Your life is in peril every step of the way!
You’ll lose a life if you’re touched by snakes,
scorpions, crocodiles or fire. You can also lose
a life by accidentally falling into a pit! (Pits are
defined as two pools of water which are locat-
ed on the left hand side of the display and also
when the water contains crocodiles.) You’ll
also lose points when you’re hit by a rolling log
or by accidentally falling into a mine.
Pitfall Harry’s
Adventure Tips
Should you fall into a mine, don’t panic! You
can escape by locating the next closest ladder
available and then climbing it. Tar pits open and
close. Timing is everything! Watch them care-
fully and getting past them will be a breeze!
Where there’s water, there’s usually hungry
crocodiles. Be very careful when approaching
these. One wrong step and you’re no longer
Pitfall Harry, you’re now “Breakfast, Lunch or
Dinner.” Sometimes, swinging on a vine is your
only escape. Use these vines to get across some
of the wet spots.
again to restart a new game.
Treasures will appear randomly on each screen.
The game story is made up of different random
screens. When you move from the first screen
to the second screen and then decide to go back
to the first screen, you will be on the same
screen that you were on before. However, if
you go from screen one to screen two to screen
three and then backtrack to screen two and then
screen one, you may be on a different screen
than you were on before—due to the random-
ness of the game.
Object of the Game (The
pleasure of treasure)
The object of the game is to guide Harry
through the jungle, avoiding obstacles and dan-
ger as you grab as much treasure as possible
along the way. Pitfall! has a total of 32 treas-
ures, divided into three types: money bags, gold
bars and diamond rings. You win the game if
you can pick up all 32 treasures before your
time is up. Remember, you have only 10 min-
utes and three lives for each game.
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