Frogger (Atari 2600)

in retrogaming •  6 years ago  (edited)


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Frogger was originally developed by Konami and released in 1981 as an arcade game. The Atari 2600 port by Parker Brothers came along in 1982 and there are way too many ports, clones, remakes and re-releases to mention. For the early ports, Parker Brothers was responsible for the cartridge based versions and Sierra was responsible for the disk based versions. This meant some platforms had two versions of the game. The Atari 2600 port was a good one for that system and of the contemporary ports was probably the most played.

Frogger is kind of a platform game but played from an overhead perspective. Your goal is to guide five frogs from the bottom the screen to the top. You must pass through a number of lanes of traffic without being squashed. Afterwards, you have a brief respite and then you must cross a river by hopping across logs and the backs of turtles that may sink and drown you and alligators that may do the same or eat you if you get to close to their mouth. After successfully navigating five frogs, you will progress to the next level which is much the same, just harder and faster.

There are numerous ways to play Frogger today. If you want to give the Atari 2600 version a try I'm not sure there is an easy way aside from emulation. There is a version of frogger on some of the Atari Flashback consoles but it is a remake, not the original Atari 2600 version. There are of course many better versions out there including those that are arcade perfect.

The ad and screenshots above are for the Atari 2600 version of Frogger.

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Wow I remember all of this. Even before Atari 2600, we had a HUGE console game called paddle pong that you had to connect to the back of the CRT-television we had back then. My favorite games on the Atari were Pitfall, Asteroid, and a game called Night Driver. I used to bug my mom to rent games at the local video rental store where we could rent a VHS movie as well. It's amazing how things have advanced since those days! Thank you for the memories!

Man those ads were outrageous