is a 1981 arcade

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developed by

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and published by

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. In North America, it was distributed by Sega/Gremlin. The object of the game is to direct five

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s to their homes by dodging traffic on a busy road, then crossing a river by jumping on floating logs, turtles, and alligators. ''Frogger'' was positively received as one of the greatest video games ever made. It was followed by numerous clones and several home-only sequels in the '' Frogger'' series. The 1982

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version from

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sold 4 million cartridges, making it one of the best-selling Atari 2600 games. By 2005, 20 million copies of its various home video game incarnations had been sold worldwide.

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to guide a frog to each of the empty homes at the top of the screen. The game starts with three, five, or seven frogs, depending on the machine's settings. Losing all frogs is

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. The player uses the four-direction

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to hop the frog once. ''Frogger'' is either single-player or two players alternating turns. The frog starts at the bottom of the screen, which contains a horizontal road occupied by speeding vehicles such as race cars, dune buggies, trucks, and bulldozers. The player must guide the frog between opposing lanes of traffic to avoid becoming roadkill and losing a life. After crossing the road, a

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separates the two major parts of the screen. The upper half consists of a river with logs, alligators, and turtles, all moving horizontally across the screen in opposite directions. By jumping on swiftly moving logs and the backs of alligators and turtles, the player can guide the frog to safety. The player must avoid snakes, otters, and the open mouths of alligators. A brightly colored female frog is sometimes on a log and may be carried for bonus points. The very top of the screen contains five "frog homes", and at least one is always open and available. These sometimes contain bonus insects or deadly alligators. When all five frogs are in their homes, the game progresses to the next level with increased difficulty. After five levels, the difficulty briefly eases and yet again progressively increases after each level. The timer gives 30 seconds to guide each frog into one of the homes, and resets back to 60 ticks whenever a life is lost or a frog reaches home safely. In 1982, '' Softline'' stated that "''Frogger'' has earned the ominous distinction of being 'the arcade game with the most ways to die'." There are many different ways to lose a life (illustrated by a skull and crossbones symbol where the frog was), including being run over by a road vehicle; jumping into the river; running into snakes, otters, or an alligator's jaws; sinking while on top of a diving turtle; riding a log, alligator, or turtle off the side of the screen; jumping into a home already occupied by a frog or alligator; jumping into the side of a home or the bush; or running out of time. The opening tune is the first verse of a Japanese children's song called "Inu no Omawarisan" ("The Dog Policeman"). Other Japanese tunes include the themes to the

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'' and '' Rascal the Raccoon''. The American release has the same opening song plus "

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Scoring

Forward steps score ten points, and every frog arriving safely home scores 50. Ten points are awarded per each unused ½ second of time. Guiding a lady frog home or eating a fly scores 200 each, and when all five frogs reach home to end the level the player earns 1,000 points. A single bonus frog is given at 20,000 points, while 99,990 points is the maximum high score that can be achieved on an original

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. Players may exceed this score, but the game "rolls over" and only keeps the last five digits.

Release

The game was developed by

. On July 22, 1981,

gained exclusive rights to manufacture the game worldwide.

North America

Sega/Gremlin was skeptical about ''Frogger''s earning potential in North America. This was because no other company licensed the game. Also, an earlier game called ''

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'' that was developed there had flopped. It was believed that '' Eliminator'' would be the company's next big hit. Elizabeth Falconer, a market researcher at Sega/Gremlin, was tasked by Gremlin founder Frank Fogleman to check Gremlin's library of video presentations to see if there was anything worth licensing, and she stumbled across ''Frogger''. Thinking the game deserved a chance though being "cute", she requested a licensing window for playtesting. She persuaded executives who denigrated ''Frogger'' as a "women and kids game" by reminding them of ''

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''. Sega/Gremlin agreed to pay Konami $3,500 per day for a 60-day licensing window. A prototype was playtested in a San Diego bar and was so successful that distributors agreed to resell the game based on the test alone. Wanting to broaden the player base demographics, Jack Gordon, the director of video game sales at Sega/Gremlin, noted that women shied away from the "shoot em' ups" on the market and that games like ''Frogger'' "filled the void".

