| FROGGER (PARKER BROS) |
  Yeah, I know there's no label on it, you could be looking at Polybius for all you know (LOL). But yeah, that's my copy of Frogger, Parker Bros. Sega license based on the arcade game. Frogger was one of the bigger 2600 releases and it tends to land itself into everyone's collection at some point. It's also one of the really good arcade ports.Frogger was an Arcade game created and published by Sega in 1981 or 1982. The arcade port to the 2600 was published by Parker Bros. (yep, THAT Parker Bros.) in 1982 and was one of the most popular games for the system right up there with Asteroids, Space Invaders, Pitfall!, and Missile Command. The 2600 port did a really good job of capturing the feel of the arcade version on a much tighter system and seemed to sell pretty well. Frogger today is a little less remembered as the sands of time go on, though it has tried to "reboot" itself in the past few decades without really catching on. I remembered playing this on a beta on an Xbox 360 when I worked at Microsoft and being a bit impressed with the new version. This is the version I still am the most accustomed to though I play the real arcade version any time I run across it pretty much.A Blank Case and a bag full of Runts - My Experiences I always split my late 70's/early 80's nostalgia up by "vibes" - and this one has sort of that "in the kid's section of the mall in 1982 vibe" where everything is colorful, red, green, yellow, chrome, and there's a lot of plastic stuff evereywhere - sort of the tip of the "geometric shapes" vibe thing. It's that time where 2600 games really started to resemble something someone in 2022 would actually enjoy - graphics aside. Sort of that period where we were moving from that brown carpet and pork-pie-hat business-guy in a Ford Freemont Showbiz/Freddy Fazbear's vibe into the mid-80's hight tech biz-cas family values era - sort of that transitional period from the poo brown Jimmy Carter 70's to the colorful, high-tech, but conservative somehow Regan 80's. Good game to put on some PRetenders, Clash, or Shake-It-Up Era Cars to, and break out a box of Runts or Nerds. The era where you'd probably shack up with a brunette in a red shirt and courderoys named Stephanie. Man, I really got to work on this whole "vibes" thing better....ahem (rustling noises).... Anyway, Frogger is a great arcade port I got with my first 2600 in 89' and it's still one of my faves. Just like one of my guitars, the carts a bit beat up, but that's a "loving" kind of beat up - gloss from heat and the cart being in probably 6-8 different 2600 systems in a span of 40 years. Videos |
