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Verified: Record-breaking Pitfall! Run
Daniel Vignes writes ""Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Jungle!"
A perfect Pitfall! run with 1:28 left in time, perfect score
and no deaths has just been verified by the authority on classic
gaming, Twin Galaxies."
Shortly after news broke of Daniel's epic accomplishment, reality TV show offers started pouring in.
Among them, a proposal from ABC for a televised relationship with Paris Hilton for a month, a proposal from CBS to televise him living in close quarters with Terrell Owens for two months, NBC's proposal to televise him talking with Jack Thompson for three minutes & Fox's proposal to videotape him living for a year with a North American black bear that has been injected with rabies.
When asked which contract he'd be signing, Daniel revealed he was leaning towards Fox's proposal of starring in "World's Most Dangerous Roommate" citing that he'd take the rabid bear over the other three any day and was cautiously optimistic that his vine-swinging & pit jumping skills would come in handy.
Daniel has recently purchased a large mansion on loan and is confident that his endorsement contracts are only now starting with Twin Galaxies. Enjoy your fifteen minutes, Daniel!
My work here is dung.
It's amazing how long people still play these retro games. Emulators make it easy for non-fanatics(like me) to pick up SMB3 or Super Contra and play a bit.
Will today's games last that long, or will it be that much harder to enjoy them years from now because of the extra difficulty of creating a emu for them.
... about this Not Being News.
And it only took him 24 years to do it !
Okay, I enjoy reading the 'Games' articles on slashdot to stay up on game and game system development, controversies and so on surrounding gaming. But since when is "Some one got a high score" news?
That's awesome. Takes me back 25 years to when, 25 years? Half a century? OK, now I'm depressed.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Oh My God!
Just looking at the screen shots gave me a series of traumatic flashbacks to illicitly playing Pitfall in the library at my Junior high.
They should have attached warning labels to this posting.
Any lawyers here? Can I sue?
Wow.
This game does give us a rare glimpse into the payoff given to game players in the old days of video games, which was absolutely nothing. You try for hours, perhaps days or weeks, finally reach the end, and it just freezes the screen and changes the colors on it until you are forced to turn the unit off. No final Fantasy end movie here.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It's the BEST atory I have read here today! Keep it up...
and they want their news back.
> with 1:28 left in time
Really? Is the death of the 'Net finally that imminent?
Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown. Is it just me, or is this the perfect error for an article about 1983 gaming?
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel...
you mean you could ACTUALLY win the game? :-o
I wish I was a little bit older....
I know its a cliché, but its true. I honestly wish I was a little older so I could enjoy the origins of computing, and moreso, the origins of gaming. Pitfall!, Boulderdash etc etc all classic games that I was unfortunately too negative in age to appreciate (being unborn at the time of their release is a little hard to defeat).
I was alive to enjoy the wonderous spectacle that was Cannon Fodder and Lemmings...what awesome times they were!
ilovegeorgebush
and probably never will.
But it does go to show the power of innovation. Why do we remember pitfall? SMB1? DW1? Because they broke ground, bringing ideas to platforms that did not before exist. Hell, I still long for a game of Genghis Khan 1 sometimes. Others can come along and do them longer, better graphics, shinier treasure, and hold the spotlight for a while. But they'll never be able to say they did it first. Which means five minutes later, someone's going to do it longer, shinier, better than them.
Grats on breaking ground on a golden oldie. I think it's the ultimate statement to today's game producing companies that they can take their 20 pages EULAs and rehashed cliches and go play with themselves.
You can get 15 minutes of fame, but you can go down in history for infamy.
http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=19&id=135 5:
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Am I the only one who wants to view the verification video? Not to scrutinize it of course, but I want to see it!
[DISCLAIMER: This post is a work of satire and should not be misconstrued as a holy text upon which to base a religion.]
I was the Pitfall king at my daycare in Cary, NC, circa 1985. Represent.
Hard work often pays off in time, but laziness always pays off right now.
I get this error when I clicked the 2nd link. Please please tell me
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\ machine.config Line: 0
.NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2032; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2032
that Slashdot is not using WinBlows Servers.....
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I'm using FireFox as browser.
Verified: Record-breaking number of consecutive days without a date! Record holder Daniel Vignes ends his run by emerging from his parents' basement on 6/5/06 to announce his perfect Pitfall! game with 1:28 left in time. j/k dude, congrats! I could never beat that game.
It really is important to note when someone tells Daniel, our ever challenged record setter, to get laid in some rude fashion, anyone who does this actually loves Daniel. I see this as, "Hey, friend. Good job. You didn't let 1983 down. Now how about you find a plow pal and thrust onward; breaching the gates of the unknown with your twelve inch dick!"; I know I only see that as a gesture of love.
We really need to de-associate the stigma with those who spends countless hours surpassing game records for years and years, as this is only a true contribution to society and enlightenment that, this fellow, Daniel, would do us all the favor to gratify our disbelief with such records! One minute and twenty eight seconds? Oh, jesus! Although I'm getting flaccid just discussing it, you know the silly bloke secretly did us all a favor! Oh, and sex addicts? See how cured they are after five minutes of Pitfall.
Someone want to tell me why this is a "full" story? I mean really....Pitfall? I could understand if it were something like...you know, Bible Blaster or something...but Pitfall?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
"I did Pitfall with 1:28 left!"
Might rank right after "3 touchdowns in a high-school football game".
