Frog Bog
Posted at 12:59 pm on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, in Uncategorized, and tagged intellivision.
I am not sure why, but the San Francisco Chronicle listed what it considered to be the most bizarre video games of all time. The list included…
Frog Bog (1982; Intellivision): The first console games were reasonably straight-forward: two tanks shooting each other, two cowboys shooting each other, two spaceships shooting each other. … This stoner favorite featured pink and white frogs on a lily pad, jumping in the air and using their tongues to snag moths and fireflies.
I wasn’t stoned. I was five years old, and my little sister and I would play this game for hours. I’m not really sure what made the game so fascinating, but the game-play was perfect for the Intellivision remote, which consisted of a phone-like paddle with a complete number pad and a spinning disc. We ruled at this game.
It would start out in the morning, a bright light-blue sky with the frogs jumping for the early-rising flies, and then head on deep into the evening as the sky turned dark and the flies were no more. Then the frogs would suddenly fall asleep on their lily pad, usually coinciding with my mother yelling from the kitchen upstairs that dinner was ready. The frog who ate the most flies won. How could you not love this game?
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May 7th, 2009 at 9:42 am
i still have this game on the re-released version in 2005. i still like it……..something to do with catching the flies….feels like your accomplishing something!