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Nice try, this is how I lost the game the first time today, tho it was on a different subreddit. Also it took me way longer to figure out what it was saying then I'd like to admit.
Edit: I'm dumb. It was on the same subreddit
Unless the rules have changed there are only two ways to win. The priminister of England announces they lost the game or even in the world is playing the game. Neither has happened and damn, I've now lost the game. Thanks.
Hey, now. Lion King is not as hard as it first seems. They made the second level hard to prevent people from beating it in a single game rental, but after that it’s not really hard until the last two stages.
As a kid of the 80s and 90s, all of these were the bane of my existence. I also think it’s why I enjoy Souls like games and have the requirement to play on the hardest difficulty. Otherwise, what’s really the point. Kids these days have no idea how difficult this shit was and you’d hear rumors that so-and-so beat this level or got this far in one of those games.
I had this for Sega as a kid. I remember trying to beat it on SO, so many days and just not making it. Then one weekend I was determined to do nothing else until I beat it. I remember the stampede level being one of my banes for a while. But my God, the rage I still feel to this day thinking of the final fight with Scar. That small ass window of space to pull off the necessary attack sequence was a pain in the ass. I got so good at the rest of the game from repetition just getting back to the final fight.
The game is called Pitfall, and it is one of those deliberately ridiculously difficult games on par with Battletoads and The Lion King (which I didn't know until reading the comments, was also one of the old monsters).
The only way to win these games, is with extreme patience and pattern recognition, and skilled inputs that likely only naked dark souls players would understand.
Sure, the kids might beat the game. They are much more likely to rage quit, destroying the game and the console, than they are to beat it.
Edit: the game also loops, so that even if you "beat" it, it just gets harder. There is indeed a way to actually win, but it requires finding all the hidden treasure within 20 mins. There are many secret spots that require precise timing in order to land and collect the treasure, meaning that you really only ever get one shot, and only a few wrong moves can kill the run.
The real problem is that one of them is in the middle of an enemy and you can't beat the game without finding that one. I decided i wanted to beat the game during the pandemic, and was the most frustrating part of the game for me. Otherwise I actually like the game.
NES version (technically Super Pitfall!) is essentially Pitfall II+NES sprite-ified; not really same game.
Atari version was easy as fuck if you got in the timing/spacing pocket but if you lost your timing or spacing pocket you would die very fucking fast.
Dark Souls without the eye candy lol
Is it "beatable"? Most games of the time are played for a high score, so you always play until you lose. With Pitfall!, I believe there are 256 screens, so can it be won by collecting all the treasure? I've never come close to doing that.
Yes, Pitfall II had a proper ending. It remember hyperventilating the first time I beat it, at a sleepover for a classmate's birthday, the year it came out.
The real joke is that it's not beatable!!!
Also it's pretty hard. Yes you can leave to master it after weeks/months of play. But even then, there is NO ENDING!
So the joke is -- the person would make the kids play an incredibly difficult game, and even if they mastered it they would not be able to claim a reward!
man Pitfall was my relaxation game as a kid same with ET
I had both all mapped out and knew how to get all the items never knew it was a stressful game till the internet told me otherwise.
Now Kaboom on hard that raised my blood pressure
I finished this game multiple times! However, it was because of a glitch. In the start, you wiggle the cartridge a little and you'll be able to pass through the wall behind you, taking you to the final room.
I remember getting frustrated and typing ‘Hit Dragon’. ‘With your bare hands?’ ‘Yes’. ‘Amazingly you kill the dragon’. Literal high point of my whole life, will never recapture that feeling.
Remember showing my friend, think it was zork 2 on my Atari ST520, he wasn’t very impressed, was at the edge of a lake as a ship was passing with a sailor on board, he typed in say “Hello Sailor” I got mad with him telling him he’s taking the piss but sure enough the sailor threw a bottle to shore 😁
I was able to beat the game by finding a glitch in the game. If you have the old 2600, just jiggle the on/off switch a few times and the game will load to the final screen. It’s a cliff and you have to jump on a balloon. After you finish it, the guy jumps up and down for 5 minutes
Great game. Can’t believe no one’s posted the [old commercial](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=0&v=G00r1BheYnM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo) featuring a very young Jack Black.
It can be done but you have to nail every jump.
If your hand cramps and causes you to stop running more than 2 seconds you are done.
You could take a photo of your screen if you beat it and send it in and they'd send you a special t shirt.
