#Microblog Monday 528: Revisiting Childhood
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When I was little, I loved Pitfall deeply. Deeply enough to beg my mother to allow me to take a picture of my high score on the television screen and send it to Activision for a badge. While it took some coordination to play, it was all about memorizing the patterns to get all the treasures.
Someone made an online version, but while it made me so happy to see Pitfall Harry, it didn’t feel like the game anymore. I started running through the first screens, but the gold bar wasn’t where I expected it to be. And I couldn’t get keys on my computer to feel like the game controller. While it wasn’t quite as satisfying as my childhood memories of the game, I’m leaving this here in case anyone else wants to revisit Pitfall Harry.
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I’m not familiar with that game! I loved tetris (which has a web version that I linked to my math Google Classroom to show rotation, haha), and Castlevania on the PC. Fun to revisit childhood faves!
I’m clearly too old – I’ve never heard of Pitfall. Or Jess’s Castlevania. I remember playing Tetris on a holiday in Bali. It was a single-game handheld device that I bought in Thailand (it was probably a knock off – cost about $25) back in 1992! I do play Tetris on my iPad occasionally now. It’s not the same. Maybe I need to go back to Bali!
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