Just Some Thoughts personal blog
How Pitfall builds its world (2021)
Games for the Atari 2600 were quite constrained. When Warren Robinett first pitched the idea that would become Adventure , a game where you would explore a world with many rooms and pick up items to help you along the way, he was denied because it wasn't thought feasible. And it made sense to do so. This was the late…
- Points
- 312
- HN comments
- 117
- Submissions
- 2
- Cited by
- 3 commenters
Games & GraphicsHistory & Retro Computing2022
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 2022 | How Pitfall builds its world (2021) by kibwen | 312 | 88 |
| May 10, 2021 | How Atari 2600 Game Pitfall Builds Its World by weare138 | 166 | 29 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Aug 2022 to May 2024.
Most recent:
- peter_d_sherman · May 21, 2024
- t0mek · May 16, 2023
- wernsey · Aug 26, 2022
