7:17 That "princess" is actually Pitfall Harry's niece named Rhonda. The animal in the cage you save is Harry's pet mountain lion Quickclaw. Both of them previously appeared in Pitfall 2 for Atari 2600 and before that, they appeared as main characters in the Pitfall! cartoon for Saturday Supercade.
my comment was a reference to the game Another World but James and Mike actually played that recently and didn't seem to enjoy it very much unfortunately.
This excerpt from the game's instruction manual had me howling with laughter: "Harry's journey is not easy. *At times his pistol seems useless* against the endless hordes of creatures that come after him."
@@gengarzilla1685 "Unlike those who play computer games, Sims have fulfilling lives." - Streets of Sim City Manual, Page 23, Paragraph 1, year commonly known as "1997" of our lord and savior.
It was games like these that made me feel like a complete idiot when I was a kid. I thought it was just my fault that I couldn't figure this shit out. Thank you AVGN for making me feel better about the whole thing. It's just taken me years to realize I wasnt the only one.
That's how I felt about bad games. I couldn't fathom that they would go through the trouble of releasing trash, so I thought they just weren't my kind of game or I didn't understand them.
The common theme with these games seems to be "people won't notice our game is terrible if we make it too difficult or obscure to let people actually continue the game."
Like when they don't have time to finish the ending before the Christmas release date, so they just make it impossible to finish. Lol I think LGR did a video on that.
There's a guy on the Internet seriously trying to hack this game to make it not suck. I can only imagine someone mailing James a copy if that gets finished.
A non-sucky version of this game already exists: Super Pitfall, from what I understand, was a loose remake of Pitfall 2 for the 2600. Speaking of which, that's a game I need to add to my collection.
I assume your parents bought it for you? Is it a game you asked for? I can see someone thinking it would be great since the earlier pitfall games were great .. I remember the disappointment when I rented it
The "crazy bug eyed animal" is Pitfall Harry's sidekick "quick claw". The girl he rescues is not a princess, but his niece. She looks like a "rag doll" because she was turned to stone
The Sick Human Being What if this game is just a dream? What if Harry and his wife Mary went cave spelunking and Mary slipped and fell down a hole. Harry tried to save her but never found her after that happened. So now he has horrible nightmares about the incident, dreaming of going down the cave and rescuing his long lost wife. That would explain why she looks dead in this instance. I don't know, just an idea.
From what I've heard, the girl is Harry's niece and the animal in cage is a lion cub, which I guess is his pet. Not sure if that's true, I'm just paraphrasing my sources.
At 4:22 you know how the Nerd saw the animal in a cage? Well I noticed that when he collected it, it increased the Nerd's score. Must be glithced gold.
There’s always something nostalgic about these episodes, even tho I didn’t grow up with them. It’s still something I watch at 11:30 PM for a couple hours.
I don't know why, but I have always loved this game. It's creepy, cryptic, challenging, and amusing. It's like an anxious nightmare in 8-bit reality. And finding those hidden items by jumping was strangely satisfying to me. Makes me wanna break out my old NES and play it again.
2:55 - Yep, I can think of a poisonous frog right off the bat that's killed hundreds of people and are still used by tribes to hunt game, even today. The Poison Dart frog is known to have some of the most potent toxins, just a drop of it's poison can kill like 6 men. There's also a TONNE of poisonous spiders that can easily kill a human. It depends on where Super Pitfall is set, if its in the amazon then there's a massive amount of spiders that are a threat. Love the episode and channel, just thought I'd point this out.
@@Philocyb1n People who don't give two shits about frogs? I didn't know there were frogs that killed you by touching them. I thought it was toads. Also! What about the snail at 7:11?
"theres a warp zone hidden in a bird" i was once playing crash warped and in one of the prehistoric levels i hit one of the pterodactils i tought i would die but he is warped to a completely new secret level
My video glitched at 8:02. The nerd appeared to say, "What purpose does this have? I found the Princess! Does he need to poke her or something?" Giggity giggity.
6:07 When I showed the unholy to scary part, mom said that the was a type of head. I didn't remember what she said, but I still think the head is a monument.
hard burns The ultima games were fun on c64. I remember that part where you had to randomly float around on a hot air balloon to land on this one tiny part of the map.
