Frogs (video game)
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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 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.)[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 2 Frogs, Earl Green, Phospher Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16
- ↑ "Frog Feast - The story of the first two years". RasterSoft.
External links
- Frogs at mamedb.com