Hmm... I guess I'll stick with "I make almost 6 digits a year".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Since there will be a Pitfall movie:
f all
http://youtube.com/watch?v=heWXUSr1DmA&search=pit
DNA in your Linux: DNALinux
that it was not hacked...
Just a question
rajmohan_h@yahoo.com
When I visited http://www.twingalaxies.com/ all I got was:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.]
"If a show of teeth is not enough, bite
Apache (Still) Up; IIS Down (Again).
While LAMP doesnt increase bandwidth (as another poster correctly pointed out), this is not an apparant bandwidth issue. That being said, while both systems (IIS / Apache) suffer at the wrath of a Slashdotting; this just looks bad.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
Many of those games were on cutting-edge equipment at the time (ok, not the 2600). They used multiple processors, custom graphics chips, and custom sound chips. Yet, we've been able to emulate them pretty well.
Even the very advanced-for-its-time TMS34010 graphics processor chip has been emulated in software to play Hard Drivin'. That chip had bit-addressable memory, built-in clipping, overflow math, and 2D fill.
In 15 years, hardware and software will advance to emulate lots of the stuff in modern video games.... all in software.
In the past, video games were closely tied to their hardware (the atari 2600 had to count its opcodes to fit the NTSC video signal). Now the interface is cleaner and independent of the hardware -- just emulate DirectX or OpenGL well and you've got a good start at emulating the whole game.
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
Wow, it definitely is a slow news day. Especially since the #1 terrorist leader in Iraq was killed. ;)
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I didn't even know Pitfall had an end! I'm going to have to play more!
Where do you go after this? My guess is to "Hunt the Wumpus"
Autonomous Retard -- Is your camp safe? UnsafeCamp.com
If you've never played pitfall, especially with the original "controllers" (paddles - basically a knob and a button on a brick, if you've never used one)... that game is HARD. It looks a bit like a regular side-scroller, but one slightly off jump and you're dead. It took me forever just to get past that damned alligator in the first few screens! And yes, many older games are still awesome today, just like many older songs are still awesome today. Pitfall is definitely a classic, like Pac-Man. IMHO, every gamer should play it and other classic games at least once, so they can understand why us older folks get pissy about the latest graphics with Yet Another FPS behind it.
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This is old news... I know, I submitted it before.
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/19
Daniel, the gauntlet has been handed down unto you. The next mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to defeat
MW Lin [wikipedia.org]
I wonder how many girls he declined to go out with on a date to accomplish this tremendous feat?? Oh, that's right, I'm sure no girl has ever asked him out on a date.
...am I supposed to put something here?
...zzz.
Could not this have been done similar to that dude who recreated the world series game in an emulator (back up, continue if something goes wrong)? Or slowed down the emulator to make it easier?
/.'d.)
(Apologies for not reading how Twin Galaxies "confirmed" it, they seem to be
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
FARK DOT COM!
ahm, never mind.
Quotation marks go a long way in readability.
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. -Anais Nin
TG is a poor excuse for a videogame scorekeeping authority. Their proof demands are unreasonable, their rankings pages are horrifyingly badly constructed and their response times are appalling. I "won" a $100 bounty from TG in 2005 which was supposed to be awarded on January 30th of this year and am still waiting to receive it, and I believe many other people are in the same boat. (It was the Zelda 64 one, anybody who's interested - I beat the whole game with 100 Skulltulas and the Mask of Truth in under 7 hours.) I would advise against anybody going for any TG bounties offered in the future. I suspect the TG team just uses it as a free supply of videotapes.
qntm.org
OK...I've kept my mouth shut for a long time. However, why the *** is this posted on /.?
and a better question...
Who the **** cares what anyone's high score is, much less on an old game like Pitfall? Admittedly, I love this old game and have spent countless hours playing it...many years ago!
When the only news is someone's high game score, then we really all just need to kill ourselves.
-Relsch
Having "logged" (pun intended) more hours than I dare to imagine playing Pitfall, I think that this is a wonderful achievement! I salute this guy. As a kid I spent half a summer drawing out sketches of all 255 screens of Pitfall, and made a list of every possible underground route.
;-)
That was long before I discovered sex, of course.
Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, Spontaneous Order- BEST DO IT SO!
Back in the days when PCs had Turbo buttons, it was easy to select the level of difficulity in game.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
At least it didn't do what the NES version of Commando did.
:(
Yay! You won! Now start over.
WTF?
BTW, just turn it off then. The minor variations the second time through are NOT worth the sore thumbs that it gives you
Kaboom! Wait, wrong Activision Game. ~~sings the Flintstones theme while substituting her own lyrics "Slashdot.. it's been Slashdotted. We're a bunch of funny neeerds!"~~
-Kinsey
MirrorDot and Network Mirror.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
If he lives with the rabid bear, does he still have to go out with Paris Hilton?
24 while you can... please feel free to tell me to stop patronising you, but I know you'll be back in 5 or 6 years to tell me how right I was! ;)
...the article is clearly a dupe.
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I mean, c'mon editors - get with it! How many times are you going to link to that?
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
http://www.atariguide.com/3/320.htm
Is available here.
Of course, the kid's still a virgin,... ;-)
Just as soon as the poor support for joysticks in DirectX/DirectPlay is improved, mind you.
There's still no adapter that can interpret the analog buttons on the DualShock 2.
Did you mean you make a 6-figure salary?
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....