Home Computing Weekly


Road Toad

Author: M.B.
Publisher: DK Tronics
Machine: Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #20

Another version of the well known Frogger, in which your objective is to steer a toad across a busy road, a snake-infested stream, then a river full of turtles and logs, to reach the safety of a lily pad.

You must, of course, avoid the wheels of the trucks and the mouth of the nasty old snake and, when you reach the river, you must cross by riding on the backs of the turtles and logs to aovid falling in.

I have never understood why toads die when they fall in the river in this game, but I suppose it's poetic licence.

Very colourful graphics, with detailed high resolution, and I particularly liked the movement of the snake.

However, the use of sound effects could have been improved (only one short sound is used in the entire program) and the keyboard decoding allows you to use only one key at a time, preventing diagonal hopping. This reduces the element of skill involved.

M.B.

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