Wow Pitfall Harry in Mayan Adventure is actually an Atari sprite. That's really funny lol.

@jamminmonkey100

Жыл бұрын

It's canon lmao

The lost expedition is one of my favorite games ever. The backtracking was cool :D

@KorvinAnderov

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, it's like a Metroidvania. And the world felt pretty big and united

I had the Atari 5200 version, and it was great IMO. There was two endings, one was just like the 2600 version where you save Quickclaw to finish the game, but there was another way (can't remember what triggers it) where you do something else that creates a whole second game, with a different ending. Kind of like Castlevania SOTN. It blew my mind at the time.

11:00 Omg I love how they have kept Harry as an 8bit sprite, when I thought they would have surely updated his model to match his son xD that's funny!

In the mayan adventure theres actually a playable full version of pitfall 1 hidden in one of the levels

@seanfeld-

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it's hidden in a bunch of levels if not all of them

Never knew Jack Black had a role in the Commercial for Pitfall nor did I know that Bruce Campbell had a role in the PS1 Pitfall game...

@robbiewalker2831

3 жыл бұрын

It’s sad and ironic that JUMANJI turned into Discount Pitfall, which is so unfair when the iOS Pitfall game disappeared.

Pitfall: The lost expedition/big adventure is one of my favorite games. I made a series on youtube just for that, and it was popular. I think (not sure) that I was the first one to complete a playthrough of pitfall the big adventure... Other people started it, but never finished it.

@slopesgameroom

6 жыл бұрын

+SimplebutAwesome such a hidden gem

@noahbones1221

6 жыл бұрын

SimplebutAwesome same. its my childhood game. well that, and Sims

@spahr001

2 жыл бұрын

Pitfall: The Big Adventure is widescreen and can be played with the classic controller so it is ultimately is the best version. They should have advertised that it could be played with the classic controller though. I had it for years before knowing this.

Hadn't even heard of the Sega arcade port before! I had to immediately pause the video and try the game out. I ended up playing a good half-hour and having a blast with it! After Namco, Sega is my fav arcade game company so naturally I got pretty worked up upon hearing about a game I hadn't played before, so cheers for that! The video was excellent overall too.

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+Horzuhammer ahhhh dude thats proper made my day :) so glad u enjoyed it

The box art on the Wii Pitfall game is the stuff of nightmares. A knockoff Mii head with an elongated body, who thought that was a good idea?

@SemiJuggaloNumber2

7 жыл бұрын

Seriously, they could have just used the original box art from the previous versions. Apparently, they didn't want to pay the original artist, so they hired someone to make some kiddie crap on the cheap. And what's worse, NOTHING about the artwork is appealing, it makes the game look like just another piece of Wii shovelware.

@BlazeHeartPanther

7 жыл бұрын

Pfff, its not scary XD

@noahbones1221

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Santa Maria When i was young, i always played the lost exposition on my cousins PS2, Then i got it for christmas on the wii and i remember saying "THAT ISNT PITFALL" Because the boxart was horrible.

save his 4 bit dad

interesting video. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned that the 16-bit Pitfall! Mayan Adventure game has the original Atari 2600 version of Pitfall! hidden within. It's also very cool how they elude to it in the game.

11:15 HOOOOLY CRANE IT'S BRUCE CAMPBELL

I thought ET was the mascot of Atari ;)

I'd like to see a Complete history of Lemmings. That's also a very fun puzzle franchise.

@Horzuhammer

7 жыл бұрын

Watch Nostalgia Nerd's DMA Design video and Kim Justice's Psygnosis episode and you pretty much get the complete history of Lemmings. :)

@aguyandhiscomputer

7 жыл бұрын

Train the Dragon Watching a Lemmings video would be very taxing.

@farseerflore9512

7 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see a man eat his own head. That would be a fun puzzle.

@Babbleplay

7 жыл бұрын

Watching someone play lemmings might be tedious, but hearing the history of development wouldn't be quite interesting.

