Frogger (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
261A playthrough of Majesco's 1998 arcade action game for the Super Nintendo, Frogger.
Frogger. For the Super Nintendo.
Believe it or not, it's actually a thing.
The original arcade game, made by Konami and sold by Sega way back in 1981, was a huge hit that was ported to virtually every platform ever in the early 80s. The first time I played it was when my dad one day brought home a copy of the Atari 2600 game, and it was great!
Of course, that was in 1987. By 1998, things had changed a little bit. I remember doing a double-take when I saw this one on the shelf at Walmart, right next to the budget reprints of games like Monopoly and Clue. (Remember how they all had cheap black and white copies of their original manuals?)
Frogger was a game that I hadn't thought about in a long time, and it wasn't a game I had ever expected to see at retail, but there it was - a 16-bit release of a seventeen year old arcade game.
The first time I played this one, I remember expecting something along the lines of a straight conversion that leveraged the SNES's power to give us a bit closer to "arcade perfect" than you'd see on an Atari or a Colecovision.
(You know... like they did with the Sega Genesis version? https://youtu.be/rdpmmZLbCrg )
And while the gameplay is the same as it has always been - get your frogs safely across the busy road and the stream infested with gators and snakes - the facelift given the game was anything by accurate. Or appealing.
The memorable tunes are gone completely, the in-game graphics are muddy and messy looking, and the splash screens all look like they were adapted from the menu of a Windows 3.1 shovelware sampler CD. And what are those sound effects?
It still sort of plays like Frogger, and that's this game's only saving grace. Still, it's a disappointing, disposable effort that does little but to tarnish the reputation of a classic, and it wasn't nearly worth the $15 asking price. And to think that this was the last official SNES release in North America... smh.
Finally, a big thank you to Solar Flare, who drew my attention to an editing snafu in my original upload. I went back to my backed up footage and recut the video, so now it all looks the way it should.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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