The Video Game Project
A Closer Look At The Prototypes That Became Your Favourite Games!
Unreleased Frog Pond Atari 2600 Prototype
The main idea / concept of Frog Pond is quite simple! You control a frog who must try and catch as many insects as possible with its tongue in a race to see how many points you can score. The game subject and total lack of difficulty pretty much guarantee that it was to going to be aimed at small children, much like the developer's (Nick Tuner) previous game Demons to Diamonds.
Frog Pond is an almost exact copy of Frogs and Flies. Nick Turner claimed this was completely coincidence however with neither company knowing what the other had been working on. Nick had even originally wanted to add more options and gameplay to the game, expanding it to 8K. Atari wasn't too keen on spending the extra money on more memory for a children's game (other childrens titles didn't sell well for them), and refused to allocate the extra 4K. Frog Pond was shelved and Nick left Atari shortly afterwards.
Proto - Front
Proto - Top
