[stella] OT: May the Real Pitfall Harry Please Stand Up?

[Kirk Israel]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Thomas Jentzsch <tjentzsch at web.de> wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>> It amazes me that I will gladly spend hours playing Tunnel Runner and have yet to even think about a PS3.
>
> A 3D game? Bad example! :)
>
>
>> Or am I officially getting old?
>
> No, just wiser.


Heh, this conversation reminds me of this:
http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=104
which looks to be Tomb Raider recast as a Pitfall clone.

Not to get to far afield from the thrust of this mailing list, which
is all about the joy of working with this grand old hardware, but it's
interesting to follow the family tree of game design through the
decades. In some ways many of the same principles that were the core
of Atari-era gaming live on in the "casual" gaming market, as
mainstream titles get more and more cinematic (a lot of these complex
games also embed entertaining minigames which also harken back.)