Home Computing Weekly
19th April 1983
A standard version of the arcade game Frogger, where a frog has to be guided through four lanes of traffic, across a river by leaping across logs and turtles and finally into one of five homes. If the home is already occupied by a crocodile you are eaten, but if there is a dragonfly there you score a 50 point bonus.
Other hazards are the risk of the long-suffering turtles sinking beneath the waves, hence drowning you, and a hungry snake lurking on the riverbank (though I never encountered this).
You move your frog using the cursor keys and the S key to start. Attractive graphics and sound, though the tune at the beginning and end of each game gets a bit tedious after a while, especially as it delays the next game.
A good solid implementation of the game, but with no innovations. It is quite compulsive but has one important fault - the keyboard seems to be read unpredictably. Sometimes I was certain I pressed the correct key but had no response; at other times the briefest touch sent the ambling amphibian too far forward and into disaster.
