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What are Archive Reviews? Archive Reviews are of products released long before this web site's origins in 1999. They are meant as reference, both to the games loved by those of us at Techtite.com in the "good old days" of gaming, and as a source to link to whenever we mention these "classic" games in a more recent review.
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Pitfall 2(Activision, 1980's, Various Systems)A Techtite "Archive Review"Very few games for the Atari ever led to a sequel, let alone on the original system. Sure, a "remake" of a game or two may be attempted "today," but back then, it wasn't considered practical to try and sell a second edition of a game already played. There just wasn't enough room on the limited Atari 2600 system to offer a different gaming experience through any game sequel...or was there? Pitfall 2 was the bittersweet exception. It did indeed make vast improvements to the original Pitfall game, and that may have been half the problem. You could go up and down, not just left to right, through an admittedly impressive subterranean world to explore. Yet in making such a large expanse of game, some of the original game's charm was lost. There was a sort of enjoyable simplicity of the original game. Not to mention how the new game had an action-adventure element that, perhaps, old school video gamers weren't quite ready for yet. Here's some of the changes. Instead of finding gold bars to up your score, you had to find a finite number of different treasures, hidden at set locations throughout the game "map." Pitfall Harry also had a theme song now, which I hope you liked as much as I did, because the game plays it at the start of every game, every time you find a treasure item, and every time you win the whole game. Yet this theme song obviously left the system's memory with little more to work with, in a game that more or less freezes the game after solving it. In a day and age when (nearly) all games could be replayed non-stop until your character's lives were lost, this was a drastic departure. But hey; you could always play again, so you were sure to hit restart and replay the game right? Right...? See also: Pitfall (The original Game)
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