My mom liked the music :) I remember that she played herself a few times. She failed miserably, but at least she tried :) She also loved playing Davids Midnight Magic with me. Now, since my mom is gone, those are one of my dearest memories of her. ,
This game, at the time it came out for Atari 2600, was way, way, WAY ahead of its time. Checkpoint saves long before they were commonplace, full-length background music long before it was common on home consoles, complex map with navigation puzzles and secret areas at a time when most game maps were mundane.
I've had this song stuck in my head for weeks now. so I came back and rewatched this whole longplay hoping to "get it out of my system" so to speak. And.... still there! LOL
All in all, a legendary game. It had such a brilliant atmosphere. But no wonder I only ever got as far as I did, how the hell are you supposed to know that you're meant to stand on a certain spot and wait there for a balloon to arrive?! I'm glad I never completed it, the ending is so pants that I don't think I'd have even realised I'd completed it. I know for a fact that I'd have just assumed the game had crashed. That's not a just reward for the effort.
It probably wasn't the first to have it - I have no idea - but this was the first game I encountered where music shifted based on in-game events, from "laid back" (general tune) to "happy/frantic" (you got a treasure) to minor key (you died). It really added to the experience for me.
The Atari 2600 version was noted for having an extra 2k of memory in addition to the standard 8k ROM. David Crane created the former as the 'Display Processor Chip' and hoped to use it in other games, but the Great Video Game Crash of 1984 kept that from ever happening.
Had to do some searching to find this. I had the song stuck in my head for some reason. Probably haven’t heard it in 30 years but remember playing it on the C64 when I was a kid. :)
Loved this game. The Atari 2600 version was some kind of oddity in home gaming, how well it turned out vs something like this. The best version, however was the Atari 8-bit/5200 version which in addition to all this cool stuff had an entire second world and ending sequence. It was so tough for me to beat, but it blew my mind when I did :D
It's unbelievable that C64 version has better sound than the Arcade. Loved that game and the "mystery" it created (at least in my early teen years). Also, how unique the scoring/live system was.
Game info: Join Pitfall Harry as he searches a vast subterranean cliff dwelling high in the Andes. He's looking for the fabled Raj Diamond, gold bricks, his niece Rhonda and the cowardly lion Quickclaw. He finds more then i bargained for - eels, poisonous frogs, albino scorpions, bats, condors, a raging river - in the greatest challenge of his career!
I think this was the first game (for me at least) that had changing music. And also one of the first games I actually finished. Nice vid! I recently picked up a C64 on a flee market, and as soon as the attic is in any shape I'm ready to dive into the 80's once more!
Load"*",8,1. You got it bang on, some games were just ,8 for some reason. I had Beach Head 2 on disk and it was ,8,1 Those were the best computing days ever because it was all new in those days, computers in homes. I'm now getting back into playing my old Commodore 64, and havent touched the PS3 or PC for months!
I had this game over thirty years ago and never ever worked out how to save Rhonda or find the Raj Diamond (never mind the stone-age rat or Quickclaw- for all I remembered their names- or in which order!)... until now! Thanks.
In the '80s there were no manuals and C64 games were copied onto floppy disks among friends, so it took me a long time to discover the purpose of the game. At least in the version I played it was not necessary to collect the gold bars to "win"
For some reason Pitfall 2 has this creepy, otherworldly vibe along the lines of Impossible Mission. A mysterious example of the 'less is more' phenomenon with regard to narrative impact, if that makes sense.
Activision made many classic video games and Pitfall II is one of these classics. I still remember theme song of this game and I remember how we played this few months without pauses. a piece of my childhood..
I think other games show SID off better this sounds like the same as the Atari version except underwater and minus percussion, Ghostbusters is a great game too
I never did figure out the animal that gets rescued. Was it suposed to be a coyote? Bad thing about the C64 was the load time....some games you could go have a beer before it loaded lol!!! I knew a person that had a device that either overclocked the system or was extra memory that cut the load time in half!!! It was called JetLoad, it plugged in to the left- back of the C64. Funny thing it is, I googled it & there is no information about it, but if you google c64 fast loader wiki comes back.
Whaaaaat? How in the hell was a 7 year old kid supposed to know about that balloon? I pumped hours into this one only to shelve it because I had no idea. Sheeze Louise.
