The main villain of this game is a revenge-seeking background alligator from the original Frogger. Luckily, he’s rescued by his… frog girlfriend…? But then a BOULDER APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE in the middle of the city, poised to crush our hero. Frogger jumps out of the way, and Swampy shakes his fist in frustration. In response to this, Swampy gets into a truck(?) and immediately tries to run over Frogger, who is sitting in the middle of a busy city street for no discernible reason. Seeing Frogger is a bit of a trigger for Swampy, who has a flashback to 1984, when Frogger jumped on his back to get across the river. You may be asking, “who is Swampy?” Well, the game tells us when this drunken asshole catches sight of… uh, posters advertising Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge. The game begins with Swampy, a disgusting mess who is ostensibly an alligator but clearly a dinosaur, drunkenly wandering down the street without a purpose. He agreed, and then proceeding to make… something. But it appears that after completing a decent game, Konami assigned a single underpaid programmer to design and create the cut scenes to shove between the levels. You hop around a level, hit switches, and rescue baby frogs. Here’s the thing about Swampy’s Revenge: the gameplay is very similar to its predecessor. Maybe it’s because Konami released Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge in 2000, and everyone who played it went insane. The franchise was poised for… well, not greatness, but certainly existence. This was a sensible reboot that put Frogger into a 3D, polygonal world, made him look more like an expressive frog and less like a pile of pixels, and translated the grid-based movement of the original into an adventure setting. There was an ’84 sequel, but more well remembered by children of the 80s and 90s is the 1997 reboot game (also called Frogger ) for the Playstation. The original 1981 arcade game is so engrained in pop culture, it’s what your grandma thinks all video games are like.īut for a decade afterward, Frogger didn’t do much frogging. Do you play video games? Have you never heard the term video game before? Either way, you probably know about Frogger.
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