Pitfall! Hidden messages?

[jeff_a]

I think I remember a couple years ago there was a big thread where someone found secret writing on some pitfall artwork. Am I crazy, or did this really happen? The thread was huge and there were scans of the code and writing and stuff.

[moycon]

I'm thinking that was a contest.

[jeff_a]

ahh, ok, at least it sort of happened

 

There is a message hidden on the scorpions tail in the game though, right?

[NovaXpress]

If you play Pitfall backwards, you hear the voice of Satan. My church group told me about it.

[JagFan422]

ahh, ok, at least it sort of happened

 

There is a message hidden on the scorpions tail in the game though, right?

 

yes its SQUARE and SQUARE

 

c'mon use some common sense, the blocks in the scorpions tail would've been HUGE to dispaly enough blocks to form letters.

[Philflound]

Hehe. True that. You're talking vintage giant pixels here.

 

Phil

[Room 34]

The hidden messages were in a map created by former AtariAge regular "Pitfall Harry." I was the one who stumbled upon them... but I only ended up coming in 3rd in his contest. Here's a thread...

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9741

 

There was another thread wherein those of us who were participating in the contest discussed the clues in excruciating detail, but I'm having trouble finding it.

[G.Whiz]

If you play Pitfall backwards, you hear the voice of Satan. My church group told me about it.

 

Got the MP3 download of the Satanic Bible the other day. I looped it through my mixing software and played it backwards, just to see what would happen. It was really eerie -- some guy in this Ozzy voice was chanting "Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you."

 

But one thing is for sure, playing Pitfall backwards is a hell of a lot easier than having to jump over those damned logs...

 

~G

[+atari2600land]

The only letters I could see in the scorpion was C & X. Use your imagination and that could stand for just about anything.

[Godzilla]

'david crane is god' flashes every 1/60th of second during pitfall! that sneaky subliminal bastard. now I know why i idolized him so as a child. oh the horror.

Edited June 19, 2006 by Godzilla

[Thomas Jentzsch]

The only letters I could see in the scorpion was C & X. Use your imagination and that could stand for just about anything.

It's an animated bitmap, so you have to look at each frame individually.

[Rik]

If you play Pitfall backwards, you hear the voice of Satan. My church group told me about it.

Yeah i heard it,it SAID"I AM THE GREAT DARK LORD SATAN"

Edited June 26, 2006 by Rik

[Codysgames]

If you play Pitfall backwards, you hear the voice of Satan. My church group told me about it.

 

No,I think thats on a KISS record when you play it backwards.Right?

[Pitfall Harry]

I seem to recall something about a contest by an AtariaAge regular that featured hidden pictures, puzzles and clues, too. I wonder whatever happened to that dude.

 

 

Ben

[Inky]

There are no messages in pitfall!, subliminal or otherwise.

 

 

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go assasinate Lincoln.

[Lemmi]

I seem to recall something about a contest by an AtariaAge regular that featured hidden pictures, puzzles and clues, too. I wonder whatever happened to that dude.

 

 

Ben

 

wow there he is, and i just looked at your website and saw the montezumas revenge maps and now i have to play that game

[+atari2600land]

There are no messages in pitfall!, subliminal or otherwise.

 

 

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go assasinate Lincoln.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but someone already beat you to it.

[supercat]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but someone already beat you to it.

 

Yeah, but while Booth's assassination of Lincoln was successful, the rest of his plan wasn't. Vice-President Andrew Johnson and IIRC Secretary of the Interior William Seward were also supposed to be assassinated. The man who was supposed to kill Johnson chickened out (but was hanged nonetheless). The man who was supposed to kill Seward got in a very bloody mele with Seward's kin; Seward survived, albeit barely. In his diary, Booth noted his disgust at the brutality of Seward's assassin.

[Codysgames]

How do you play Pitfall backwards?

[Lost Monkey]

How do you play Pitfall backwards?

 

With a mirror?

[Lemmi]

How do you play Pitfall backwards?

 

with your back to the TV

 

how else?

[Codysgames]

How do you play Pitfall backwards?

 

With a mirror?

 

No No No,I mean backwards in which it can play the sounds backward.

[Lost Monkey]

How do you play Pitfall backwards?

 

With a mirror?

 

No No No,I mean backwards in which it can play the sounds backward.

 

In the Atari tape "Pitfall" you can flip the tape over and play it - then it will play the sounds backwards.

 

They play like this:

 

 

.byte $13, $13, $13, $13, $13, $13, $13, $09, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b

.byte $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $09, $0b, $09, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $0b, $8b, $06

.byte $04, $03, $02, $84

.byte $13, $13, $0e, $0b, $09, $09, $09, $0b, $09, $09, $09, $89

.byte $1d, $1d, $1d, $1d, $1d, $1d, $1d, $1d, $1d, $1a, $1a, $19, $19, $19, $19, $19

.byte $19, $1d, $1d, $1d, $1d, $1d, $14, $15, $14, $15, $14, $15, $14, $15, $14, $15

.byte $14, $95

.byte $18, $19, $1a, $1b, $1c, $1d, $1e, $9f

[+atari2600land]

Can you hear demons in Demons To Diamonds?

[shadow460]

How do you play Pitfall backwards?

 

With a mirror?

 

No No No,I mean backwards in which it can play the sounds backward.

 

Flip it over and shove the label end in the 2600.

I tried that, and I really did hear a horrifying voice! I didn't sleep for a week!

 

This was easier in Pitfall II. There was a Playaround version of that game, but only one end was labeled.

If you plug the unlabeled end into a second run 7800, and hook that up to a hitachi VCR from 1989, you'll hear even more scary voices.

 

(end of lies)