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{{comic
 
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| number    = 772
 
| number    = 772
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| date      = July 28, 2010
 
| title    = Frogger
 
| title    = Frogger
 
| image    = frogger.png
 
| image    = frogger.png
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| titletext = I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.
 
| titletext = I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
{{w|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 lilly pad at the top of the screen. A team of programmers has been asked to make the game "more realistic". While the idea was that they would improve the graphics of this classic game, the team have interpreted it differently - they have made the lorries swerve to avoid the frog instead of moving at a constant rate in straight lines and casing a pile up. They have also added witnesses to the crash.
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{{w|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 trucks swerve to avoid the car-sized frog, causing a pile up, instead of moving at a constant rate in straight lines.
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Perhaps Randall was inspired by [https://youtu.be/b2gow415F5k this Robot Chicken sketch].
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
[Frogger is standing by the side of the road, looking out into traffic, which includes several semis and a couple sedans.]
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:[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>>
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:[Frogger hops out in front of a semi.]
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:''hop''
  
Bystander (off-panel): Oh god!
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:[The semi swerves into the next lane, in front of one of the sedans.]
  
Other Bystander (off-panel): Someone call 911!
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:[They collide, the sedan crumpling into the cab of the truck.]
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:''BOOM''
  
Another Bystander (off-panel): Mom!
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:[Smoke pours from the two wrecked vehicles. Frogger hops back to the side of the road.]
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:''hop''
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:Bystander (off-panel): Oh god!
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:Other Bystander (off-panel): Someone call 911!
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:Another Bystander (off-panel): Mom!
  
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Revision as of 23:45, 28 November 2015

Frogger
I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.
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 trucks swerve to avoid the car-sized frog, causing a pile up, instead of moving at a constant rate in straight lines.

Perhaps Randall was inspired by this Robot Chicken sketch.

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)

In other words, it in no way has anything even faintly resembling the same joke or premise, except that it involved frogger and a crash. — Kazvorpal (talk) 17:23, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Honestly, most frogs attempting to cross the road would go unnoticed, whether missed or flattened. But if you saw a frog the size of an Izeta in the road, you probably would swerve to miss, if you thought no one was in the next lane. Nyperold (talk) 21:38, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

somebody actually made this game XD https://shadowsora211.itch.io/bad-luck-cat my highscore is 3550. New editor (talk) 06:58, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

xkcd Game Jam version: https://technostalgic.itch.io/frogger-xkcd-style - Mike Rosoft (talk) 22:42, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

there was an xkcd game jam? --162.158.74.49 08:26, 11 March 2024 (UTC)