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Why Robin Makes Batman Better 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.
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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.
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.
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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”:
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.
