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Froggo Games was a
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company that published games for the
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and
Atari 7800 The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console officially released by Atari Corporation in 1986 as the successor to both the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. It can run almost all Atari 2600 cartridges, making it the ...
.


History

Froggo Games incorporated in 1987 when the
Atari 2600 The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridg ...
and
Atari 7800 The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console officially released by Atari Corporation in 1986 as the successor to both the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. It can run almost all Atari 2600 cartridges, making it the ...
were no longer popular systems, years after the release of the
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. Most of their games were copies of releases from other companies, and they had a reputation for extremely poor quality. Four of the ten games on the ''Digital Press'' list of the worst Atari 2600 games are from Froggo. Froggo announced four new titles for the 7800 in the 1989 May/June issue of ''Atarian'' magazine: ''UFO'', ''Pyromania'', ''Night of the Ninja'', and ''Scorpion Squad''. The company went out of business soon after, and the games were never released.


Games

* ''Sea Hawk'' (1983, 1987) *'' Spiderdroid'' (1987) * '' Tank Command'' (1988) * ''Water Ski'' (1988) * ''Cruise Missile'' * ''
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'' (1982,1988) * ''Sea Hunt''(1978,1988)


References

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