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released by

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. It notably featured a jumping character (predating ''

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'' by 3 years).''Frogs''
Earl Green, Phosphor Dot Fossils, retrieved 2010-2-16 The game's graphics are "projected" by laying the monitor flat on its back and reflecting the computer-generated graphics of the frogs and flies toward the player via a mirror at a 45-degree angle. (The game's graphics were actually generated and shown backward, so the mirror reflection would show letters and numbers properly.) The game was distributed by

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in Japan.

Gameplay

The player controls a frog on

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s and attempts to catch (with the frog's tongue and while jumping) various insects (

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and

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) worth different numbers of points in a set amount of time. The World Record holder is Marco Marocco with a score of 13.500.

Legacy

In 1980,

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published a similar game with varying names–''Frog'', ''Frogs'', ''Frog on a Log''–for the TRS-80. In this version the player controls a large frog that moves left or right on a log. Mattel released '' Frogs and Flies'' for the

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, which was renamed ''Frog Bog'' for the

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version. Both were released in 1982.

References

External links

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