Frogger

Lane-crossing hazard timing became a reusable design grammar copied across every platform.

Released 1981 Developer Konami Publisher Sega Platform Arcade Genre Action Era The home cartridge

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Frogger inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

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