Frogs (video game)

Frogs is a single-player action arcade game developed by Sega-Gremlin in 1978. It is the first video game with a jumping character (predating Donkey Kong by 3 years).[1] 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.

Not to be confused with Frogger.
Frogs
Publisher(s)Sega-Gremlin
Platform(s)Arcade
Release1978
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player
CabinetUpright
Arcade systemSega VIC Dual
CPU1 × Z80 @ 1.93 MHz
SoundDiscrete
Display256 x 224 (horizontal), monochrome CRT, 60 Hz, color printed transparent static overlay

The game's graphics are "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.)[1]

Legacy

In 1980, Adventure International published a clone with varying names–Frog, Frogs, Frog on a Log–for the TRS-80. Mattel released Frogs and Flies for the Atari 2600, which was renamed Frog Bog for the Intellivision version. Both were released in 1982.

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References
  1. Frogs, Earl Green, Phospher Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16


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