Ports

''Frogger'' was ported to many contemporary home systems. Several platforms such as the

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support both

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s and magnetic media, so they received multiple versions of the game. Sierra On-Line gained the magnetic media rights and sublicensed them to developers who published for systems not normally supported by Sierra. Cornsoft published the official

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/ Dragon 32,

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, and Timex Sinclair 2068 ports. Because of that, even the

received multiple releases: a standard cartridge and a cassette for the Starpath Supercharger. Sierra released disk or tape versions for the Commodore 64,

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, Macintosh 128K, original Macintosh, IBM PC and Supercharger-equipped 2600, and cartridge versions for the TRS-80 Color Computer

received the license from Sega for cartridge versions which it released for the Atari 2600,

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, Odyssey² ,

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and

. Parker Brothers spent $10 million on advertising ''Frogger''. The Atari 2600 version was programmed by Ed English.

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released stand-alone Mini-Arcade tabletop versions of ''Frogger'', which, along with ''

'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', had three million sales combined. The game was ported to systems such as the PC-6001 and

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(with two separate releases for the Game Boy and

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in 1998). ''Frogger'' is one of the 6 launch games for the 1983 Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy.

Reception

Reporting on Gordon's claim that ''Frogger''s appeal lacked barriers of age or sex, '' Cashbox'' in October 1981 said "watch for it". Distributors reportedly found that Gordon's statement was accurate, with women enjoying its "non-aggressive yet challenging" gameplay. ''Frogger''s success increased production, becoming one of the top-grossing arcade games in North America during 1981. The arcade game earned over (equivalent to $ in ) for Sega/Gremlin in US cabinet sales, becoming the most successful Sega/Gremlin release. In Japan, ''Frogger'' was the 12th highest-grossing arcade game of 1981. Home versions of ''Frogger'' had high sales. The 1982 Atari 2600 version earned its publisher

in orders upon launch. By the end of the year, Atari 2600 cartridges were sold with in

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revenue. It became the company's most successful first-year product, beating the sales and revenues of its previous best-seller, ''

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''. By 2005, copies of the various home versions had been sold worldwide, including in the United States. In 1981, ''

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'' reviewed the arcade game as "one of the popular new generation of arcade games which are getting way from space themes". In his 1982 book ''Video Invaders'', Steve Bloom described ''Frogger'' as a " climbing game" along with ''

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'' (1980) and

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's ''

'' (1981). He said it was one of the "most exciting variations" on ''

''s maze theme along with ''Donkey Kong'' due to how players need to "scale from the bottom of the screen to the top" which make them "more like obstacle courses than mazes" since "you always know where you're going—up." Brett Alan Weiss of ''

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'' later reviewed the arcade game, calling it one of "the most beloved videogames ever created" and "pure, undiluted gaming at its finest". He said the "graphics are cute and detailed, the sound effects are crisp and clear, and the controls are sharp and responsive". ''Arcade Express'' reviewed the Atari VCS version in 1982, calling it "a highly authentic translation of the coin-op hit" that combines "great graphics with sophisticated play action". Ed Driscoll reviewed the Atari VCS version in ''

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'', commenting: "All in all, if you liked the arcade version, this should save you a lot of quarters. The price is in line with most cartridges. It also proves that Atari isn't the only one making home versions of the major arcade games for the VCS."

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of '' Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games'' wrote in 1983 that the Atari 2600 version "is one of the most detailed translations I have seen", noting the addition of the wraparound screen. ''

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's Essential Guide to Atari Computers'' cited the Sierra version as an entertaining arcade game. ''

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'' said that both the Sierra disk version and Parker Brothers cartridge version for the Commodore 64 "are excellent, with little to choose between them". In 2013, ''

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'' named ''Frogger'' one of the top ten games for the Atari 2600.

