pit-Fighter is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

When did Pit-Fighter release?

Pit-Fighter was first released on December 31, 1992.

Pit-Fighter

Dec 31, 1992FightingAtari LynxArcadeGenesis / Mega DriveSuper NESAmiga

Pit-Fighter — frequently asked questions

Is Pit-Fighter on Steam?: No. Pit-Fighter is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Pit-Fighter on?: Pit-Fighter is available on Atari Lynx, Arcade, Genesis / Mega Drive, Super NES, Amiga, Atari ST, Master System, Game Gear.
When did Pit-Fighter release?: Pit-Fighter was first released on December 31, 1992.

Pit-Fighter on Wikipedia

Pit-Fighter is a 1990 fighting game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades. The Japanese release was published by Konami. Home versions were published by Tengen.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Atari Lynx, Arcade, Genesis / Mega Drive, Super NES, Amiga, Atari ST, Master System, Game Gear
Developer: Atari Games
Publisher: Tengen
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action

Details via IGDB.

Every version compared

Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release

Platform	Year	Loose	Complete	Sealed
Atari Lynx	1992	$18	$20	$24

Also released on: Arcade · Genesis / Mega Drive · Super NES · Amiga · Atari ST · Master System · Game Gear. We haven’t priced or authenticated those versions yet.

Collector value & authenticity

Atari Lynx · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-07

Loose

$18

Complete

$20

Sealed

$24

Region: NA+EU
Released: 1992
Authenticity: Low

Never re-released — the original cartridge is the only way to playLow counterfeit risk

Atari Lynx prices, all games & how to spot a fake

The digitised-sprite arcade brawler, and the Lynx conversion is about as good as that idea allows.

Al Baker & Associates handled the 1992 conversion for Atari. Pit-Fighter used photographed actors, which on arcade hardware looked startling and at 160×102 looks like coloured mush. The conversion is competent; the source material does not survive the resolution.

It has one genuine distinction: contemporary press records it as the first four-megabit Lynx cartridge, a title originally promised to Dracula the Undead, which shipped at two megabits instead. On a platform where cartridges ran 128KB to 1MB, that made Pit-Fighter one of the largest games in the library.

It does support two-player ComLynx, confirmed by the period FAQ. Never re-released.

Cartridge & preservation record

Cartridge ROM capacity 4 megabit (512 KB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.

Surviving pre-release builds

1992-10-13

Beta

4 Mbit

Catalogue part number PA2070

Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).

Also on other platforms

Arcade · Genesis / Mega Drive · Super NES · Amiga · Atari ST · Master System · Game Gear

Arcade. Atari Games' 1990 coin-op, notable for digitised photographic fighters. EGM #40 called it a "long-lived arcade success". Those digitised sprites are why the Lynx conversion needed a 4-megabit cartridge — one of only four on the platform, and the earliest of them.

Worth knowing

It needed the Lynx's biggest cartridge. EGM #41 called it "one of the first 4 Meg Lynx cartridges" — and only four Lynx games ever reached 4 megabits, of which this is the earliest. The digitised fighters are what consumed it. Period claim and preserved ROM agree exactly.