Genre(s) Action CPU Z80 (@ 1.93356 MHz) Developer Gremlin Industries Mode Single-player video game | Arcade system Sega VIC Dual Initial release date 1978 Cabinet Video game arcade cabinet Platform Arcade game | |
Sound Samples (@ 1.93356 MHz), Discrete (@ 1.93356 MHz) Display Horizontal orientation, 256 x 224 pixels, monochrome CRT, 60 Hz refresh rate, with color printed transparent static overlay Publishers Sega, Gremlin Industries, Sega/Gremlin Similar Gremlin Industries games, Platform games | ||
Frogs is a single-player action arcade game developed by Sega-Gremlin in 1978 and manufactured by UPL. It is the first video game with a jumping character (predating Donkey Kong by 3 years). The player controls a frog on lilypads and attempts to catch (with the frog's tongue and while jumping) various insects (butterflies and dragonflies) worth different amounts of points in a set amount of time.
Frogs is one of the first arcade games to include a static background as part of the arcade cabinet. The game’s graphics are "projected" by laying the monitor flat on its back and reflecting the computer-generated graphics of the frogs and flies toward the player via a mirror at a 45-degree angle. (The game’s graphics were actually generated and shown backward, so the mirror reflection would show letters and numbers properly.)
Clones
Mattel released Frogs and Flies for the Atari 2600, which was renamed Frog Bog for the Intellivision version. Both were released in 1982.
A homebrew clone named Frog Feast was published in 2005 for twelve systems.