Frogger (Game Boy Color)

Frogger
Developer: Morning Star Multimedia Publishers: Majesco Sales, Hasbro Interactive Platforms: Game Boy, Game Boy Color Released in US: December 31, 1998 Released in EU: 1998 This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a development article This game has a Data Crystal page

It's Frogger! It's handheld! And it's in color!

(Not to be confused with Konami's own Game Boy Color port of Frogger included on the European exclusive Konami GB Collection Vol. 2, released two years later.)

To do: This game also has a version without Game Boy Color enhancements.

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Development Info

Unused Graphics

There's graphics for a countdown timer, but the timer itself is a depleting meter.

Unused "Game Boy Color Only" Screen

Compatibility warning text is present at address 2169, and is displayed by a function at address 211b. However, this screen goes unused, since this game actually does run on a monochrome Game Boy as well.

We can force it to load in a monochrome Game Boy by jumping to function 211b from address 019C, which is right after the Nintendo logo is cleared from VRAM. Use the following Game Genie code:

211-9EF-E66
1B1-9DF-7F9
C31-9CF-D5D

Regional Differences

US	Europe

Trivial change: the European version spells "Licensed" as "Licenced".

US	Europe

The European version's menu is more green and has numbers for the number of players instead of words.

US	Europe

Frogger is more green in the European version.

US	Europe

"YOUR SCORE" is moved way to the left and your score is aligned with the other high scores in the European version.

Revisional Differences

To do: Revision 2

In the US, the game got a revision with a bit of a graphical overhaul, this time published by Hasbro Interactive.

Original	Rev 1

All the clipart-esque screens of the original version were replaced with ones based on the box art, to give the game more polish and make it look less like the SNES and Genesis versions.

Original	Rev 1

The copyright screen was also changed to yellow and red. Other than that, the gameplay is exactly the same.

Original	Rev 1

Frogger on the credits screen was changed to... that. Also Morning Star Multimedia is credited here. Neat!

Original	Rev 1

Frogger was changed and the background was turned to black.

Original	Rev 1

The new Frogger was poorly pasted over the original game over screen.