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Frogger

フロッガー

Description

Try 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.

Frogger was produced by Konami in 1981.

Konami released 435 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Frogger was produced include: Space War (Leijac), Block Game, Space King, Amidar, Scramble, 600, Super Cobra, and Jungler

Specs

Name	Frogger
Developer	Konami (Japan)
Released by	Sega - Japan (1981), Europe (1981) Sega/Gremlin - United States (1981)
Year	1981
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7857
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Platform
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Konami Classic
Game Specific	Frogger Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Frogger Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cocktail Table/Island - Sega Slimline
Bezel	Frogger Bezel Image
Control Panel	Frogger Control Panel Image
PCB	Frogger PCB Image

Video Clips

Frogger (Arcade)

Frogger Arcade Game Review - SEGA/GREMLIN developed by Konami

Game Introduction

If 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 Play

The score rolls over to zero after 100,000 points.

Frogger KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.76 (20 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.81

Overall Like	4.21
Fun (Social)	3.37
Fun (Solo)	3.80
Collector Desire	3.84

Technical Rating: 3.70

Gameplay	3.75
Graphics	3.50
Originality	4.32
Sound/Music	3.37

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

BUG: 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!

Images

Trivia

Although Frogger is credited to Sega it was originally developed by Konami.

Frogger is featured prominently in the 174th episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Frogger" in which George discovers a local pizzeria still has the machine with his high score still intact from when he was a kid. George buys the machine, then tries to figure out how to get the game across the street Frogger-style without turning the game off and losing his high score. The cabinet seen in the episode has custom sideart rather than the dedicated Frogger sideart.

Cabinet Information

Froggers 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.

Conversion

The game uses the standard Konami wiring, but there are no buttons which limits the number of games that can be played in this machine.

Miscellaneous

Sequels, 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.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Frogger Census

There are 15,368 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,708 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,369 machines (7,023 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 679 known instances of this machine owned by Frogger collectors who are active members. Of these, 514 of them are original dedicated machines. 16 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 142 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 19 active VAPS members with a Frogger machines for sale. There are 6 active VAPS members with a Frogger circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 48 active VAPS members currently looking for Frogger.

This game ranks a 89 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 65 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Announcing Four New Ways to Win with Sega/Gremlin

1981

More Exciting, More Sophisticated!!

1982 / 4 Pages

Technical

The 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.

Legacy or Series

Frogger
Ribbit

Manuals

German Manual NSM - Frogger Manual — **German Manual NSM**
(12 pages, 1.7 MB File)

Technical Manual Zaccaria - Frogger Manual — **Technical Manual Zaccaria**
(10 pages, 354 kB File)

Owner's Manual - Frogger Manual — **Owner's Manual**
(101 pages, 5.7 MB File)

Schematic - Frogger Manual — **Schematic**
(3 pages, 384 kB File)

Service Note 007 - Frogger Manual — **Service Note 007**
(19 pages, 0.92 MB File)

Service Note 008 - Frogger Manual — **Service Note 008**
(1 page, 0.09 MB File)

Cocktail Manual - Frogger Manual — **Cocktail Manual**
(27 pages, 1.31 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 98; Color photo Price guide: No
Arcade Fever Sellers (ISBN 0762409371) Page: 70; Color photo
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 98; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (81959364f9e94269993295cd37eb627b)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Frogger is playable at 7 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
8-Bit Beans	100 Brock St South, Whitby	Ontario	Canada	Unknown	0
Arcade Monsters - San Diego	704 J St., San Diego	California	United States	Arcade	1
Bartari	101 Adams Ave, Scranton	Pennsylvania	United States	Bar	0
Level One Bar + Arcade	130 Hutchinson Ave, Columbus	Ohio	United States	Unknown	0
Sting Rays Bar And Grill	3112 East State Road 60, Valrico	Florida	United States	Unknown	0
The Very Best Arcade (The Very Best Weiner Shop)	252 E High St, Pottstown	Pennsylvania	United States	Arcade	1
Upstate Pinball & Arcade Museum	109A West Trade St, Simpsonville	South Carolina	United States	Arcade	2

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