Frogger occurs as 1981 arcade game licensed for U.S. distribution by Sega/Gremlin, and developed by Konami. A game is take to be a classic & was super popular for its novel gameplay & theme. These are one of a couple classic arcade games whose gameplay did non require killing hordes of enemies.

Overview
the object of this game is to guide a frog to its home. To clean sol, a streaming video player must become frogs to with success dodge cars & navigate a river full of hazards. A good or even lucky streaming video player could obtain bonuses along a way.

Description
a streaming video player guides a frog which starts at the bottom of the screen. the moo half of the screen contains a road sustaining cars, trucks & more vehicles speeding along. A upper half of the screen consists of water by owning logs, alligators and turtles. A super top of the screen contains 5 "frog homes"—a goal for both frog. Both level is timed, therefore a streaming video player must work quickly to finish both level prior to a period expires.

A exclusively control a streaming video player has is navigating a counsel for a frog to hop by using the joystick. For each one click around a counsel is the causal agent of the frog to hop once in that counsel. On a bottom half of a screen, the streaming video player must with success answer the frog between opposing lanes of trucks, cars & more vehicles, to refrain from becoming roadkill.

the middle of a screen, fallowing the road, contains a median where a streaming video player must develop to navigate the flow of any stream. By climb on fleetly moving logs & a backs of turtles, a streaming video player must attempt to guide his frog safely to one of a empty "homes". A streaming video player must stay away from alligators, snakes and otters in the river, however could catch bugs or escort a lady frog for bonuses. Whilst wholly 5 frogs come directed front yard, a game reach the next, harder level.

Frogger is available as a standard upright or even cocktail cabinet. a controls consist entirely of a Four-counsel joystick utilized to guide the frog's go for it counsel. A total of cooccurring players is a single, & a game has the utmost of deuce players.

Legacy

A game was originally attend become titled "Highway Crossing Frog," however a executives at Sega felt it did non capture verity nature & severity of the game and was changed only to "Frogger." Additionally to inspiring many clones, this game spawned the sequel within 1991 called Ribbit which featured improved graphics and genus pan 2-streaming video player action.

Frogger is think of one of a "Top 100 Videogames" ever per Killer List of Videogames (KLOV).

Ports
Prefer several games of the era, Frogger was ported to several at home systems for portable utilise. Within 1983 Frogger was ported to the PC (booter), Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, Intellivision, and Magnavox Odyssey². Hasbro Interactive released a freshly version for Microsoft Windows and the PlayStation in 1997 (in this of these, Frogger is green sustaining an orangish stripe).

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Unlike a arcade version, a page versions got many sequels, including: Frogger II: Three Deep (1984) Frogger (1997) Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (2000) Frogger: The Great Quest (2001) ''Frogger's Adventures: Temple of the Frog (2001) Frogger Advance: The Great Quest (2002) Frogger Beyond (2002) Frogger's Adventures 2: The Lost Wand (2002) Frogger's Journey: The Forgotten Relic (2003) Frogger's Adventures: The Rescue (2003) Frogger: Ancient Shadow (Upcoming for 2005) Frogger: Helmet Chaos (Upcoming for 2005)

Inside numerous of the recent games (starting sustaining Frogger's Risky venture), Frogger is shown when two-footed wearing the shirt by owning the crossed-out truck.

Popular culture
A game was featured inside an episode of Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza are in a eating house & George remembers he experienced the high score on the Frogger'' game there when he was the child. While he looks at a machine he finds he however has a high score. A eating house is attend get eliminate the game & it tell him he potty use at times it. A condition is, he has to move a game forswearing unplugging it, because whenever he unplugs a game a high score is erased. This outcomes around the takeoff of the actual gameplay of Costanza trying to cross wall street by owning the game while forgoing generating hit by a car.

Within 1982, Buckner and Garcia recorded a song known as "Froggy's Lament", applying healthy results from either a game, & freed it on the album Pac-Man Fever. A song begins:

Bad Religion has also recorded the song known as "Frogger" where a singer claims to exist as "playing Frogger with my life".

In the MTV Movie Awards 2003 sketch, "The MTV Movie Awards Reloaded" has a Designer (Will Ferrell) saying that he "invented" Frogger, but he said a publisher didn't prefer a title "Highway Crossing Frog" therefore he has to vary it to the better title. the joke is actually a avowedly fact.

Robot Chicken parodied Frogger which look like the Enhanced Version however it turns intent on exist as the joke once Frogger crosses the road & the truck crashes into a car & exploded when population come yelling at every more.