Frogger II: ThreeeDeep!

Atari console exclusive

In Frogger II, you need to guide your frog to safety in three different locations. ). Once on top of the pond, hop across logs, birds, and even a whale to the life preserver trailing behind a tugboat. In the third location you have to hop across a flock of birds to reach a cloud at the top of the screen.

Released: 1984
Platforms: Apple II Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 8-bit ColecoVision Commodore 64 Commodore C64/128/MAX MS-DOS
Genres: Action Arcade
Developers: Parker Brothers Simon & Schuster
Publishers: Parker Brothers
Series: Frogger
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action
Country: United States
Languages: English

About

Frogger II: ThreeeDeep! is a 1984 action video game developed and published by Parker Brothers for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, and IBM PC. It is a sequel to Konami's 1981 arcade video game Frogger and has similar gameplay.

The goal of Frogger II is to maneuver each frog to a berth at the top of a screen. Once all of the berths are filled, the player progresses to the next level. Unlike its predecessor, it has three interconnected screens for each level rather than one screen per level, with berths at the top of each of the three screens that need to be filled.

Keywords

frog
bird
pixel art
high score
protagonist's name in the title
underwater gameplay
cga graphics
water level
whale
hippopotamus

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

In a 1984 review of the Commodore 64 cartridge for Electronic Games, Louise Kohl wrote, "Fans of the original will be very pleased with its successor, and newer fans will find it appealing and challenging as well. A year ago, before the rise of computer action games with their greater emphasis on strategy, this would have been a more exciting release."

Also writing for Electronic Games, Ted Salamone was impressed that the Atari 2600 version "actually looks, plays, and sounds state of the art, all on the lowly 2600". He pointed out some flickering and difficult to distinguish objects, but still called the overall package "flawless". Computer Games gave the Atari 8-bit computer version an A rating, saying it "makes the original look like kid stuff". Computer and Video Games rated the ColecoVision version 48% in 1989.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Apple II	31 December 1984	North America
Atari 2600	31 December 1984	North America
Atari 5200	31 December 1984	North America
Atari 8-bit	31 December 1984	North America
ColecoVision	31 December 1984	North America
Commodore C64/128/MAX	31 December 1984	North America
MS-DOS	31 December 1984	North America