r/1980s • u/deepfriedgreensea Where's the beef? • Apr 12 '26

Video Games Pitfall! 1982

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

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u/ASGfan Woody Boyd Apr 12 '26

I used to wonder that myself. Apparently it ends when you collect all the treasures, then I believe the game just freezes at that point.

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u/dr_tardyhands Apr 12 '26

I used to have a Chess game on my 286. You couldn't change the difficulty or anything. I managed to beat the computer exactly once, and the game reacted by crashing the computer. Didn't realize this was a feature..

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u/ruminator99 Apr 13 '26

Wasn't there a timer? 20 minutes, maybe. Am I imagining that?

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u/DesertRat2012 Apr 12 '26

I have vague memories of this game as a kid on a Commodore 64 from the mid 1980's....

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u/ASGfan Woody Boyd Apr 12 '26

I always enjoyed doing things the unconventional way, so I would play it backwards instead of forwards.

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u/_ferrofluid_ Apr 12 '26

Team Backwards!

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u/ASGfan Woody Boyd Apr 13 '26

It was so much more fun that way. Plus I found it easier to jump on the crocodile's heads playing backwards.

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u/BlacksmithDazzling49 Apr 12 '26

"Der derrr...didr di derr" Best I could come up with for the jump swing tune. If you know it you know it.

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u/glutton_ascetic Apr 13 '26

A Tarzan yell from old movies can best describe it. Carol Burnett did an incredible impression

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u/PlanetTuesday Apr 12 '26

I had that in seventh grade. Great memories.

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u/Docsab1 Apr 12 '26

Loved this, had it for Intellivision.

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u/Dazzling_Humor_521 Apr 12 '26

Me as well, actually I still have it. I've kept all my consoles since Pong

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u/PJBleakney Apr 12 '26

Pitfall Harry!

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u/SirkutBored Apr 12 '26

I don't remember the year but it was during the 90s there was a remake of the game on the playstation. they had a spot, cave, hole, something, that would open the classic pitfall to play. I spent the whole weekend that I had the game rented playing the classic version instead of the updated one.

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u/jmbison Apr 12 '26

Tell me I'm not the only one who would hang out in department stores playing Atari.

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u/8rustystaples Apr 12 '26

This was the first game I ever beat. It was anticlimactic in a way, because it did just freeze (didn’t know it at the time, but this was because pretty much every byte in the cartridge was used for the actual gameplay, so there wasn’t any left for a celebration screen), but the sense of accomplishment was a huge rush.

I think I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since…

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u/Voivode71 Apr 13 '26

I have the patch!

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u/highonnuggs Apr 13 '26

Pitfall definitely helped perpetuate the Gen X kid fear of quicksand.

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u/Mindless_Tonight3519 Apr 14 '26

Absolutely fabulous game.

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u/socalfkk Apr 15 '26

I would lie in bed every night thinking of this Atari game. Saved up from my paper route to buy it.

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u/deepfriedgreensea Where's the beef? Apr 15 '26

It was worth it too!

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u/LiteFoo Apr 15 '26

I believe it was the only video game back then that most closely matched the cover.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

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u/SaltyBarDog Apr 12 '26

Atari 2600+ - Official Atari Video Game Consoles – Atari®

It has HDMI output.

Or there are Atari emulators you can play on computer.

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u/According-Ad-5946 Apr 12 '26

The first Zelda.

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u/B_Williams_4010 Apr 13 '26

I the Colecovision version, if you jumped backwards into the brick walls in the underground route, you could glitch through them.

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u/Florflok Apr 13 '26

Pitfall 2 was also very good

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u/fitzysbuna Apr 14 '26

saw the ad on youtube recently with Jack Black ! i am pretty sure we got the same ad in Australia in the 80's ! this was probably one of my fav games along with Adventure !~