Frogger Desktop Arcade

Posted by Alex in Gadget, Toy & Video Games on March 20, 2008 at 5:57 am


p>Remember the Seinfeld episode where George Costanza bought a Frogger machine with his high score and tried to push it across a busy street? Well, if only he had this Frogger desktop arcade!

Desktop Frogger Arcade is true to the 1971 original

That’s right, we said 1971. Many of you are thinking, "Wait a second, I thought Frogger came out in 1981. Must be a typo." Well, you, sir (or ma’am), are incorrect. Frogger was developed in 1971 by the University of Washington Psychology Department as some sort of prize / reward for completing a short-term memory test. Someone at Konami stol..er…borrowed the idea and released it on the Atari in 1981. Thank you, Wikipedia, for making us look oh-so-informed.

Vat19 has it for $29.95: Link



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7 comments to "Frogger Desktop Arcade"

  1. Ant
    March 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    I had one. :)

  2. Tim Giachetti
    March 20th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    I still have mt 1971 original pacMan designed just like that.It still plays without a single light out in it, but, since it is sooo damned loud (no volume) and obnoxious i hardly ever play it. wakawakawakawaka

  3. biltmore
    March 20th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    That’s awesome Tim! I remember when I used to have the same Pac Man machine.

  4. Jaycatt
    March 20th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

    I had one of these too! Funny thing is, the first video game I ever played was Frogger, at Disneyland in the little penny arcade they had there on the Main Street.

  5. License Farm
    March 21st, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    I have both the Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Jr. machines. My cousins actually installed a volume switch on my Pac-Man machine because of how loud it was; it was driving my mother nuts.

  6. liphttam1
    April 4th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    its like somone invented the shrink ray, and they used it for good!!!!!!!!!

  7. liphttam1
    April 4th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    i wish they made a tv that is disquised as a pencil sharpener


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