Frogs (video game)

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Not to be confused with Frogger.
Frogs
Frogs 1978 arcade game flyer.jpg
Developer(s)Gremlin
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Lane Hauck[3]
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player

Frogs is a single-player action arcade game released by Gremlin in 1978. It notably featured a jumping character (predating Donkey Kong by 3 years).[4] The game's graphics are "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]

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 clone with varying names–Frog, Frogs, Frog on a Log–for the TRS-80. Mattel released Frogs and Flies for the Atari 2600, which was renamed Frog Bog for the Intellivision version. Both were released in 1982.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "1977-78". Sega Arcade History. Famitsu DC (in Japanese). Enterbrain. 2002. pp. 33–6.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "San Diego's Gremlin: how video games work". San Diego Reader. 1982-07-15. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  4. ^ a b Frogs, Earl Green, Phosphor Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16

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