Frogs (video game)

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Frogs

Publisher(s) Sega-Gremlin
Platform(s) Arcade
Release date(s) Arcade 1978
Genre(s) Action / Platform
Mode(s) Single player
Cabinet Upright
CPU Z80 (@ 1.93356 MHz)
Sound Samples (@ 1.93356 MHz), Discrete (@ 1.93356 MHz)
Display horizontal orientation, 256 x 224 pixels, 64 colors, 60 Hz refresh rate

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 (if not the first arcade game) to include a static background as part of the arcade cabinet. The game’s graphics were "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]

See also

  • Frogger (1981)
  • Frog Bog (1982)
  • Remake Frog Feast

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Frogs at Allgame
  2. Frogs at the Killer List of Videogames
  3. Frogger at Allgame
  4. 4.0 4.1 Frogs, Earl Green, Phospher Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16

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