February 12, 2025
They don’t make ’em like they used to
maybe you even think pit fighter makes it redundant oh ho ho ho
i realize it has been common for cleaning products to label themselves as “grease fighter” or “stain fighter” for a long time but I feel like this presentation would have neither been approved by the product company’s own research much less the primarily FOOD-selling store displaying it on shelves in the not terribly distant past. I suppose that is pre-emoji thinking; visual depictions of it have been on adhesive bandages for over six years by now. ALSO apparently one of the pictures on that site entry has been broken and not showing up for an equal length of time and my comment about “spot cleaning” beneath it totally incomprehensible, and nobody noticed despite this site actually having a few readers I hadn’t personally alienated back then because my comments have always been incomprehensible.
[more] Useless information! the “pit fighter” image is seemingly randomly mirrored depending on the whim of its user/no reason. so i wondered: which version is forwards? Assuming the money hands weren’t digitally inserted, the more common orientation seems to show BACKWARDS vintage $20 bills!
It is hard to tell since the picture is somewhat blurry, US currency tends to be symmetrical in layout and a backwards 2 can resemble a 5, or even itself when the slanted part is obscured. However only $20 units have the column/scroll effect on the left and right.
Proving the foreground hands are part of the original photograph rather than added and possibly cloned later is more complicated since Pit Fighter is so cheap that it can be difficult to believe the set director had TWO handfuls of twenties lying around
I forgot I made this stupid rom hack and consequently assumed I had no kid icarus screenshots whatsoever rather than pictures from this one and was about to look up a youtube video from which to take a picture of this text. It still looks better than most ports of pit fighter. I have a stupid life.
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pitfogerty sez:
I must (and do) say, that’s an impressive bit of Sherlocking you did regarding the cash held by the foreground hand, bravo! But whether the Pit Fighter image is horizontal-flipped or not, that’s still an incredibly ineffectual punch that Buzzy is throwing from that goofy stance. I mean sure it would be more than enough to knock down a weenie like me, but the guy taking the punch is at least as big as Buzzard, so what’s his excuse! And I assume the figures look so stiff because they were photographed from live models? Pretty lame that the guy falling down is the only dynamic element of that cover art! The Street Fighter cover art isn’t exactly fine art either but at least the figures are drawn like they could actually be fighting (in the street, if we’re lucky). The Clay Fighter advert just makes it look like a Christmas game, and “starring Taffy and Tiny”, sheesh did they really think that would persuade more people to buy the game?
Frimpinheap sez:
I never know who sees the mouse-over text but I did identify Tiny and Taffy as the worst characters in a game that also features a clown and an Elvis impersonator. I wonder if I should stop doing that altogether but I almost never stop any bad habits, hence why dopes keep showing up in my drawings. I am impressed that you know what the Pit Fighters themselves are called! Gosh I hope you didn’t actually have to play it back in those days. Though it probably seemed like a better game in that context. I certainly won’t say the first Street Fighter was any good either and that also got ported to countless bad european home systems.
pitmancrothers sez:
I did indeed used to play Pit Fighter in the arcade back when it was newish! I didn’t play it enough to get very far, but yes it was decently fun and I would even say that the graphics looked good for the time.
But I either didn’t realize or have forgotten that there was additional commentary revealed by mouse cursoring over the pictures! I’ll have to remember to do that in future or I might miss something good or interesting or otherwise.
Frimpinheap sez:
you probably won’t miss anything good. Sometimes I even forget one or enter it improperly and don’t notice for years. Just on THIS occasion we happened to have had similar reactions to the picture!
I remember thinking Pit Fighter looked fine when I saw an arcade machine in person but I never watched it very long, much less played it. Even as a nine-year-old I was not drawn to regular-looking-people media.
Seeing it now, I see a similar weird mingling of digitized photography and cartoon props + scenery as Return to Zork, and that for whatever reason I did indeed find quite impressive in 1994ish.