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I played Pitall 2 on the C64 and will never forget the background music as long as I live.
The original Pitfall did not have a continuously scrolly playfield. When you got to the far left or right, a new screen was displayed along with every element on that screen (like barrels). The creator of this version probably chose to have the barrels fade in to accommodate this.
I remember playing this on the spare B&W TV with no color. My father bought a new color TV and we got the old one for the Atari 2600 and it was like baller status.
I grew up with an Atari 2600 that was connected to a small color TV. Eventually, that same TV was used with the NES, but it wasn't until the NES that I learned that TV had a serious flaw. The bezel on the TV actually covered up part of the image so that I was unable to see the edges of some games. I learned this playing Metal Gear and was just utterly stuck. I wound up buying a magazine with hints for the game, and s…
Such an incredible game. I’m amazed what the Atari 2600 was capable of with 2 player sprites, 2 missile sprites, a ball sprite, 128 bytes of memory, no buffer, and a 1.19 MHz CPU. Because of what talented developers (like David Crane) could deliver, the console had an incredible 15 year lifespan (longer than the NES).
According to Wikipedia the NES had a lifespan of 20 years.
How is the original source available? Wouldn’t Activision still hold the copyright ?
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230404054728/http://www.bjars....
So, are you a go left or go right type of player? Edit: Ugh, I had a weird quirk where the sound of getting hit by a log would not stop sounding. Even tried hitting another log hoping it would reset, but nope. Cmd-R was the only solve
Thanks for reporting this bug. I'll patch this when I get a chance.
Until I patch this, if it happens again, run over a stationary log to unglitch it.
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I had an Atari computer, and for years it was hooked up to a black-&-white TV. I got a job in a computer store and bought the legendary Commodore 1702 (which I still have). It was like looking at candy. I remember some games in particular (especially from Synapse) looking just brilliant.
"Looking at candy" is such a good description of Synapse games on the 1702. I had Zaxxon, Necromancer, and Blue Max. Many Access Software titles were beautiful too (Beach Head, Raid Over Moscow,etc). Fun times!
But the all-time winner in my book for artistic cleverness AND playability was Alley Cat.
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I grew up with an Atari 2600 that was connected to a small color TV. Eventually, that same TV was used with the NES, but it wasn't until the NES that I learned that TV had a serious flaw. The bezel on the TV actually covered up part of the image so that I was unable to see the edges of some games. I learned this playing Metal Gear and was just utterly stuck. I wound up buying a magazine with hints for the game, and s…
Ha, I too had the pleasure of playing Metal Gear on an old CRT that had a similar bezel that covered the sides of the screen. I too had the pleasure of going crazy trying to figure out what to do. Good times.
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Ha, I too had the pleasure of playing Metal Gear on an old CRT that had a similar bezel that covered the sides of the screen. I too had the pleasure of going crazy trying to figure out what to do. Good times.
did you continue playing after realizing this? I realized that if I punched at the edges, the sound was different if there was a door. Then it was just a matter of finding which card would open the door.
I notice that the rolling barrels/logs sometimes fade out in what looks like alpha blending. Was that really possible on an Atari 2600??
Color options on the 2600 are pretty slim, and even if you had enough browns to make it fade in, it'd be difficult to have two logs on the same line in different colors, and IIRC, multiple logs on screen definitely happened.
On the Genesis, several games did a transparency effect by alternating output between the sprite and the background, but the 2600 horizontal 'pixel' width is much too wide for that to be effective. And you definitely can't have two different logs on the same line where Harry can be.
I played Pitall 2 on the C64 and will never forget the background music as long as I live.