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Mayan adventure is the definition of iconic

Upon finishing the game, David Crane showed it to his contemporaries and boldly declared, "I have given them but ONE Pitfall Harry to complete their quest! Ha!" But they were not amused. They told him it would simply be too difficult. So after much cajoling he was convinced and spent the next MONTH reorganizing and fine-tuning the code - by hand - so that he could fit that last bit of program wizardry into the final masterpiece. But seriously, programmers of today have it made in so many ways. They have vastly superior development tools (versus graph paper, calculators and the programmer's mind) and resources within the platform itself (gigabytes of RAM, super fast processors and co-processors, etc). The Atari 2600 had only 128 bytes - yes, BYTES - of RAM and 4k of ROM (up to 8k but silicon was expensive as heck back then) so every byte had to be fought for. Some people might be wondering, as many people did when this game was released in 1982, how in the world did David Crane fit over 200 screens into only 4k of space (plus the game code and sound, etc)? The secret lies in a bi-directional binomial counter that he had devised that would output a pseudo-random 8 bit number if you fed it a "seed" byte and - here's the clever bit - would return the previous number if you did it the other way around. So when you moved to the right, for example, the counter would be advanced by one new "random" number and if you went left, that current number would be used as the seed and it would return the previous value. If you were below ground, where the scorpions are, it would iterate 5 times instead of one (underground screens equaled 5 above ground screens). Each byte was divided into bits or bit pairs that determined if a particular screen had a pit/no pit, vine/no vine, logs/no logs and so on. Genius.

Pitfall the Mayan adventure was dope

The Mayan adventure remains superior

@thed.z.a.4658

3 жыл бұрын

ITS SO HARD TO PLAY THOUGH!

@saurabhregie6675

2 жыл бұрын

That was one of the very first games I played. Time flies :D

im so sad that there was never a continuation after the lost expedition.. really loved that game.. im imagining since early 2000s were all about edge that if they ever were to have made one back then it would be an edgy version lol like how jak 2 and sonic went edgy xD

Thanks for video! My lovely Pitfall's game is mayan adventure. It's just a super game!

@JamanoidusRex

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. When I first saw it, after hiring it from a Video Ezy store...I'd seen the predecessors, and they were all a bit before my time. This was a great update and way to bring the series back into the limelight. Excellent character animations, environments, musical score and a nice range of weapons and enemies. I remember it being better and more fun than the 16-bit Indiana Jones game. Kind of too bad the series never really LIFTED from that point IMO...just style changes...none have been as good a game if you ask me.

seems like they get worse up until that bomb ass last game!

@chiefreefer0420

10 ай бұрын

Mayan adventure was #1

Lost Expedition was peak Pitfall, i really hope they make another one that is a worthy follow up. I feel Lost Expedition laid the foundation for Uncharted Drake’s Fortune

@chiefreefer0420

10 ай бұрын

Negative mayan adventure always was and will be the top tier pitfall when someone says pitfall Mayan adventure is always the one they are talking about

Pittfall 2004❤❤❤❤❤😊

was peak at mayan adventure

Why are the games that are other than pitfall 1 and 2 the most underrated things on this planet, I will never know lol

7:25 Harry, HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT?!

it really went from AAA flagship to endless runner

1987 was a game changer. Played for hours

Big Adventure is really fun to play (most of the time) so yeah... (but that’s just my opinion)

10:00 Last one looks like Krave Cereal Mascots before they appeared in the Commercials. #ChocolateChocolateYumYum

Maya adventure es mejor que todas las demas aberraciones y creo que los mas cercano al Maya Adventure puede ser Tomb Raider o el Uncharted...

Pitfall HD On iPad Was Removed From App Store Because Was The Game To Old Doesn’t Work On iOS 11 Or Higher Because iOS 11 And 12 Doesn’t Compatible With Old Games And Higher Same Thing

Pitfall é o melho

Where’s Pitfall 3 on the Commodore?

Pitfall II - Lost Caverns (1984, Activision) Atari 8Bit/5200 the ORIGINAL the BEST ever

Marvel Ultimate Aliance easter egg?

i'll just stick to mega drive game thank you

The C64 version of Pitfall and Pitfall II was so much better that the Atari version which you showed

@durrutino

Жыл бұрын

better than the one shown because it's the Atari 2600 CONSOLE version, but NOT better than the Atari 8bit family COMPUTER version (600-800-XL-XE-XEGS), which is THE BEST contemporary 8-bit version.

1997 was the best this little character fuck it up plus the PS1 version looks bad

@mariehassett247

Жыл бұрын

Why?

Super Pitfall for the NES was an awful joke.

last game is literally temple run but uglier