The effort to research, the fact you continuously put out awesome videos, the fact you fill an awesome niche in the retro-gaming RU-vid sphere... and yet you only have 72k subs? This is criminal.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries All relative, your 72k (edit: 76k!) is a hell of a lot people and I imagine they're all real, super-focused retro game fans. I'd say your channel absolutely took off, to a purist audience. And well deserved too!
I was always fascinated with Frogger. I had it for the TRS-80 Model I. It was very accurate, even though it only had black & white graphics. It even had polyphonic music on the title screen and although it had music during gameplay, it was choppy due to the burden of scrolling the screen at the same time.
It was one of my favorite games growing up. I liked TRS 80 just because I could play on it whenever I went into a RadioShack LOL I don't think I've tried this version of Frogger so I will have to check it out thanks
My earliest video game memory was seeing a Frogger cartridge for the 2600 in my parent's bedroom. I never got to play it but I distinctly remember that cartridge.
Ah yes! Growing up I played this a few thousand times. The local movie theatre had a cocktail table version, and the local arcade, Video Palace in Gloversville, NY, had this too. As I get older now, and I explore new hobbies, maybe building cabinets and games should be on the list. Yes. I think so...
...ahhh I remember that night...The perfect combination of Mountain Dew and mozzarella...just the right amount of grease on the joy stick... 860,000 GLC!!!
I really liked that PlayStation version of Frogger. It was a lot of fun. There was also an awesome game with a similar aesthetic called Pong 2000 that I spent a lot of time on as well. Sometimes the simplest, pick up and play, titles are still the best.
This is your best video yet production-wise, P. I'm so glad you included all the high profile ports, and the Seinfeld bit. I always liked it when games back then included different enemies as the game advanced, like the yellow tanks in Battlezone, and here with the snakes. They always kinda fascinated me when I was a kid.
Thanks for the kind words. There wasn't a whole lot to talk about with frogger but it's one of my favorite classic games. Yes, level II with the alligators and level III with the snakes and the otters. I hope you enjoy the retro commercials as well because I enjoy watching them. Thanks again
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Most definitely. I'll never forget the first commercial for the original Legend of Zelda. That's the first one I can remember seeing. After that it was an Atari 7800 commercial and since it featured Mario Bros. I was ripping the couch apart in excitement. Alas I still don't have a 7800 haha!
@@TheMathius78 That Mario commercial is a classic. To this day even before I did the video on Mario Brothers I could still recite that commercial line for line
I had the TI-99/4A version which was written in Basic and was published in the local TI 99 Sydney Club magazine. I remember spending an evening in 1984 typing the code into my Ti-99/4A and saving it to cassette. It was a very good version of Frogger. Thanks for the memories ;-)
I rewatch the video every time I binge playing Frogger on MAME because "a short angry fart" is quite possibly the funniest line in any RU-vid video...ever....makes me smile every time, then giggle....then....a short happy fart! :-) Thanks again, love your videos.
I just recently discovered your channel and now im binge watching your videos. Your doing a great job man keep at it. Im a gamer from WAY back and I learn something cool from every video.
Thank you for a great video. I am subscribing hoping you do more of the classic games such as Pac-Man Centipede and Asteroids. One of my favorite things about this video is the screenshots of the various platforms for home video play. Awesome job though!
Absolutely, thank you for subscribing and that's a great username by the way….If you weeeeell. I try to do different time frames so frog or was from 82 I next one is from 89 so I'll probably do something like Pac-Man or centipede next. Thanks for watching
I only had access to Frogger on the Atari version it became a favorite for me. Never saw those versions what you guys had de opportunity to try, good memories... great video!!!
Back in the ps1 era, 1 of my friends had spyro 1 & frogger. We played frogger more, since it can be played in competitive 2 player mode. Also when u said "one more time" @ 9:39, I instanly thought of the daft punk song
Nice documentary, and excellent video Patman! Will be including a recommendation, and a link to your video on my channel's review video of the IntelliVision port Wednesday.
The 2600 version of Frogger might very well be the first video game I ever played! To this day it's a great game to go back to on almost any version, the core gameplay is pretty much perfect.
Great game, spent many hours on this back in the day on my 2600... another one was one called Trashman on the C=64 which is similar to paper boy except you're emptying trash. (bins here in the uk).
When my local arcade closed in 1986 I bought the Joust upright cabinet from the arcade owner. Even to this day I still own and play it. My young son loves trying to beat his old man.
Just wanted to say I love the videos you're doing, you're off to a great start. My only suggestion is to get a better microphone (or get closer to your existing one). But please keep up the great work!
