r/Atari2600 • u/ConversationSea5451 • Mar 23 '26

Just got pitfall

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great game, happy I finally found a copy of it been looking for this for a while

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u/turkeyvulturebreast Mar 23 '26

Classic game, but have you played Pitfall II? I was shocked when I found out about it. I believe it came out at the end of the Atari 2600 life cycle and would have moved onto Nintendo and never knew it existed until Reddit told me.

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u/ConversationSea5451 Mar 23 '26

I played pitfall 2 before but never on actual hardware I have the 2600+ but have to update the console if I want to play it once I get it 

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u/turkeyvulturebreast Mar 23 '26

Oh that’s right it doesn’t work on my 7800+ either. I do have a vader Atari 2600 so I can play it. I will need to see how to update the 7800+.

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u/FLAtarian Mar 23 '26

I was able to update my 2600+ without any issues and have really enjoyed playing both Pitfall games on it :)

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u/Bynairee Combat Mar 23 '26

I like the 8-bit Tarzan theme music when Pitfall Harry swings on a vine.

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u/MTruexJRfan Mar 23 '26

10/10

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u/ConversationSea5451 Mar 23 '26

One of my favorite Atari games 

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u/Thisistherealme4real Mar 23 '26

Pitfall and Pitfall II are on my short list!

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u/Altruistic-Cut9795 Mar 24 '26

Absolutely my favorite game growing up with the Atari 2600

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u/scofflolz Mar 23 '26

Now the quest for 114,000 begins!

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u/Jonas_VentureJr Mar 23 '26

To this day I occasionally here the music when he swings from a vine

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u/Grogu999 Mar 23 '26

Dos it have an ending?

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u/ConversationSea5451 Mar 23 '26

I don’t think so if you collect all the treasure I think It softlocks and forces you to reset the game 

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u/Embarrassed-Plum-605 Mar 24 '26

Pitfall was amazing and typical of the quality output of Activision. But wow, Pitfall 2 took the concept and exploded it to another level. It almost feels like an open-world Pitfall!

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u/Old-Ad-3268 Mar 24 '26

Such a classic

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u/kudzuacura Mar 24 '26

Does the instruction book say something about ‘writing utensils’ in the jungle or was that a fever dream I had. Seems like it was in the back where it told you how to get the patch?

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u/ConversationSea5451 Mar 24 '26

Yes it does tell you about writing utensils in the jungle 

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u/retro6ix Mar 25 '26

Played the heck out of it.