Home Computing Weekly


Frogger

Author: M.B.
Publisher: Rabbit
Machine: Commodore Vic 20

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #25

For the benefit of any Martians who have just bought a Vic-20, Frogger involves piloting a small frog across a large road followed by a large river to its resting place on the opposite bank.

The journey faced by the amphibians in this program is very hazardous involving slow cars, fast cars, buses, turtles, logs and alligators.

Noticable by their absence are several features of the original game such as diving turtles, little bonus frogs which can be carried to safety and a time limit, but the game is complex and challenging as it stands.

Graphics are good, especially the alligators - not for faint-hearted frogs. Sound is almost non-existent, a fact I have noted in several Rabbit productions, but I suppose you can't have everything.

No bugs were found except possibly the lack of time limit. The bottom right hand corner of the screen clearly shows the words Time Frogger, but that's as far as it goes.

It makes a change to do something humane for once instead of wiping out yet another galactic civilisation.

M.B.

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