Editing Super Pitfall (section)

{{short description|1986 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Super Pitfall
|caption = NES box art
|image = Superpitfall.JPG
|developer= Micronics (NES)
|publisher= {{Video game release|JP|[[Pony Canyon#History|Pony Inc.]]|NA|[[Activision]]}}
|designer = 
|programmer = '''Color Computer 3'''<br>Steve Bjork<br/>'''PC-88'''<br>Makoto Ichinoseki
|engine = 
|released = '''NES'''{{vgrelease|JP|September 5, 1986|NA|November 1987}}
|genre = [[Platform game|Platform]]{{sfn|Marriott}}
|modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]], [[Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]]{{sfn|Metzger|1987|p=2}} 
| platforms = {{plainlist|[[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]], [[PC-8800 series|PC-88]], [[TRS-80 Color Computer|Color Computer 3]]}}
}}

{{nihongo|'''''Super Pitfall'''''|スーパーピットフォール|Sūpā Pittofōru}} is a 1986 [[Side-scrolling video game|side-scrolling]] non-linear [[platform game]] for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] (NES). Despite the title screen stating that it was reprogrammed by [[Pony Canyon#History|Pony Inc.]], the development of the NES version was handled by Micronics, a Japanese developer who mostly ported arcade games to the NES.

''Super Pitfall'' was the first game that Activision published as a third-party developer for the NES. Following the original release of the game, ports were made in Japan by Makoto Ichinoseki for the [[PC-8800 series]] liner of computers and by Steve Bjork for the [[TRS-80 Color Computer|Color Computer 3]]. The game initially received positive reviews from ''[[VideoGames & Computer Entertainment]]'' and ''[[Computer Entertainer]]'' while [[Bill Kunkel (journalist)|Bill Kunkel]] wrote in ''[[Computer Gaming World]]'' that the game did not control well and did not stand out well in a market of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' clones. Retrospective reviews of the NES game from game critic Brett Weiss and Stuart Hunt of ''[[Retro Gamer]]'' found the game a step down from the previous ''Pitfall'' games on the [[Atari 2600]], with both faulting low quality graphics and game design.

Activision initially was going distribute [[Sunsoft]]'s ''[[Atlantis no Nazo]]'' in the United States in a rebranded form as a sequel to ''Super Pitfall'' on the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]. This release did not happen.