Frogs (video game)

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Frogs
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North American arcade flyer
Developer Gremlin Industries
Publishers
Designer Lane Hauck [2]
Platform Arcade
Release
Genre Action
Mode Single-player

Frogs is a 1978 action video game developed and published by Gremlin Industries for arcades. It featured a jumping character (predating Donkey Kong by three years) [4] with graphics "projected" by laying the monitor flat on its back and reflecting the computer-generated graphics of the frogs and flies toward the player via a mirror at a 45-degree angle. The game's graphics were actually generated and shown backward, so the mirror reflection would show letters and numbers properly. [4] The game was distributed by Sega in Japan. [1]

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Gameplay

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The player controls a frog on lilypads and attempts to catch (with the frog's tongue and while jumping) various insects (butterflies and dragonflies) worth different numbers of points in a set amount of time.

Legacy

In 1980, Adventure International published a similar game with varying names–Frog, Frogs, Frog on a Log–for the TRS-80. In this version the player controls a large frog that moves left or right along a log. [5]

Mattel released Frogs and Flies for the Atari 2600, which was renamed Frog Bog for the Intellivision version. Both were published in 1982.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "1977-78". Sega Arcade History. Famitsu DC (in Japanese). Enterbrain. 2002. pp. 33–6.
  2. ↑ "San Diego's Gremlin: how video games work". San Diego Reader. 1982-07-15. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  3. ↑ Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 131. ISBN   978-4990251215.
  4. 1 2 Frogs, Earl Green, Phosphor Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16
  5. ↑ "Frog for TRS-80 (1980)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
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