Frogs is a 4-player frog pond game for 2 to 4 players at a graphical designed frog pond with cool party music. There are 3 game modes with different tasks to solve. Lily pads are very dangerous, because sometimes they dive down...
...also the players themselves should should be carfeul where their frogs jump.
The three game modes (jobs):
Countdown: The players must push the opponent's frogs (each 1 point) into the water. The player with the last frog left wins. Here the end score is counting downwards!
Battle: The players must push the opponent's frogs (each 1 point) into the water. The first player who reaches the end score, wins.
Bug Hunt: The players must collect the previoisly set score of random appearing bugs (each 1 point). The first player who reaches this score, wins.
The game supports the classical games 4-player interface, it is, however, also playable as a 2-player game if the interface is unavailable. It was nevertheless designed explicitly as a 4-player game and it provides the most fun in this mode.
Joystick: Control with 2 or up to 4 joysticks using a 4 player joystick adapter in user port. The menu is operated with joystick in port 1 (alternatively ← , 1 , SPACE ). At the end of the round, the point screen is also exited with joystick in port 1.
A frog that is newly "spawned", that is, newly re-enters the game, cannot be hit again directly with continuous fire, because it blinks for a short time afterwards, and if you move it away fast enough, it will be spared from an enemy that is waiting.
Frogs close their eyes when hit by a tongue. This was included to provide more visual feedback to more clearly show that the frog was actually hit and not just jumping around.
When the joystick is pulled in one direction for a short time, the frog only changes its line of sight in that direction without jumping.
Jodigi: "A funny 'push a frog into the lake game' for a few friends in a nice meeting..."
JohannKlasek: "Wenn sich hier 4 Spieler finden, dann kommt das Spiel - also eigentlich die Spieler - so richtig in Fahrt. Wirklich extrem lustig und kurzweilig, bringt die Stimmung binnen Minuten in euphorische Höhen."
In 2018, the game was ported to the Atari STe by Atari developer Thomas Ilg in GFA-BASIC. This version can be played not only with a 4-player adapter, but also using the MIDI interface across multiple networked computers.
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