{"id":1209,"date":"2016-10-10T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2016-10-10T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:59:05","slug":"retro-scan-pitfall-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1209\/retro-scan-pitfall-in-life","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> Pitfall in LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pitfall_life_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pitfall_life_small.jpg\" alt=\"Activision Pitfall! for Atari 2600 LIFE Magazine scan - 1982\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Watch out for that jungle crude oil pit<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a kid, we had an Atari 2600, and before the NES era, <em>Pitfall!<\/em> was very popular in our household.  Unlike most Atari VCS games, it felt like a real adventure, and it was thrilling to directly control a tiny jumping human on the screen while avoiding crazy jungle hazards like alligators and, well, huge pits that led to nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this is the largest single-page Retro Scan I&#8217;ve ever scanned &#8212; it comes from a large format LIFE magazine ad.  I found the magazine in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/532\/retro-scan-of-the-week-from-my-pocket-to-you\" target=\"_blank\">grandparents&#8217; washhouse in Texas<\/a> back in the 1990s and saved it because of this ad.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious, here is the <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pitfall_life_full.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">full scan jumbo size at 600 dpi<\/a> (it&#8217;s a 5919 x 7761 pixel 38 MB JPEG, so watch out).<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From LIFE magazine, November 1982, p.113 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Which is better: <em>Pitfall!<\/em> or <em>Pitfall II: Lost Caverns<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out for that jungle crude oil pit As a kid, we had an Atari 2600, and before the NES era, Pitfall! was very popular in our household. Unlike most Atari VCS games, it felt like a real adventure, and it was thrilling to directly control a tiny jumping human on the screen while avoiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[65,507,150,170,1422,1423,1171,60,494],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-65","tag-activision","tag-advertisement","tag-atari","tag-david-crane","tag-life","tag-pitfall","tag-retro-scan","tag-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}