Why did the frog cross the road? To get to the other side, of course!
Frogger, the classic, 80s-era video game in which players attempt to guide a lonely frog across a busy highway and other dangers, is coming to television.as a game show on NBC s Peacock.
The NBC-owned streaming service has partnered up with Eureka Productions (
Name That Tune,
The Amazing Race) in order to adapt the beloved Konami title into a a fierce and ridiculously fun competition [series of] twelve outrageous obstacle courses that the official release describes as crossings.
The synopsis continues: These physically demanding challenges will see contestants dodge treacherous traffic, leap over snapping gators, and hop over hungry hippos to conquer the course. Taking on the role of the game s amphibian, contestants from around the country must employ skill, strength, strategy, and problem-solving to reach the river on the other side. In this case, the river is a metaphor for a sizable
When Microsoft decided to make its first Xbox, it entered an already-volatile console market totally from scratch, as Bloomberg’s recently-released Xbox oral history explains in the words of the insiders who lived through it all. And in a telling (and funny) revelation that validates not only Nintendo’s well-established position at the time, but its continued market domination today, an insider shared that one of Microsoft’s Xbox strategies was to try to buy Nintendo all in the hope that the Big N’s game-making know-how could jump-start the early Xbox’s threadbare gaming library.
In hindsight, it turns out that taking a swing at Mario might not have been the best idea. Microsoft’s new Xbox executives approached Nintendo and sat down for a meeting, where the Japanese game makers listened to their acquisition offer…and then pretty much laughed the upstart Xbox team out of the room.
Well,
that didn t take long. Even with supply still extremely limited a month after its debut, Sony s PlayStation 5 console shot out the gate in November to race past a big sales record held by its PS4 predecessor, taking over the all-time title as the most successful console launch in gaming history.
Via an analysis for November game sales from the NPD Group s Mat Piscatella, the PS5 enjoyed the highest console sales ever for a new gaming system in the U.S., even as the Nintendo Switch for the 24th month in a row actually
outsold Sony s new-but-scarce machine in terms of overall numbers.