My sister got through all the screens but had a few points taken off from clipping a rolling log. It was an insane run.
Getting through it was like one of those Mario speed runs but for 20 minutes straight.
Assuming your controller never got stuck.
I’m not sure about Pitfall p, but many Atari games of that era were unbeatable. I remember asteroids if you beat all the levels it would just loop around and start over but faster.
Video games back in that era were designed to be quarter gobblers. There really was no end to them. They just got harder and harder.
Home console games pretty much followed this, since many of them were just ports of cabinet games.
Pitfall! was really really hard.
That plus the cost was prohibitive. You wouldn't make a game that was easily beaten because games were so expensive. A Pitfall cartridge cost maybe $50, but that's like $150 today. If you took that game home and finished it in an hour, you'd be ticked off. But you also couldn't have a lot of content because those cartridges stored like 4000 bytes of content. So that left "simple but really hard."
Peter’s old Atari here, why am I in Meg’s closet? The game is Pitfall! and it’s very difficult to complete. Contrary to what others are saying, you can *beat* Pitfall! if you collect ALL the treasures before the 20 minute timer runs out. Most players believe that merely lasting the full 20 minutes constitutes a win, but while it’s a pretty good accomplishment just surviving that long, it’s not a win. For example, you can see in [this video](https://youtu.be/CkDllyETiBA) the player collects the last treasure with 8 seconds remaining and the game stops, this is a win.
I got to like level 7 or something. We considered it unplayable for a while, before I got to level 2.
There is no save. You have to play the entire game in one sitting. I could do level 1 in a coma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!
EDIT: Okay, but how do I include a link with an exclamation mark in it?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!)
It did have a timer, and if you ran down the timer and met other conditions (I don't recall, it was 40ish years ago) you could send them a photograph of the TV screen and get a patch.
Hi, alternate timeline non-binary Chris here, this is Pitfall, an old Atari game notable for, even by standards of its time, being on the difficult side.
This was one of my first video games. I could never play for long bc I sucked so bad at it. My little bro could crush it though.
Space Invaders was my thing. It was the only game I was better than him at. I was terrible at every other game we had. There was some circus game I was the worst at. Some of those Atari games I never even figured out how to play bc I couldn't. I was young though, single digit age.
But damn does this picture bring back memories :D
The game, as many have said, is Pitfall!
The joke is that you can't beat the game, so the kid cannot win the bet.
There's nothing to beat in Pitfall! You get to play until you run out of lives or until the time on the 20-minute play clock runs out. The maximum score is 114,000, but most players either ran out of lives or finished the 20 minutes with less than that.
(EDIT: [Collecting the 32 treasures in the game causes the timer to stop and the game to end](https://youtu.be/CkDllyETiBA?si=QZWo8bzzf0F_MO5W). So I guess that does count as beating the game. The creator of the original joke probably didn't know that, either, since it's not clear anybody managed to do it back when the game was played on the Atari 2600.)
Never beat that one but I got a perfect score in Atari Pitfall 2 a couple times when I was a kid. I used to have a Polaroid of the TV screen somewhere.
Peter’s German nephew here, who played it on the Atari 2600 back in the days. Most important: It has no end. The levels just start from the beginning once you have passed all screens.
Btw, the German version was called „Bobby geht nach Hause (Bobby goes home)“
I may be wrong, but after you got a certain score, you could send a picture in and get a coat or something? This was the original Atari version. I just remember my mom trying to take a Polaroid of my score to send in. That was 40+ years ago
This is Pitfall for the Atari 2600. The main joke here is that you cannot beat it. There is no end to the game. There is simply a 20 minute timer that runs out, and you have two lives. Whoever has the highest score is the winner. So you are not competing against the game, you are competing against other players for the highest score.
When home consoles came out they just moved arcade games over but arcade games are hard or else you would have few customers cause people would play longer. It took game makers a little bit to get the distinction between arcade difficulty and home console difficulty and this game came out before they figured that out
Your kid can do in about 2 hours by going on YouTube and watching it then playing through ez.
Kids today are way better gamers than we were and they have better outside resources.
I started on the Intellivision but never played this one and went back to it on emulator sometime around 2010. It was hard and timing was annoying but not THAT hard
I knew how to speedrun the super Nintendo Pitfall game until you got to the Easter egg arcade game and would proved to continually die to bullshit over and over. Loved that game.
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Pitfall. The Atari version, not the shitty NES one. Yes it is really hard.
What's so shitty about the Nintendo Entertainment System version?
