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Culture

Frogger: Mad As Hell, Not Taking It Anymore

2:00PM Owen Good | Give firearms to one pissed-off amphibian and watch roadkill turn into road rage. Oh, so I’m gonna die if I hit the edge of this screen, MFer? Yeah, well, Frogger’s goin’ home, bitch — through the front goddamn door. More »
News

Homeland Security Seizes Fake Frogger, Donkey Kong Machines

11:00AM Stephen Totilo | In a change of pace from the many stories we run about games being downloaded illegally, here’s news of a seizure of 168 coin-op machines that played some very old games. More »
News

The Nintendo Download: It’s Old Home Week

2:40AM Mike Fahey | Familiar names and face populate this week’s downloadable Nintendo games, with appearances by Frogger, Excitebike, Bomberman and more Electroplankton than you can shake a stylus at. More »
Features

Backyard Adaptations Of Video Game Classics

6:00AM Brian Crecente | Growing up meant summers spent outside for me. Long days locked outside with no hope of returning home until the sun fell and my parents called us for dinner. More »

Konami Also Bringing Silent Hill, DDR & Frogger To The iPhone

6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Metal Gear isn’t the only Konami cash-cow that can make the jump to the iPhone. It’s been announced tonight that two further Konami franchises – Silent Hill and DDR – will be joining it. More »

Prototyping Challenge: Fishing Girl

3:30AM Maggie Greene | Danc of Lost Garden is back with another prototyping challenge; game designer I am not, but I love these things — especially seeing what people come up with. On the plate this cycle? A fishing game that Danc describes as “Frogger using a polar coordinate system, a frog that insists on drifting to the left and only the ability to move forward”: More »

iPhone Frogger Impressions

12:00AM Brian Crecente | My Frogger experiences are relatively limited. Over the years I’ve enjoyed a love/hate relationship with the classic Konami title. Every time I ever saw the game in an arcade I would go out of my way to not play it, not even look at it, because on many levels it just irritated the shit out of me. It was a game that rewarded patience and punished my natural tendencies. But the thing is, when I was living in Seoul, Korea it was one of the only games available to play (besides Ms. Pacman) in the Officers Club on base. So of course I played the hell out of it. Recently, I had a chance to revisit the game in iPhone form. More »