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I'd have to look it up to see which was first, but the ports of Pitfall! are a rough contemporary of Spelunker, which also has an infamous NES port. Both are Western-originated games about descending into caverns and collecting treasures. Spelunker in arcade is actually really interesting in how forgiving it is relative to most platformers of the time, while the NES game is its merciless counterpart.



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