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[edit] Intellectual property dispute

There was a Game Gear version of Frogger that was finished, but never released. I know this because I own the prototype. What I was wondering is this... did Sega and Konami get into a legal battle over the Frogger intellectual property? It would explain why this finished game never hit store shelves, and why the arcade game Sega had based on Frogger was released with the name "Ribbit." M.Neko

Was the game really meant to be called "Highway Crossing Frog"? I thought that was just a joke in an MTV skit of 'The Matrix'.Smurrayinchester 09:16, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Preppie

One of the greatest Frogger clones was Russ Wetmore's Preppie. http://www.atarihq.com/reviews/atari8/preppie.html

[edit] Cleaning up Ports section

A bit of what I just did:

- I'm removing the POV that Parker Bros inadvertently neglected to scoop up magnetic-media rights to Frogger due to some kind of "innocence," though I understand the intended purpose of this line; Parker Bros. intentionally released only cartridge products, working with other companies (including Sierra on Frogger) who handled magnetic releases. (Though it is true that the Starpath release was one that was unintended... I'll try to work that in somehow.)

- Adding other licensed ports, along with country of release. (There are some odd-ball licensed releases-- who'd imagine a Timex/Sinclair release?)

- Putting licensed ports into some kind of order. Student Driver 17:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

You may have missed one; I'm sure I remember playing Frogger on a BBC Micro when I was at school. Daibhid C 22:00, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I left off non-licensed ports. A company named A&F Software released a version actually called "Frogger" (for BBC and Spectrum), but from what I've been able to tell, it's unlicensed. I'm sure I missed some conversions somewhere, though; if nothing else, there's a huge time-gap in potential Japanese releases. Student Driver 02:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
If anyone wants to add additional ports, please double-check that the port is licensed; I just did research on the Sharp MZ-700 release that was added a few months ago, and it turned out to be another unauthorized clone. To avoid stepping on toes, I moved it into the paragraph describing such unauthorized ports, but I'm wondering if the article is really in need of such a listing-- surely not every single Frogger clone that's been released is notable. Student Driver (talk) 19:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why are four screen shots about to be deleted?

Why are four screenshots from various game consoles about to be deleted? O_o --Logomachist 03:11, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dubious fact

I removed this which was hastily added to the references section:

Mr. James Slone and Mr. Scott Lewis won the annual Frogger tournament in Columbus, Ohio. They both took home $12,500 each. Two sixth graders from Decatur, Ohio won second prize.

It was added by a new user, Nyk78raider. I removed it because:

  1. It's in the wrong section. It's not a reference, it's a fact.
  2. It has no reference; there is no way given to verify the tidbit.

So it remains out until some user can provide a reference to substantiate the claim. It's also be nice if it were fleshed out a bit more. And it needs to be added to the correct location in the article. — Frecklefσσt | Talk 18:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Frogger Watch

A green plastic LCD wristwatch that incorporated a very playable Frogger game appeared in 1984. This was kind of amazing at the time, if not also a bit bizarre. I will leave this to the more knowledgeable to decide whether this is worth including in Ports/Self-Contained. Jeffreykopp (talk) 14:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Freeway"

I would really like to know more about this "Freeway" game that Frogger apparently was based on. Unfortunately, that sentence is not sourced. A Google search would show that nearly every single time such a game is mentioned, Wikipedia is listed as a source (and invariably the entire article on it is typed out verbatim... if copy-and-pasted material can be called typed). It would be nice to have one, although it seems that the person that added it was, like myself, editing through an IP address. He apparently had only ever edited Wikipedia twice, and both times being for this article, in the Legacy section. --71.31.128.108 (talk) 04:51, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

References or it didn't happen. ;) You can remove the statement from the article, just state that it is unreferenced. — Frecklefσσt | Talk 15:17, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I was highly skeptical of that as well without references. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 16:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)