Pitfall series fans, particularly of the original Atari 2600 game will want to check out this retrospective look at the creation of the first title in the series with the man who envisioned it all, David Crane.

Pitfall Harry is stuck in the jungle. He’s racing through, swinging from vines, jumping on alligator heads, grabbing treasures and looking for shortcuts. For David Crane, the creator and programmer of Pitfall!, one of the first Activision games for the Atari 2600, the hardest part of the game wasn’t avoiding the scorpions or coiled snakes, it was trying to jam a lot of game into only 4K of memory.

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