Hi Shaun, Pitfall was a popular series of games developed during the 80's and 90's featuring an archeologist and explorer named Hairy who suspiciously looks a bit like Mario. Anyway, the original game for the Atari was pretty simplistic where you ran through the jungle grabbing items, jumping traps, and well it wasn't a big deal. However, as the series went on the games got better with more complex levels, more in depth storylines, and involved exploring the jungle, various caves, ancient temples, and looking for lost artifacts. In one game you were hunting for the Lost City of Gold. In summary it was an attempt to create an Indiana Jones type adventure without having to pay Lucasfilm for the rights to the Indiana Jones trademarks and characters. The later games in the series are quite good, and I believe would be a good example of a side-scroller because most of the stuff in the Pitfall games can be converted into audio.
Case in point. In Pitfall you often had to climb up vines, and jump from branch to branch to get some item out of a tree or to avoid some enemy on the ground. Sound familiar? Well, the first time I picked up Perilous Hearts and played the concept demo the first thing that came into my mind was the Pitfall jungle levels. Pitfall played quite a bit like Perilous Hearts with the ability to climb a tree and use a branch or vine to swing over quicksand, a pit, or some other trap. When you got into the caves you might have to climb a rope, swing over to a switch on the wall, pull it to lower some spikes, and then land on the ground and run before the spikes pop back up. That's what I meant by there will be similar elements to MOTA, but not exactly the same. The later Pitfall games are in the same spirit or genre of games as Tomb Hunter, but the way it was played is different. More over since it is a side-scroller itself many ideas can be borrowed directly from the games as is. Cheers! On 2/8/12, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote: > hmmm excuse me for my dumbness but what was pitfall. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
