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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]
| Frogs | |
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| Developer(s) | Gremlin |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | Lane Hauck[3] |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
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| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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
editIn 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 on a log.[5]
Mattel released Frogs and Flies for the Atari 2600, which was renamed Frog Bog for the Intellivision version. Both were released in 1982.
References
edit- ^ a b c "1977-78". Sega Arcade History. Famitsu DC (in Japanese). Enterbrain. 2002. pp. 33–6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "San Diego's Gremlin: how video games work". San Diego Reader. 1982-07-15. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
- ^ a b Frogs, Earl Green, Phosphor Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16
- ^ "Frog for TRS-80 (1980)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
External links
edit- Frogs at mamedb.com
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