@aguyandhiscomputer

7 жыл бұрын

Babbleplay Would you say a documentary about Lemmings would be Taxing to watch?

Excellent work Daniel!

@brunofranco4416

8 жыл бұрын

Woah, you here?

@OliverHarper

8 жыл бұрын

ha yep, im friends with Daniel, he is a very nice chap.

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+Oliver Harper no i'm not!

@brunofranco4416

8 жыл бұрын

Daniel Ibbertson That Mayan Adventures game reminded me of the playstation Hercules game.

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

Bruno Franco its a fantastic game, very similar to jungle book (the david perry game)

Nice history lesson on the classic title that is PITFALL mate thanks. I didn't realise there were quite so many versions. Nice to see and thanks for putting in the time and work to share them with us dude ;)

Awesome as always. This channel really deserves a lot more subs.

Cool documentary Slopes! Pitfall is a truly legendary game franchise, I enjoy playing any game in it, and you covered them all quite nicely.

@slopesgameroom

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it mate. Thanks for commenting

@bmkretrogaming7634

3 жыл бұрын

@@slopesgameroom you're welcome! Good content should be appreciated.

the dpc chip has since been used in the homebrew community. stella's stocking (2006) mainly used it as a sound chip using an enhanced sound engine by supercat that supported 4 channels of amiga-quality sound, as did sty frosty 2, a sequel to one of the games in stella's stocking.

Super pitfal was on TRS 80 (Tandy COCO2) befor the NES release, I owned a copy of it

Each port of PitFall: The Mayan Adventure has it's strengths and weaknesses: - Mega Drive/Genesis: High resolution graphics (320x224) But lower colours (61 colours) and no CD Soundtrack - SNES: Distorted graphics (due to low resolution of 256x224) But with high colour (256 colours) but no CD Soundtrack - Mega CD/Sega CD: same as Mega Drive/Genesis but with amazing CD soundtrack But the definitive version is the Windows 95/98 version that has ALL of the Strengths of the other ports: CD Sountrack, 320x240 resolution, 256 colours, AND save states :) this version of The Mayan Adventure is not only the best in the series but is one of the best platformers I've ever played.

Is his dad really shown in Atari graphics in the 16 bit game? That's so fun!

Funny how his Simpsons games were not called "David Crane's The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World"

Food for thought: the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, and NES all used the MOS Technologies 6502 CPU. The 2600 didn't have much in graphical support like the other two and you'd spend like 75% of CPU's time drawing directly to the TIA-- hence the simpler graphics. Also the version of the 6502 used on the 2600 had the upper address lines cut to save money limiting the address space to 8k because ROMs were expensive and the cartridge had no write line because RAM prices were astronomical, so you had to deal with 128 bytes built into the TIA. Later designers like Crane got around this with clever bank switching in cartridge. Crane's chip actually did limited coprocessing (as I understand it) which made things like the 3 part harmony possible on Pitfall II.

I love your channel. You inspire me to do a better work in my channel. Great videos Slopes!!

@slopesgameroom

5 жыл бұрын

Love reading this... Thanks buddy

you deliver quality as always. thanks man!

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+Ranson Curbersmith ahhhhhhhhh you are too kind

Another handheld game that turned out to be surprising great was the Medal of Honor GBA game. It's a damn fine top down shooter. It's the first game that popped into my head when you talked about the GBA Pitfall game and how much you liked it.

Very good work. I used that mentioned AtariAge Pitfall map to get the perfect score on 2600 Pitfall, just last year for the 1st time. I'm also a fan of 5200 Pitfall II (biggest version - use an alt controller though), and Sega CD Mayan Adventure with its extra levels and great soundtrack. Thanks!

Got a new fan... Subbed, top notch work mate keep it up

Great video, although I will be pedantic and say that Super Pitfall wasn't developed by Activision, but rather a Japanese company! Also, you can play Pitfall The Big Adventure on the Wii with a GameCube controller and not have to use the motion controls. Provided you don't have one of the later models of Wii that lacks the GameCube ports, at least

@troywright359

6 жыл бұрын

Tenshi Cat missing details like this can deter potential buyers. So you can enjoy it with a traditional controller

@solarstrike33

5 жыл бұрын

Or you could just run the GameCube version.

