Frogs
Frogs is a 1978 action video game developed and published by Gremlin Industries for arcades. It featured a jumping character (predating Donkey Kong by three years) with graphics "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.
Frogs
- Date
- 1978.
- Publisher
- Frogs was published by Gremlin Industries.
- Genre
- platformer.
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Frogs is a 1978 action video game developed and published by Gremlin Industries for arcades. It featured a jumping character (predating Donkey Kong by three years) with graphics "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.
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The game was distributed by Sega in Japan.
Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Frogs • Developer — Gremlin Industries • Designer — Lane Hauck • Platforms — Arcade • Genre — Action • Modes — Single-player
Gameplay
Gameplay
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 numbers of points in a set amount of time.
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Japan.
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Frogs is associated with Japan.
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Legacy
In 1980, Adventure International published a similar game with varying names–Frog, Frogs, Frog on a Log–for the TRS-80. In this version the player controls a large frog that moves left or right along a log. Mattel released Frogs and Flies for the Atari 2600, which was renamed Frog Bog for the Intellivision version. Both were published in 1982.
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- 1.San Diego Reader. San Diego's Gremlin: how video games work. 1982-07-15.
- 2.Akagi, Masumi. アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005). Amusement News Agency. 131. 13 October 2006. 978-4990251215.
- 3.Frogs, Earl Green, Phosphor Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16
- 4.Enterbrain. Sega Arcade History. 33–6. 2002.
- 5.Frog for TRS-80 (1980). MobyGames.
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