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Pitfall Harry Swings To The Wii

Activision is once again excavating the Pitfall franchise, this time for an all-new adventure on the Wii called Pitfall: The Big Adventure. Fair enough. The game is under development by Edge of Reality, creators of Pitfall: The Lost Expedition for the PS2 as well as Sega's upcoming Hulk game. The title will feature over 60 levels of adventuring utilizing the Wii controls as you would expect for a guy who made his name swinging on vines.
"Pitfall is one of the most legendary franchises in the history of videogames, so we look forward to releasing a new version exclusively for Wii," said Dave Oxford, Activision Publishing. "What could be more fun than using the Wii Remote™ to swing on a vine over blood thirsty crocodiles as retro-cool Pitfall Harry?!"
Aw crap, you had me until you tossed the phrase retro-cool in there. You can't pull off retro-cool unless your Pitfall Harry is a bunch of blocks on top of each other running through fully-rendered 3D environments. Now there's a game I'd buy in a heartbeat. Pitfall: The Big Adventure is headed your way this Fall. More »

10:30 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,781 views, 73 comments

Latest by n/a: "What could be more fun than using the Wii Remote™ to swing on a vine over blood thirsty crocodiles as retro-cool Pitfall Harry?!" Doing it as Indiana Jones. more »

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Lee Takes On Lara, Re\Visioned Takes On Activision

The final episode of the first season of GameTap's Re\Visioned animation series is upon us, featuring comic book legend Jim Lee's take on Lara Croft in "A Complicated Woman." Over the past season some of the top names in comics and animation have taken turns with Lara, as voiced by Minnie Driver, producing some truly amazing animation. With the success of this first season, GameTap is also announcing season two of Re\Visioned, which will be taking on games from the golden age of Activision. Comic book greats Mark Waid, John Ostrander, and Paul Jenkins will be taking on games like Pitfall, Kaboom, and Pressure Cooker. You can catch Jim Lee's "A Complicated Woman" over at GameTap's Tomb Raider site. For a special look at a still from next season's Pitfall episode, which features Pitfall Harry on a therapy talk show, hit the jump. More »

11:40 AM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,201 views, 14 comments

Latest by Enigma_20XX: Does anyone remember the LAST animated thing lee was involved with? Why did I waste my time with this collection of "flashbacks?" more »

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Atari 2600 Pitfall Commercial


It's been a while since I've posted one of these old commercials so I figured it was high time for a little retro gaming advertising goodness. For your consideration is this Atari 2600 Pifall commercial circa 1980 something. I guess they hadn't yet found the uber talent that is Jack Black to push their game so they decided to go with a bunch of crusty old British Explorer types and a completely bonkers American guy. Not quite the same somehow... except for the completely bonkers part. Interesting to note that they actually mention the name of the game's creator at the end as a selling point

6:00 PM on Sat Oct 27 2007
By fdemarco
2,468 views, 49 comments

Latest by n/a: sooo many memories of playing this game on a tiny black and white tv. o_O more »

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Retro Gaming Crochet

My mother is a big time knitting and crochet freak, constantly trying to make me something that I would use out of yarn and sheer manual dexterity, to no avail. I could not imagine anything she could make that I would actually use, but now it becomes readily apparent that I just wasn't thinking hard enough. Or perhaps I should have let Jack Rabbit do the thinking for me. As you can see, she has some completely mad crochet skills:

Of course, I assume that a familiarity with video game systems beyond, "Michael, if I trip on this f***ing Atari wire one more time it's going into the trash with your brother's dirty magazines!" in order to do such exquisite work, so it is quite lucky that Jack Rabbit plans on taking custom orders in May for both the system and an old-school television with a classic Atari 2600 game knitted onto the screen. Hit the jump to see more. More »

1:45 PM on Fri Feb 23 2007
By Mike Fahey
341 views, 8 comments

Latest by kefs: omfg.. you remember yar's revenge? that game was effin awesomesauce! more »

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Skatefall!

Reader John Freeborn writes to say that after two years of work his retro flashgame, a mashup of Pitfall with skateboarding, is done. Skatefall! combines the foot-pumping action of Skate or Die with the leaps and lakes of Pitfall. Personally, I suck at this game, but it's still tons of fun to play. Brian Crecente More »

1:00 PM on Thu Aug 17 2006
By Brian Crecente
107 views, 2 comments

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70's Vomit Wallpapers Meet Video Games

Over at smart guy visual theory blog Think in Pictures, jeremiah McNichols has mashed together two of his seemingly discordant mutual interests — atrocious 70's wall paper and retro video game screenshots — with some absolutely beautiful results. More »

6:00 AM on Thu Aug 10 2006
By brownlee
857 views, 1 comment