Frogs (video game)

Not to be confused with Frogger.
Frogs
Publisher(s) Sega-Gremlin
Platform(s) Arcade
Release date(s) Arcade 1978
Genre(s) Action / Platform
Mode(s) Single player
Cabinet Upright
Arcade system Sega VIC Dual
CPU Z80 (@ 1.93356 MHz)
Sound Samples (@ 1.93356 MHz), Discrete (@ 1.93356 MHz)
Display Horizontal orientation, 256 x 224 pixels, monochrome CRT, 60 Hz refresh rate, with color printed transparent static overlay

Frogs is a single-player action[1] / platform[2] arcade game released by Sega-Gremlin in 1978.[1][3] It is the first video game with a jumping character (predating Donkey Kong by 3 years), which by some definitions could make it the first platform game.[4] 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 amounts of points in a set amount of time.

Frogs is one of the first arcade games to include a static background as part of the arcade cabinet. 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]

Clones

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

A homebrew clone named Frog Feast was published by OlderGames in 2005 for the Neo Geo (MVS and CD), Sega Genesis, Sega CD, SNES, Atari Jaguar and CD-i.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Frogs at Allgame
  2. ↑ Frogs at the Killer List of Videogames
  3. ↑ Frogger at Allgame
  4. 1 2 Frogs, Earl Green, Phospher Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16
  5. ↑ Frog Feast

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