What a difference 30 years makes...

So we've savaged the Atari 2600's poor old things like wolves in a den of blind lambs, but Pitfall still holds its o🌞wn. Along with Donkey Kong, this is practically the blueprint of the modern platform genre, and by association, the action adventure gam♔e.

Look at Uncharted - it's pure Pitfall. Only withguns, girls, fighting, blood, planes and... No! 🎃Stop looking! Uncharted's visual bombasticness only makes it harder to remember the good times. The more innocent times♒. So long ago...

Ben Richardson is a former Staffꦺ Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories♕ from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.