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Platform iOS Publisher Activision Developer The Blast Furnace Release Date Aug 9, 2012

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Pitfall! (iOS) review: in search of gold, prepare to spend

Pitfall! is a fun, bombastic and greedy reimagining of the 1980s original. Activision has remade the 1980s Atari adventure game Pitfall! into one of iOS's more cynically designed apps. A clone...

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