Superfrog Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]

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Developed and published by Team 17 in 1993
Back during the heyday of the Amiga computer, Team 17 was one of the most talented and celebrated development studios producing games for the platform. Having had critical success with the Alien Breed games, the team turned their hand to the platform genre, just as many others had done, presumably in an effort to emulate the runaway success of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog.
The game also marks a period in games development where studios and publishers had started to include product placement and advertising in their games. Big name brands including Penguin biscuits, Quavers and 7 Up were all keen to get their products before a captive audience. Team 17 struck a deal with Lucozade to promote the notoriously sugary (yet undeniably delicious) fizzy drink in their game, even going so far as to make it the source of the main character's powers.
The game's story is told through a rather lavish (for the time) animated introduction, created by artist Eric Schwartz and occupying an entire floppy disk. It tells the age old tale of a handsome prince turned into an ugly frog by a wicked witch, who kidnaps his betrothed and spirits her away to a dark castle in a distant land.
The game is divided into six separate worlds, each comprising four levels. The objective of each level is to collect enough gold coins to open the exit and progress to the next stage. The number of coins required increases as the game progresses, with less lying around in the open and more hidden in secret areas, forcing the player to look for false walls and hidden entrances in the scenery.
Don't let the cutesy graphics fool you - this is a game with a core of diamond-encrusted steel! Each of the game's levels is covered in spikes, pits and all other manner of traps that will turn our amphibian chum to paste in an instant. Certain enemies can be defeated by jumping on their heads, or hitting them with your trusty Destructo-Spud. However, more powerful enemies cannot be defeated by any means and must simply avoided, although it's not always clear which enemies are invincible and those that aren't.
At the end of each level, the player can choose to gamble their high score in turn for the chance to win a password code in a fruit machine-themed bonus game, allowing them to continue the game from the last completed level should lady luck be on their side.
It has to be said that the game really is quite a technical achievement. Not only are the graphics of high quality, but the game manages to maintain a rock solid 50 frames per second on a PAL machine without any hint of slow down, even on a basic A500.
For me, however, the game's stand-out feature has to be the audio. Not only is Allister Brimble's music outstanding, it's difficult to believe that digital audio of this quality is being produced by a consumer home computer first launched in 1985. The opening theme tune and world 1 music with various vocal ribbits and croak samples is completely in keeping with the game's cartoon theme and is among some of the best to ever grace the system.
Superfrog is undoubtedly one of the Amiga's finest platform games and a shining example of what the machine was capable of. Fans of the genre, especially those enjoy a touch challenge will be sure to enjoy every moment that the game has to offer.
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[@sigilork785]

One of the greatest Amiga Games ever.

[@re-cycled7993]

Disagree. The best. And my 1st.

[@PelczarTomasz]

I agree...

[@kris90abc]

Kapitalna gra

[@MrWolf-hx3ig]

Hired Guns was my favourite 🙃

[@naviamiga]

It really is. Love it.

[@nathanmoller7431]

The music in this game was outstanding!

[@PelczarTomasz]

I agree...

[@user-ng9gd4vl9s]

The chorus of frogs in the background

[@littlestudiorecords2141]

loved the music still do!!

[@movielover4244]

Love it

[@raggeragnar]

Bought this game to the A500 for my , then , 6 year old son in the 90’s. Today he is 29 and still plays it regularly on an emulator. So am I. I’m 53. To me , that the tell-tale of a wellcrafted , good game that is pure fun to play.

[@PelczarTomasz]

Piece of cake, I was needing emulator for older Colin McRea etc...

[@Bunnymoonstone]

My childhood 🥰 loved this game so much!!

[@sparkysalisbury]

Love the game. Nearly 30 years on and still remember every level. It’s Tattooed somewhere in my sub-conscience

[@manny-77]

Superfrog...one of the best games I've played on my good old Amiga 500! Love it! ❤️ Great music too!

[@n8n8n8n]

Times of my childhood... Ahhh the best ever :D

[@PelczarTomasz]

My first computer was Atari, I thought for instance about Zorro, such a something, same scenario etc, within current 3D, for me awesome, same as for instance Prehistoric 4 or even old Decathlon etc...

[@marcinchalupka9634]

Great game of my childhood

[@rafanowacki2260]

Zobacz moją odpowiedź - Tomasz Kaminski

[@videooblivion]

Eric Schwartz, the one man Disney of Amiga.

