Pitfall: Beyond the Jungle

and gameplay Pitfall: Beyond the Jungle feature's Pitfall Harry's son, Pitfall Harry Jr.. While exploring the jungles of South America, a rift appears and Harry is met with Mira the leader of a group of rebels. Mira is against an entity known as The Scourge and seeks help from outside of her dimension to fight back. Harry heads into the city of Shenrak to destroy the evil Scourge.

Pitfall: Beyond the Jungle is a side-scrolling platform game . In the game, Pitfall Harry Jr. can be controlled move left and right, jump and crouch. Harry can also perform long jumps by standing on an edge of a cliff before jumping.

He is equipped with an axe to attack enemies swing from hooks placed on walls all while collecting treasure along the way. The game starts the player with four lives . Harry has a health meter and when it runs out, he loses a life. Health power-ups and extra lives can be collected throughout the stages.

The game features four environments with themes of jungles, caverns, volcano and a prison. The first three environments have four levels while the prison environment has two. After each environment area, the player is presented with a password which can be used to resume their game.