Frogger is a 1981 arcade game produced by Sega, developed by Konami. The game is regarded as a classic and was very popular for its novel gameplay and theme. It is one of the few classic arcade games whose gameplay did not involve killing hordes of enemies. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video or computer games. ... Konami Corporation (コナミ) (NYSE: KNM) is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling computer and video games. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... This article is about the video game company. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ... This is listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ... Joystick elements: 1. ... Suppose the smiley face in the top left corner is an RGB bitmap image. ... In Space Invaders, the player controls the firing and horizontal position of the green cannon at the bottom, fending off constant attack by echelons of eponymous enemies. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... This article is about the video game company. ... Konami Corporation (コナミ) (NYSE: KNM) is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling computer and video games. ...

Overview

The object of this game is to guide a frog to its home. To do so, the player must get frogs to successfully dodge cars and navigate a river full of hazards. The skillful or lucky player may obtain bonuses along the way. Frogs are amphibians in the Order Anura, which includes frogs and toads. ... For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A waterfall on the Ova da Fedoz, Switzerland A river is a large natural waterway. ...

Description

The player guides a frog which starts at the bottom of the screen. The lower half of the screen contains a road with cars, trucks and other vehicles speeding along. The upper half of the screen consists of a river with logs, alligators and turtles. The very top of the screen contains five "frog homes"--the goal for each frog. Each level is timed, so the player must act quickly to finish each level before the time expires. This article refers to the large reptile. ... Families See text Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudinata, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony shell developed from their ribs. ...

The only control the player has is navigating the direction for the frog to hop with the joystick. Each push in a direction causes the frog to hop once in that direction. On the bottom half of the screen, the player must successfully guide the frog between opposing lanes of trucks, cars and other vehicles. Joystick elements: 1. ...

The middle of the screen, after the road, contains a median where the player must prepare to navigate the river. By jumping on swiftly moving logs and the backs of turtles, the player must attempt to guide his frog safely to one of the empty "homes". The player must avoid alligators, snakes and otters in the river, but may catch bugs or escort a lady frog for bonuses. When all five frogs are directed home, the game progresses to the next, harder level. Superfamilies and Families Henophidia Aniliidae Anomochilidae Boidae Bolyeriidae Cylindrophiidae Loxocemidae Pythonidae Tropidophiidae Uropeltidae Xenopeltidae Typhlopoidea Anomalepididae Leptotyphlopidae Typhlopidae Xenophidia Acrochordidae Atractaspididae Colubridae Elapidae Hydrophiidae Viperidae Snakes are cold blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. ... Genera Amblonyx Aonyx Enhydra Lontra Lutra Lutrogale Pteronura Otters are aquatic or marine carnivorous mammals, members of the large and diverse family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers and others. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets...

Frogger is available as a standard upright. The controls consist solely of a 4-direction joystick used to guide the frog's jump direction. The number of simultaneous players is one, and the game has a maximum of two players.

Legacy

The game was originally going to be titled "Highway Crossing Frog," but the executives at Sega felt it did not capture the true nature of the game and was changed simply to "Frogger." In addition to inspiring numerous clones, this game spawned a sequel in 1991 called Ribbit which featured improved graphics and simultaneous two-player action. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Frogger is regarded as one of the "Top 100 Videogames" of all time by the Killer List of Videogames (KLOV). The Killer List of Videogames (or simply KLOV) is a web site devoted to cataloging arcade games past and present. ...

Ports

Like many games of the era, Frogger was ported to several home systems for personal use. In 1983 Frogger was ported to the PC (booter), Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, Intellivision, and Magnavox Odyssey². Hasbro Interactive released a new version for Microsoft Windows and the PlayStation in 1997. In computing, a port (derived from seaport) is usually an interface through which data are sent and received. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ... The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... Atari 2600 (four-switch version). ... Atari 5200 System The Atari 5200 was a video game console introduced in 1982 by Atari. ... Close-up of C64 Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. ... The Colecovision was Colecos third generation video game console, released in August 1982. ... The Intellivision was a video game console released by Mattel in 1980; development of the console began in 1978 (less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the legendary Atari 2600 aka the Atari VCS). ... Philips Videopac G7000 shown playing Pickaxe Pete The Magnavox Odyssey², known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, in Brazil as the Philips Odyssey, and also by many other names, was a video game console released in 1978. ... Hasbro Interactive was a video game production and publishing subsidiary of Hasbro, the game and toy giant. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of closed source proprietary commercial operating environments for personal computers and servers. ... The PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション) is a video game console of the 32-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the 1990s. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...

Unlike the arcade version, the home versions had numerous sequels, including:

• Frogger II: Three Deep (1984)
• Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (2000)
• Frogger's Adventures: Temple of the Frog (2001)
• Frogger Advance: The Great Quest (2002)
• Frogger Beyond (2002)
• Frogger's Adventures 2: The Lost Wand (2002)
• Frogger's Journey: The Forgotten Relic (2003)

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In the media

The game was featured in an episode of Seinfeld. Seinfeld is a television sitcom, considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the U.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade. ...

In the episode, Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza are in a restaurant and George remembers he had the high score on the Frogger game there when he was a kid. When he looks at the machine he finds he still has the high score. The restaurant is going to get rid of the game and they tell him he can have it. The trick is... he has to move the game without unplugging it, because if he unplugs the game the high score will be erased. This results in a spoof of the actual gameplay of Costanza trying to cross the street with the game without getting hit by a car. Jerry Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld Jerome Jerry Seinfeld, Yiddish סײַנפֿעלד, (born April 29, 1954) is an American actor, writer and comedian from Massapequa, New York, a Long Island, New York Town. ... Jason Alexander as George Costanza George Louis Costanza is a fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998) played by Jason Alexander. ... This article is about an animated cartoon, you may be looking for high score in relation to video games High Score is an animated Internet series, created by the cartoonist Matt Wilson. ...

Songs inspired by Frogger

Around the time Frogger debuted at arcades, Buckner and Garcia recorded a song called "Froggy's Lament". The song was about how to play Frogger and had the Frogger theme as its lead-in. It had the chorus: Buckner & Garcia are the duo of Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia. ...

Froggy takes one step at a time,

the way that he moves has no reason to rhyme.

Go froggy go,

Gotta keep on 'till you get to the top.

External links

• The KLOV entry on Frogger (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=F&game_id=7857)
• MobyGames' entry on the Frogger series for personal systems (http://www.mobygames.com/game_group/sheet/gameGroupId,222/)
• Category at ODP (http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Platform/Frogger_Series/)
• Directory of Free Online Frogger Games (http://freewebarcade.com/arcade/frogger/index.html)
• A Shockwave version of Frogger (http://www.startinglinks.net/games/frogger.dcr)
• An online version of Frogger (http://www.games2go.co.uk/game/frogger)
• Sheepish (http://www.games2go.co.uk/game/sheepish), a game similar to Frogger