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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 !
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.
It's the BEST atory I have read here today! Keep it up...
and they want their news back.
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
This is the only time trial the USA will ever be able to beat the Kenyans in.
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.
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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.]
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.
"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.
Slashdot is not using WinBlows Servers.....
Since there will be a Pitfall movie:
f all
http://youtube.com/watch?v=heWXUSr1DmA&search=pit
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Not being alive is no excuse.
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Pick yourself up an emulator and get to work. You've got some catching up to do. Only my list of "required playing":
* Super Mario 1 and 3 (ignore 2, it was teh suck)
* Final Fantasy 1 and 2
* Contra (up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-select
* Life Force (see Contra)
* Metroid (i don't think the game has an ending or even a point, but it's fun)
* Sonic the Hedgehog (if you can figure out how to get the system into "debug" mode, you're cool)
* Megamania (atari 2600)
* Mike Tyson's Punch Out (007-373-5963)
* Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Treasures of Tarmin (Aquarius) -- hard to find, but awesome
* Phantasy Star II
* Kings Quest (Space Quest, Police Quest) -- entire series up until they got "good" graphics-- don't play the remakes
After that, come back and there'll be a test.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
Where do you go after this? My guess is to "Hunt the Wumpus"
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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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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
There was a high price to pay for being around in those days - Ronald Reagan, Cyndi Lauper, pink polo shirts with upturned collars, 512K being enough for anyone...
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
Wait, Rumsfeld visited Iraq today? *ducks*
I've never understood all the hate for Super Mario 2. It may not have been a "real" Mario game, but Miyamoto was actually quite involved with it, and it was a damn good game. What aspect of it causes you to call it "teh suck"?
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.
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However, why the *** is this posted on /.?
Why the.... ass?
Especially since the #1 terrorist leader in Iraq was killed
Oddly enough, he was killed by scorpions and alligators...
And Michael Jackson was cool!
And black!