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A web version of Pitfall. I used to play this a lot on my cousins’ Intellivision and yep, it’s still as difficult & annoying as I remember it!

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Rex Sorgatz

I remember there was a contest in one of the video game magazines from the era, where if you got the highest score, they sent you a prize. You had to send in a picture of the score on your television set. Which was a whole ordeal, because you had to get a camera and then get the film developed.

Brian J Ridder

i did this, sent the picture and never heard anything back - I'm still slightly bitter about it

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Jason Kottke reposted

Nobody tell my mom & dad, but I snuck into the hallway closet a month before Christmas, opened this and played it, then rewrapped it.

Andrew M Ross

Not 100% faithful to the original, but still pretty cool

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