I love your videos James!!! Me and my boyfriend have seen every AVGN but we still watch them marathon style on a weekly basis. they just never get old. 😎✌
I played this game so much when I was a little kid in the early 90s. Maybe 4 or 5 years old. Loved it so much. This brings back so many memories. Always thought the guy looked like Luigi lol. Love the cover art too.
I saw this game at the flea market and bought it on a whim, even after seeing this video. I still went down that first ladder without thinking and died.
Atari: Pitfall
NES: Super pitfall
SNES: Pitfall 64
N64: Pitcubed
NGC: We Fall
Wii: Pitfall U
Wii U: Pitfall Switch
EthanYTgamer You don't get the joke. The joke is, every game has the trademark of the next console.
Ender of Thunder GB:Pitfall+
GBC:Pitfall Advanced!
GBA:2 harry adventure
DS:Pitfall: Pop-Out journey!
3DS:Pitfall:Switched out!
Ender of Thunder ddddddddddadjdjdkdfjkfgjuwufhrufhfmfjfdjff
I did what you see there
We need a new pitfall game.
7:17 That "princess" is actually Pitfall Harry's niece named Rhonda. The animal in the cage you save is Harry's pet mountain lion Quickclaw. Both of them previously appeared in Pitfall 2 for Atari 2600 and before that, they appeared as main characters in the Pitfall! cartoon for Saturday Supercade.
i don't care enough about super pitfall to look this up so ill just take your word for it, thanks
@@abdelnajjar8191 No prob
I remember Saturday Supercade... but I saw it when it had a different lineup (Donkey Kong, Qbert, and Kangaroo)
@@abdelnajjar8191 He's right. Look up the Pitfall cartoon.
@@psychonaut1502 re read what I wrote, lol
The charades part in the beginning gets me every time.
Lmfaooo
hes praising allah
YEEEEE
James Rolfe
1:21
2:00
2:20
2:58
3:17
3:24
3:48
4:04
5:38
5:59
6:02 - 6:03
6:04
6:51
7:11
8:31
9:06 - 9:07
I can't stop looking that part.
His theory on what's happening to Harry when he dies is still one of my favourite bits
So was there an SNES game called "Pitfall 64"?
Atari: Pitfall
NES: Super Pitfall
SNES: Pitfall 64
N64: Pitcube
Gamecube: We Pitfall (like "Wii Pitfall?")
Wii: TBD
Andrew Monaghan 3ds: new super pitfall 3d
Wii: Pitfall U
Wii U: Pitfall NX
The SNES one was Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
I'm not sure but I think that had the Atari version as an Easter egg?
"Please try Another World"
It's recommending you play a better game
DEAD EYE STUDIO
I say that because another world is an infinitely superior platformer.
But that is certainly a good way of putting it too.
+Vicious Servant It actually should have said "Why are you playing this? You know that Mario's also on this system, right?"
Sounds like: "Go into another dimension where this game does not exists".
my comment was a reference to the game Another World but James and Mike actually played that recently and didn't seem to enjoy it very much unfortunately.
Marosi Zoltán that'd be my favourite one
Fortunately now a hack of the game was made which fixes a large number of these issues. Even approved by David Crane himself.
Wow
And there are people who actuaöly care?
@@DOSRetroGamer yes
@@DOSRetroGamer yea
where is it?
This excerpt from the game's instruction manual had me howling with laughter:
"Harry's journey is not easy. *At times his pistol seems useless* against the endless hordes of creatures that come after him."
"At times".
Longa vida a el comunismo camarada jajajajaja
All because he refuses to shoot while crouched.
They _knew_ what they were doing, surely...
@@gengarzilla1685 "Unlike those who play computer games, Sims have fulfilling lives." - Streets of Sim City Manual, Page 23, Paragraph 1, year commonly known as "1997" of our lord and savior.
It was games like these that made me feel like a complete idiot when I was a kid. I thought it was just my fault that I couldn't figure this shit out. Thank you AVGN for making me feel better about the whole thing. It's just taken me years to realize I wasnt the only one.
