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Game title:. Atari Author released :. Activision Action, Platform. David Crane. Game manual:. File size:. Game size:. Recommended emulator:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:. For fans and collectors:. The landscape is more maze like, with a variety of paths and dead ends to search. Along the way there are checkpoints the player will encounter in the form of red crosses. When the player dies, Pitfall Harry will be sent back to the most recently crossed checkpoint.
The score is reduced based on the distance travelled to get to the cross. As he explores Harry can collect gold bars which give him a points award. His total score acts as an energy reserve. If the score is reduced to zero then the game ends and the player must restart from the beginning.
From Mobygames. Original Entry. Uploaded by Sketch the Cow on September 14, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Quicksand and tar pits are replaced by rivers and chasms, neither of which is deadly to fall into though dropping onto a hard surface will cause a loss of points. Balloons allow Harry to ascend to new areas. The game does not have the snakes or crocodiles of the original, but scorpions are still present. New animal hazards include bats, which fly across some screens from left to right; condors, which start by flying right to left, then reverse and fly left to right the remainder of the visit to that screen; Electric eels that swim in the rivers; and frogs that jump over some pits that have ladders, often above where a bat is present.
Two new unplayable characters debut in Lost Caverns: Quickclaw, Harry's cowardly pet mountain lion, and Rhonda, his adventure-seeking niece. Both of these characters also appear with Harry in the Saturday Supercade children's cartoon based on the Pitfall games in fact, Rhonda and Quickclaw were created for Saturday Supercade a full year before this game was released. Collecting Rhonda, Quickclaw, and a diamond ring is necessary to win the game. In versions without a second cave, upon collection of all three, the game ends on the spot.
The maximum possible score is , which differs in the Atari 8-bit and versions, see Adventurer's Edition below. While Quickclaw is visible on the platform below the starting point of the game, he is inaccessible from this point, and Harry must traverse nearly the entire cave in order to reach him.
On the screen to the right is a creature called the 'cave rat'. Harry can drop into the first river through a hole in the third screen. From there, moving one screen to the left brings him to the location of the cave rat. However, the cave rat at this point cannot be passed, and will push Harry back into the water, thereby blocking access to Quickclaw and its own collection. The cave rat can be accessed after reaching Quickclaw by approaching it from behind on the left side.
When it reaches the right side of the screen, it will stop, and its collection will result in 15, being added to the score. Another enhancement over the previous game is the addition of a soundtrack. The musical cues act as subtle rewards and punishments for performance.
The main 'heroic' theme plays for a short while before reaching a loop of atmospheric music. When Harry collects a treasure, the main theme begins again. If Harry dies, a slower, minor key version of the theme plays, and then progresses back into the atmospheric theme. Pitfall II: Lost Caverns was one of the largest games ever created for the Atari and featured elements previously considered impossible on hardware that was already six years old at the time.
Smooth scrolling, detailed animation, and a musical score that includes multiple channels were all made possible by custom hardware built inside the game cartridge. Crane designed and patented a component he called the Display Processor Chip DPC , which could greatly enhance 's graphics capabilities and could process music in 3 channels plus drums.
Crane hoped that the DPC would be used by other game designers to further extend the life of the aging console, but the video game crash of made this moot. More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia. Find digital download of this game on GOG or Steam. Recommended Game Controllers: You can control this game easily by using the keyboard of your PC see the table next to the game. However, for maximum gaming enjoyment, we strongly recommend using a USB joystick that you simply plug into the USB port of your computer.
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