Frogs (video game)

Frogs
Publisher(s) Sega-Gremlin
Platform(s) Arcade
Release 1978 (arcade)
Genre(s) Action
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 arcade game developed by Sega-Gremlin in 1978. It is the first video game with a jumping character (predating Donkey Kong by 3 years).[1] 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.

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.)[1]

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 in 2005 for twelve systems.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Frogs, Earl Green, Phospher Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16
  2. ↑ "Frog Feast - The story of the first two years". RasterSoft.
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