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Frogger

System(s): Arcade (Galaxian hardware), Sega Mega Drive, Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit family, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, IBM PC, Intellivision, Macintosh, Odyssey², TI-99/4A, Timex Sinclair 1000, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo, VIC-20

Publisher:

Konami (JP), Sega (US/EU),

Majesco,

Parker Brothers

Developer: Konami,

Morning Star Multimedia,

Parker Brothers,

James Wickstead Design Associates

Distributor:

Palitoy (UK),

Arcade Hardware (UK)

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-2 (alternating)

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1981	$?	?

US	1983	$?	?
EU	1983	£?	?
US	1983	$?	?
EU	1983	£29.95^[1]	?
US	1983	$?	?
EU	1983	£?	?
BR	1983	$?	?

US	1998		T-50901
US	1983
NZ (Disk)	1983	$84.5084.50^[3]
US	1983
US	1983	$34.9534.95^[2]
US (Disk)	1982		FRL 201
US (Cassette)	1983		SRL 403
US	1983
UK	1983	£8.008.00^[4]^[5]
US	1983
US	1983
REDIRECT Template:MAC US	1984
US	198x

ESRB

Mega Drive title screen

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Frogger (フロッガー) is a video game originally developed by Konami and released in 1981. It runs on Namco's Galaxian hardware, and was a huge success for the company during the early 1980s. It was also a huge success for Sega, who picked up publishing and distribution rights for the game in western territories.

Gameplay

The basic idea of the game is to move the frog across the road avoiding cars, then across the river making sure not to fall off platforms to get to one of five destinations. Once Frogger has got to all five destinations, the difficulty increases, often by making the game move faster, reducing the amount of time or adding new obstacles.

History

Legacy

Sega distributed three different arcade versions of Frogger, one of which ran on the modified version of the Galaxian hardware used by Nichibutsu's Moon Cresta.

Between 1982 and 1984, Frogger was brought to almost every home console and computer on general sale in North America, with every port licensed by Sega. The legal status surrounding these versions today is unknown - Konami took back the license from Sega in the mid-1990s and has subsequently produced many games under the Frogger brand - most, if not all Frogger games released in the 1980s (other than those Konami handled themselves, such as the MSX version) have been ignored.

ROM cartridge rights were picked up by Parker Brothers, who subsequently brought the game to all major consoles - the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Odyssey² and TI-99/4A, as well as some computers, including Atari's range of 8-bit home computers, the Commodore 64 and the Commodore VIC-20. Some versions also made it to Europe and Brazil.

Magnetic media rights were held by Sierra On-Line who distributed many of its versions under the short-lived SierraVision brand (with the title The Official Frogger). Sierra released its copies of the game at around the same period as Parker Brothers, with copies available for the Apple II, IBM PC, Macintosh, TRS-80 and TRS-80 CoCo computers. Curiously Sierra also released Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 versions (on disk/cassette) which differ from Parker Brothers' efforts. Perhaps most notably is Sierra's Atari 2600 version, built to take advantage of the relatively obscure cassette-based Supercharger peripheral by Starpath - it is one of only twelve games officially released in this format.

Unofficial versions of Frogger exist for the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum, though neither were officially licensed by Sega. Strangely an official copy did make it to the Dragon 32, however, in which Microdeal converted the TRS-80 version to that system. Multiple LCD and VFD versions of the game from the 1980s were also licensed by Sega (although more modern variants are licensed by Konami).

Sega never brought Frogger to any of its own consoles, however did give Parker Brothers the rights to produce a sequel, Frogger II: ThreeDeep!.

Following Konami's buy-back of the rights to Frogger, a licensing deal was struck with Hasbro Interactive, who in turn licensed out the franchise to Majesco for various home console versions. This led to a North American release of Frogger on the Sega Mega Drive in 1998 - the last Sega Mega Drive game to be released in in the region (and was a North American exclusive). Coincidentally Frogger was also the last SNES game to be released in that region, and marked the first opportunity for a Frogger game to be released on a Nintendo console. Both the Mega Drive and SNES copies of the game recycle box art from Frogger 3D, a three-dimensional sequel released a year earlier.

The Mega Drive version still holds the Sega copyright instead of a Konami copyright. It is unfortunately, however, a straight arcade port, with no enhanced graphics or sound, bar a new title screen. According to the programmer, he built the port by reverse-engineering the arcade version ROMs and comparing to an emulator (presumably MAME), using Genecyst to develop and test.

Plans for a Sega Game Gear version of Frogger were also put in place and was once set for release in the United Kingdom in November 1991^[7], but the port was ultimately scrapped - it is rumoured that licensing issues caused this, though a working prototype of the game has since been found.

Magazine articles

Main article: Frogger/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Arcade US flyer

PDF

Arcade US flyer (AMOA 1981)

Arcade EU flyer

Home systems US print advert

Home systems US print advert (alt)

Home systems US print advert 2

Atari 2600 US print advert

Atari 2600 US print advert 2

Atari 2600 DE print advert

Atari 2600 CA print advert

Home systems CA print advert

Dragon 32 print advert in Computer & Video Games (UK) #24: "October 1983" (1983-09-16)

Photo gallery

Arcade US upright cabinet
Arcade US upright cabinet
Arcade US upright cabinet
Arcade US cocktail cabinet

Physical scans

Arcade version

Sega Retro Average

Publication	Version	Score

	N/A
Based on 0 reviews

Frogger

Arcade, US


Manual

Mega Drive version

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart

Apple II version

Apple II, US
Cover
Disk

Atari 2600 version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Arcade Express (US)

