Pitfall!
Sign in to savePitfall! is a 1982 platform video game developed by David Crane and published by Activision for the Atari 2600. The player controls Pitfall Harry, who has a time limit of 20 minutes to seek treasure in a jungle. The game world is populated by enemies and hazards that variously cause the player to lose lives or points. Pitfall! was ported to the Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit computers, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, and MSX.
Game data
- Released
- 1982-04-20
- User rating
- 3.77 / 5
- Platforms
- Commodore / Amiga, Atari 5200, Atari 2600, Atari Flashback, Atari 8-bit
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Key facts
- Video game.title
- Pitfall!
- Video game.image
- Pitfall-cover.jpg
- Video game.developer
- Activision
- Video game.publisher
- Activision
- Video game.designer
- David Crane
- Video game.series
- Pitfall
- Video game.platforms
- Atari 2600, Intellivision, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, MSX
- Video game.genre
- Platform
- Video game.modes
- Single-player
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- Development
- Release
- Reception
- Retrospective reviews
- Legacy
- Follow-ups
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- References
- Sources
- External links
Pitfall! is a 1982 platform video game developed by David Crane and published by Activision for the Atari 2600. The player controls Pitfall Harry, who has a time limit of 20 minutes to seek treasure in a jungle. The game world is populated by enemies and hazards that variously cause the player to lose lives or points. Pitfall! was ported to the Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit computers, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, and MSX.
Crane had made several games for both Atari, Inc. and Activision before working on Pitfall! in 1982. He started with creating a realistic-style walking animation for a person on the Atari 2600 hardware, then fashioned a game around it. He used a jungle setting with items to collect and enemies to avoid, and the result became Pitfall!