hello and welcome to a new episode of retro gaming with Ricardo and today you
get the it's Frogger on the Atari ST fraga a lovely family game was produced
in 1981 as an arcade game developed by economy it was licensed for North
America distribution by Sega and gremlin and worldwide by Sega itself it's
regarded classic from the Golden Age of video arcade games noted for its novel
gameplay and thing the object of the game is to guide frogs to their homes
one by one by crossing a busy road navigating a full river of hazzard
incidentally the Frogger arcade coin-op version is an early example of a game
with more than one cpu and it used to their daily processes the game start
with 3 5 or 7 frogs or live depending on the settings use by the operator the
player guides with fraud which start at the bottom of the screen to his home in
one of the five slots the top of the screen the lower half of the screen
contains aerobic motor vehicles which in various versions include cars trucks
buses june veggies bulldozers fans taxis bicycles and all motorcycles speeding
along horizontally the upper half of the screen consists of a river with logs
alligators and turtles all moving horizontally across the screen at
varying speeds the very top of the screen contains five frog homes which
are the destinations for each frog every level is timed usually one minute the
player must act quickly to finish each level before the time expires the only
player controls a fraud Direction joystick no fighter button as it's a
family friendly game and it is used to navigate the Frog each push in the
direction causes the Frog to hop ones in that direction on the bottom half of the
screen the player must successfully guide the Frog between opposing lanes of
trucks curve and other vehicles to avoid becoming roadkill right in the middle of
the screen is a median where the player must appear to
forget the river by jumping swiftly on moving logs and the backs of turtles and
alligators except the alligator jaws the player can guide his or her frog safely
to one of the five empty lily pads also in the Frog homes you may seem bugs the
catch giving you an extra bonus or scores a lady frog for additional
bonuses or there may be a snake an offer in the river in the Frog homes as well
you may find it inhabited by a alligator which will cause instant death after
five levels the game gets briefly easier again as it gets progressively harder to
the next fifth level frogadier's have a title which is quite ominous of being
the arcade game of the most ways to die and here's a few being hit or running
into a road vehicle jumping into the river's water running into snakes
authors or into an alligator stores in the river jumping into a home invaded by
an alligator staying on top of a diving turtle until it's completely submerged
rising a log alligator or turtle off the side of the screen jumping into a home
already occupied by a frog jumping into a side of a home or the bush or running
out of time Frogger was ported to many contemporary home systems Parker
Brothers received the licensing from Sega the cartridge worth versions while
Sierra gains a magnetic media rights platforms include four rom couches and
magnetic media for the commodore 64 the ZX Spectrum the timex sinclair the
dragon city to atari 2600 just the name but a few Parker Brothers spent 10
million on advertising Frogger along with the empire strikes back on the old
sinclair and atari systems there have been lots of ports over the years but
years but most recently xbox live arcade or produce a fantastic version things
have also gone 3d but it's important to note there have been many cloning
Pacific Coast Highway the Atari 8-bit semi preppy frostbite and we have to
mention we've got a mansion Crossy Road for iOS Android and Windows Phone which
has a randomly generated series of roads river sections and additional things
thanks for watching and check back for more videos in the series soon