If you want the maximum frustration from the Pitfall series, Super Pitfall on the NES will do it.
pffffft....the console needs to say ATARI on it.
Pitfall 1 and 2 were delights. The disappointment one felt thinking Super Pitfall was going to be an awesome game because the improvement in graphics, music and size of games only to play this piece of shit where: -You die if you climb down the first ladder -your gun shoots OVER most enemies with no way to crouch and shoot at low enemies. -everything kills you in 1 hit, yet there is a part that in order to progress, you must deliberately touch 1 particular enemy that won't kill you but instead warps you to the next area.
The Atari games were limited by system limitations. The NES one was limited by shitty fucking programming.