#super pitfall

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Super Pitfall

Harry’s back in the Lost Caverns, again searching for Rhonda, Quickclaw and the Raj Diamond. Unlike Sega’s arcade game, this is an attempt to adapt Pitfall II directly. Micronics handled the port for Pony Canyon, and in typical Micronics fashion, managed to botch the whole thing.

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[theknucklehead]

For those who don't know, AVGN has his own video game made by developers who are close friends with him, it's a side scrolling shoot-em-up platformer with NES style graphics and tons of call backs to his reviews of various different games. Now I could go through every one of those references, but this post would end up being way too long so instead I'm gonna focus on select moments that I particularly enjoyed from AVGN Adventures (1 & 2 Deluxe)

The Browntown section of the game in question is a reference to the NES Ninja Turtles game, but this moment in particular is based on a jump he struggled with for so long until he found out you can just walk across it.

The Assholevania is all a reference to Castlevania, including Nerd's opening line which is quoted from Simon's Quest whenever the game transitions from day to night.

At the very start of Dungeons & Dickholes, the first ladder you see leads to a very elaborate death trap, this is a reference to a joke he made in his Super Pitfall review regarding the first ladder you see in that game being a beginner's trap.

The penultimate stage Virtual Insanity is red & black just like the graphics on the Virtual Boy.

One of the new bonus levels in the deluxe version features a massive truck named after the game of the same Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

The boss battle for Dungeons & Dickholes is actually a reference to Cinemassacre's Monster Madness; The Giant Claw a 1957 horror movie with a laughably bad looking movie monster, and Nerd's quote is from the movie as everyone refers to the monster being as big as a battleship.

In the original 2nd game, the boss battle of Area 52 was the badguy in the AVGN movie, but for some reason they changed it to instead look like Darth Vader turning into a scorpion which is a reference to the Star Wars Famicom game.

This is a double reference here: the first is regarding the "Freddy's Coming" screen that appears in A Nightmare on Elm Street for NES (complete with the trademark attached). The other is Freddy Kruger and Jason Voorhees being called Jimmy and Bimmy which was a translation error in Double Dragon III (They misspelled Billy's name)

Fred Fuchs is still in the Deluxe version, but this time he's played by Gilbert Gottfried which he guest starred as in the Life of Black Tiger review.

And finally if you get a game over, the game over screen is written out the same way as it was joked about in his Friday the 13th on NES review.

[ntscdreams]

Super Pitfall September 5, 1986 // Family Computer

I don't know about anyone else my age, but for me, Pitfall was always that one Atari 2600 game that I knew the name of. I never had an Atari, have never even played one, but for some reason I was always aware that "Pitfall is that game on the Atari that everyone says is the best one." Despite an impressive legacy meaning that it wedged itself into the brains of even gamers like myself who started playing with the Nintendo 64, I have no idea if Pitfall is even good, because I've never played it. I have, however, now played Micronics's Super Pitfall and I can tell you that this game is not good. Hilariously, Activision considered licensing Atlantis no Nazo and releasing it under the name Super Pitfall instead, but we ended up getting this frankly Mario knockoff sort of game by a much-maligned developer instead.

[quirinah]

tomesaburou gekkans

[rad-roche]

How tf do you make your comics look like they're drawn in real ink... like what do you do to the colors to make them look like that o_o

part of it is learning to do comics through framed ink, which means i use a lot of techniques in common with real ink comics just as a matter of course, and some of it is the brushes! any large filled in areas i do with the squeegee. some people use screentones but i just don't have the patience lol, even digitally. the colours are really simple, i work in black and white and use gradient maps! make a gradient map layer, then set it to colour, and suddenly you have some fun effects

[dreamdripdistance]

hundred line. Good

[boyslit-moving]

'why do u wear a mask? i've had covid 3 times and im fine!'

well good for you but 1 covid gave me body wide nerve pain and some kind of lung or heart thing where i get winded doing 1 flight of stairs. i do not want to roll the dice on #2 nor do i want whatever else nasty bugs you picked up with your unfiltered face holes

wash your fucking hands, stop coughing uncovered and wear a damn mask and then we can talk like you're my equal in this discussion

[e-louise-bates]

Kinda funny how I actually enjoyed cataloging when I was working in a library, but now that I'm taking a class on cataloging my brain has started shutting down at the very mention of the word ...

[tngmpersonal]

Another poll, this one out of spite

[g4zdtechtv]

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[summergoodwife]

And on the other side of the coin, moral grayness doesn't make a story inherently nuanced. Many, many stories ("dark and gritty," derogatory) put too much effort into making everyone equally wrong and don't realize that sometimes, someone is just more right.

It's not deep or realistic, it's just centrism.

some of you think ‘nuanced’ only means ‘morally grey’ and I’m here to tell you that actually straight up good characters can still be nuanced and unapologetically evil characters can still be nuanced. the character doesn’t have to be an anti hero or morally dubious to have depth. they don’t even have to feel sorry about their crimes to have depth.

[debutniverse]

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[mondoreb]

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[matt0044]

Frankly, RWBY is my go-to example of men who write female characters with little to none of the usual pitfalls. Even when they may, there's one element that keeps its head well over water:

The female cast being so extensive as it is.

DireGentleman put it well here but a too common element of certain stories has been that they'll have a few or one female character amongst their sausage fest of a cast. Few of these cases are active intent on the author's part but it does speak to a "male as default" pitfall that is very much rendered invisible by a sphere of normality.

As such, you'll get female commanders in armies where the troops are all shown as male (@swan2swan made a few posts on the "female Stormtrooper" problem) for one and, for a classic example, one female character amongst an ensemble of boys.

Sometimes she's one of them and other times she's an April O'Neil to their Ninja Turtles, a normie to their extraordinary lives. Either way, there won't be much in the way of gender diversity. Especially if it's based on a toy line that subscribes to the "boys or bust" mentality that would rather kill off a profit that pivot.

But that's been dissected better in other posts...

Thankfully, RWBY was created first and foremost as an animated story project before the thought of merchendising was considered since RT wasn't super-duper confident it'd stick. Now it has firmly supplanted Red Vs. Blue as Rooster Teeth's flagship animation (the latter gearing up for its final season even).

This frees it from the shackles of heavily corporatized media that would prefer a toyetic show have a male prescense in the story or one where the female prescense is... palatable.

No character has to be the token girl who's either super bubbly and awkward or super stand-offish before the right guy comes along or rather reserve until the right guy comes along or one of the boys until the right- okay, I've made my point.

And it goes beyond the main cast as there's a smattering of girls and boys among the ensemble so it never feels like they were tacked on when the writers realizes, "Oh sh*t, forgot the estrogen," by Season Four or something.

If anything, Jaune is the token girl but genderflipped. He has healing powers. He has an arc but it all ultimately comes back to the main girls for the bigger plotlines. He's often the normal one that balks at the eccentricities of the girls and their shenanegins.

I mean... HE GREW UP WITH MANY SISTERS AND NO BROTHERS. Does that cliche not ring a bell.

Basically... Jaune is what I feel is the Sakura Haruno of RWBY if I may be so bold.