Frogger
Frogger is an arcade and video game, which was produced in 1981 by Sega and developed by Konami.
In the game it's about a frog safely across a busy street and then run across a river. dodge on the road, the frog fünfspurigen different vehicles. Since the frog can not swim, he crossed the river by using turtles and driving logs as platforms. He can swim about crocodiles and snakes fall victim. The goal of each game level is to fill up, the five bays on the opposite bank with frogs. If there is a fly, you get 200 bonus points. This also applies to bring a female frog or the completion of the course, especially in a short time.
With increasing number of points crossing the road is dangerous due to increased traffic. Similarly, the number of enemies in the river, while the gaps between the platforms will be greater.
Frogger won first in arcades and on the Atari 2600 in popularity and was later for the Commodore VIC 20/C64, the Sinclair Spectrum, the IBM-PC and implemented for the Apple II and various game consoles. In July 2006 a version appeared on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360, in addition to improved graphics and an online multiplayer mode is included.
On the Atari 2600 game Frogger one of the games with the best Sound-/Musik-Untermalung.
The Philips-G7000 version of the game Frogger was spread over two monitors (screens): A screen was crossing the street to the other to the river crossing. This enabled all the contents of the game will be played back on the graphically weak Philips G7000 console.
A version of the game is in the lighting control consoles of the Frog series of Zero integrated 88 as Easter Egg.
Today, the original program code also independently from the original hardware to the emulator MAME be executed.
Trivia
The first 16 seconds of a version for tape drive has been known in the play Atari of the Hamburg group Fischerspooner a wide audience and thus played on the radio (for example, in the chaos of the radio ORB).
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