GIZORAMA - Pitfall! for iOS, brought to you by The Blast Furnace and Activision on the game’s 30th anniversary, is a reboot of the series. Some of you may remember walking (slowly) across a pixellated screen, jumping over pits and swamps and crocodiles on your Atari. This re-imagining is not that game. This version of Pitfall! can be considered a 2D/3D running game (which seems to be the name of an emerging genre on iOS) much like Robot Unicorn Attack and Nimp Rider. In these games you run and avoid obstacles and collect something, whether it be magical stars, rings, or, in the case of Pitfall!, silver bars. Pitfall! utilizes its name recognition (at least with old-school gamers) and reinvents itself through this new genre in an interesting, but ultimately frustrating, fashion.
The Son of Dadisajoke, is a huge fan of the Atari 2600 ever since he was a little kid when we introduced to him the Jacks Pacific Activision plug and play game.
So here he is showing off his chops playing two major classics from Activision for the Atari 2600...
The idea of bringing classic franchises back into the modern age is ironically not a new concept. Many beloved arcade games have been rebooted for the fifth generation of consoles, with their appeal being that they’ve been re-imagined in state-of-the-art 3D graphics. However, companies like Activision tried to make old IPs relevant again even before the era …
Here are seven incredible LEGO Ideas sets that do a remarkable job of honoring iconic games.