+GamePlayins One of the worse games ever. Monotonous. I remember finally getting to the end but it took me forever. The hype and the marketing and first screen got me to play it. I don't know why I kept playing it.
There is a game call pitfall 3 aka Orpheus in the Underworld [1989]. Can't find a single video on the internet or youtube of it. Found just a few screenshots.
yes! me neither, I've been searching for this game for ages... couldn't find ANY info on it, then eventually I heard it was also titled pitfall 3... have seen some screenshots but they are nothing like what the game I remember playing!
On the 2600 version of the game I used to just turn the console off and on again REALLY quick and it would glitch and start you off the level below the starting point. You'd just walk left and win. I've tried this with my "new" 2600's and I can't get it to work anymore... I don't remember the exact version I had BITD.
Funny you would mention this. I encountered a similar glitch in the original Pitfall on the 2600. Same as your's, quick off and on repeatedly until the glitch happened. But with the original Pitfall Harry would be floating in the upper left hand corner of the screen. And as long as you didn't press the button, you could just float from screen to screen using the stick. It screwed around with the levels a bit too. It was pretty consistently too. If you were able to lock in the glitch, it pretty much handled the same every time. The reason I said it was funny is that nobody ever remembers this glitch except for me. I even mentioned it in person to David Crane, the games author, and he said he never heard of it. Your glitch is the sequel game, but it has the same basic feel, and it's the first time I ever remember anyone saying they used the ON/OFF power glitch.
i think this version could've done a little better, i mean it's still a good version but if you look at the atari 2600 version the music has a little more beat & it has a sky that looks like a sun either going or down.
The Atari 2600 version had a lot of extra graphic and sound hardware in the cartridge. It was basically the Atari version of the SNES Super FX chip. Although the Atari computer versions had the same music as the 2600.
The original music came from the Pitfall cartoon series. It aired after the first Pitfall released and David Crane borrowed the music from the cartoon for Pitfall 2. It sounds a little different with real musical instruments of course. Assuming you are still around. Your post is 9 years old as of this writing.
I love this game, however i only have it on one system, The Original Atari, but mines dosent work. i quite like the more peaceful sound on the Commodore, but all versions are great ports of the Original Atari Edition, but The Spectrum is the exception to the good ports of this Game. It Sucks.
I don't understand. my memory of this game is that it had epic graphics. Either my memory has been distorted by the passage of time or far more likely, this video is a fake.
So was the Atari 800 version. I'm not necessarily saying this is "bad" but it just lacks a lot of the ooooomph that the Atari version had, especially musically, which was extremely disappointing because of how good the SID chip was. But then again, nobody really utilized the SID chip to the max until Rob Hubbard and then Martin Galway came along.
Martin Galway's music on the c64 is awesome. Who can forget the legendary Ocean Loader, or the excellent Comic Bakery theme, just to name a few? Jonathan Dunn was pretty good too.
The sound of that SID chip is so smooth, it’s like honey to my ears.
That could possibly cause an infection.
@@Perpetuationofmedicalerror What?
@@peterdefrankrijker honey in the ears would attract bugs.
@@Perpetuationofmedicalerror WHAT WAS THAT?! YOU HAVE TO SPEAK UP!
@@peterdefrankrijker BUUUUUGGS!! GREEN ONES! pretty green ones though.
I remember playing this for HOURS!! that damn music!! My mom came in my room and was like "PLEASE TURN THAT SHIT OFF!!!!" lol!! #goodtimes
Hahahaha! I reckon I pissed my mum of with this music too. :)
My mom liked the music :) I remember that she played herself a few times. She failed miserably, but at least she tried :) She also loved playing Davids Midnight Magic with me. Now, since my mom is gone, those are one of my dearest memories of her. ,
@@HansJoachimMaier those memories will last forever my guy!
Hey this is one of the games that really made the sid chip stand out for the c64
This game, at the time it came out for Atari 2600, was way, way, WAY ahead of its time. Checkpoint saves long before they were commonplace, full-length background music long before it was common on home consoles, complex map with navigation puzzles and secret areas at a time when most game maps were mundane.
+Appetite4 Barbarian (Psygnosis) was ahead of its time. Check it out.
@@krugerm1barbarian is a clunky mess. I'd argue it was really kind of behind the times with how poorly made that game was.
