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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. Staying Power by Doytch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. Here Come the Comments... by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... about this Not Being News.

    1. Re:Here Come the Comments... by tf23 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No, this is definitely front page news. Otherwise, I wouldn't have seen it ;)

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  3. Old Video Games by syntap · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  4. Wait a minute... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you mean you could ACTUALLY win the game? :-o