Pitfall!

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Description

Pitfall! is a platform action game. You play Pitfall Harry who is on a quest to locate treasure deep in the jungle. With a little luck you'll be able to find money bags, silver bars, gold bars, and diamond rings. But many obstacles will get in the way, some of which merely deduct points from your score, while others are fatal. Rolling logs and falling down a hole will deduct points, and scorpions, alligators, snakes, bottomless pits, swamps, and fires will cause Pitfall Harry to lose a life. You have 20 minutes to try to collect all of the treasures on the numerous screens, if you can live that long!

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Alternate Titles

• "Pitfall Harry's Jungle Adventure" -- subtitle
• "Jungle Runner" -- Working title
• "ピットフォール" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Games made into TV series
• Gaming Service: Game Room
• Pitfall series
• Protagonist: Treasure hunter
• Video games turned into board / card games

User Reviews

Pitfall Harry's adventures in the jungle	Atari 2600	Katakis | カタキス (40065)
The best Atari 2600 game?	Atari 2600	Mr. E (4)
best game developed in 1982, it was on the top of the charts for a year	Atari 2600	Scott G (794)
A 1980s classic!	ColecoVision	Gustavo Henrique dos Santos (113)

Critic Reviews

Le Geek	Atari 2600	2011	5 out of 5	100
TeleMatch	ColecoVision	Feb, 1984	1 out of 6	100
Electronic Fun with Computers & Games	Atari 2600	Dec, 1982	4 out of 4	100
The Atari Times	Atari 2600	Sep 01, 2003	95 out of 100	95
Defunct Games	ColecoVision	Dec 14, 2017	A-	91
neXGam	Atari 2600	Jun 27, 2013	8.8 out of 10	88
Retroage	Atari 2600	May 21, 2009	8.6 out of 10	86
neXGam	Intellivision	Jul 27, 2012	7.2 out of 10	72
VideoGame	Atari 2600	Mar, 1991		60
The Atari Times	Atari 5200	Jan 29, 2007	32 out of 100	32

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Trivia

Cartoon

Pitfall! was popular enough to have a Saturday morning TV cartoon based on it. The cartoon focused on the adventures of Pitfall Harry, his niece Rhonda, and the cowardly mountain lion Quickclaw.

Explorer's Club

Players who were able to rack up 20,000 points or higher were eligible to receive the Explorer's Club patch from Activision if they sent in a screenshot to the company.

Glitches

A clipping bug in the ColecoVision version of the game would allow the player to actually walk through the walls in the lower area if hit just right. A demonstration can be seen in this video.

Awards

• FLUX
  • Issue #4 - #33 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time" list
• Game Informer
  • August 2001 (Issue 100) - #41 in the "Top 100 Games of All Time" poll
• Retro Gamer
  • September 2004 (Issue #8) – #85 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)
  • Issue 37 - #21 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll
• TeleMatch
  • Issue 04/1984 – #3 Video Game of the Year 1983 (Readers' Vote)

Information also contributed by Big John WV, Guy Chapman, Kevin Tuttle and PCGamer77.

Related Web Sites

• Pitfall! 20th Anniversary (Learn the history and play of one of the most popular Atari 2600 games ever created.)
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