I've been hopping around a few of your videos. You're very thorough, and I like your style. Subscribed, and best of luck in your future videos.

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Loren :) Much appreciated :) Hopefully you like this weekend Halloween special Complete History

@LorenHelgeson

7 жыл бұрын

I'll keep an eye out for it.

Super Pitfall for the NES recently got a great romhack that actually manages to fix the game, well worth checking out.

I have played many of these starting with the original for the Atari 2600. I loved them and still play. Pitfall is still a good franchise and is well worth checking into by anyone who loves gaming.

Awesome, and nice timing! I was just playing Pitfall the other day to refresh myself for a video. I was lucky enough to have Pitfall on the Atari, and when Genesis was the bees knees, I had a friend that had Pitfall for Genesis. Good times.

These franchise history videos are great, keep em comin! :)

I loved Pitfall the Mayan adventure, my friend had it and I think it spent half the time he owned it lent to me. Great video too, really enjoyed it. I have the PS1 game that I bought purely based on Bruce Campbell, not played too much into it but it was fun for what I did.

That was a great show Daniel, Thx

I watched this because I played the gamecube version and had seen the original Atari but then seeing mayan adventure I realized I played that too as a kid at a cousins house on their PC! I have been trying to remember what that game was for quite some time thank you !

Great job as always!

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Cummins ahhhhh thanks dude

Great video Daniel, thoroughly enjoyed the jumping and swinging down nostalgia lane again! Oh, don't be afraid of catacombs...the best adventures and treasure are always found there!! ;)

I didn't realized Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure had Pitfall Harry senior resembling his Atari 2600 design! Really shows how even back in the early 90s, games still had their share of nostalgia. I remember playing The Lost Expedition on the PS2, and dying a lot on the games many traps and crocodiles! Also, for some reason when I play The Mayan Adventure on a SNES emulator, I can't beat the first boss, yet I can beat him just fine on the Mega Drive VC port on Wii.

@noop9k

6 жыл бұрын

Cyberbrickmaster1986 many multiplatform games sucked on the SNES because of its crap CPU.

Mayan adventure was one of the first win95 games I had. I played it on my college laptop with a parallel port cdrom drive. I remember it having issues where it would lock up while seeking the music track.

This was a great video. Thanks for posting this.

I was young enough to have gotten the SNES updated Pitfall as a birthday present, but old enough to know it was a remake. I ended up finding the Easter egg of the original game and ended up playing the Atari game on my SNES refiner then play the new version.

@DeaDGoD_XIV

5 жыл бұрын

On a similar note: Lode Runner was another game I got on console in that era.... Both games were good, but the updated version of Lode Runner was better than Pitfall's updated version

Just goes to show how a franchise can still live on even when it runs its course without it becoming oversaturated, people might like to bash PS1 for these 2d 3d hybrid titles based on 8-16 bit franchises but there actually decent games, almost reminds of Apocoloypse starring Bruce Willis (lot of good memories playing that one), the GBA once again showing how much of a underrated true successor to the SNES and has so many overlooked hidden gems (a unintended but nevertheless cheap plug for the series of videos from @MetalJesusRocks channel which I'd recommend), you're quality in production, audio, video and just evolution of your channel is wonderful to watch, great work as always Daniel, looking forward to all future Disney videos especially given how unfortunately Disney have taken a step back in game development at this time but have released some of their 16 bit games on Steam, wish it was on consoles especially given custom borders. 👍🏻

