The more DF retro the better.

The mayan Adventure was a gorgeous game. I really enjoy these long df retro videos.

What always gets forgotten how much better these games looked on a CRT.

Never thought I’d ever hear John say “filthy jungle beats”.

John, here's some info about the PC version that you might find interesting. I just tried running the game on my Win98 PC, with a Voodoo 3 (also tried a Permedia 2 for good measure). There are a few video options, but all of the windowed modes have some screen tearing - or should I say, background tearing? The character runs fine, but the scrolling is not smooth. The only way to make it run smooth is to set full screen mode and vsync. This limits your resolution to 320x200 (lower than the Megadrive version) because for some reason 320x224 runs impossibly fast. Now here's the kicker: in 320x200 the monitor is actually running at 720x400 and 70hz. This was a standard DOS mode. Many old games targeted a framerate of 35/70fps for this reason. So it seems that the background actually wants to run at 70fps, rather than 60fps, since any 60hz screen mode creates tearing. But... here's the other kicker... apparently the speed of the game depends on the framerate. So on 70hz mode the game runs a little faster, and perhaps a bit too fast for what was already a difficult game. So the PC port might seem good, but it looks like you must choose a poison - between jerky screen scrolling and sped-up gameplay. Arguably, slight screen tearing is better than the framerate problems on modern Windows, but it's still not ideal. I don't know why they did this weird background, anyway. Might be a remnant of DOS-era development.

Man Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure would be a really good game for a remake/sequel. In the future, if some company wants to revive an old franchise, Pitfall would be a brilliant idea! It’s a great platformer that could really benefit from modern HD graphics, and a new 2D side scroller would be awesome to see! Probably the coolest thing would be to see basically the first 2D Platformer be revived. That’d be amazing! Could you imagine how cool it’d be to see such an ancient series again? Who wouldn’t buy that!?

Honestly Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is the perfect sequel to Pitfall. It’s the logical evolution of Pitfall. The original game was so simple, so it would’ve been hard to create a full game (in the 1990’s) from it, but the setting of Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is perfect, and the art style and the challenges presented are exactly what you’d expect from Pitfall if it was made in the 1990s.

I miss this series. You would have thought Activision would have at least brought the series back in an attempt to rip off Uncharted back when that franchise was all the rage.

Once again I end up captivated, watching a 30 minute video on a series I've never played. DF Retro is the full fat experience.

One of my very favorite KZfaq channels. Thanks for every video you guys put out there.❤️

I originally played this game on genesis, and liked it. But later on, got it for Windows, and man, I loved that version of the game! I haven't tried to run in on windows 10, but was able to get it to run pretty well on windows 7. I remember before win7, I had trouble getting the audio to work. Who knows. If you can get the windows version to work, then Im willing to bet its the best version to play!

DF Retro means this will be a good day

Chipmunk Harry on GBA “Whoa!” Was hilarious!

15:10 on a consumer TV back then, you wouldn't see dithering EVEN with RGB Scart. I had RGB with Mega Drive and PS1, and basically discovered dithering while watching screenshots from the internet on my PC CRT monitor in late 90s. Production monitors SHOULDN'T be taken as a reference for "archeo-CRT look".

Back in 1994 the only two games my parents bought to me were Sonic & Knuckles and Pitfall. I love them both. The fact that John gives some space to these games on DF Retro is amazing. I always wanted the 32x version because in magazines looked so good. I think I dodge a bullet :P

I'll be over here crying about 16-bit River Raid being canceled :( :(

This game was my childhood. It was a brutally hard game especially the later levels. They don't make games like this no more.

Pitfall 2 on the 2600 is simply mindblowing

John, seriously man, this DF Retro thing is some of the BEST content available on youtube. Absolute top drawer, i look forward to every single new video you do with this series. Thanks.

Well done! This is also one of my favorite 16-bit games. I have it for the Sega CD and it just oozes quality. It is also one of the reasons why I prefer to use composite cables for my Genesis over anything else to blend the dithering. Thanks.

I can be having a really terrible day, but then a DF Retro video comes out and everything's okay for a half hour. :)

Thank you for featuring these almost forgotten games in all that detail and comparing the different versions so extensively! This makes DF Retro so unique and fun to watch. Can't wait for the next episode!

This video is such a treat! Thank you for sharing this!

Wow, thanks for the history lesson John! My dad gifted me a copy of this game for windows and I used to play it for hours! It became like an icon of my gaming childhood and I kept the original copy that I of course still have (I think it came in a bundle with earthworm jim and battle arena, the latter I lost but was the worst of these). Now I will appreciate it even more knowing that is a history achievement!

