Game Data: Review Date: June 17, 2021 Release Date: November 1, 1994 Platform: SNES Publisher: Activision Developer: Activision Genre: ??? Platformer Anecdotes: The Pitfall series is one I find amusing. It’s one of only two series I know of that started back in the Atari era and never hit the arcades. Of those two (the… Continue reading Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
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Super Pitfall
Review Date: March 13, 2021 Release Date: November 1, 1987 Platform: NES Genre: Nonlinear Platformer Anecdotes: This flawless masterpiece was a childhood favorite in my house. We loved trying to shoot frogs and always missing. We loved jumping into random birds to enter a dungeon. We loved getting lost in that dungeon until we quit.… Continue reading Super Pitfall
Pitfall II
Review Date: February 3, 2021 Release Date: April 1984, before the video game revival Platform: Atari 800 Developer: Activision Genre: Nonlinear Platformer Anecdotes: In my Pitfall review, I mentioned how I would play it at the cousins’ house. The setting and the gameplay were outstanding. By time Pitfall II came around, though, everyone just lost… Continue reading Pitfall II
Pitfall
Review Date: January 19, 2021 Release Date: April 20, 1982 Platform: Atari 800 Genre: Nonlinear Platformer Anecdotes: Now THIS is the game I remember going over to the cousins’ house just to play…until we bought our own copy. We even tried to turn the backyard into various Pitfall screens; you can imagine how that went.… Continue reading Pitfall