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Game Overview

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure on SNES is one of those platformers that looks deceptively simple at first—until you step on your first collapsing floor or get smacked by a rolling boulder out of nowhere. You play as Harry (yep, the same guy from the Atari days), swinging on vines, dodging spikes, and occasionally stumbling into hidden areas stuffed with gems.

The levels are packed with little traps—some obvious, some downright sneaky. I remember thinking the first few screens were easy... then promptly fell into three pits in a row because the ground crumbled under me. The jungle temples look great for a 16-bit game, with these moody shadows and flickering torches that make the traps even harder to spot.

It’s got that classic trial-and-error feel where you’ll die a lot, but each mistake teaches you where not to step next time. Just watch out for the quicksand—that stuff’s brutal.