Frogged Pokie Review
Once you see the pokie, you will quickly figure out that it is based on Frogger, an arcade game released in 1981 by Konami and available through Sega worldwide.
Chances are that you’ve played this arcade title yourself if you loved played this type of game around that time. It’s one of the popular classics of the arcade era. The goal in this arcade was to take a frog across the street, while avoiding cars that were coming on the three lanes.
The second stage involved going across a river, once again avoiding obstacles. Those two levels of the arcade are part of the pokie machine as well, at least in the way the base game and the bonus game look like.
The look of the pokie is similar to the one from the first levels of Frogger. You have three rows of symbols, with five columns. The rows look like lanes on a road, while many of the symbols have images with cars or trucks on them. Add the frog symbol as well, which is sometimes present on the reels, and you get the right look.
Developer
With a decade of history behind them, Rival Gaming has been around since 2006. They’re well known these days, one of the major developers, though not one of the top names. If you give them a chance, I’d suggest you try out the iPokies, a line of games which offer a superb gameplay experience.
If you just want to check out some of their more recent titles, Frogged is a great example, as are Diamond Cherries and Cirque du Pokies.
How To Play It
Going from left to right, at the bottom of the game screen, you will find options like the Coin Value, Coins Per Line and Select Lines. The coin value varies between $0.01 and $0.25. You can choose a maximum of 10 coins for one payline, and up to 20 active lines. The line bet is at $2.50 at most, while the total bet will reach values of up to $50.
I’ve enjoyed the look of Frogged, and I have to say that they did an excellent job at bringing into this pokie the atmosphere of the retro arcade. There are plenty of symbols and buttons which have a retro look, with a pixilated design that feels right. The themed symbols look modern enough though, so you don’t just get a game that looks like it was made in the 80s.
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Special Features
One symbol to pay attention to is the Frog symbol, the star of the arcade and also one of the two to have a special power. It’s the power of the wild, with the ability to substitute for other regular symbols, but only when this results in a new combination.
The frog can also jump on the reels it appears on, turning the symbols above it into wilds as well. It’s an unusual way to expand for a wild, but I’ll take it. Wilds are even more useful during the free spins, where they have 2x multipliers for the wins they contribute to.
7 free spins are won when three or more Bulldozer scatters are on the five reels, in any random position. As I mentioned above, wilds apply 2x multipliers during these spins. Should you get another 3+ Bulldozers along the way, you trigger a feature where the frog has to cross a river, which was available during the original arcade game as well.
Maximum Payouts
The game will pay up to 750x through its best combinations, meaning up to $1,875 in the base game. It can double to $3,750 during free spins, which have 2x multipliers.
It’s the part that annoys me the most in this game, the low payouts offered in a game that has a standard layout with 20 lines.
Summary
It might not give you big prizes, and it might have only average features, but Frogged is still an excellent game, thanks to its design and the way the developers managed to bring an 1981 game into the modern age.