@@handwriting8804actually it wasn’t. There was no other game with those type of graphics or in depth storyline. It was ahead of its time.
I was a young kid when that was new, and never got past the early screens, but still loved the game.
me too. I remember dying and floating back to the start over and over again
Terrific game, haunting music.
I've had this song stuck in my head for weeks now. so I came back and rewatched this whole longplay hoping to "get it out of my system" so to speak. And.... still there! LOL
This was one of my favorite games on the C-64, and I still really love it :D
Oh, how much I loved this game. I even draw a complete map to it (wish I'd still have it). I remember finishing it once with only one loss of live.
All in all, a legendary game. It had such a brilliant atmosphere. But no wonder I only ever got as far as I did, how the hell are you supposed to know that you're meant to stand on a certain spot and wait there for a balloon to arrive?! I'm glad I never completed it, the ending is so pants that I don't think I'd have even realised I'd completed it. I know for a fact that I'd have just assumed the game had crashed. That's not a just reward for the effort.
The balloons are in the manual
It probably wasn't the first to have it - I have no idea - but this was the first game I encountered where music shifted based on in-game events, from "laid back" (general tune) to "happy/frantic" (you got a treasure) to minor key (you died). It really added to the experience for me.
Only game I’ve ever seen that eggs you on using its soundtrack
My friend in Christ, have you not played Shadow of the Colossus?
The Atari 2600 version was noted for having an extra 2k of memory in addition to the standard 8k ROM. David Crane created the former as the 'Display Processor Chip' and hoped to use it in other games, but the Great Video Game Crash of 1984 kept that from ever happening.
Lauren Tyler standard was 4K for Atari 2600 and this cart had 12k plus a music chip.....
2k of RAM. Bank switched in, 128 bytes at a time, in addition to the ROM.
I hate it when I hanging onto a balloon in real life and I'm like "Dang, I can't let go, I hope I can find a bat."
Had to do some searching to find this. I had the song stuck in my head for some reason. Probably haven’t heard it in 30 years but remember playing it on the C64 when I was a kid. :)
i played this game so long... and never understood what to do or what the goal is when i was young ^^
Loved this game. The Atari 2600 version was some kind of oddity in home gaming, how well it turned out vs something like this. The best version, however was the Atari 8-bit/5200 version which in addition to all this cool stuff had an entire second world and ending sequence. It was so tough for me to beat, but it blew my mind when I did :D
It's unbelievable that C64 version has better sound than the Arcade.
Loved that game and the "mystery" it created (at least in my early teen years).
Also, how unique the scoring/live system was.
The sound is VERY close to the original version on the 2600.
@@sebclot9478 The one on the Commodore 64 is more similar to the one on the Colecovision, just a little sharper.
Wow seems like yesterday. Nice memories.Thanks for the long play:)
I love this awesome masterpiece!
thanks and I really like all of these LongPlays you do brings back great c64 childhood memories
I remember the first time I finished this game. I felt so super awesome!
David Crane was one of the main people who worked at Activision back in the day and he also worked on GhostBusters as well as a game programer
Schöne Erinnerung, genau so war das. Das Atari hab ich noch aber leider ist das Spiel kaputt.
I could never figure this or impossible mission out as a kid... had fun playin it though.
Game info: Join Pitfall Harry as he searches a vast subterranean cliff dwelling high in the Andes. He's looking for the fabled Raj Diamond, gold bricks, his niece Rhonda and the cowardly lion Quickclaw. He finds more then i bargained for - eels, poisonous frogs, albino scorpions, bats, condors, a raging river - in the greatest challenge of his career!
I think this was the first game (for me at least) that had changing music. And also one of the first games I actually finished.
Nice vid! I recently picked up a C64 on a flee market, and as soon as the attic is in any shape I'm ready to dive into the 80's once more!
Load"*",8,1. You got it bang on, some games were just ,8 for some reason. I had Beach Head 2 on disk and it was ,8,1 Those were the best computing days ever because it was all new in those days, computers in homes. I'm now getting back into playing my old Commodore 64, and havent touched the PS3 or PC for months!
I had this game over thirty years ago and never ever worked out how to save Rhonda or find the Raj Diamond (never mind the stone-age rat or Quickclaw- for all I remembered their names- or in which order!)... until now! Thanks.
