40 years after first playing Frogger on my Atari 2600, I only just discovered that you can stay on a log or a turtle as it wraps around the screen. Had assumed for over four decades that you’d die if you hit the side of the screen.
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I mostly played the MTX-512 version and you died in that one as well. I played the arcade one a bit, but I don't think I managed to get on a log more than once or twice, because I was really bad at it.
It is an important feature of our brain to re-wire and re-think with new insights and adapt to new situations.
A similar enlightenment that surprised me was to realize the fact that Hamas could end the war every day. They just do not want to do that and let their own people die.
Free Palestine from Hamas!
@fedifox Do fuck off.
@aral In the arcade game you die if you try to cross the edge of the screen. In the Parker Brothers Atari 2600 version, it's a setting you can change.
@aral actually, you will die if you stay on the turtle/log according to this emulation version 😊 https://online.oldgames.sk/play/msx/frogger/10135
@aral Wow, didn't realize that either. There's also a chance we simply forgot this after all that time. 😅
@aral iirc this is actually unique to one of the versions released on the Atari 2600! In the other, as well as previous and subsequent releases, you die at the edge of the screen.
@SnoozyRests @aral 😃 I wonder if that was a "happy accident" during the coding, which they then decided to leave in there as a gameplay element.