I have a copy of Pitfall the lost expedition sleeping on my shelves since years.. I guess I'll have to play it! Thanks for covering games older than 3 months.. It's always great to re-visit or even discover those classics from the past.

I never really got into this game, but you get a thumbs up just for the nostalgia. And because DF retro is awesome.

Another fantastic DF Retro video. Keep up the great work

I just glanced at the title and saw "Pitfall" and "16-bit" and momentarily thought John had lost his mind. I'd completely forgotten this game even existed.

The enthusiasm you bring to DF Retro always makes these videos a treat! The Mayan Adventure is a beautiful game, worth remembering; now if only we could get a restored release of the Windows 95 version on a service like GOG: that would be amazing.

>Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure That's a DF Retro episode I never anticipated, but I welcome it wholeheartedly.

DF Retro is the greatest piece of content on KZfaq. Keep it up 👍

Man you always make these DF Retro videos top notch. Great episode

This is more like a classic DFretro for me. You picked a game you loved growing up and did a deep dive on every version and it's a great video as always ! I always loved the look of this game but never enjoyed playing it much and after watching this that may have been due to playing it on snes.

Amazing analysis. You have the experience and knowledge to do this job. Thanks.

Great episode! I have very fond memories of playing this game on my dad’s work 166mhz pc. The graphics were superb

Funny. We didnt really have the tech analysis back then when we was kids to this degree like now. Yet we enjoyed these games.

Awesome content as always! Thank you!

Imagine a Pitfall Reboot in the style of Tomb Raider/Uncharted.

For some reason when you said you were doing a "Pitfall" video the other day my mind jumped to and got confused with "Flashback" for some reason. Glad you mentioned the comparison, made me feel better about my confusion. Keep up the good work!

I would really love to see a DF Retro: Commander Keen

I remember back when I was in grade 3 and trying to run the game on Windows XP. It must have been around 2002. I had trouble launching the game but somehow, through troubleshooting was able to make it work and had a blast playing through and eventually finishing the game.

Thank you john! Yet another excellent retro video

The montage of this episode is awesome! Transitions are really good!

Fantastic documentary. Had insights in business, development, technology, really interesting stuff.

Amazing work as always, John!

This came included with my dad's IBM Aptiva in '95 when I was a kid. It was probably the only non-educational game my parents let me play for a few years before they relented on Command and Conquer and Doom... good times.

Fantastic video as always John! Keep 'em coming :)

Bruce Campell as Pitfall Harry alone makes Pitfall 3D an instant classic in my book. I still have my old PS1 copy and did play it a little bit just to see if it still worked. It did and the story had me in stitches! :D

One of my favorite SG games. What a wonderful in-depth look back at all the versions!

The greenest of evergreen content. Always a pleasure to watch

Please continue with this retro stuff!!! In 1994 , at this time there is no technical group that could verify the accuracy and differences betweens consoles port games amongst arcades ! In 1994 I got this game and I knew the Genesis version was slightly better than the snes , but anyone do not trust me!

Wow, I completely forgot that I owned and played the hell out of this back in the day. Nice!

I can't believe I watched the whole video... it was interesting. Keep the retro content coming!

Thank you for covering this. This was new to me.

I had this for PC back in the day when I was a kid. My dad got rid of it and I never got to finish it. So this was a bit of a nostalgia trip. Great video, as always!

Best of the best !!!!!! Lovely episode!!!! Thank you !!!!

Very good DF!!! Nice technical flashback!!!👏👏

Thanks for this episode, John. I have some really great and warm memories about this game. To me it was a sleeper hit and was amazed when found it, specially when it was around the time DKC was all the rage. Fun fact, I remember reading in Gamepro that the ambient sound was recorded in the Costa Rican rain forest, therefore its high quality. Keep up the great job (also hoping for an update to the Symphony of the night video to add the Requiem version. That thing is horrible in many ways)

Thank you for this particular DF Retro! I love them all but, Pitfall The Mayan Adventure is one of my favorite games I played on the SNES. Hopefully Pitfall will return one day.

My first memory is watching my grandpa play level 2 of this game, and as a 6 year old, I kept begging for the controller until he finally gave in and let me play 😀

always wonderful the material produced by DF

Thanks for another fantastic episode 👍

It is one of the best games I played in my life... I am 44 yiers old and still sometimes I play Pitt fall, Comix Zone, Earth worm Jim, Blades of vengeance, Golden Axe, Zombie ate my neighbourhood etc on my Pc...

Great video! I did not know there was a Jaguar port. The first time I played it was on a friend's SNES, where his dad had to beat the bosses for us. Then got GBA one, and even still I enjoy it for what it is, Chipmunk Harry and all!

I love this retro series. Please keep them coming.

