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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: Can Literature be 3D?  (mild spoilers)
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In article <57r1kq$jdp@life.ai.mit.edu>, dmb@ai.mit.edu wrote:


>Aside from the compliment (thanks), you raise an interesting point here.
>We've asked ourselves this question: is Pitfall the first game in this
>genre?  We couldn't come up with any predecessors...  Donkey Kong, Pac-Land
>and Lode Runner are other early games that trace their lineage back to
>Pitfall.

[plumbing the pathways of those early 2600 memories...]

As far as I can remember, Pitfall is the prototype, although you might
be able to make an argument that Frogger is of the same genre.

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