You're old Greg!
That's me when i play Mighty Bomb Jack
That's how I felt about bad games. I couldn't fathom that they would go through the trouble of releasing trash, so I thought they just weren't my kind of game or I didn't understand them.
@@wgefgsh you want to drink some Baileys out of a shoe?
Do… do you love me?
I love how Screw Attack put that trap in 1:40 to 2:01 in the recent AVGN Game .
Astin D They forgot the lasers though.
José Cuesta They got most of it and it still awesome trap
Astin D The nerd's reaction when playing that part was priceless.
José Cuesta I know
Astin D I actually bought that game just so I could jump happily into that trap, so awesome.
Probably one of the best episodes of the whole AVGN saga
Top 20 easily
6:02 I love how genuinely terrified he sounds here, it actually startled him.
🗿
@@thesheeper0873 Legit nightmare fuel. XD
The common theme with these games seems to be "people won't notice our game is terrible if we make it too difficult or obscure to let people actually continue the game."
Like when they don't have time to finish the ending before the Christmas release date, so they just make it impossible to finish. Lol I think LGR did a video on that.
@@A_Man_In_His_Van Which video was it?
Well, that will happen if you only hire programers and cheap out on game designer
but those are half the things that make it so bad
@@A_Man_In_His_Van LGR?
I love his walk and death impressions of Pitfall Harry as well. Freaking HILARIOUS
Yeah you're right haha. He was pretty accurate which makes that scene even funnier.
PRAISE ALLAH
There's a guy on the Internet seriously trying to hack this game to make it not suck.
I can only imagine someone mailing James a copy if that gets finished.
A non-sucky version of this game already exists: Super Pitfall, from what I understand, was a loose remake of Pitfall 2 for the 2600. Speaking of which, that's a game I need to add to my collection.
So three years since this comment... how did he get on?
@@Gareth-410 Yes, he released the mod a few years ago. I think he called it an unofficial "30th Anniversary Edition".
@@AskDrannik it is amazing
0:50 This is what Dr. Wily does every time he loses to Mega Man.
Spare me! I’m a helpless old man!
-Pitfall Harry
underrated comment
He prays to Allah
@@EpicMinecraftFail Man, I wonder how many people have done that joke in the comments sections.
@@HCN-002OldChannel Pitfall Harry is not an old man.
"Who goes around shooting frogs?!"
Big Boss in MGS3?
yes but he has a justification
Nnnngh, Metal Frog
Jason the protagonist from Blaster Master who's Pet Frog mutates and battles you as a boss?
Miyakolover love that profile pic
@@vhsorion Hehe...yours is cute too...
According to Wikipedia, the "bug-eyed animal in the cage" is Harry's pet mountain lion, Quickclaw.
Does he do anything?
What a shit load of fuck.
It's actually "feline friend Quickclaw the Lion", according to the game manual.
And the girl is his niece, Rhonda.
That website is a lie
Maybe the frogs are cousins of the Mexican staring frog of Southern Sri Lanka.
That must be what makes 'em so deadly.
2zporygon 😂😂😂😂😂
Nice South Park reference :)
thank you
i sure couldn't resist
Yea that was gold
and pitfall larry looks like marios uncle because he looks like him and has the mario jump
I'm 40 and I owned that game as a kid. It left me with a special kind of emptiness I still remember to this day.
I assume your parents bought it for you? Is it a game you asked for? I can see someone thinking it would be great since the earlier pitfall games were great .. I remember the disappointment when I rented it
I’m glad I never played it loved original Pitfall, though
The "crazy bug eyed animal" is Pitfall Harry's sidekick "quick claw". The girl he rescues is not a princess, but his niece. She looks like a "rag doll" because she was turned to stone
And only poker cards unfreeze her? I feel there is some irony in that.
@@mikitadou apparently Only a potion can unfreeze her and not poker cards. Meaning you’d only need to look for that.
0:47 Funniest Thing Ever.
Nerd invented the griddy
Too brilliant! He couldn't be more right about being a kid in 1987 without having internet or a clue what to due in this game.