Nice one, as always)) I was so surprised to find the variety that Pitfall 2 had to offer! And the first one is fun, especially when you play it FROM the Mayan Adventure!)) I also like the minigames inside of the mines and the over-the-top powerups like time stop at the waterfall and hot pepper for high jumps.. And you're right, the style is so very Genesis'y, especially all the jungle and rainforest stages)) They definitely benefit from having that "grittiness" to tgem, reminds me of Jurassic Park in that sense.. I remember playing the Genesis version along with mobile Java ports of xbox/ps2 games when they came out and those were quite good as well!! they had to split them into three settings (Jungle, Caves and Glacier) and they all had some neat gameplay differences and fine level design! Weren't as difficult as say Tomb Raider mobile games, but fun nonetheless)) I find myself coming back to those from time to time..)

another Great Video. i didn't even know there were so many pitfall games. i only knew about the Atari and NES games. also Gotta love Bruce Campbell

Excellent overview of this great series Daniel! Though, I'm a bit disappointed that you didn't quickly make note of the differing computer releases. I had such fun with Pitfall II on the C64! That's just my own nostalgia crying out though, as the video flow really well as it is now :). Hah, Pitfall 3D, back in the day when I heard Bruce Campbell was doing the voice, that was enough reason for me to get it. I was not disappointed, had quite a blast with it! Should check that out some time again, it's been forever since I popped that in.

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+HalfBlindGamer yeah i looked into all those different ports, i remember hearing a story how david sat at the end of the table and had a different guy either side of him making a port each of lost caverns for different systems. 1 guy used the original code and the other guy made it from scratch hence the huge difference. I did wanna go into heavy detail about the extra bits added but sadly it got the chop as the lost caverns section was already getting quite hefty in length lol Either way... You get all the points for knowing it in the 1st place :D

i love pitfall! i actually played the first one through a secret level in the sega version and i was always wondering about the lore. like... did the evil mayan god make harry jr.'s dad into the blocky man or what. well now i know.

Well done. I too love the Sega CD/ Mega CD version of the game.

Great retrospective!

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+Saxcat20 Let's Plays thanks mate

You should research the history of Taito. They're responsible for Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble and are owned by Square Enix now.

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+Iftekhar Ahmed thats a great suggestion mate

Nice video. Subbed!

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+RGT 85 cheers buddy

I almost cry when I heard the sound of the Tarzan scream when swinging in the vine...just needed a KitKat to make me feel again like an 8yo boy....Thanks Daniel for so much nostalgia. I have still my 2600s and my old cartridges.And my Coleco.And my Sega. (Jeez! I am such a geek...)

@slopesgameroom

6 жыл бұрын

+Jose DeMunck thanks so much for checking out the video. So glad that it rekindled your old school memmories :D

I’ve been a fan of Pitfall since the 2600. Played it on SNES, Genesis, GBA. Yup! I’m a fan.

I still remember buying the original Pitfall! with my birthday money at Toys R Us with my aunt. heh I actually bought this one based purely on the box art and the advice of my aunt, since she thought it looked good. It was new, at the time, and I hadn't ever heard of it yet. Boy, do I have to still thank her, since it ended up being one of my favorite games for the system. :-) I later played Pitfall II, which blew me away, but that was on the Commodore 64. Such good games. The original is quite hard, though, since it requires so much memorization as to when you should go underground. Going underground was necessary to beating the game in under 20 minutes, since each underground screen equaled three above ground screens. Knowing when to go underground was key.

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+KabukiKid hahaha i bet you fully mastered the going underground timing back then lol Thanks for commenting buddy

Nice history lesson! I just found you through Guru Larry and subscribed right away. I'm looking forward to watching your other videos.

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh awesome :) Thanks 4 subbing Larry is a good guy :D

Great vid!

I only played original Pitfall. Bruce Campbell as a narrator is always a + in my jungle book.

Great video, was not aware of a Sega CD release. It is now placed fairly high on my list of games to hunt for!

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+RetroPixel it shouls be lol.great lil treasure that game

Daniel -- I'd really love to see a complete history of Bomberman and I'd absolutely volunteer my services to help out with the video. I'm the world's biggest Bomberfan!!! Keep up the great work!!

