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Sega/Gremlin Year: 1981 Class: Wide Release Genre: Platform Type: Videogame Sub: Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous Controls:
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Frogger DescriptionTry and get your frog from one side of the road, over the river and into your home. To complete a level you must dodge cars, jump on logs and alligator backs while avoiding snakes, alligators, and otters. Bonuses are awarded for getting bugs that momentarily appear, escorting lady frogs home, and getting five frogs safely home.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationFroggers are typically only found in the Sega/Gremlin laminated wood-grain convert-a-cabinets. There are large side-art stickers that included a large hopping frog with a suitcase.Cheats, Tricks and BugsBUG: Sometimes the lady frog is invisible (normally purple) until you accidently jump on it. Then she appears white with red legs on the frog's back. You still get 200 points.BUG: From the middle section between the river and the road, jump upwards to a pad and jump back so where you have been moved to the left just a few pixels. You should be able to go off-screen to the right. (If not, repeat.) For more fun, jump upwards to where a pad should be. You will make it, but you will die. BUG: Part of the background music will cut-out from time to time, only leaving the primary melody playing. BUG: The game is not always even-handed with the rules, and frogs are occasionally killed on perfectly valid jumps. BUG: When timed just right, if you jump into a home base that has an alligator and the alligator disappears mid-jump, your frog will die but will also make it home safely! BUG: Moving left and right on the very top log can sometimes be very slow, and is more likely to occur after previously eating a fly. TRICK: You can usually jump so where you are dangling off of the left side of a turtle, but not the right. TRICK: If you play this game on a PC emulator (such as MAME) and use a code for unlimited time, you will hear the entire background song to its finish. This was never possible on the actual arcade game since you always ran out of time before the song finshed playing. TRICK: The frog becomes controllable in attract mode once it reaches the very top log. TRICK: When the frog in the demo in attract mode is at it's last move, you can control it with no tokens! ConversionThe game uses the standard Konami wiring, but there are no buttons which limits the number of games that can be played in this machine.Game IntroductionIf you continually take excessive time getting the frogs up to their homes at the top of the screen, the vehicles and the items in the river increase in speed thus making the level more difficult.Game PlayThe score rolls over to zero after 100,000 points.MiscellaneousSequels, such as Frogger 3D, were created for the home computer. Many clones were also created, the best of which was called Pacific Coast Highway.It is often unnoticed, but when you complete a level, the noses of all the frogs (from left to right) will turn into hearts and their eyes will light up. You can play a Shockwave version of Frogger online here: ftp://internet.hasbrointeractive.com/anonftp/shockwave/frogger.html Play a JAVA emulated version of the game by visiting http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/JFrogger.html VAPS Arcade CensusGAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETYVery Common - There are 223 known instances of Frogger owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 153 of them are original dedicated machines, 6 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 64 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. Wanted - Very Popular - There are 17 VAPS members currently looking for Frogger. There are 2 VAPS members looking for Frogger board sets. For Sale - There are 9 VAPS members with Frogger machines for sale. There is one VAPS member with an extra Frogger circuit board for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts. Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range. TechnicalThe game uses two Z80 microprocessors and one AY-3-8910 PSG for sound.DIP switches allow setting the number of frogs to be given at the start of a game. The possible settings are 3, 5, 7 or 256. TriviaAlthough Frogger is credited to Sega it was originally developed by Konami.eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Frogger Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Sega/Gremlin. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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