The levels are quite well designed and present interesting variations on the hazards of the original game. The zoomed-in camera means the screen scrolls vertically as you hop towards home, and the game is presented with an isometric tilt, but otherwise the structure is the same as the arcade original: start out at the bottom and make your way through hazards to reach one of five lily pads at the top using only the to guide you. Visually the game is very different from its sprite-based ancestor the graphics are all 3D polygons and while the objects look like brightly coloured, slightly chunky Playstation-era models in screenshots, they're quite pleasingly animated in motion. Frogger Returns is a refreshing entry in the series because it's faithful to the original game structure, yet it provides some interesting new gameplay that makes it more than a mere graphical face-lift of the original. Frogger is more of a free-form maze game than a platformer, and many of these games were plagued with camera issues and confusing level layouts. Sequels in the 3D era starting with the Sony Playstation were noteworthy for attempting to update the graphics and gameplay, but sadly these came with mixed results. Frogger Returns stands out as the first follow-up in the past decade that really tries to be faithful to the gameplay of the original arcade game and should satisfy old-school fans.įrogger started out as a simple game played with a 4-way joystick wherein the goal was simply to get a frog through various hazards from the bottom of the screen to one of 5 different lily pads at the top, repeating the journey until all five were filled before starting afresh with increased hazards. It's the only Konami arcade game from the early '80s that's been kept alive as a franchise property (unless you regard Gradius as a direct sequel to Scramble or Super Cobra) with numerous titles released during the past console generation. It was ported to pretty much every 8-bit console and computer system in the world, bootlegged numerous times and even immortalised in song on the seminal 'Pac-Man Fever' LP by Buckner & Garcia.

It cannot be denied that Frogger is one of the original arcade hits.

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