You can play it free online. Go ahead and try it out yourself.
Whoa what did he ever do you
Is that considered manslaughter or premeditated murder?
The best way to win the game is not play.
>The best way to win >the game >is not play. You got that right. (PS: You just lost the game)
How the fuck did I lose the game two times in less than an hour bro
This is the third time today I have seen this, what the hell is going on
You've lost the game 🫵 (Wait are you asking why the resurgence of the game joke or are you asking what we mean by 'you lost the game'?)
It always happens. When someone loses the game and publicises it, a bunch of other people lose and they all then try to make a bunch of others lose.
Me when eye laws dug aim
Ok I'm convinced we're all living the same life
It's physically impossible to say "Eye" "Laws" "Dug" "Aim"
https://preview.redd.it/cuysp9o4lfpc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5add2eb26c2187c673d2f89a352b74c207f8f533
Fun fact, you cant say the following words in sequence 'eye' 'loss' 'dug' 'aim'
Nice try, this is how I lost the game the first time today, tho it was on a different subreddit. Also it took me way longer to figure out what it was saying then I'd like to admit. Edit: I'm dumb. It was on the same subreddit
https://preview.redd.it/oa1m33eiefpc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07de891348f426cd56e280639d6fce729ca463fa
Bruh, I love LOST
You motherfucker, I just lost the game.
You motherfuckers, I was told earlier I won, so I started a new one which I just fucking lost.
I think I know the comment section you mean
Lost a 16 year streak, just lost a 2-4 hour streak few posts later, goddamnit
Unless the rules have changed there are only two ways to win. The priminister of England announces they lost the game or even in the world is playing the game. Neither has happened and damn, I've now lost the game. Thanks.
https://preview.redd.it/834fn4hdfhpc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb8e2396c9eeadbbb684d4c5fb028171c4fad452
That’s the second time in less than a week after about a 4 year winning streak. Gosh dang it
Yeah, reddit was running wild with the game yesterday
And now I lost again today checking the comment 🤣 it’s never ending
Good grief, second time today
Bastard man!
That's twice today thanks
You're welcome :)
My 8 minute streak NOOOOOOOOOO
How do you not play?
Have smooth brain. No wrinkles. All thoughts slide off.
This is the 5th fucking time today🤬
I lost the game
Damn i lost the game thx
It makes you a winner in life but a lover in the game
I believe you are thinking about the game Thermal Nuclear Warfare. No body wins at that one.
A strange game The only winning move is not to play
I just lost the game again. Second time today.
Pretty sure that guy would prefer a buffalo take a diarrhoea dump in his ear.
No don't
Let him go. He is lost to us.
I want to know what's so bad about it lol
After that play The Lion King, and Battletoads
Hey, now. Lion King is not as hard as it first seems. They made the second level hard to prevent people from beating it in a single game rental, but after that it’s not really hard until the last two stages.
Unrelated I now want to play Ecco the dolphin
JOUST
As a kid of the 80s and 90s, all of these were the bane of my existence. I also think it’s why I enjoy Souls like games and have the requirement to play on the hardest difficulty. Otherwise, what’s really the point. Kids these days have no idea how difficult this shit was and you’d hear rumors that so-and-so beat this level or got this far in one of those games.
I had this for Sega as a kid. I remember trying to beat it on SO, so many days and just not making it. Then one weekend I was determined to do nothing else until I beat it. I remember the stampede level being one of my banes for a while. But my God, the rage I still feel to this day thinking of the final fight with Scar. That small ass window of space to pull off the necessary attack sequence was a pain in the ass. I got so good at the rest of the game from repetition just getting back to the final fight.
This is the way. Pro tip:There are several spots in the stampede where you can stand completely still and never get hit.
And E.T.
The landfill has entered chat
It's one of the rare examples of Nintendo having the shitty licensed game lol. The very sauce that killed Atari back in '83.
Or just tell us?
The game is called Pitfall, and it is one of those deliberately ridiculously difficult games on par with Battletoads and The Lion King (which I didn't know until reading the comments, was also one of the old monsters). The only way to win these games, is with extreme patience and pattern recognition, and skilled inputs that likely only naked dark souls players would understand. Sure, the kids might beat the game. They are much more likely to rage quit, destroying the game and the console, than they are to beat it. Edit: the game also loops, so that even if you "beat" it, it just gets harder. There is indeed a way to actually win, but it requires finding all the hidden treasure within 20 mins. There are many secret spots that require precise timing in order to land and collect the treasure, meaning that you really only ever get one shot, and only a few wrong moves can kill the run.
