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System:
Arcade
Genre:
Platformer
Publisher:
Konami
Developer:
Konami
Players:
1-2 (1 simultaneously)
Release date/year:
1981
Other systems:
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- Frogger
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1981 Konami - Konami - Arcade
- A classic any way that you slice it, there is nothing like guiding a frog across traffic where you leave his fate to that of the oncoming motorist. Another case of a truly mindless, yet addicting game, Frogger has been through the wringer on hand helds, several different home systems, and of course, in the arcade.
The machine is usually in the back of the arcade, covered in dust...over-shadowed by games that are much better to look at, cooler to play, or nicer to listen to. Yet the machine beckons to you and for some odd reason, you just start dropping quarters into it.
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-Visuals 7/10-
Not the most spectacular of games to look at, Frogger has the basics on screen. You control a little green frog across several lanes of traffic that move at different speeds and then to the water where you must guide him across logs that are floating, or sinking and moving at different speeds.
It all sounds basic enough and it is. There are no special effects, there are no flashy lights or fireworks. It's a little green frog, hopping across a dark screen that has lines set in it for lanes with more blocks moving across to serve as cars. It's not stunning...but this is where most older gamers spent their time before the world of 3D.
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-Audio 7/10-
Basic MIDI music and the blipping of oncoming cars and trucks. You'll hear and expanding sound of the little frog hopping through the lanes towards the goal at the end. There isn't much for variety of music, and the same track loops on and on and on throughout each ''stage''. Still, considering the age of the game, and when it was released, it's pretty good for it's time.
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-Control 7/10-
The control is mindlessly simple. You use the joystick to move Frogger back and forth as well as side to side to avoid traffic and other obstacles. There really isn't much else to this section, and there are no special moves or any advanced movements that you have to learn, just the timing of how fast Frogger leaps forward and backward.
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-Game Play 7/10-
You move Frogger across a busy intersection, towards his home located on the other side of the screen. Through this, you have to avoid oncoming traffic which moves at different speeds depending on the lane you're crossing into, or even the stage that you're on. Once across the lanes of traffic, you'll find that you have to cross a waterway and into Froggers home. From here, you move onto the next stage, where the cars move faster, and the logs in the water way move and sink faster as well.
Your basic enemy is speed. The slower you move, the more likely you're going to get run over, or even eaten by a crocodile in the waterway. Outside of this, you're really just working against the machine, which does speed everything up a notch with each successful stage clearing, and eventually it gets to the point where it *is* impossible to make it through the stage.
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-Overall 7/10-
Another game that isn't superior to anything we have now, but is still one of the fore-fathers of the games we have today. Success on the original Frogger has been seen with the sequels that have been brought to us and variations on the PSX. Even though it may collect dust, and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 might be sitting right next to it, you may find yourself gravitating over to that machine, simply because in a strange way...it calls to you.
//KasketDarfyre
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