I'm not actually that big of a fan of The Mayan Adventure...mainly because it just felt like Aladdin meets Prince of Persia as opposed to Pitfall. It's a good enough game, but I wish it wouldn't have been a Pitfall game. I like the sheer simplicity of the original (although I don't like the mobile runners genre...so I doubt I'd like the simplicity of the phone game you showed). I had only recently learned about the original sequel and find it to be a true masterpiece...easily deserving of being considered the best Pitfall game...and in my opinion, the best game on the 2600 period.

Excellent video! I got Pitfall Myan Adventure on Jaguar to keep it on Atari, and I ALMOST got my Pitfall 3D signed by Bruce Campbell but the Comicon messed up the lines.. But I did get Cary Elwes to sign Bard's Tale

As Always Great Video

oh wow, that sega cd game is beautiful. i used to love pitfall 3d and it's still pretty fun to go back to today. plus you can unlock the original game in it which is always good.

Super Pitfall on the NES included a reference to Pitfall 2, however when you go down the ladder you end up falling on a pit of spikes and dying at the start of the game. AVGN said it best, may as well be a floor of lava with Sharks coming up to eat you and Volcanoes and Lazer Beems firing at all ends of the screen just to kill you.

Btw keep up the good work. Press f to pay respects to a once fairly great developer

Dan you forgot the Pitfall mini game in Marvel Ultimate Alliance where a member of your team gets sucked into an arcade machine & you have to play a short Pitfall stage to save Jean Grey.

Great vid Daniel. I must admit i stopped checking for Pitfall after The Mayan Adventure on the megadrive but i quite like the look of the ps1 game. Can't go wrong with Bruce Campbell. It just occurred to me that the Uncharted series has that Pitfall influence, especially the first game. Maybe that would have been the direction David Crane would have gone with had his kickstarter campaign been successful.

The arcade version wasn't ported to the MSX, it was ported to the SG-1000. :)

@gregbaker6103

7 жыл бұрын

The MSX version was closer to the original Atari 2600 version.

Yes Daniel I read the description, I really miss the list expedition, its on my personal list of classics.

Excellent video. I hope people start noticing your channel and you get a lot more subscribers, you deserve it. I found it through the video you made for larry bundy jr (The fucked up inspiration behind ecco the dolphin).

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+adelin081 ahhhhh thanks buddy :) i hope so too ;)

The soundtrack of Pitfall on Mega-CD is one of my favorite soundtracks of all time!

thank you kind sir for this video !

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+Ricma Maddafakka thank you kind sir for this comment

17:26 that's my personal factory sealed copy of Pitfall! on the top left-hand corner.

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+videogameobsession is it really? Hahaha thats awesome you made ur way into 1 of my vids lol

Pitfall Junior on the PS. One of my favorite games ever!

Pitfall 2 is my favorite Atari game. It was so ahead of its time.

Amazing video

I've always considered pitfall to be one of best games on the 2600. Thanks!

Kewl video. Pitfall is certainly an all time favourite dating back to the 80's. Any news of a reboot?

Another brilliant video. I avoided Pitfall as a kid because I mistook it for Pit Fighter, which AA slated and therefore I wasn't interested in. Sad really, would have been great to be able to pop back and play it now.

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+Zoë Kirk-Robinson hahaha weirdly enough i used to love pitfall as a kid lol i jave never played it since and still hold to those memmories

Funny little sidenote, and I'm sorry is I'm repeating something that was already mentioned but didn't seem to be, but I'm the first marvel ultimate alliance on the arcade level there was a challenge one had to complete that I think you had to free two characters that were being held prisoner by arcade, Blade I seem to remember and someone else. But the challenge? Complete the first three or four screens of the classic version of pitfall. You get thru the screens and complete the challenge. Really cool.

Pitfall The lost expedition was one of the best

I loled so hard at the reveal of the dad in the mayan adventure and him being 8 bit.

