Holy shit the retro game talk ITT Holy shit the retro game talk ITT VIDEO Maximum Carnage was p dope I have to share this anecdote whenever this game is brought up.
Back in the day, my cousins and I went to one of our local game stores to trade some SNES games. This was before the days of internet, so we didn't really have a way of researching some of the lesser known games out there. So most of the time we just went by box art or the name, and hooped we got lucky. One game that caught our attention that day was Pit Fighter. Literally never heard of it until that day. Didn't know much about it, and the clerk was just as useless explaining to us what kind of game it was supposed to be. Still, it had cool name and cool box art, so it managed to get through the initial screening process. I believe we traded two C-tier games for it that we weren't really going to miss either way (though it was still bullshit that that's how they did business).
When we went home to try it out, we were horrified to find out that it was actually a total piece of shit. To this day, I wonder if the game was physically damaged in some way because it was literally impossible to get past whatever the fuck the first "stage" was supposed to be. Needless to say, we were rather disappointed/pissed to say the least. Good luck trying to return that shit. Hell, the store would probably want us to pay THEM to get it back.
But amazingly enough, this story has a happy ending. One day, one of my cousin's tried to see his luck attempting to trade the game with one of his friends. Shockingly enough, one of his friends was willing to make the trade, and he did it with ULTIMATE CARNAGE! And it wasn't a case where this dude was tricked like we were. Apparently he legitimately liked it and the game remained ours permanently. No accounting for taste, I guess. But hey, never look a gift horse in the mouth, as they say.
Don't think I ever beat it, though. Ha.
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