Remember the video game Pitfall? It was the first video game that I think I ever played to completion. This was of course before “saving,” so i had to sit there for like 12+ hours and play the whole thing and if you died you had to start over from scratch. <\/p>\n
Now, back then, I had the whole game map memorized. Do you think if you sat down to play it today, you’d still be able to pull the map out of your subconscious from 30 years ago?<\/p>\n
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