772: Frogger

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Frogger

Title text: I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.

Explanation

Frogger is a classic video game introduced in 1981. The aim of the game is to safely get a frog across a busy road and a river to a lily pad at the top of the screen. The title text reveals that a team of programmers misinterpreted a task to make the game "more realistic", and made the lorries swerve to avoid the (realistically) car-sized frog, causing a pile up, instead of moving at a constant rate in straight lines.

Perhaps Randall was inspired by this video.

Transcript

[Frogger is standing by the side of the road, looking out into traffic, which includes several semis and a couple of sedans.]

[Frogger hops out in front of a semi.]

hop

[The semi swerves into the next lane, in front of one of the sedans.]

[They collide, the sedan crumpling into the cab of the truck.]

BOOM

[Smoke pours from the two wrecked vehicles. Frogger hops back to the side of the road.]

hop

Bystander (off-panel): Oh god!

Other Bystander (off-panel): Someone call 911!

Another Bystander (off-panel): Mom!

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Discussion

There's actually a video of this already, made by Robot Chicken. It doesn't have the innocent bystanders, though, and it doesn't have the title text either. Davidy²²(talk) 10:00, 30 October 2012 (UTC)