Reviews

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Legacy

Remakes and sequels

In 1997,

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released '' Frogger'', a vastly expanded remake of the original for

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and the

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. Unlike the original, it consists of multiple different levels. It was a commercial success, with Windows sales alone at nearly one million units in less than four months. In 1998, Hasbro released a series of versions of the game for the

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, Game.com,

, and

. Each version has different graphics, with the Genesis version having the same as the original arcade game. The Genesis and SNES versions are the last games released for those consoles in North America. Though using the same box art, they are otherwise unrelated to the 1997 remake. In 2005,

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worked with Konami Digital Entertainment to create the mobile game ''Frogger for Prizes'',Video Game News – Konami Digital Entertainment and InfoSpace Partner to Create Mobile Game Frogger for Prizes
in which players across the U.S. competed in multiplayer tournaments to win daily and weekly prizes. In 2006, the

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version of ''Frogger'' grossed over $10 million in the United States. A

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version was released for compatible

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s. ''Frogger'' was released on the

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for the

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on July 12, 2006. It was developed by

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and published by

. It has two new gameplay modes: versus speed mode and co-op play. Some of the music was replaced, including the familiar ''Frogger'' theme. This version is in the compilation '' Konami Classics Vol. 1''. The original 1981 arcade version joined the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 ''

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'' on December 12, 2019.

Clones

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s include ''Ribbit'' for the

(1981), Acornsoft's ''Hopper'' (1983) for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, A&F Software's ''Frogger'' (1983) for BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum, PSS's (Personal Software Services) ''Hopper'' for the Oric-1 in the UK (1983) and a later release for the ORIC Atmos, ''Froggy'' for the ZX Spectrum released by DJL Software (1984), Solo Software's ''Frogger'' for the Sharp MZ-700 (1984) in the UK, and ''Leap Frog'' for the NewBrain. Several clones retain the basic gameplay of ''Frogger'' and change the style or plot. '' Pacific Coast Highway'' (1982), for the

, splits the gameplay into two alternating screens: one for the highway, one for the water. '' Preppie!'' (1982), for the Atari 8-bit changes the frog to a

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retrieving golf balls at a country club. ''

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'' (1983), for the Atari 2600, uses the ''Frogger'' river gameplay with an arctic theme. '' Crossy Road'' (2014), for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, has a randomly generated series of road and river sections in one endless level, with only one life and a single point given for each forward hop.

In popular culture

*In 1983, ''Frogger'' made its animated television debut as a segment on

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's '' Saturday Supercade'' cartoon lineup. Frogger, voiced by Bob Sarlatte, worked as an investigative reporter. *The hardcore punk band

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recorded a song titled ''Frogger'', included on their 1985 EP '' Back to the Known'', which uses the game as a metaphor to describe the traffic in the band's hometown of

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. The song even opens with a sample of the game's theme music. *In the 1998 ''Seinfeld'' episode "

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", Jerry and George visit a soon-to-be-closed pizzeria they frequented as teenagers and discover the ''Frogger'' machine still in place, with George's decade-old high score still recorded. *''Frogger'' appears in the films ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. *A scene in the ''Teen Titans'' episode "Cyborg the Barbarian" parodies the game. *In 2006, a group in

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, used a modified Roomba dressed as ''Frogger'' to play a real-life version of the game. *In science, Frogger is the name given to a

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("jumping gene") family in the fruit fly ''

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''. *In 2008, the City of Melbourne created a spin-off called ''Grogger'' as part of a public service campaign to encourage people to take safe transportation home after a night of drinking.

Game show

Konami announced that a ''Frogger'' game show was in production for

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, produced by Konami Cross Media NY and Eureka Productions. It debuted on September 9, 2021.

Competition

On November 26, 1999, Rickey's World Famous Sauce offered $10,000 to the first person who could score 1,000,000 points on ''Frogger'' or $1,000 for a new world record prior to January 1, 2000. On March 25, 2005, Robert Mruczek offered $1,000 for beating the fictitious world record of 860,630 as set by

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in an episode of ''Seinfeld'' or $250 for a new world record by the end of that year. On December 1, 2006, John Cunningham offered $250 for exceeding the same fictitious world record of 860,630 points by February 28, 2007. These scores were surpassed only after the bounties had all expired. The first and only score to have been verified as having beaten George Costanza's fictional score of 860,630 points was set by Pat Laffaye of

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on December 22, 2009, with 896,980 points. He continues to be the current ''Frogger''

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holder, who on August 15, 2017 set a new personal best by scoring 1,029,990 points, also becoming the first and only person verified to break one million points on an original arcade machine.

Notes

References

External links

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