[HN Gopher] Adaptation and Re-adaptation: The story of Pitfall II
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       Adaptation and Re-adaptation: The story of Pitfall II
        
       Author : headalgorithm
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2021-07-09 05:43 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | mthoms wrote:
       | Interesting read. Contrary to what the author states, I'm think
       | Pitfall was available in arcades. I'm pretty sure I spent a small
       | fortune playing it.
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       | Before now, I never realized that it was (sort of) the first
       | platformer/side scroller.
        
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         | megameter wrote:
         | I'd have to look it up to see which was first, but the ports of
         | _Pitfall!_ are a rough contemporary of _Spelunker_ , which also
         | has an infamous NES port. Both are Western-originated games
         | about descending into caverns and collecting treasures.
         | Spelunker in arcade is actually really interesting in how
         | forgiving it is relative to most platformers of the time, while
         | the NES game is its merciless counterpart.
        
         | ghostDancer wrote:
         | It was probably Pitfall II, I thought the same as you, but
         | looking around the only arcade game I found was Pitfall II,
         | maybe we played some kind of bootleg but I can't find anything
         | about it either.
        
           | mthoms wrote:
           | Maybe. Looking at the screenshots makes me feel like it's 1
           | I'd played but it's very possible I'm conflating the two.
           | 
           | Either way, I have fond memories of it.
        
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