I just got a snowball ice microphone about a month ago and the quality is much better compared to my old one. I'll try to get a bit closer to the microphone though. Thanks for subscribing and also being a patreon member. I really appreciate it.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I look forward to future videos :-) As for the microphone, don't be afraid to test a few scenarios (up close, a foot away, close but to the side, etc.) and record some sound tests. (It took me two hours of testing my first time to come up with something I was happy with.)
Loving these videos, thank you! Oh, did you know Freeway was originally involving a person and when he got hit there was a nasty splat? It was changed to the chicken, who is only pushed back, to make a family friendly game...
I guess I was an odd one, I actually liked the IntelliVision controllers. Now, I admit, one thing I did hate, was when the keypad overlay got damaged or lost.
This is the one that got(or hopped) away! Parker Brothers had this along with Popeye & Q*bert available for the TI-99/4a. I could only afford two. I did get a variation on cassette, but it was keyboard control only! Folks today don't realize just HOW EASY they got it!
That is a superb video, brilliant job! Fascinating about the music, loved the comparisons, and then the TV/film items were new to me as well. A great game which I remember from both VCS and arcade. Rather disingenuous of David Crane to deny knowledge of it but we'll let it go...! Excellent job, PatmanQC, cheers from London.
I love Frogger. I use to play Frogger on the PlayStation 1 with my brother , dad and cousins. What a amazing classic game and wonderful background story. Cool video. ^_^
I grew up on this game on ATARI. People were crazy for Space Invaders, but I was playing Frogger! I always thought those were Seals not Otters, good to know. In my opinion the best version is the Game Boy Color where Frogger has a sign & looks like the Looney Tune Frog who sings: Hello my Baby, Hello my Honey, Hello my Rag Tag Gal! That game makes Frogger taunt you like the owner of that frog in the cartoons to where you want to play it again after you die! Fun Frustrating Repeat Playability with that game! Makes you want to leave the house & cross the road!
Growing up in the arcade there was no description on the cabinet of what the creatures were. I do recall some people thinking that they were seals in my arcade as well.
Great video, thx. Funny how long it took the home consoles to accurately reproduce arcade games. That's why Sega was killing it back then. I still remember that particular birthday when I got the 2600 cartridge. At school, I was constantly getting asked to play my frogger watch😅 I forgot how popular that game was!
I'm enjoying these history of videos and would love the 9 part all versions inc home brews (inc mine ;)). After many years, I worked out the video game "physics" of Frogger :) The river flows to fast for frogger, except in the "homes" which are out of the main flow. The logs float downstream, while the turtles swim upstream. Now, if I can just explain the purple grass ;)
Frogger is one of the most copied cloned arcade games right next to Pac-Man and donkey Kong. I'm sure if I ever do an update of this I can include a few homebrew's. Thanks, glad you enjoyed the histories
The version for the Atari home computers from Sierra Online was best, I still have it, it has all the original music from the arcade and plays and looks great. Disk only I believe.
If using the original controllers for the Atari 5200 port there is the added challenge of movement due to the non-centering, analogue nature of it. You need to both move the stick in the direction desired and also push the fire button for each space you want to move. It's the same situation with Q*bert as well. With Frogger there is the option of using the keypad buttons to move instead.
I wish I found the Colecovision version as a kid. The Genesis version is great. Tiny Arcade made a generally faithful conversion too recently, though not arcade perfect in minor details. Graphically, it looks like the arcade though. Sound is good but the music seems off. Thanks for Frogger history!
Genesis is the host to a few of the best versions of classic arcade games I love. I have Flicky, Defender II/Stargate, Sinistar, Fix It Felix Jr. (wink) and now Frogger. Much better than Froggie and Parker Brothers versions on the venerable Atari 7800 I love so much too.
George Costanza was champion of this game....but the cabinet to prove it was destroyed! Edit- I made this comment before I noticed you talked about that episode of Seinfeld!
I purchased the "Majesco's TV Arcade: Konami collection" from a thrift store. I am trying to figure out what version of Frogger it has, or if it is unique to the system.
It was my goal to make this identical to the arcade version. I actually put the ROM image from the arcade in the Sega Genesis cartridge for graphics and music. It's playing the actual MIDI-type music sequences from the arcade, and the graphics were digitally extracted from the arcade ROM image, too. Had to recreated by hand the actual gameplay, though (deadline pressure) and since I couldn't reach the higher levels had to invent them. If I'd had more time might have replaced the 8-bit graphics with 16-bit new artwork, but didn't think any player would mind arcade-perfect. Glad you like it!
Playing this game on the Atari 2600 with my sister and parents was when I realized I needed glasses.... lmfao Oh, the shit you remember from when you were a kid....
Not my first but it was close. I can recall playing space invaders and also some obscure black-and-white bowling game coincidentally enough at a bowling alley. :-)
