Super Pitfall NES (improvements)

[nesrocks]

The new title screen



Yes, I didn't want to admit it because I already had made a title screen with egyptian theme, but a friend of mine told me that the game is set in the Andes mountains and I have to accept that it is. Everything points to that, except that egyptian pyramid they have put in the game. I guess they just didn't know what a mayan pyramid looked like.

[skawo]

That looks excellent; why the apostrophe, though?

[John Enigma]

^Yeah. That's what I want to know as well: why the apostrophe after Pitfall?

[skyrunner14]

It's a reference to Street Fighter. Y'know, the dash in the later versions of that game. That's also where that particular Super comes from in that logo. I like it!

[John Enigma]

^Okay, but it still looks weird. Like it was some kind typo.

But that's just my opinion.

[nesrocks]

Thanks guys! 

Yes the apostrophe is an old school kind of thing, I guess you need to have lived that era when you were playing street fighter 2 everyday and that new modified street fighter came out it was the bomb. It is all about nostalgia.

The style I used in the "super" is not from street fighter though. It's from Super Star Wars (snes). And the style used in "PITFALL" is from the snes and ps1 games.

I have already made a few more minor modifications to it.

I am now looking to make a proper ending screen to the game (and so it doesn't start over after that).

[macbee]

The reference to Street Fighter is very clear to me.
For an entire generation of gamers that dash means expanded/revised/enhanced.

[skawo]

I suppose it makes sense, as mathematical notation sometimes uses apostrophes like that to denote a similar variable (i.e x, x').

[John Enigma]

Maybe my grammar OCD was getting the better of me when it came to that apostrophe...

[nesrocks]

I suppose it makes sense, as mathematical notation sometimes uses apostrophes like that to denote a similar variable (i.e x, x').

You know what, that makes perfect sense and it is probably the reason they used it.

[Midna]

Eh, pass. I'll wait for Ultimate Ultra Super Pitfall': Third Strike.

[John Enigma]

Eh, pass. I'll wait for Ultimate Ultra Super Pitfall': Third Strike.

With Dante from the Devil May Cry series?

[Vanya]

That's a pretty damn nice title screen!
I really like the use of the scorpion as the cursor, too.
The colors seem a little dull, though.
Overall great job!

[Proveaux]

Title screen looks great. Looking forward to seeing this one complete. 

[Da_GPer]

Will you make Pitfall Harry look like how he looks in the GameCube and Wii games and less like Mario?

[John Enigma]

^I would second this. I would love for Pitfall Harry to not have the Mario-like image in this game.

[nesrocks]

I am not sure about changing Harry's appearance too much. It is difficult to find a good new design and he is pretty iconic as he is for what super pitfall is. Not to mention that the 3D ones are not great either...

I have made some modifications to the title screen (old one added for comparison):

 

[jonk]

Nice changes to the title. It's 'brighter', the added mountains with lighting effects are nice, and the changes in the pyramids are a definite improvement (the top cap is truer to the perspective and the new stair lighting effects replaces the lack of same, earlier.) The plain that moves from background to foreground is also nicely done. (Yes, I also noticed the clouds, as well, and the added "PLAY" text.)

[John Enigma]

I am not sure about changing Harry's appearance too much. It is difficult to find a good new design and he is pretty iconic as he is for what super pitfall is. Not to mention that the 3D ones are not great either...

I have made some modifications to the title screen (old one added for comparison):

 

I love the second version even more. More detailed and more colorful. Btw, have you opened my latest PM, man?

[nesrocks]

So, I have toyed around with changing Harry's design. I think I like this one. I tried to give him an identity by providing some rad mullets.