I feel like I'm 5 years old again.
In the '80s there were no manuals and C64 games were copied onto floppy disks among friends, so it took me a long time to discover the purpose of the game. At least in the version I played it was not necessary to collect the gold bars to "win"
This song Has been stuck in my head ever since I got this game Like 10 Months Ago
Sir! Masterful Joystick-operation!
For some reason Pitfall 2 has this creepy, otherworldly vibe along the lines of Impossible Mission. A mysterious example of the 'less is more' phenomenon with regard to narrative impact, if that makes sense.
Wow, excellently done - brings back awesome memories too
7:53 sweet, someone else knew the correct place to jump from to get the ring.
The c64 sound chip is so soft. It's like the whole thing is a triangle wave
That music for hours. Took me forever to remember
Activision made many classic video games and Pitfall II is one of these classics.
I still remember theme song of this game and I remember how we played this few months without pauses. a piece of my childhood..
now if i can just memorize where everything is. i remember getting lost and kept falling in the water
I spent hours upon ours with trying and failing. And you did it in a couple of minutes 😄 btw: this was probably my favourite C64 game..
Pure paradise for someone playing it at 9yo.. Never forget
Nostalgia. Best Pitfall game I have ever played.
Ah I loved this game over the first one, at least there was an ending for Pitfall 2!
this and GhostBusters are two games that really made the Sid chip on the C64 shine
Lazy Jones, International Karate, Great Giana Sisters, Katakis, Last Ninja II, Bubble Bobble, Arkanoid, Tetris, Outrun Europa....
I think other games show SID off better this sounds like the same as the Atari version except underwater and minus percussion, Ghostbusters is a great game too
you have to be kidding. there are much, much better sid tracks.
Ahhh the childhood memories. Missed the secret passageway.
damn did I play that game back in the days... I just realized how few of the game I actually saw but hey, I was a kid of like 8 years back then ! ;)
I never did figure out the animal that gets rescued. Was it suposed to be a coyote? Bad thing about the C64 was the load time....some games you could go have a beer before it loaded lol!!! I knew a person that had a device that either overclocked the system or was extra memory that cut the load time in half!!! It was called JetLoad, it plugged in to the left- back of the C64. Funny thing it is, I googled it & there is no information about it, but if you google c64 fast loader wiki comes back.
How many hours have I played this one, please. Wonderful game!
Whaaaaat? How in the hell was a 7 year old kid supposed to know about that balloon? I pumped hours into this one only to shelve it because I had no idea. Sheeze Louise.
+GamePlayins One of the worse games ever. Monotonous. I remember finally getting to the end but it took me forever. The hype and the marketing and first screen got me to play it. I don't know why I kept playing it.
This was my favorite game for the Atari 2600, ahead of it's time.
Memories. A friend had this game on their Sega SC -3000. I never completed.
One of the great David Crane Games from Activison
There is a game call pitfall 3 aka
Orpheus in the Underworld [1989]. Can't find a single video on the internet or youtube of it. Found just a few screenshots.
What stands out is how these games were created by one or two individuals.
Perfect Game!
Before games like Mortal Kombat one of the worst deaths was being clipped in the head by a bird wing
omg that music !!! ... hypnotic lol memories...
That waiting for the first balloon is just not cool....and the reason i never completed the game 25 yrs ago. I want my money back!
You mean you want your parent's money back :)
Cuthbert in the Jungle by Microdeal was like the first Pitfall. Too Bad Cuthbert in the Jungle II never came out.
yes! me neither, I've been searching for this game for ages... couldn't find ANY info on it, then eventually I heard it was also titled pitfall 3... have seen some screenshots but they are nothing like what the game I remember playing!
On the 2600 version of the game I used to just turn the console off and on again REALLY quick and it would glitch and start you off the level below the starting point. You'd just walk left and win. I've tried this with my "new" 2600's and I can't get it to work anymore... I don't remember the exact version I had BITD.
Found some old pictures. Its was the Vader.
Funny you would mention this. I encountered a similar glitch in the original Pitfall on the 2600. Same as your's, quick off and on repeatedly until the glitch happened. But with the original Pitfall Harry would be floating in the upper left hand corner of the screen. And as long as you didn't press the button, you could just float from screen to screen using the stick. It screwed around with the levels a bit too. It was pretty consistently too. If you were able to lock in the glitch, it pretty much handled the same every time.
