looking for "In the pit"[Found, THX to teamforce]
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:25 am
Hi I'm looking for an old DOS game I had played (well actually I didn't play it much, more just looked at than played)
At the time I had found the game very interesting, but I don't remember it's name or the name of the many characters in the game
I vaguely remember seeing "In the Pit" in the title screen of the game but using this phrase in Google doesn't show the game (instead, searching for in the pit gives search results for Pitfalls)
The game has some kind of a Yellow blob as the protagonist (the character looks somewhat like the ghosts of Pacman, but I can't remember most of the details)
The antagonists look similar, but with different colours and some additional features like glasses (I remember there being a green one with a cigarette)
The protagonist is supposed to be rescuing his friends (friends or family or babies I can't remember, but I think I vaguely remember the game story showing miniature versions of the protagonist)
The hero has to go across rooms jumping on the floating blocks above a floor of spikes. Sometimes he has to jump to a secret location that will reveal a hidden block and then he has to jump on the blocks to go across the room, without touching the antagonists
I think you had to press the spacebar to jump and if you just pressed and released the space bar the jump was for a shorter height and if you pressed the space bar too long the hero would jump too high so you had to time it just right to jump across the rooms on floating blocks
This is about as much I remember of the standard mode of gameplay
There was another mission the hero could go through (I don't remember if it was bonus or a standard level)
There is a large hedgehog as an antagonist (he had a name as well but I don't remember it)
In one task the hedgehog asked the hero "what is the square root of <some number, I don't remember exactly what>" and there were 2-3 simple options like 1 and 2, one option 3.1416 (PI upto maybe 8 or 10 decimal places I think) and a last option called "stuffed if I knew" and if we picked the last option the hedgehog would roll over in defeat saying "you may have beat me this time but ...<something>"
In another mission, the hedgehog would be shown in the middle of the screen, immobile (as if it was a statue) and miniature versions of the hedgehog, called his minions, would float around the screen. The yellow hero character had to run around left and right across the bottom of the screen pushing a basket with him and try to get the basket under the minions, while the minions floated around the screen jumping across the screen walls)
This is about as much I can remember of the game. I can remember, somewhat, the music played during the title screen when the game is started but right now I have no way of posting that here.
By todays standard it is a very childish and simple game with crude graphics but it was one of the first games I had played and I would be very grateful if someone can post the name and link for that game and maybe some screen shots as well
The computer I played the game on was Pentium I with Windows 95 so I hope this gives the readers some idea about the year of the game (as I can't remember for sure)
At the time I had found the game very interesting, but I don't remember it's name or the name of the many characters in the game
I vaguely remember seeing "In the Pit" in the title screen of the game but using this phrase in Google doesn't show the game (instead, searching for in the pit gives search results for Pitfalls)
The game has some kind of a Yellow blob as the protagonist (the character looks somewhat like the ghosts of Pacman, but I can't remember most of the details)
The antagonists look similar, but with different colours and some additional features like glasses (I remember there being a green one with a cigarette)
The protagonist is supposed to be rescuing his friends (friends or family or babies I can't remember, but I think I vaguely remember the game story showing miniature versions of the protagonist)
The hero has to go across rooms jumping on the floating blocks above a floor of spikes. Sometimes he has to jump to a secret location that will reveal a hidden block and then he has to jump on the blocks to go across the room, without touching the antagonists
I think you had to press the spacebar to jump and if you just pressed and released the space bar the jump was for a shorter height and if you pressed the space bar too long the hero would jump too high so you had to time it just right to jump across the rooms on floating blocks
This is about as much I remember of the standard mode of gameplay
There was another mission the hero could go through (I don't remember if it was bonus or a standard level)
There is a large hedgehog as an antagonist (he had a name as well but I don't remember it)
In one task the hedgehog asked the hero "what is the square root of <some number, I don't remember exactly what>" and there were 2-3 simple options like 1 and 2, one option 3.1416 (PI upto maybe 8 or 10 decimal places I think) and a last option called "stuffed if I knew" and if we picked the last option the hedgehog would roll over in defeat saying "you may have beat me this time but ...<something>"
In another mission, the hedgehog would be shown in the middle of the screen, immobile (as if it was a statue) and miniature versions of the hedgehog, called his minions, would float around the screen. The yellow hero character had to run around left and right across the bottom of the screen pushing a basket with him and try to get the basket under the minions, while the minions floated around the screen jumping across the screen walls)
This is about as much I can remember of the game. I can remember, somewhat, the music played during the title screen when the game is started but right now I have no way of posting that here.
By todays standard it is a very childish and simple game with crude graphics but it was one of the first games I had played and I would be very grateful if someone can post the name and link for that game and maybe some screen shots as well
The computer I played the game on was Pentium I with Windows 95 so I hope this gives the readers some idea about the year of the game (as I can't remember for sure)
