Super Pitfall retrospective: Super pitiful | NES Works #064
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Published 2020-03-04
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All Comments (21)
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There's a cool hack... 30th anniversary edition or something. It fixes the vast majority of the issues with this game and makes it genuinely decent in my experience. Playing the vanilla game is not a great idea at this point, by any stretch.
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11:33 What you're looking for is Super Pitfall 30th Anniersary Edition. It's a romhack of Super Pitfall that makes the game actually fun to play!
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Mike Ronics strikes again. That guy was just the worst.
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Oh geez. OF COURSE it was Micronics! I had no idea, but it makes so much sense now.
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Gaming community: Micronics, your games have enraged us and left irreparable harm on our hearts, do you have anything to say? Micronics: Our games shipped on time.
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This show is sincerely such a delight. My day brightens every morning you upload. Its great to hear you be brutal every once in a while, and I always hear Super Pitfall desrves it! Keep it up hon!
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Around 5:03 I was thinking "ah nuts, my internet connection is lagging" until I realized that it was just the game's frame rate.
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1:14 Introducing: Jack Black No for real, this is sincerely and legitimately Jack Black.
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One of my strongest gaming memories of playing with my dad is him getting excited at a Pitfall sequel and then being so bummed out when he rented this game.
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That Mega Man episode feels like a distant tower on the hill.
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Thanks for reminding me just how great the dynamic music in “PItfall II” was. I remember feeling like I could run through a wall each time Harry picked up another treasure and it shifted from dirge to peppy.
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As a kid who didn't fully understand the goal of Pitfall!, I just wandered around the world. When I played this, I also didn't understand the goal(s), and found it similarly interesting to just kind of meander around the first area on a rental, as though it were some kind of proto-sandbox. I've made the conscious decision to keep that nostalgia to itself, as I'm almost positive that revisiting the game now would leave me finding it... well, as everyone else does.
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This game reminded me a lot of games like Legacy of The Wizard, and A Boy And His Blob both on the NES. No idea of what to do, or where to go back then, without the internet or Nintendo Power.
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(Yes, that was a young Jack Black in that Pitfall commercial at 1:12.)
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Sega's Pitfall is so fun. I can't remember when was the last time I had good times with an early 80s game like that.
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I always loved how the giant tarantulas were designed in such a way that they look like they're crawling backwards, abdomen-first.
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Saying you'd prefer to play Atlantis no Nazo specifically is one of the harsher condemnations of this game. It's a deserved one, though.
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When I saw the "next epsiode" preview, I got very excited (though a bit confused) being that Soldier Blade is one of my all time favorites. Then I immediately understood what you meant by the "planting the seeds" comment and know what's coming next.
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That's funny that you subtly mentioned Angry Video Game Nerd because I definitely thought back to his episode on this game as soon as this one started. Looking back, I need to play this game again because I had a friend who had it and I don't remember it being THAT bad, but I was also a child at the time.
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By the way, I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the earlier Pitfall II review, but the characters Quickclaw and Rhonda, plus part of the soundtrack, was taken from the Pitfall segment of Saturday Supercade. If you were wondering who the heck they were, well, that's your answer!
