Verified: Record-breaking Pitfall! Run 236
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."
Daniel's Plans (Score:5, Funny)
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 [wikipedia.org] on loan and is confident that his endorsement contracts are only now starting with Twin Galaxies. Enjoy your fifteen minutes, Daniel!
Re:Daniel's Plans (Score:5, Funny)
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Staying Power (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Staying Power (Score:2)
Re:Staying Power (Score:2)
Re:Staying Power (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Staying Power (Score:2)
I used to be way better at video games when I was 12.
They're still fun though, but I have vague memories of actually getting past more than 2 levels of MegaMan...
emu recreation (Score:2)
Even the very advanced-for-its-time TMS34010 [ti.com] graphics processor chip has been emulated in software to play Hard Drivin'. That chip had bit-addressable memory, built-in clipping, overflow math, and 2D fill.
In 15 years, hardware and software will advance to emulate lots of the stuff in modern video ga
Re:Staying Power (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Staying Power (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Staying Power (Score:3, Funny)
You could twy wabbit ears . . .
Re:Staying Power (Score:5, Informative)
The current leaderboard is at http://sartak.katron.org/nh/tourney/trophies.html [katron.org] and has links to tournament info (anyone can play!)
Here Come the Comments... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Here Come the Comments... (Score:2)
Re:Here Come the Comments... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Here Come the Comments... (Score:5, Funny)
It's not news, it's (Score:2)
ahm, never mind.
Re:Here Come the Comments... (Score:4, Funny)
finally ! (Score:5, Funny)
w00t! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:w00t! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:w00t! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:w00t! (Score:2)
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Re:w00t! (Score:2)
Oh the Humanity! (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Oh the Humanity! (Score:2)
Re:Oh the Humanity! (Score:2)
Old Video Games (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Old Video Games (Score:2)
SB
Commando (Score:2)
Yay! You won! Now start over.
WTF?
BTW, just turn it off then. The minor variations the second time through are NOT worth the sore thumbs that it gives you
Re:Commando (Score:2)
Re:Old Video Games (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Old Video Games (Score:2)
As holder of the "Worst Frogger Run Ever" Award... (Score:2)
-Eric
Not only is this news... (Score:2, Funny)
1982 Called..., (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotted, but the error message: (Score:2, Funny)
Wait a minute... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:2)
I never played pitfall (Score:2, Interesting)
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 t
Re:I never played pitfall (Score:2)
Surely you jest about Dragon Warrior. It was vastly inferior to Apple II RPGs of the day in every way but graphics and sound.
I'd also argue SMB1, fun game that it was, was highly derivative from games like Pitfall and the original Mario Brothers.
-Erwos
News on slashdot: IIS Market share up (Score:5, Funny)
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
Not only that, but... (Score:2)
...the article is clearly a dupe.
[OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.] .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2032; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2032
Version Information: Microsoft
I mean, c'mon editors - get with it! How many times are you going to link to that?
Re:News on slashdot: IIS Market share up (Score:2)
Re:News on slashdot: IIS Market share up (Score:2)
Data's data. If you hold a reference to it, it will always be there. You can hold a reference in hashtables and other such things. You don't have to worry about garbage collection (any more ;-), but you still should know how to program.
Perhaps all rookie programmers should restrict themselves to the old pitfall days and limit the memory headroom to 1 or 2k in order to learn the basics of me
Re:News on slashdot: IIS Market share up (Score:2)
Wow - is there now a Linux kernal mod to have the server automatically install more DIMMs? When you're out of memory you're out of memory, end of story.
Re:News on slashdot: IIS Market share up (Score:2)
No shit. But however much you manage your memory, you can still run out. It happens, memory is not infinite. Even virtual memory is not infinite, unless your disks are. Personally, I'm still waiting for Maxtor to come out with that particular feature.
Re:News on slashdot: IIS Market share up (Score:2)
Re:News on slashdot: IIS Market share up (Score:2)
Okay, where's the video? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Okay, where's the video? (Score:2)
Re:Okay, where's the video? (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm guessing the video will probably made it to Speed Demos Archive [speeddemosarchive.com] sooner or later.
Re:Okay, where's the video? (Score:2)
Re:Okay, where's the video? (Score:2)
In related news... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In related news... (Score:3, Insightful)
Considering that the world record holder, after a quarter century, only did it with a minute and a half to spare out of twenty minutes total, I would encourage you not to feel bad about being unable to beat it.