The reason I said it was funny is that nobody ever remembers this glitch except for me. I even mentioned it in person to David Crane, the games author, and he said he never heard of it. Your glitch is the sequel game, but it has the same basic feel, and it's the first time I ever remember anyone saying they used the ON/OFF power glitch.
This game was the first Souls-like ^^
The ending doesn't dissapoint.
I loved this game on the C64
Even as i felt the headache coming on, i still couldn't bring myself to turn the music off :)
Time for nostalgia-headache Vs. paracetamol.
The game which invented checkpoint!
epic music :)
Mein Lieblingsspiel in 1985......nur den Ballon habe ich nicht soooo oft eingesetzt (;-)
Sehr gutes Spiel. Danke für‘s Spielen.
The Music is lacking the Percussion that the VCS and Atari 8-Bit computers had.
Atari = Lamer/wannabe ;)
and a little on the dull side
Yep used to play this and finished it
An oldie but a goldie !!!
Graphics: 7/10
Gameplay: 7.5/10
Music/FX: 7/10
Playbility: 7.5/10
I played through this on the C64. THe music really started to get on my nerves by the end, and I hated those damn birds!
what does collecting all of the gold do??
Well it's so that when you essentially complete the game by collecting all the other items you have the maximum number of points.
cool soundtrack version c64
OMG a ballon!!!!!!! 30 years later
I know right?! My 6 year old self wasted so many hours going around in circles on this game! Amazing to finally complete it aged 41! :'-)
pitfall 2 was such an intricate game for atari.
i think this version could've done a little better, i mean it's still a good version but if you look at the atari 2600 version the music has a little more beat & it has a sky that looks like a sun either going or down.
The Atari 2600 version had a lot of extra graphic and sound hardware in the cartridge. It was basically the Atari version of the SNES Super FX chip. Although the Atari computer versions had the same music as the 2600.
Fantastic
on a black and white tv you could see the bats better..... totally great game
lol so the music is all of a sudden slightly like indiana jones, but not quite :)
the music was original or a version of some classical music?
The original music came from the Pitfall cartoon series. It aired after the first Pitfall released and David Crane borrowed the music from the cartoon for Pitfall 2. It sounds a little different with real musical instruments of course. Assuming you are still around. Your post is 9 years old as of this writing.
Das so zu spielen ist schon echtes können
Yea so did my Dad but I had tons of real c64 Games on Floppy discs along with three or four joysticks becasue some c64 games were button mashers
Id like to beat this game before i pass
5:02 huh? lol
I love this game, however i only have it on one system, The Original Atari, but mines dosent work. i quite like the more peaceful sound on the Commodore, but all versions are great ports of the Original Atari Edition, but The Spectrum is the exception to the good ports of this Game. It Sucks.
Just points
sehr gut
Skills! 😅
Michael Johnson
Dude, do pitfall 1
👍
I don't understand. my memory of this game is that it had epic graphics. Either my memory has been distorted by the passage of time or far more likely, this video is a fake.
This is epic graphics by Atari 2600 standards. Remember, this was a port of a 2600 game.
you play as a man in green spandex
The music makes you crazy... Lol... But great memorys
Back when games were games.. you played for game play, not graphics... or the same re-packaged turd with a different name (I'm looking at you CoD)...
Is it possible that Atari 2600 version is actually... better? lol
music is better!
zenuke I love the music on the CD64 version but i hate when it slows down or when you die!! That shit is depressing!! LOL!!
The 2600 is one of the best versions, right next to the amazing Atari 8-bit/5200 version.
So was the Atari 800 version. I'm not necessarily saying this is "bad" but it just lacks a lot of the ooooomph that the Atari version had, especially musically, which was extremely disappointing because of how good the SID chip was. But then again, nobody really utilized the SID chip to the max until Rob Hubbard and then Martin Galway came along.
Martin Galway's music on the c64 is awesome. Who can forget the legendary Ocean Loader, or the excellent Comic Bakery theme, just to name a few? Jonathan Dunn was pretty good too.
First game I completed at age 5.
Funny how I'm playing this on Infinite Warfare
I newer completet the game :)