89

^[8]

Complete Guide to Consoles (UK)

42

^[9]

	65
Based on 2 reviews

Frogger

Atari 2600, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Atari 2600, US (alt)
Cover

Atari 2600, US (Supercharger)
Cover
Cassette Cassette cover

Atari 2600, AU
Cover

Atari 2600, DE

Cart

Atari 2600, BR
Cover

Atari 2600, CA

Atari 5200 version

Atari 5200, US
Cover
Cart Manual Overlay

Atari 8-bit Family version

Atari 8-bit family, US (cartridge)
Cover
Cart

Atari 8-bit family, US (cassette)
Cover
Manual

Atari 8-bit family, US (disk)
Cover
Disk Manual

Atari 8-bit family, EU
Cover

ColecoVision version

ColecoVision, US
Cover

Commodore 64 version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Computer Input (NZ)Computer Input (NZ)

100

^[10]

Tilt (FR)

40

^[11]

Tilt (FR)

80

^[12]

	73
Based on 3 reviews

Frogger

Commodore 64, US (cartridge)
Cover
Cart

Commodore 64, US (disk)
Cover
Disk

Commodore 64, US (disk) (alt)

DOS version

DOS, US
Cover

Dragon 32 version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Computer & Video Games (UK)

70

^[5]

	70
Based on 1 review

Frogger

Dragon 32, UK
Cover
Cassette

Intellivision version

Intellivision, US
Cover
Cart

Intellivision, EU
Cover

Intellivision, CA
Cover

Macintosh version

Macintosh, US

Odyssey² version

Odyssey², US

Odyssey², EU
Cover
Cart

Odyssey², BR
Cover

TI-99/4A version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Computer & Video Games (UK)

80

^[6]

	80
Based on 1 review

Frogger

TI-99/4A, US
Cover

Timex Sinclair 1000 version

TS 1000, US
Cover
Cassette

TRS-80 version

TRS-80, US (cassette)

TRS-80, US (disk)
Cover

TRS-80 CoCo version

TRS-80 CoCo, UK?
Cover

VIC-20 version

VIC-20, US
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	ea2e48c0
MD5	a5ef16bf634e12cb959da662858bae94
SHA-1	c0ccfec43ea859ab1e83293a38cfb302c0191719

512kB

1998-09

Cartridge (US)

References

↑ File:CVG UK BookofVideoGames.pdf, page 17
↑ File:CGW US 007.pdf, page 10
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 File:ComputerInput NZ 1983-11.pdf, page 23
↑ File:CVG UK 024.pdf, page 112
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 File:CVG UK 025.pdf, page 156 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 025.pdf_p156" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 File:CVG UK 047.pdf, page 30 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 047.pdf_p30" defined multiple times with different content
↑ File:SegaPro UK 01.pdf, page 9
↑ Arcade Express, "Volume One, Number Three: September 12, 1982" (US; 1982-09-12), page 7
↑ Complete Guide to Consoles, "" (UK; 1989-10-16), page 56
↑ Computer Input, "November 1983" (NZ; 1983-xx-xx), page 23
↑ Tilt, "Juin 1984" (FR; 1984-xx-xx), page 34
↑ Tilt, "Novembre/Décembre 1984" (FR; 1984-xx-xx), page 68

Frogger games for Sega systems and/or published by Sega
Frogger (tabletop) (1981) \| Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984) \| Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (2000)

[:File:CVG_UK_BookofVideoGames.pdf_p17-1] File:CVG UK BookofVideoGames.pdf, page 17

[:File:CGW_US_007.pdf_p10-2] File:CGW US 007.pdf, page 10

[:File:ComputerInput_NZ_1983-11.pdf_p23-3] 3.0 ^3.1 File:ComputerInput NZ 1983-11.pdf, page 23

[:File:CVG_UK_024.pdf_p112-4] File:CVG UK 024.pdf, page 112

[:File:CVG_UK_025.pdf_p156-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 File:CVG UK 025.pdf, page 156 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 025.pdf_p156" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:CVG_UK_047.pdf_p30-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 File:CVG UK 047.pdf, page 30 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 047.pdf_p30" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:SegaPro_UK_01.pdf_p9-7] File:SegaPro UK 01.pdf, page 9

[:File:ArcadeExpress_US_0103.pdf_p7-8] Arcade Express, "Volume One, Number Three: September 12, 1982" (US; 1982-09-12), page 7

[:File:CompleteGuideToConsoles_UK_01.pdf_p56-9] Complete Guide to Consoles, "" (UK; 1989-10-16), page 56

[10] Computer Input, "November 1983" (NZ; 1983-xx-xx), page 23

[:File:Tilt_FR_013.pdf_p34-11] Tilt, "Juin 1984" (FR; 1984-xx-xx), page 34

[:File:Tilt_FR_017.pdf_p68-12] Tilt, "Novembre/Décembre 1984" (FR; 1984-xx-xx), page 68

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Difference between revisions of "Frogger"

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Contents

Gameplay

History

Legacy

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Photo gallery

Physical scans

Arcade version

Mega Drive version

Apple II version

Atari 2600 version

Atari 5200 version

Atari 8-bit Family version

ColecoVision version

Commodore 64 version

DOS version

Dragon 32 version

Intellivision version

Macintosh version

Odyssey² version

TI-99/4A version

Timex Sinclair 1000 version

TRS-80 version

TRS-80 CoCo version

VIC-20 version

Technical information

ROM dump status

References