Pitfall! is a video game developed by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and released in 1982 by Activision. The player controls Pitfall Harry, who has a time limit of 20 minutes to seek treasure in a jungle. The game world is populated by enemies and hazards that variously cause the player to lose lives or points.
Pitfall!
David Crane in 2013
David Crane is an American video game designer and programmer. Crane grew up fascinated by technology and went to DeVry Institute of Technology. Following college, he went to Silicon Valley and got his first job at National Semiconductor. Through his friend Alan Miller he learned about potential video game design work at Atari, Inc. and began work there in 1977.
David Crane, 2013
Crane assisted with building the operating system for the Atari 8-bit computers (Atari 800 pictured).
Garry Kitchen in 2013. Crane would work with Kitchen at several companies including Absolute Entertainment, AppStar, and Audacity Games.