“Frogger has already been rejected because it was a women and kids game.” An executive at this meeting threw the booklet at Elizabeth and said… She gave out booklets that showed Frogger’s simple gameplay and sales potential. She convinced her bosses that Frogger deserved a chance.Įlizabeth met with executives from Paramount, which was a company owned by the same company that owned Sega, to present her pitch for Frogger. The only reason Sega released Frogger was because of a market researcher at Sega named, Elizabeth Falconer. They were worried because they already released a frog-related arcade game, called Frogs, just 3 years earlier, in 1978, which was a massive flop.Īnd Sega also did not think the basic gameplay and cute presentation would persuade the male-dominated gamers of the day to spend their quarters on it in the arcade. Sega was worried about Frogger’s earning potential. Which is an awesome book and you should give it a read if you are interested in arcades or just video game history in general. It has a crazy history that can be read in the book by Ken Horowitz called The Sega Arcade Revolution. The Frogger Story with Sega – Frogger Almost Didn’t Exist
Konami developed Frogger, yet Sega (Sonic the Hedgehog fame) published the game. Seinfeld even had an entire Frogger-themed episode where George Costanza had to move a Frogger cabinet across the street to save his high score he got as a kid. It’s up there with Pac-Man, which both seemed to have an arcade cabinet at every skating rink and pizzeria in the 90s.įrogger has been a big part of pop culture. It would be one of the most memorable and influential arcade games ever made. Konami had made quite a few arcade cabinets clones of other games that were already released. These arcade games were almost exact clones of the already popular Space Invaders game.
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Konami is known for plenty of iconic video game series (Contra, Castlevania, Metal Gear, and much more) still around and kicking today.īut before all that, Konami got their start by developing arcade cabinet games in the late 70s.Ī couple of those first arcade games were Space King and Space King 2.
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