Frogger

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Stiffy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Sounds good.

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zach — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

wOOO STREET FIGHTER WOOOO! haha

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dotredcoat — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:01:31 GMT

Dear Larry, I realize that you probably get a ton of emails, voicemails and the like from xbox users who read your blog and listen to your podcasts......great work btw......so I'll cut to the chase.... I'm very disappointed with Frogger from the XBOX360 live arcade. Microsoft's quality control is severly lacking in my opinion - you've probably noticed all the negative comments in the forums about this game and most of it I think is completely justified. - severe, unexpected lag - poor collision detection - bugs in achievements - d-pad control response issues and false advertising, in my opinion...... (from http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/f/froggerlivearcadexbox360/default.htm) Versus speed mode: Race a friend in split screen or Xbox Live action with this exciting new mode. Take as many frogs as you need to be the first to get five across the street for a new, intense competition. Co-op play: With a friend in the room, or on the other side of the world via Xbox Live, put your competitive nature aside and work together to push your frogs to the limit. I was looking forward to play this game split screen with my wife and daugther at home, but cannot.......Microsoft, of course, won't give me a refund, as the game was downloaded ok and is operational, but I feel ripped off. I realise it's a cheap game and 80's port, but I don't think you, I or the gaming public should accept a game of this poor quality to grace such a fantastic console as the 360. I was at least expecting a somewhat faithful port that worked and didn't expect the most powerful console in the world to struggle running a game that could work fine if programmed correctly on a 10-year-old 386 PC. I'm a software developer with 20 years sof experience and a simple game of this nature should be able to be programmed to run well and with fewer bugs by one skilled developer with about one week for graphics and one week for coding and one week for testing (XBL testing excepted). I've owned an XBOX since launch date and an XBOX360 also since launch and am very happy with both and all my software purchase - until this last one. I'd welcome your personal comments (or Microsoft's official line) re. this game's release issues, either directly to this, or via your site/blog/podcast. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Mark. Gamertag: dotRedcoat Website: www.gametacular.com

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dotRedcoat — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:58:35 GMT

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Tony — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:49:43 GMT

It's an old arcade game, I'm not sure what you're expecting in terms of screen size. You can stretch it out some, but it's more of a vertical title than a horizontal one (unlike Gauntlet, etc). Widescreen TVs aren't exactly made with vertical length in mind. The enhanced graphics are kind of bland, but they certainly are more clean than the original. If you didn't realize that was the enhanced version, you must have never played the original lol. I kind of prefer the original graphics, honestly. It's not bad. It's what I expected, although my main complaint is that I've not played a single online game with it that wasn't incredibly laggy. I thought it was me, but then I played other Arcade titles online and they ran flawlessly. My ping was fine both times... There's also a bug in the game that causes you to move very erratically horizontally on some logs.

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Inflatable — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:26:18 GMT

I hope Pac-man will be better then this.. I thought I was playing the classic-version and was looking for the option to enable enhanced mode, when I found it I discovered I was already playing the enhanced game, LOL! And why is this game so small? It only fills a small part of the middle of my widescreen TV? Not really impressed..

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TripleSticks — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:54:43 GMT

I downloaded the trial and have the same problem that the poster above mentioned ("the game plays in like the centre 2 inches of my 32in screen"). Does the purchased game play the same way? While I like the game play, if the screen size issue isn't addessed I wouldn't pay 5 cents, much less $5 for it.

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ertai wiz adept — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:11:28 GMT

very happy to see new arcade games every wednesday, hopefully it will continue after the last one you mentioned major. Really sad though to see all of the anger just because people had to way around an hour at midnight for something like this. The person who made a threat should be ashamed of himself. If you get that upset over something as small as that you are very very disturbed, please go check yourself into the nearest mental hospital. Also people need to read the comments before posting, people are wasting everyone's time asking for things that have already been answered in the comments multiple times. There seems to be too many double posts too, makes me think people are double posting on purpose for effect. Either way hopefully you can get a filter for the double posting major. Thanks. Keep up the good work Major, thanks for the info! :)

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HD Monic — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:04:52 GMT

400 points? Why?

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Jason "Njiska" Westhaver — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:43:59 GMT

Ken whined: A bunch of *** about Frogger not being up at exactly 12:00 PST Ken, my friend, stop being a ***.

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Jack Oakland — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:57:58 GMT

Thanks Major always giving us good news! will be buying most of these they look brill! keep on giving us good news to do with xbox cant wait for some of the new game release coming up! Jack from UK

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Jack Oakland — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:57:55 GMT

Thanks Major always giving us good news! will be buying most of these they look brill! keep on giving us good news to do with xbox cant wait for some of the new game release coming up! Jack from UK

Frogger Bug

Gkaruk — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:41:11 GMT

I downloaded Frogger trial (PAL-UK) and the game plays in like the centre 2 inches of my 32in screen. Anyone else got this problem? Im running HDTV at 1080i. Thanks.

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Mike Kelehan — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:52:24 GMT

It's true that the Live lag is really embarassing. The thing is, this game is like Tetris. The other player's field does NOT have to be perfectly synched. You should be able to play yours at full speed, and your opponent's should just keep up as much as possible. There shouldn't be a nanosecond of lag on your end.

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Frogger — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:26:14 GMT

Did anyone from Microsoft even try this game out before it went live ? It looks brutal and they should be embarrased for allowing this game on the arcade.

UMK3

Trax — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:04:32 GMT

Does anyone the release date for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3?