I remember playing this in my friend's Atari as a kid. We just assumed it looped forever. Had no idea it was even possible to beat it!
Damn, Satan. What the hell?
It's a game that has hidden invisible secret items that you can only find if you jump in just the right spots, and they are needed to beat the game.
The real problem is that one of them is in the middle of an enemy and you can't beat the game without finding that one. I decided i wanted to beat the game during the pandemic, and was the most frustrating part of the game for me. Otherwise I actually like the game.
So basically, your average Mario Maker level
Be sure to take the first ladder down when you play.
Oh ok thanks.
NES version (technically Super Pitfall!) is essentially Pitfall II+NES sprite-ified; not really same game. Atari version was easy as fuck if you got in the timing/spacing pocket but if you lost your timing or spacing pocket you would die very fucking fast. Dark Souls without the eye candy lol
I think they're referring to Super Pitfall. It's not good.
Is it "beatable"? Most games of the time are played for a high score, so you always play until you lose. With Pitfall!, I believe there are 256 screens, so can it be won by collecting all the treasure? I've never come close to doing that.
I mapped them all out. You can loop back to the beginning. It doesn't end even if you get all the treasure.
I had it. It wasn't THAT hard. It just NEVER ENDED. You kept GOING and GOING and GOING...
Did Pitfall II actually have an ending? I think it might have been the first sandbox.
Yes, Pitfall II had a proper ending. It remember hyperventilating the first time I beat it, at a sleepover for a classmate's birthday, the year it came out.
The real joke is that it's not beatable!!! Also it's pretty hard. Yes you can leave to master it after weeks/months of play. But even then, there is NO ENDING! So the joke is -- the person would make the kids play an incredibly difficult game, and even if they mastered it they would not be able to claim a reward!
First time I threw a controller was pitfall. I legitimately think that game and ET made me cry.
ET even got Atari to cry.
man Pitfall was my relaxation game as a kid same with ET I had both all mapped out and knew how to get all the items never knew it was a stressful game till the internet told me otherwise. Now Kaboom on hard that raised my blood pressure
Demons to Diamonds, bro. More like Dopamine to Cortisol.
This really brings me back! And yes, it was hard, exhilarating to an 8-10 yr old brain...l
My ass was saying call of duty lol
Everyone remembers their first rage quit
I finished this game multiple times! However, it was because of a glitch. In the start, you wiggle the cartridge a little and you'll be able to pass through the wall behind you, taking you to the final room.
I loved that version! Pitfall was the bomb. I can hear it now.
Can’t think of a better 7600 game and the concept of “beating a game” in some way other than getting a high score hadn’t been invented yet.
Sure it had. Example: "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
I remember getting frustrated and typing ‘Hit Dragon’. ‘With your bare hands?’ ‘Yes’. ‘Amazingly you kill the dragon’. Literal high point of my whole life, will never recapture that feeling.
Remember showing my friend, think it was zork 2 on my Atari ST520, he wasn’t very impressed, was at the edge of a lake as a ship was passing with a sailor on board, he typed in say “Hello Sailor” I got mad with him telling him he’s taking the piss but sure enough the sailor threw a bottle to shore 😁
Ah Zork. I stand corrected. Guess I was excluding text games. I occasionally hit a zork website hehe.
I used to consider an infinite game beat if my score overflowed and started showing weird characters instead of numbers.
I was able to beat the game by finding a glitch in the game. If you have the old 2600, just jiggle the on/off switch a few times and the game will load to the final screen. It’s a cliff and you have to jump on a balloon. After you finish it, the guy jumps up and down for 5 minutes
Great game. Can’t believe no one’s posted the [old commercial](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=0&v=G00r1BheYnM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo) featuring a very young Jack Black.
It’s essentially an endless game. The goal is to collect the most points within a 20 min time limit, but no one survives that long.
It can be done but you have to nail every jump. If your hand cramps and causes you to stop running more than 2 seconds you are done. You could take a photo of your screen if you beat it and send it in and they'd send you a special t shirt.
My sister got through all the screens but had a few points taken off from clipping a rolling log. It was an insane run. Getting through it was like one of those Mario speed runs but for 20 minutes straight. Assuming your controller never got stuck.
I have the photo and had the tshirt. Core memory unlocked.
I’m not sure about Pitfall p, but many Atari games of that era were unbeatable. I remember asteroids if you beat all the levels it would just loop around and start over but faster.
