Lost Sega Mega Drive game Frog Dude discovered!

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[size=140]Website Games That Wern't recently had an email from Andy Swann, who was one of the key programmers at Twilight back in the early 90′s, and one of the lead developers of the cool Alfred Chicken on the Amiga.

Andy has been attempting to find his old disks, and at Christmas found three disks. One blank, one with an early demo version of Alfred Chicken (Amiga) and another (and exciting!) early demo of an aborted title called Frog Dude on the Sega Megadrive.[/size]



[size=140]Frog Dude is a title which we don't believe has been heard about before. It was prototyped around the same time as Alfred Chicken, but wasn't quite as strong a title – hence development was stopped before it could be touted to any publishers. Andy was the lead developer, whilst Peter Tattersall was on graphics.   Andy's agent, John Cook, had come in and said that the Frog Dude title was "workman-like" and suggested they didn't bother with finishing it. Andy then went on to port Alfred Chicken to the Game Boy instead.

As you can see from the various screenshots, the game takes some visual cues from Super Mario World, as the guys at the time were very taken by the game.  The game allows you to swap between a mace wielding prince and a frog with a large tongue. There are some nice cartoony graphics, including a small animated sequence at the start – but no sound in place.[/size]



[size=140]Thanks very much to Andy, he has allowed us to share both the Alfred Chicken demo and Frog Dude with you all. So feel free to download and run in your favorite emulator and take a look in particular at what could have been a British take on Super Mario World![/size]

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[Shadowrunner]

Pretty cool he found it after all these years! Looks good, too bad it was never finished.

[TrekMD]

That Frog Dude looks pretty nice.  Unfortunate that it was not completed.

[zapiy]

Oh wow what great news, maybe we should interview him..

[TrekMD]

By the way, is it safe to assume Frog Dude is only for the MegaDrive (as in PAL) and won't play on a Genesis?

[TL]

By the way, is it safe to assume Frog Dude is only for the MegaDrive (as in PAL) and won't play on a Genesis?

Might play via a flashcart, worth trying out, depends how it was coded.

[TrekMD]

By the way, is it safe to assume Frog Dude is only for the MegaDrive (as in PAL) and won't play on a Genesis?

Might play via a flashcart, worth trying out, depends how it was coded.

OK, I'll have to try it once I get the flashcart for the Genesis. 

[TrekMD]

RetroCollect has posted an interview with Andy Swann:  Interview: Andy Swann of Twilight Games (Frog Dude & Alfred Chicken Developer).

[TL]

[align=center:zbs72fof]Somebody made a video:

Frog Dude (Unreleased) | Mega Drive | Gameplay[/align:zbs72fof]

[TrekMD]

This does look like a fun game.  I wonder if anyone will try to complete the programming for it to give it a proper release.