Well actually the internet began in 1983
@@rydogjkjr3325 the world wide web wasn't invented until 1989 and wasn't used by the public until 1991.
@@jukujuku6153 not what i read online
@@jukujuku6153 well seeing as I was alive in 1989 I can tell you thats not true lol
@@rydogjkjr3325 Because everything on the internet is true.
Let’s play charades who am I? 🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🙆🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Super maro
Pitfall Larry ?
ok, how many of you came back to this review because of avgn adventures/ his review of the game?
damn you got me there
Yup. Same here, man. That trap reference brought me back here.
Darn got me.
HE KNOWS TOO MUCH
Yep
"THERE'S A WARP ZONE HIDDEN IN A BIRD!!"
Pitfall Harry is doing the Wayne's World "We're Not Worthy" death from the SNES game.
The reasoning for Harrys death animation is hilarious, gold comedy.
Waiting for the Pitfall Larry creepypasta.
+TheDarkpatate Mine is about the Cardshark Princess.
The Sick Human Being What if this game is just a dream? What if Harry and his wife Mary went cave spelunking and Mary slipped and fell down a hole. Harry tried to save her but never found her after that happened. So now he has horrible nightmares about the incident, dreaming of going down the cave and rescuing his long lost wife. That would explain why she looks dead in this instance. I don't know, just an idea.
+Shao Kahn Sounds like a good idea. I'll be waiting for that to be written. :D
+The Sick Human Being LOL
Please no creepypasta stuff. Nobody wants that.
Actuall, some of the most poisonous animals are frogs. They are not green, though.
Pitfall Gary and Pitfall Larry are real different than Pitfall Jerry.
*you and the other pitfall games ditch Jerry.
Save?
❤[YES] [NO]
*A dog absorbed the save file.File erased.
Alexis Bowman K?
Ickett Bagge SuperClaude64 it's a reference to undertale😊
no,not at all😊I'm just a AVGN fan making references like a loser🤗
Alexis Bowman Oh ok.
Just proves how amazing these early episodes were that we can still laugh our assess off rewatching them 11+ years later! 🤣👍♥️
People complained about these episodes as well, back in the day, that they weren't like the very early ones
1:44 so thats how the avgn games got the idea of making that trap
-- SUPER PITFALL --
CHARACTER CAST
Pifall Harry
Pitfall Larry
The Ghost of Pitfall Larry
Pitfall Gary
Pitfall Carrey
Sneaky Toucan You're forgetting Pitfall Jerry, Barry, Mary, Sherri and Terry.
Also Rhonda and Quickclaw the Lion.
What about pitfall Mary?
Dont forget ragdoll crack princess
This game is just Pitfall Scary.
“Has anyone died by getting attacked by a fucking frog?”
Yes actually.
*"Several, actually."*
How about a snail?
Poison dart frog moment
A turtle too. 😂
Years later and I'm still in love with these episodes. Thank you so much nerd for all your work
From what I've heard, the girl is Harry's niece and the animal in cage is a lion cub, which I guess is his pet. Not sure if that's true, I'm just paraphrasing my sources.
It's actually "feline friend Quickclaw the Lion", according to the game manual.
1:19 I guess thats why they call Harry "Pitfall".
4:50 It's clearly Mario, if you're playing as Luigi.
90 seconds in and two legendary scenes: the charades and the death pit 5 seconds into the game.
0:47 best part
Allah
At 4:22 you know how the Nerd saw the animal in a cage? Well I noticed that when he collected it, it increased the Nerd's score. Must be glithced gold.
Blue= Pitfall Larry
Red= Pitfall Berry
Green= Pitfall Garry
Pink= Pitfall Cherry
Red is Pitfall larry not berry.
Black = Pitfall Kerry
Orange = Pitfall Jerry
Yellow = Pitfall Terry.
Purple= Pitfall Tom
Son: "Mom i want super Mario brothers for the NES"
Mom: "We already have Mario at home"
Mario at home: 4:50
Pitfall The Mayan Adventure was better than this
That's because the Mayan Adventure was actually a good game.
came here after watching avgn games. 1:32 WHAT WAS HE THINKING?