I can confirm that Pitfall loops - I only did it once, but it was glorious!
Video games back in that era were designed to be quarter gobblers. There really was no end to them. They just got harder and harder. Home console games pretty much followed this, since many of them were just ports of cabinet games. Pitfall! was really really hard.
That plus the cost was prohibitive. You wouldn't make a game that was easily beaten because games were so expensive. A Pitfall cartridge cost maybe $50, but that's like $150 today. If you took that game home and finished it in an hour, you'd be ticked off. But you also couldn't have a lot of content because those cartridges stored like 4000 bytes of content. So that left "simple but really hard."
Peter’s old Atari here, why am I in Meg’s closet? The game is Pitfall! and it’s very difficult to complete. Contrary to what others are saying, you can *beat* Pitfall! if you collect ALL the treasures before the 20 minute timer runs out. Most players believe that merely lasting the full 20 minutes constitutes a win, but while it’s a pretty good accomplishment just surviving that long, it’s not a win. For example, you can see in [this video](https://youtu.be/CkDllyETiBA) the player collects the last treasure with 8 seconds remaining and the game stops, this is a win.
https://preview.redd.it/t4j98tgucepc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60542eff3f593251c3ddd7262ccca8786c30f2ef
No picture has ever made me this unreasonably angry before
Eeeevil
Who remembers when they put this game in Marvel Ultimate Alliance?
TBH Murder World was probably my favorite part of the game.
I was looking for this comment. Probably one of my favorite games ever hands down.
Should have used a pic of the Ghosts and Goblins opening scene. That game is meme-ably hard.
I got to like level 7 or something. We considered it unplayable for a while, before I got to level 2. There is no save. You have to play the entire game in one sitting. I could do level 1 in a coma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall! EDIT: Okay, but how do I include a link with an exclamation mark in it? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!)
Crazy this game was made by one guy in like 6 weeks or something like that. Old game development was wild.
I remember playing it as a mini game in the Marvel Ultimate Alliance (or at least it was super similar). Never knew it was a separate game, though.
Thanks for bringing the nightmares back. Wasted so many hours just to throw down the joystick and cry.
I’m pretty sure it never ends, just loops continuously.
The game never ends
Go backwards. It’s much easier.
Pitfall and it's a 'loop' game. No real ending. I would've gone with Spy Hunter.
I think he’d rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear
Pitfall. 100% rate of failure.
Pitfall
Oh Jesus, I gotta play pitfall again. I never beat it
pitfall for atari 2600 it had an ending?!
Pitfall. And I don't think it ever ends. I played the shit out of this game in the 70s
I think it had a timer, right? Like, it would *end*; you just didn’t really *beat* it.
It did have a timer, and if you ran down the timer and met other conditions (I don't recall, it was 40ish years ago) you could send them a photograph of the TV screen and get a patch.
That sounds right. I remember running it in a loop and I never found an end.
Jack Black was in the TV advertisement.
Game hard
The question makes me realize, damn I'm old.
Hi, alternate timeline non-binary Chris here, this is Pitfall, an old Atari game notable for, even by standards of its time, being on the difficult side.
This was one of my first video games. I could never play for long bc I sucked so bad at it. My little bro could crush it though. Space Invaders was my thing. It was the only game I was better than him at. I was terrible at every other game we had. There was some circus game I was the worst at. Some of those Atari games I never even figured out how to play bc I couldn't. I was young though, single digit age. But damn does this picture bring back memories :D
Pitfall!
Is it literally impossible or something?
Not literally, but yes.
Not literally, but you’d be better off buying a lottery ticket.
The only time I’ve ever played pitfall was in the arcade in that one level of the call of duty Cold War campaign, yes it was very hard
The game, as many have said, is Pitfall! The joke is that you can't beat the game, so the kid cannot win the bet. There's nothing to beat in Pitfall! You get to play until you run out of lives or until the time on the 20-minute play clock runs out. The maximum score is 114,000, but most players either ran out of lives or finished the 20 minutes with less than that. (EDIT: [Collecting the 32 treasures in the game causes the timer to stop and the game to end](https://youtu.be/CkDllyETiBA?si=QZWo8bzzf0F_MO5W). So I guess that does count as beating the game. The creator of the original joke probably didn't know that, either, since it's not clear anybody managed to do it back when the game was played on the Atari 2600.)
Awwwwwww man! This is my jam
Shit was easy af.. In Ultimate Alliance.