Uhm.... (Score:2)
Great pickup line (Score:4, Funny)
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".
Re:Great pickup line (Score:2)
If you put the period in the right place, that means nearly $1,000.00 a year. How's Noida this time of year?
Re:Great pickup line (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great pickup line (Score:3, Funny)
In L.A. if you're making almost six figures you are almost able to afford your own apartment.
Re:Great pickup line (Score:2)
Re:Great pickup line (Score:2)
This comes handy. (Score:5, Funny)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=heWXUSr1DmA&search=pit
what now? (Score:2, Funny)
Pitfall is HARD (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Pitfall is HARD (Score:2)
To the best of my knowledge, Pitfall was never a paddle-based game. It used a joystick like most other games of that era. There was no variable-speed motion.
I certainly agree, though, that Pitfall is one of the great classics.
Re:Pitfall is HARD (Score:2)
Re:Pitfall is HARD (Score:2)
Re:Pitfall is HARD (Score:2)
Re:Pitfall is HARD (Score:2)
Re:Pitfall is HARD (Score:2)
Pitfall was probably the third video games I played (after Combat and Pac-Man, on the Atari 2600), and perhaps because of its influence on my young, impressionable mind, I've always considered it a ridiculous cop-out to allow a player to change direction in mid-air.
Could he have cheated? (Score:2)
(Apologies for not reading how Twin Galaxies "confirmed" it, they seem to be
A suggestion for the Slashdot editors... (Score:2)
Twin Galaxies? "Authority"? (Score:3, Informative)
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.
I think it's great! (Score:2)
That was long before I discovered sex, of course.
Re:I think it's great! (Score:2)
And I thought I was the only one who wasted my youth doing that!
Turbo Buttons (Score:2)
Re:New low? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Some type of error... (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot is not using WinBlows Servers.....
Re:So naive (Score:5, Interesting)
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 [blogspot.com] (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.
Re:So naive (Score:2)
Dude... gamefaqs and get a map. There is a point, plot, and DEFINATELY and ending. One of my fav franchises of all time.
Re:So naive (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:So naive (Score:2)
Never played Life Force, but we used to have Contra tag-team parties where two guys would start the game, and every time one of them died, another guy would tag in and take his spot. It didn't really take that long to beat th
Re:So naive (Score:2)
Re:So naive (Score:2)
I found myself a new sig
Re:So naive (Score:2)
Gaming existed before the NES, and you don't include anything before then. Yar's Revenge and Adventure belong on any "must-play" list.
Super Mario Bros 2 is a very good game. I have no clue why you think it sucked... given, it's not as good as SMB3, but I enjoyed it at least as much as SMB1. Different != bad.
Metroid has no ending or point? Wow, you must have really sucked at it.
No Zelda/Zelda II?
If you're going to include a gold box D&D game, you can't get away without including a
Re:So naive (Score:2)
"Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. That's what they used to listen to tunes before even CDs!"
Pitfall and Boulderdash were not first generation games. That's getting into the third or fourth iteration by the time you see those. I was too old to really appreciate anything older, but I know that there were games made before I was born that were much more primitive.
Re:So naive (Score:4, Funny)
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...
Re:So naive (Score:2)
Mostly offtopic, but has anyone else noticed that pink is suddenly the "in" colour for men's clothing?
A few months ago I saw a headache-inducing selection of men's dress shirts and ties: pink, lemon yellow, lime green, you name it. Figuring this was just a "different" store, I laughed and wandered off.
Last month, I noticed that every single men's clothing store has nothing but bright colours, and notably, PINK. Pink shirts, pink ties. All over the place. I started to wonder if maybe this was
Re:So naive (Score:2)
Re:So naive (Score:2)
Re:So naive (Score:5, Funny)
And black!
Re:News (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, Rumsfeld visited Iraq today? *ducks*
Re:News (Score:3, Funny)
Oddly enough, he was killed by scorpions and alligators...
Re:what's the point? (Score:2, Funny)
Why the.... ass?
Re:what's the point? (Score:2)
Re:I didn't even know (Score:2)
It does end, but not in the modern sense. Today, most games end when you defeat a final boss stage, or reach the end of the storyline.
Pitfall ends when: