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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. Daniel's Plans by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:Daniel's Plans by writertype · · Score: 4, Funny

      I like how this was modified "informative".

  2. 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.

    1. Re:Staying Power by rtyall · · Score: 4, Funny

      I still play "Sonic the Hedgehog", although I'm slightly dismayed that I can no longer complete "Green Hill Zone Act 1" in 26 seconds. Curse my 26 year old athritic-like thumbs.

    2. Re:Staying Power by deficite · · Score: 4, Informative

      I doubt people will play many of the late 90's and 2000's games because their graphics are so horrible it's distracting. 2D games are still playable because the only people that were responsible for a game looking good were the artists. Nowadays the artists, programmers, animators, hardware, API's, etc. etc. etc. have to be just perfect for a decent experience. Plus the studios didn't have to spend so mnuch because the only people responsible for art were artists and you didn't need as many programmers because you don't have to wrestle with 3D. Thus, the game designers had a lot more responsibility in making a game sell. Gameplay is what makes a game last. Notice how quickly people lost interest in Doom III? I'm sure the extremely limited multiplayer on DIII also had an influence in that as well :(.

      Take Super Mario World. That game was perfect. I still play it today with an emulator, and I can see my cartridge for it from my chair. It came with my Super Nintendo and I've been playing it since my early days (I don't remember when we got our SNES, but I was less than 5 back then).

      Now today's games, as in the generation of Wii, PS3, and XBox360, I think that Wii games have a chance of being as good as the SNES games. The last Nintendo console I bought was a SNES and the mere fact that I'm considering on buying a console again, is a good sign. The games Nintendo plans to release on Wii seem like they have that same magic that SNES games had. As well as you can play SNES games on it as well. Nintendo said that all the virtual console games will be under $10 and IIRC, some will only be like $4.

    3. Re:Staying Power by pthisis · · Score: 4, Informative

      For those interested in retrogaming, there is currently a month-long nethack tournament going on on (but the biggest tournament is the one devnull runs every November).

      The current leaderboard is at http://sartak.katron.org/nh/tourney/trophies.html and has links to tournament info (anyone can play!)

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

    ... about this Not Being News.

    1. Re:Here Come the Comments... by east+coast · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oddly enough I was waiting for the "Waiting for the this is not news comments" comments.

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    2. 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. Re:Here Come the Comments... by jeblucas · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, I'm following up on this by giving a stern fucking glance to the clever asshole that thinks tagging every fucking story here with "slownewsday" is helpful. I'm not reading /. to get ready for next week's debate society meeting--I'm here precisely to read stories like this. I know where http://cnn.com/ is on tehIntarweb, fuckstick. Here's some gems from that leading authority's front page: Buick -- the car of choice for China's hip crowd and Duck-stalking gator caught near daycare. Please leave the tagging beta to the grownups, mmkay?

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  4. finally ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And it only took him 24 years to do it !

  5. w00t! by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's awesome. Takes me back 25 years to when, 25 years? Half a century? OK, now I'm depressed.

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    1. Re:w00t! by Carbon+Blob · · Score: 5, Funny

      So is your math teacher.

    2. Re:w00t! by petabyte · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's awesome. Takes me back 25 years to when, 25 years? Half a century? OK, now I'm depressed..

      Half-century eh? Well, they say the mind is the first thing to go ... :).

      I'm turning 24 in a month. Way to make me feel old.

  6. 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.

  7. 1982 Called..., by fuzzyfozzie · · Score: 5, Funny

    and they want their news back.

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

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

  9. Re:New low? by fuzzyfozzie · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is the only time trial the USA will ever be able to beat the Kenyans in.

  10. News on slashdot: IIS Market share up by tlk+nnr · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=19&id=135 5:

    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.]

    Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2032; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2032

  11. Okay, where's the video? by Morgon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who wants to view the verification video? Not to scrutinize it of course, but I want to see it!

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  12. Great pickup line by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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".

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    1. Re:Great pickup line by mph · · Score: 5, Funny
      Hmm... I guess I'll stick with "I make almost 6 digits a year".
      So that would be... six minus one... uh... carry the eleventeen... 5 digits?
  13. This comes handy. by stm2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since there will be a Pitfall movie:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=heWXUSr1DmA&search=pitf all

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  14. Re:So naive by scovetta · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not being alive is no excuse.

    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- start)
    * 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.

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    Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
  15. Re:So naive by greenguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

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  16. Re:News by ToxikFetus · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wow, it definitely is a slow news day. Especially since the #1 terrorist leader in Iraq was killed.

    Wait, Rumsfeld visited Iraq today? *ducks*

  17. Re:News by KeeghanMacAllan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Especially since the #1 terrorist leader in Iraq was killed

    Oddly enough, he was killed by scorpions and alligators...

  18. Re:So naive by bcattwoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    And Michael Jackson was cool!

    And black!