Pitfall Harry Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Does anybody have Activision's Pastfinder? It's the only Activision cartridge game I don't own on one classic gaming platform or another, and I don't know a thing about it. Curiosity is eating me up. Has anyone played it? Is it any good? Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I had thought it was called Pathfinder, but now I'm sure that you're right. I did play a game of this at a friend's house years ago. It was very interesting. The screen started with the fog of war and you slowly uncovered terrain. I don't remember any shooting. The graphics were very wild as you opened up the screen. I heard noothing but good about it, wish I'd have gotten a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I played it a lot as a kid, good mix of action and some strategy with the need to avoid all the radiation There is shooting but you can have fun by just dodging obstacles and bad guys too. I played it recently from an .atr file, you don't have a handy sio2pc cable setup? I may have accidently attached the .atr file if anyone wants to give this game a try on an emulator pastfinder__1984_.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Yes I have it. Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I have the cart (somewhere), and have played it quite a bit. It's a pretty neat exploration / arcade game, and is well-worth searching for. I'd say that it was the best of Activision's 8-bit releases (with the possible exception of "Frogger II"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Frogger II was Parker Brothers. Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I've never played this one either. I'm guessing Pastfinder is the rarest of all the classic Actvision carts. It was only released for Atari 8-bit & C64 AFAIK, and this is one of the few remaining Activision carts I'm still looking for as well. There may be a few other rarer Activision carts on other platforms, but since most of their games were multi-platform releases there always seems to be at least one that's easy to track down. Pastfinder just doesn't seem to show up at all. Toy Bizarre is another I have yet to play, but since it's a C64 exclusive, the cart I believe anyway, I doubt I ever will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Frogger II was Parker Brothers. Tempest Oops! You're right, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I'm not sure Pastfinder is the rarest cart, personally I've only seen The Designers Pencil twice on ebay. Strangely if you look at the Activision numbering scheme there appears to be one game missing (Toy Bizzare perhaps?). Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 The Designers Pencil is not on my wanted list. I mainly collect games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfnmadness Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 It is available on Hollex cartridge. http://www.hollex.net/ Sunmark carries the cartridge. http://www.sunmark.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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