0:50
Dr. Wily when he loses to Mega Man for the 8560632633th time
Anyone kept rewinding to 0:43-0:52 xD?
Me
Me too
2:00 and there is where a trap in AVGN adventures came from
There’s always something nostalgic about these episodes, even tho I didn’t grow up with them. It’s still something I watch at 11:30 PM for a couple hours.
i like his most older video where is mostly reviews with some sketch here and there, but even the newest ones are also a joy to watch...
I don't know why, but I have always loved this game. It's creepy, cryptic, challenging, and amusing. It's like an anxious nightmare in 8-bit reality. And finding those hidden items by jumping was strangely satisfying to me. Makes me wanna break out my old NES and play it again.
I bet the SNES version of Pitfall is called Pitfall64 before the N64.
No, thank god. It's called Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure. It's kinda hard actually. Never beat it.
I thought they would call it Super Mega Pitfall or something generic in the title.
Maybe they tried to distance it as far from the shitty NES game as possible.
Yeah, they know Activision made a mistake.
ya and i bet the wii version it's called PitfallU
this game know the future of nintendo
All I wanted was some sharks with freaking laser beams on them!
Buy Angry video game nerd the video game in one level you get to ride a shark and shoot laser beams out it eyes :D
Robert Cummings Awesome! Going to have to buy it.
Yoshi Dr. evil reference...
*On his head, but still, this was funny.
7:34 that is Harry's niece, so you just committed incest in a video game O_o
Harry is a pre-vert
"Are frogs a common hazard?"
Well, there is a real kind of frog called the Posion dart frog. One touch, and you're dead.
No extra lives, no continues?!?
@@civilservant9528Nothing of that. Our lives don't even have a pause control, for Fred Fuchs' sake!
"If you beat it one time, what would you have to prove to beat it again? You'd have to be some kind of fucking idiot!" *starts playing again*
2:55 - Yep, I can think of a poisonous frog right off the bat that's killed hundreds of people and are still used by tribes to hunt game, even today.
The Poison Dart frog is known to have some of the most potent toxins, just a drop of it's poison can kill like 6 men.
There's also a TONNE of poisonous spiders that can easily kill a human. It depends on where Super Pitfall is set, if its in the amazon then there's a massive amount of spiders that are a threat.
Love the episode and channel, just thought I'd point this out.
Also the most poisonous venom in the world is the Brazilian wandering spiders. Most painful poison at most.
YinYangKi We are lucky that poison dart frogs don’t go out of their way to attack people!
YEAH, WHO THE FUCK DOESNT KNOW ABOUT POISON DART FROGS IN THE JUNGLE?!?! FUCKIN NERD HIT ROCK BOTTOM WITH THAT ONE. THE EPISODE IS STILL OK THOUGH
To be completely fair, it barely even resembles a Poison Dart Frog. It resembles more of an African Bullfrog if anything else.
@@Philocyb1n People who don't give two shits about frogs?
I didn't know there were frogs that killed you by touching them. I thought it was toads.
Also! What about the snail at 7:11?
Avgn adventures 3 should have a boss fight where you have to defeat pitfall Harry and his brothers pitfall Larry and pitfall Gary
well that's easy just touch them and they start having bowing seizures.
Johnny Delgado XD The devil and Angel should come right after then.
+John Groves that would be an epic boss battle. LOL!
Nick Boyle Have not played bloodborne.
It's a great game on the PS4 but it's frickin hard!
"theres a warp zone hidden in a bird"
i was once playing crash warped and in one of the prehistoric levels i hit one of the pterodactils i tought i would die but he is warped to a completely new secret level
I don't know how many people noticed this, but when he takes out the Super Pitfall cartridge at 1:00 , right next to it is Super Mario 4. :-o
6:00 "thats fuckin scary!" lol :))
I love that "Let's play charades. Who am I?"
"Are frogs a common hazard that you would face in the jungle?"
Well, there are poison dart frogs.
would you die if you punched it in the face?
Half of the comments are rage over poisonous frogs. The other half are people quoting James. Save your time.
Sam Hofman But what about you Sam, what about you?
