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Wanting to broaden the player base demographics, Jack Gordon, director of video game sales at Sega/Gremlin, noted that women shied away from the "shoot 'em ups" on the market, and that games like Frogger "filled the void".
Reporting on Gordon's claim that Froggers appeal lacked barriers of age or sex, Cashbox in October 1981 said "watch for it".
In 1981, Computer and Video Games reviewed the arcade game as "one of the popular new generation of arcade games which are getting way from space themes".
In his 1982 book Video Invaders, Steve Bloom described Frogger as a "climbing game" along with Space Panic (1980) and Nintendo's Donkey Kong (1981).
He said it was one of the "most exciting variations" on Pac-Mans maze theme along with Donkey Kong due to how players need to "scale from the bottom of the screen to the top" which make them "more like obstacle courses than mazes" since "you always know where you're going—up.
Brett Alan Weiss of AllGame later reviewed the arcade game, calling it one of "the most beloved videogames ever created" and "pure, undiluted gaming at its finest".
He said the "graphics are cute and detailed, the sound effects are crisp and clear, and the controls are sharp and responsive".
Arcade Express reviewed the Atari VCS version in 1982, calling it "a highly authentic translation of the coin-op hit" that combines "great graphics with sophisticated play action".
Danny Goodman of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games wrote in 1983 that the Atari 2600 version "is one of the most detailed translations I have seen", noting the addition of the wraparound screen.
Ahoy! said that both the Sierra disk version and Parker Brothers cartridge version for the Commodore 64 "are excellent, with little to choose between them".
In the 1998 Seinfeld episode "The Frogger", Jerry and George visit a soon-to-be-closed pizzeria they frequented as teenagers and discover the Frogger machine still in place, with George's decade-old high score still recorded.
Furthermore, the Mega Drive port of this game, released in 1998, became the last title released for that console in North America, and the Super Famicom port released the same year became the last title officially released for that console in North America.
It also proves that Atari isn't the only one making home versions of the major arcade games for the VCS.
Crossy Road (2014), for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, has a randomly generated series of road and river sections in one endless level, with only one life and a single point given for each forward hop.
In 1983, Frogger made its animated television debut as a segment on CBS's Saturday Supercade cartoon lineup.
On November 26, 1999, Rickey's World Famous Sauce offered $10,000 to the first person who could score 1,000,000 points on Frogger or $1,000 for a new world record prior to January 1, 2000.
The first score to have been verified as having beaten George Costanza's fictional score of 860,630 points was set by Pat Laffaye of Westport, Connecticut on December 22, 2009, with 896,980 points.
He later surpassed his own world record on September 21, 2017, scoring 1,029,990 points, also becoming the first person to break one million points on an original arcade machine.
In North America, the final official title was Frogger from Majesco which was the only SNES game released in 1998.
By 2005, 20 million copies of its various home video game incarnations had been sold worldwide.
By 2005, copies of the various home versions had been sold worldwide, including in the United States.
On November 26, 1999, Rickey's World Famous Sauce offered $10,000 to the first person who could score 1,000,000 points on Frogger or $1,000 for a new world record prior to January 1, 2000.
On December 1, 2006, John Cunningham offered $250 for exceeding the same fictitious world record of 860,630 points by February 28, 2007.
The first score to have been verified as having beaten George Costanza's fictional score of 860,630 points was set by Pat Laffaye of Westport, Connecticut on December 22, 2009, with 896,980 points.
He later surpassed his own world record on September 21, 2017, scoring 1,029,990 points, also becoming the first person to break one million points on an original arcade machine.
The current Frogger world record holder is Michael Smith of Durham, North Carolina who on September 21, 2024, scored 1,404,570 points.
Outside Japan, the sequel Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge was also released on the PlayStation in 2000.
The platforms and publishers for releases not sold in Japan are as follows.
Some of these pieces of music were replaced with different tracks in the home console ports, for rights reasons.
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