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.

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


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