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Verified: Record-breaking Pitfall! Run

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the next-step-getting-a-date dept.

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."

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  1. New low? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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?

  2. My personal hell. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    When I was a kid, video games looked shiny and amazing, because the technology was new. This made them exciting. Now they are old, and I realize just how dated everything looks and feels.

    With the technology having moved on, I find those old games incredibly boring; I see them for what they really are; just lights on a screen you move around. How pointless. How dull. Interestingly, after accessing this part of my perception, I find it maps easily enough into the present; even new video games seem like elaborate excuses to move little lights around on a screen for no good reason. And that got old when I was a teen-ager.

    Today, even the most up-to-date games look screamingly dull and uninteresting to me. (--Especially the driving and sports games, which I find dull and mechanical in real life!) Video games are all Spy Hunter, Doom and Pac Man to me these days. Cute once, but now go away please. You are dull. I'd rather eat my own eyes than play any more of it for more than ten seconds.

    And Pitfall? For goodness sake. If I were one of the guys still playing Pitfall, I'd desperately try to reboot my brain for fear of being stuck in a zero-sum loop. My personal hell is having to play Pitfall.


    -FL

  3. what's the point? by relsch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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
  4. Re:Staying Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shut the fuck up KFG!!!