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In this game you have to guide Harry through a treacherous jungle maze. He must leap over obstacles and dodge dangers while grabbing all the treasure he can find.

You start each adventure with 2,000 points. If you fall down a hole you lose 100 points and hitting rolling logs also causes point loss.

Finding treasure earns points. There are eight types of each treasure, 32 in all, including money bags, silver and gold bars, and diamond rings.

You have twenty minutes to complete each adventure and Harry has three lives. The objects that can kill you include scorpions, fires, cobras, crocodiles, quicksand, swamps and tar pits.

Included with the game is a 'Guide to Jungle Journeys'. In this booklet, among other things, it tells you the rules of how to use the joystick, for example, to release a vine the control stick has to be pulled towards you, an article about real jungle explorers is included, plus tips on how to play the game from the designer of Pitfall.

Pitfall starts with a good opening sequence - Harry swinging on a rope - but after a while it gets rather tiring as you have to watch it every time your three lives are lost.

The graphics are good, even though the trees have bright red trunks! Although there is music all the way through, it is not a very exciting tune.

Cuthbert In The Jungle, even though it is a rip-off of this game is more exciting and has better graphics. I also preferred Pitfall 2 to this original game.