You might enjoy Spelunky. Plenty of scorpions, tiki traps, and golden statues to loot. La-Mulana is also worth a look, if you want to add Zelda-style puzzles into the mix. Spelunky kzread.info/dash/bejne/hnen2ddxZdWwibw.html La-Mulana kzread.info/dash/bejne/oZ-Lqqmse9O7iag.html

Great work Dan. By the way, you can play Pitfall 2 in Infinite warfare spaceland zombies arcade.

Pitfall for PSX also have Pitfall 1 and 2 A2600 ports with sound clip extras :)

How'd you get Jack Black to cameo in this video?

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+Clashman The Third i met him backstage at download festival and asked him

@clashmanthethird

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, cool. How was he?

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

Clashman The Third Hard to say in the 1 minute i spoke to him hahaha, but yeah he seemed a cool guy :D

@robbiewalker2831

6 жыл бұрын

They should've made the Sony movie about Pitfall, but all they think of is calling it Jumanji, disrespecting a diehard like me.

My favorite game series

good work

@slopesgameroom

8 жыл бұрын

+Lil V thanks bud

I loved this video, and I wanted to add that anyone who loved pitfall should try Spelunky.

"Bruce Campbell voices Pitfall Harry Jr." Ok I need to play this immediately.

Only recently played the Atari game, for how old it is? It's pretty damn impressive

I love Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure but boy I am terrible at it. Great work on getting Jack Black involved!

Tbh, I always ran right to left in Pitfall! Also surprising no mention of the different ports of Pitfall II where the Atari 5200/Atari 400 computer port had an entirely new cavern to play once you beat the main game.

@20spurSAT

8 жыл бұрын

WHAAAT!!!!! now I'm curious. Headed to the attic.

I love Pitfall 2, but when i saw the Gamecube game, just by the cover i thought "god, what happened to pitfall"... i'll play it soon.

12:50 THAT SNIPPER IS SO CUTE

I'm a little surprised you didn't at least touch on the Atari 5200 version of Pitfall II. That was the version I played the most, and it had an entire 2nd adventure after you find all the objects in the first one. Instead of the niece, the mouse thing, the kangaroo or whatever that thing was, you had to search for a rope, a flute, a basket, and a guy to play the flute.

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+Joshua Norden i didnt know this... Thanks for posting this info mate,much appreciAted

@SwordsmanOrion

7 жыл бұрын

Normally when you finally collect that animal directly below where you start the game, it's over and you've finished the game. But in the Atari 5200, a blue door appears and Pitfall Harry runs through it, and it's an entirely new and different set of caverns to explore.

@Schush

6 жыл бұрын

He did touch on that in the video. It's the "adventure edition".

@No-jb6fy

5 жыл бұрын

The second adventure is so much harder than the first, and level design is much different, there are new enemies and older ones which behave differently; some enemies have very sophisticated, fast or far ranging movement making them very hard to avoid. This second part is not programmed by David Crane but by Mike Lorenzen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall_II:_Lost_Caverns) and the game is totally unforgiving. Graphically I like to play the 5200 version because it looks a bit better, esp. noticeable to rock faces when you swim and a few other things but I prefer the color palette from the 2600. I'll always remember those balloons, and the music changing according to some triggers such as dying or grabbing gold. The character's actions are varied and simply amazing considering this was on the 2600: he jumps, swims, grabs rope, climbs up/down ladders, falls down holes, continues forward motion during jump (the balloons and grabbing the diamond). I've never enjoyed Pitfall I or any other of the games mentioned in the video. The Sega arcade version was extremely difficult and horribly clunky imho. But Pitfall II is such a masterpiece in so many respects, it puts all those other games to shame. If you play only one 2600 game let it be this one.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the brief nod to Pitfall in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. In the Murderworld area, there's a few minigames based on retro video games, one of them being the original Pitfall.

@slopesgameroom

7 жыл бұрын

+SemiJuggalo i didnt actually know about it, just checked it out...awesome stuff

That's a very distinctive snippet of a poorly emulated Club Drive title-screen theme I heard there, fan of Smight's Arcade Pit are we Slope?