Frogger (Game Boy Color)

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

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

Unused Graphics

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

Unused Text

 THIS GAME CAN ONLY
    BE PLAYED ON
   GAME BOY COLOR

Compatibility warning text at address 2169, rendered unnecessary by the fact that this game actually does run on a monochrome Game Boy as well.

Regional Differences

There are a lot of regional differences, but they're about as exciting as the game itself.

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, this time published by Hasbro Interactive. It replaced all the clipart-esque and really boring screens of the original version with ones based on the box art to give the game more polish and make it look less like the SNES and Genesis versions. The copyright screen was also changed to yellow and red. Other than that, the gameplay is exactly the same.

Original	Rev 1

The title screen was changed to look more like the cover art.

Original	Rev 1

The copyright screen's colors were changed to red and yellow.

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.