Pitfall on the Atari 2600 had a secret cave that would open if you swung on the line 3 times. It would have a gold bar inside it

These DF Retro video are so awesome. more please

Great job as always!

They weren't inspired only by Aladdin but also The Jungle Book (Mega Drive/Genesis version, also by the same Virgin). As someone who grew up playing those two a whole lot, I can say with confidence that this game has VERY similar animations to those. And it doesn't end there. I actually had to do a bit of research (to my surprise I never seen this game before in action) because based on what's shown here I could swear this was also a Virgin game. It's not, but I'm still not convinced there isn't some crossover (would need to look up the credits for both, which I might just do). It's just too damn similar.

Love this retro episodes. I would like to see more games from this era with these kind of analysis.

This game,was fun. I can sit down and play these old school games any day.

Awesome series. I'd like to see a DF Retro episode covering the evolution of the Metal Gear series. Maybe even a MGS1-focused episode would do, as the game was released on PS1, PC and was remade for the Nintendo Gamecube - the Twin Snakes game.

What a surprise to see this game featured! I am also a big fan of the SEGA CD version, with its deep surround jungle sound FX, stirring music and extra levels. About every winter, I hook up the SCD and play this on my Panny plasma, using composite cables -- no dithering. The animation tech seems very similar to the Virgin and Shiny games.

Nice work John, I learned a lot on this one. Btw good on you for talking about how composite video, on crt with scanlines is how Megadrive games were ment to look. Way too many people online have a talked about robot farts and bad colours because they played on shitty emulators on their PC lcd screen on 2006. This isn't how anything looked or sounded at the time. I really think this is how so much of the revisionist history started online.

Loved this game as a kid. Started out my gaming on the atari with the original pitfall, so when this game came out, I was all about that Sega CD version. The soundtrack was superb.

Thanks for bringing this game to my attention, it's really well animated, yet feels much more "action-y" than, say, Flashback. Thumbs up!

Man, these long videos with the multi port game comparisons are the best.

Great video 🤙 Loved this game on the Genesis

Good job, John! Looking forward to see from you something like "evolution of open world RPGs". Fingers crossed!

John back at it again with amazing DF retro.

Thoroughly enjoyed this detailed analysis. I have always enjoyed this game on Sega CD. And Genesis. It is a worthy and honorable sequel to David Crane's original two.

I love DF retro. John's doing god's work.

I'd never heard of this title beforehand, such a curious era for Western platformers! Fantastic analysis!

Oh man! No one talks about this game. I got it randomly for my birthday one year on the Sega Genesis and really enjoyed it. No one else I knew had played it or even heard of it. It was nice to see a comparison of all the versions and see the history behind it. Awesome. My only problem with the game was I had massive crashing issues with it on the Genesis. I was only a able to finish it once because of this. It was frustrating getting to the end of the game just for it to lock up on me. Agh. I probably had a bad copy or something.

Fantastic job John!

Imagine if this got the same HD treatment as Earthworm Jim did a few years ago on 360/PS3... possibly get some of the original animation cell work into that game.

More 16 bit content, please! Great work as always!

Windows 95 represent. The only version with a built in level select.

Pitfall: The Lost Expedition was one of the best game i've ever played !

Great as always! I love your DF Retro Series :3 I sometimes feel, you should sit together with James Rolfe. I'd love to hear you two ramble about old games! Keep it up!

I was 11 when the original pitfall was out in 1982, would run home from school just to play this :)

Awesome video, I never got to play pitfall. I'll have to pick it up for my Super Nt.

This was a fantastic retrospective. I first played the Sega CD version back in the day and thoroughly enjoyed it. Being port-curious as I always am, I checked out all the other versions and came to basically the same conclusions you did. So many of the conversions are disappointing in one way or another (or more), and it's interesting to find that the 16-bit originals are still the best ones to play.

Love this!. The first video game I ever played was the Mega Drive version back in 97!. It was way too difficult for the average 3 year old but it hold a place in my heart. Would have loved to have seen a proper sequel to Mayan Adventure

I love Pitfall the lost expedition

John you might want to get one of those glass GBA replacement screen. Excellent video as always!!

Very informative and entertaining as usual :) Makes me want to get a Genesis

Appreciate these Retro videos, John. Keep up the good work! :) This is a pretty tall order, but it would be cool if we could get a retrospective for Ocarina of Time, since it being the 20th Anniversary.

My favorite PC game as a kid, played it all the time. I was disappointed many years later when I couldn't find a version that matched the quality of the PC port.

Whoa the PS1 version, I like that running animation (in side view). The animators even did the thing where he’s running in one direction and his head looks back behind him in a different direction! That’s excellent.