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Aspyr Media, Inc. Ships Pitfall: The Lost Expedition for The PC.


AUSTIN, Texas -- Deep inside the perilous South American Jungle, take on the role of the athletic and adventurous Pitfall pit·fall  
n.
1. An unapparent source of trouble or danger; a hidden hazard: "potential pitfalls stemming from their optimistic inflation assumptions" New York Times.
 Harry. This fearless, rough-and-ready treasure seeker, armed with only a knapsack of tools and weapons, must battle the evils of this mysterious terrain while racing against rival explorer St. Claire. The light-hearted Harry laughs in the face of danger, but if the jungle's hidden treasures
For the short-lived cereal, see Hidden Treasures (cereal)


Hidden Treasures is an EP by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released in 1995.
 fall into the wrong hands, Harry and his friends are certainly doomed.

Pitfall(R): The Lost Expedition(TM) was developed for the PC by Beenox and is licensed by Activision, Inc.

Dozens of hazardous levels force Harry to maneuver through lush rain forests, creature-ridden caves and vast glacial mountains. While racing through a vast landscape of forests, ancient ruins and subterranean mines, you have to learn quickly how to discern friend from foe in this dynamic obstacle-filled world. With fast-paced action pathways and a host of obstacles and challenges, you must face the consequences of every decision.

Crossing treacherous jungle terrain and dark areas filled with puzzles, tricks and traps, you'll be swinging on vines, avoiding crocodiles and dodging rolling logs as you unearth artifacts artifacts

see specimen artifacts.
 and use your cunning to defeat dangerous foes. Some jungle plants are toxic, some jungle creatures will help you, and not all monkeys are cute and harmless.

Pitfall: The Lost Expedition will be enjoyable on all of the minimum specification hardware and Aspyr has worked with NVIDIA in an effort to provide the best out-of-box experience The term Out of Box Experience usually refers to computer hardware or software. It describes the experience a user has when installing and/or performing initial configuration on a piece of hardware or software.  possible on NVIDIA hardware. Pitfall takes advantage of the latest NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series The GeForce 6 Series (codenamed NV40) is NVIDIA's sixth generation of GeForce graphics chipsets. All of them support Vertex and Pixel shader version 3.0, as required under the Microsoft DirectX 9.0c specification.  hardware to give dazzling water effects and more realistic movement and animation.

The game is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board
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 and is available for preorder at www.aspyr.com for $29.99.

About Activision

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation).
Santa Monica is a coastal city in western Los Angeles County, California, USA. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades and Brentwood on the north,
, Activision, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Founded in 1979, Activision posted net revenues of $948 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004.

Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Australia, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's World Wide Web site, which is located at www.activision.com.

About Aspyr Media Inc.

Aspyr Media Inc., based in Austin, Texas, is an established publisher of interactive entertainment software. Aspyr is a leading publisher of Macintosh, PC, and Game Boy Advance games This is a list of games for the Game Boy Advance handheld game system, organized alphabetically by name. This includes games released in the US, Japan, and Europe for the system. , as well as DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 and audio CDs. Aspyr is committed to delivering high-quality entertainment products to consumers worldwide.

More information on Aspyr and their line of products can be found on the Internet at http://www.aspyr.com.
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