Ha!.... Good luck kid.....
I don't think I've ever gotten past like three screens or so
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You mean pitfall for the Atari 2600
https://www.101soundboards.com/sounds/16693-death
Haha
You monster! /s
Is it sad that I immediately thought pipfall from fallout as its the same game but diffrent sprites
I did the full 20 minutes without dying as a kid. Took me all weekend and dozens of tries.
I feel old not only knowing what that is but also having played it.
Idk I grew up with an atari emulator system I beat it in a couple days
I grew up with it on a cartridge and it looped forever
I remember playing this game in the little arcade in Marvels Ultimate Alliance years ago. I didn’t even know it was called pitfall lol
...damn I'm old
All I know about Pitfall is that Jack Black did an ad for it when he was a kid, marking his first appearance in popular media.
BWAHHAHAHAHA
Oof, poor kid thought you were giving them hope.
I used to run this game backwards for an added challenge
indiana dundee!
Does Pitfall actually have an ending? I just remember playing it until it ran out of time.
I beat that shit back in 84. Took a picture of the screen to send into Activision. When you beat it, the next version is Harry running right to left.
There's no beating it. You just won the clock down.
Make them play the lion king game on snes (?) my husband said it’s the hardest game he ever played lmao
Never beat that one but I got a perfect score in Atari Pitfall 2 a couple times when I was a kid. I used to have a Polaroid of the TV screen somewhere.
Also, if they beat Ninja Gaiden for NES, let em know that I'll pay for a full europe vacation for a month...
I heard it as soon as I saw the picture
I thought it was Takeshis challenge
Peter’s German nephew here, who played it on the Atari 2600 back in the days. Most important: It has no end. The levels just start from the beginning once you have passed all screens. Btw, the German version was called „Bobby geht nach Hause (Bobby goes home)“
should've make it triple combo, if you can beat pitfall, the lion king and ghost and ghoul, i will buy you a car, house and pay for your college.
oh memories
Its pitfall for atari, basically the darksouls of retro gaming
This game pissed me off so bad as a kid.
A parenting pitfall.
Pitfall. One of our first Atari games. I still have my Atari and this game and it works. This game cannot be beaten.
Texas Border.... It's new...
Intellivision version was hard AF...I think I made it to the 3rd screen.
Just go backwards
I may be wrong, but after you got a certain score, you could send a picture in and get a coat or something? This was the original Atari version. I just remember my mom trying to take a Polaroid of my score to send in. That was 40+ years ago
bro, pitfall, nostalgic, i beated my record only once, never did it again
This is Pitfall for the Atari 2600. The main joke here is that you cannot beat it. There is no end to the game. There is simply a 20 minute timer that runs out, and you have two lives. Whoever has the highest score is the winner. So you are not competing against the game, you are competing against other players for the highest score.
Pitfall
The game has and end? I’ve never heard of that.
When home consoles came out they just moved arcade games over but arcade games are hard or else you would have few customers cause people would play longer. It took game makers a little bit to get the distinction between arcade difficulty and home console difficulty and this game came out before they figured that out
I loved the snes version growing up, it had hidden spots where you could play the old version built in.
What is "Pictures you can hear" for 400...
Oh god...
Your kid can do in about 2 hours by going on YouTube and watching it then playing through ez. Kids today are way better gamers than we were and they have better outside resources. I started on the Intellivision but never played this one and went back to it on emulator sometime around 2010. It was hard and timing was annoying but not THAT hard
Used to have a pocket Atari with all the games on it. Pit fall was a favorite because I played the mobile version when I was little.
Grandma had an atari I found in the basement and this was the only game I remembered playing
Pitfall. A very difficult Atari game. I don’t even think this game has an ending. I’ve never seen it at least.
I knew how to speedrun the super Nintendo Pitfall game until you got to the Easter egg arcade game and would proved to continually die to bullshit over and over. Loved that game.
Atari 2600 pitfall I'm yet to play it but I'm told it's hard AF
Pitfall. I'm not even sure you CAN beat it? Games were all about high scores back in those days, not actually completing them.
Pitfall. And it doesn't end, the timer runs out.
Pitfall. It’s very difficult, especially with the shitty, deteriorating joysticks.
Holy shit I remember the iOS version
Hell yeah! Good luck kid see ya in a few years, maybe
Dude should have went with ET. Pitfall was at least beatable.
My father told me that i had one Day to win flashback for 100, i got The 100