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 developed by Coleco, released 31 December 1981 on Handheld Electronic LCD.
What Frogger is
Frogger is an arcade game developed by Coleco and released in 1981. It is available on Handheld Electronic LCD 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.
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 third of 81 entries we hold in the Frogger series. The next entry was Frogger in 1982.
What it launched against
Frogger launched on 31 December 1981, within three weeks of Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf and Robotron: 2084.
Released around the same time: Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf, Robotron: 2084.
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