My video glitched at 8:02. The nerd appeared to say, "What purpose does this have? I found the Princess! Does he need to poke her or something?"
Giggity giggity.
the lava at 5:14 looks like spaghettios
This was one of my favorite games as a kid. I loved how it was kind of an open world sidescroller.
It was so weird, I played it a lot and knew the game was impossible, but still kept playing lol!
This has to be one of the most funniest reviews you've ever done. And Pitfall Harry's death animation is just so hilariously ridiculous XD
That ending is actually really sad, if you think about it.
Sailor Sedna Broke your balls to beat a game only for a small text message to say "do it again"
A never-ending Easter egg hunt? An Easter bunny shitting in your face? Or where he calls himself an idiot
I agree. Spending any time thinking about Super Pitfall's ending is definitely sad.
1:54- Careful, Nerd. That might actually happen in your AVGN game. =P
It did lol
These are just gems, never get tired of these old episodes. Absolutely love the version of theme song on this one
He says gold is the only item in plain sight, but at 6:26, there is a diamond that he collects.
“Who goes around shooting frogs?”
Sounds like what I do for fun in Red Dead
You heartless bastard.
It has become a personal Christmas tradition to watch AVGN's videos every year. Always a good time.
"Who the hell goes around shooting frogs?" - Florida Man, you're next!
What makes this funny is he practically mentioned bugs bunny. 10:31
Starting off my Christmas by revisiting this classic episode. One of my favorites
Mine too.
Really makes you appreciate how awesome Pitfall: The Lost Expedition for PS2 really is.
At 4:43, the red Pennywise balloon appears. You'll float too Larry.
6:07 When I showed the unholy to scary part, mom said that the was a type of head. I didn't remember what she said, but I still think the head is a monument.
Moai.
I miss the old Nerd. Absolutely relentless.
The briefly appearing pitfall Larry reminds me of Fight Club when Tyler Durden appears for a brief moment a couple times
"Wtf was that? That shit was scary!" Idky I almost died laughing at that part 🤣
Same!
8:40 Remember the warp bird in Starfox?
The death pit room looks like its shaped like a hand flipping the finger. Lol
xD cuz they are fucking you by a deathtrap
Fun fact! The people who made this game, also made Hydlide and published the first 4 Ultima games.
Interesting, i played a Ultima game that was on Nintendo. James should review that.
Megafooable
$5 says the floor kicks his ass.
Origin systems?
DarkVaati13
No. They didn't create Ultima, just ported and pulished it for the NES.
hard burns
The ultima games were fun on c64. I remember that part where you had to randomly float around on a hot air balloon to land on this one tiny part of the map.
8:18
That Waterfall looks like a T-Shirt
Many a hour I spent on this game, many a time I threw my controller.
"Who goes around shooting frogs?"
Well the Germans certainly did about 70 years ago
(I'll be here all week folks)
Don't disrespect us you imperialists
Akash Thereader Or to less offensive, 100 years ago...
Akash Thereader Honhonhon.
Internet Tough Guy oh shots fired. All the frogs in the audience best get outta dodge.
Akash Thereader The hunter Doc Hopper hired in The Muppet Movie?
The opening charades scene made me laugh so hard, I almost started choking on my sandwich. It was hilarious!
1:26 That was a bat. If you look closely, you can see its ears. 🦇
This video probably got another 1 million views on the way because of the AVGN Adventures review. Well played, James. Well played!
0:48
" I'm not worthy " LOL
WE'RE NOT WORTHY!
I love your videos James!!! Me and my boyfriend have seen every AVGN but we still watch them marathon style on a weekly basis. they just never get old. 😎✌
I played this game so much when I was a little kid in the early 90s. Maybe 4 or 5 years old. Loved it so much. This brings back so many memories. Always thought the guy looked like Luigi lol. Love the cover art too.
I saw this game at the flea market and bought it on a whim, even after seeing this video. I still went down that first ladder without thinking and died.
2:09 I guess Luigi has it's own game
That charade in the beginning had me in tears hahahahaha!!
9:22 She turned into Bulma.
5:04 i like how the spike is up pitfall harry's ass XD