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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First : the game you're thinking about is called "Pitfall!" (exclamation mark). There's actually another game called just Pitfall. Because it's a common word and there's a bunch of completely unrelated works (games, movies and music) using it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall

Bonus round : look at all the shit Jonathan Blow adapted when he made "The Witness" in 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_(disambiguation)