Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure and the power of atmosphere

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Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure and the power of atmosphere

Added: 28.08.2015 4:18 | 66 views | 0 comments

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, a 16-bit update of the Atari 2600 breakthrough platformer, will never be considered a classic. Every once in a while it gets reissued, on a handheld or on a virtual arcade platform, and it gets the same middling to dismissive reviews it always got. It will never be canonized. But it has something players aren't usually looking for in a platformer, something to which music was a huge component. Something no subsequent game in the Pitfall series has. Atmosphere.