Frogger
| Frogger | |
|---|---|
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| Studio | Konami |
| Publisher | Sega |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
June 1981 |
| genre | Retro game |
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer mode (2 players take turns) |
| control | 4-way joystick |
| casing | Standard and Cocktail |
| Arcade system | Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 MHz) Sound CPU: Z80 (@ 1.78975 MHz) Sound chips: AY-3-8910 |
| monitor | Raster resolution 224 × 256 (3: 4 vertical) Color palette: 99 |
Frogger is an arcade and video game produced by Sega in 1981 and developed by Konami .
Game flow
The game is about guiding a frog safely across a busy road and then across a river. On the five-lane road, the frog has to avoid various vehicles. Since the frog cannot swim, it crosses the river using turtles and drifting tree trunks as platforms. It can fall prey to swimming crocodiles and snakes. The aim of each level is to fill the five bays on the opposite bank with frogs. If there is a fly there, you receive 200 bonus points. This also applies to taking a female frog with you or to completing the course in a particularly short time.
As the number of points increases, crossing the street becomes more dangerous due to increasing traffic. Likewise, the number of enemies in the river increases while at the same time the gaps between the platforms increase.
Implementations
Frogger first gained popularity in arcades and on the Atari 2600 and was later implemented for the Commodore VC 20 / C64 , the Sinclair ZX Spectrum , the IBM PC as well as the Apple II and various game consoles . In July 2006 a version about Xbox Live Arcade was released for the Xbox 360 , which in addition to improved graphics also includes an online multiplayer mode.
The Philips G7000 and TRS 80 versions of the game Frogger were split over two screens: one was the road to be crossed, the other the river to be crossed. So all content of the game could also be played on the graphically weak hardware.
One version of the game is integrated into the lighting control consoles of the Frog series by Zero 88 as an Easter egg .
Today the original program code can also be executed independently of the original hardware with the MAME emulator .
In 1997 a remake for the PlayStation and the PC was released under the same name.
In 1998 a remake for the Super Nintendo was released, which was also the last game released on the SNES in North America and Europe.
Trivia
The first 16 seconds of a socket for Datasette were in the piece Atari Hamburg group Fischmob a wide audience and thereby played on the radio also known (as, for. Example, in Chaosradio the ORB ).
New edition
In April 2012 it was announced that Frogger would appear in a new version. The setting will be relocated to New York's 5th Avenue . The remake was developed by the American artist Tyler DeAngelo, who processed New York traffic in a real-time system.
The game Crossy Road has a very similar scenario .
Web links
- Original Frogger
- Frogger in the Killer List of Video Games (English)
- The "Frogger" series at MobyGames (English)
- Link catalog on the subject of Frogger at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Frogger video played on the Atari 800XL
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frogger: cult game experiences real-time renaissance in New York city traffic ( memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , t3n, April 23, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
