Frogger
Your task in this arcade game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the screen. Both these sections are fraught with a variety of hazards, each of which will kill…
Frogger is an arcade, released 31 December 1983 on Atari 5200.
What Frogger is
Frogger was released in 1983. It was published by Parker Brothers. It is available on Atari 5200 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Your task in this arcade game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the screen. Both these sections are fraught with a variety of hazards, each of which will kill the frog and cost you a life if contact is made. The Atari 8-bit version was later ported to the Atari 5200.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Frogger series
Frogger is the 15th of 81 entries we hold in the Frogger series. The next entry was Frogger in 1983.
What it launched against
Frogger launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac and Zoo Keeper.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, Zoo Keeper.
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