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Our Atari Expert Says: I can't @!#?@! believe how @!#?@! bad this @!#?@! game is. |
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Our Universal Translator Says: The title is Activision's nickname for this game's profits. |
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The Bent Kangaroo Says: Ha ha ha! **Sob** **Sniffle** |
I Loved Pitfall! I Loved Pitfall 2!
Perhaps I should start "The Atari Review Project."
Come On, Stick In There. How Does This Game Play?
Like Pitfall 2. Pitfall Harry's goal is to find the Raj diamond, rescue your pet lion (!), and your neice Rhonda, trapped below in the caverns of the Andes Mountains(!). You avoid frogs, snakes, bats, electric eels, and Easter Island heads(!). You have to warp to a dark world where ghouls and goblins await. Climb ladders, find keys, swim, avoid traps. And you get to make your own map, roughly the size of Central America.
None Of That Sounds Bad
Not really. And despite some difficulty turning, the play control isn't too bad.
Alright, Give It To Me
Sometimes, while climbing ladders, Pitfall Harry unexplicable loses his grip and falls.
The sprites are poorly defined. Sometimes you can be touching an instant death sprite and not be hurt, and sometimes you aren't quite touching the instant death sprite and die anyway.
Speaking of which, any hit by anything causes instant death. But falling fourteen stories is painless.
The music is grating. You can turn it off, but first impressions say a lot.
You have to jump on vines like in the prequels. But you must land exactly on the sprite at the bottom of the vine. Harry cannot grab onto any other part of the vine. Tarzan would be ashamed.
But the cream of the crop is this: there are many important items in the game, such as bullets for your gun and various keys, and warps to various points within the caves. Never before have game designers created such a logical way to locate items. You actually get to jump in random space, hoping that'll trigger their appearance. There are absolutely no clues or patterns involved. You get to jump everywhere, starting every gamer's dream. Guess and check!
I Don't Know What To Say
Tell 'em Q*Bert.
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Links
SeanBaby's Review (18th Worst Nintendo Game)
GameFAQs
Game Genie
P.S. There's a second quest (a la Legend of Zelda) if you can stomach the first.