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It's the mating season for toads. The time when they are driven by their natural animal instincts to their breeding grounds. To get there they have to have to safely cross a road, avoiding the racing cars, lorries, and police cars that speed along in the middle of the road.

After that little ordeal, our slimy friends are too exhausted to swim and have to jump onto a turtle or a log that just happens to be passing, then they can hop to safety onto their lily pads.

Road Toad is another 'Frogger' type of game for your C64. The more frogs that you guide across the road the harder that it becomes. When you have completed one sheet the going gets really tough, with more cars and lorries and less logs. On another sheet female frogs appear on the logs and sometimes float on the water to fool you (a bug maybe?). A few more sheets and a toad-eating snake appears in the central reservation, logs turn into crocodiles, and those friendly turtles dive under water - and you thought that you could trust them! After that everything just gets faster and faster.

The graphics are reasonable but the game has no music - just beeps here and there. If you are not a Frogger fan, this game will not convert you. If you are then you could do better on your C64. Road Toad is cassette based and uses joystick only.