[@Del-Canada]

So many memories connected to this game. Would have a beer and play for hours when it first came out.

[@conniejeanetteeckholdt350]

Used to play this all the time as a kid, thank you for the nostalgia trip!

[@littlestudiorecords2141]

I can still remember the 1st level theme tune after all these years such a great game and soundtrack!

[@truebaran]

I can still remember passwords to levels 6.1 and 6.4, after about 25 years hahaha

[@rwlynch3468]

Holy ___... I haven't seen or thought of this game in about 25 years or something. This brings back so many memories.

[@Kurjistaja]

That music starting at 1:19:49 is so catchy it begs to be in dance remix or sampled in hip hop.

[@AlexVideoPlayer]

Not exactly what you are asking, but we have this straight from the composer: allisterbrimble.bandcamp.com/album/the-amiga-works

[@ArthurAbi]

It was my favorite one from this game.

[@wisecat.]

I've played this game a lot on my Amiga 500. I like the sounds too

[@idj20]

For years I never really cared for platform type games when I had the Amiga A1200, I was into Pinball Dreams but this one was the only one I properly got into and completed it.

[@geodezspb]

My first and most favourite game on my Amiga 600. Ooohhh...90's. Now I'm 43. Play new Superfrog HD on PC! Awesome!!!

[@roga82]

Music is anwsome !!!

[@miklosnenagy3221]

Köszönöm a feltöltést. Nagyjából 25 évvel ezelőtt a gyermekeimnek volt Amigája. Nagyon szerettük ezt a játékot. Nagyon jó volt most, ennyi év távlatából végig nézni. Kellemes emlékeket idézett fel!

[@MadameSomnambule]

I thought the art style in the intro animation looked familiar, then I looked it up. Eric Schwartz animated it! Makes sense since he did some other Amiga animations on the side back then and I know his art style from ANYWHERE. Pure 90s furry content right there.

[@Ningnomaningnong]

This seriously needs to be remade!

[@AndRewUK24]

it has already happened in 2014 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS by Team 17. It has new levels to unlock original levels. it is called Superfrog HD.

[@nathanmoller7431]

There is nothing I like about superfrog HD. The original is the best

[@michakowalski2930]

thanks for this video. It's super comforting. That game is my childhood.

[@Scripture-Man]

I used to love this game! :) Definitely one of the Amiga's best games. I've just seen a 1998 PC game called Jack Jackrabbit which reminded me a lot of Superfrog.

[@MarcSola7]

You mean Jazz Jackrabbit 2? The first Jazz Jackrabbit was made in PC in 1994 and yes, it does take a play book out of Superfrog, Sonic The Hedgehog and many other arcade platformers out there.

[@andrealves3104]

Actually, the whole artistic aspect of Jazz Jackrabbit holds somewhat of a relation with the Amiga. The most notorious example that comes to mind is Andrew Sega (aka Necros), who was into the amiga demoscene musical acts and later did the soundtrack for that game as well as Unreal/Unreal Tournament 99'.

[@pw10a2sal]

Yep another amazing game on Amiga. Team 17 had a great smooth scrolling graphic engine. Nice video. Thx.

[@xGodix]

I remember all the secrets after 30 years...

[@GhazalehJz]

OMG!! It was AHHHHMAZING! Thanks so much for sharing

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

You're welcome 😊

[@ilove-tv2jm]

Nostalgia

[@bresk13]

superfrog , zool , Addams Family, Lethal Weapon , Robocod.... those platform days 🥰

[@maledictus1000]

Good old times.. Amiga forever.

[@markforster6948]

Class! took me ages to complete it, but have done since loads of times, never knew wings were essential

[@majid2008ghn]

I love this game

[@alexvaganova2175]

Back in the 90s I saw such a longplay on cable tv 😀 always wanted to play this game))

[@vinlemarechal8296]

dont make em like that no more ,my kids loved it ,daughter started on pacman at age 2,you knew she ate a ghost still remember the giggles and its been 35 years

[@jessicak8651]

That game was awesome!

[@Barbara_TQT]

Next to "Cannon Fodder" and "Son of Chuck" it's my favorite Amiga game :D Awww, my childhood

[@Larry]

Was there a CD32 release of this ever? But it is odd there was never a console port, would have been great on the Mega Drive.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

A CD32 version exists, but I think it's pretty much identical to the OCS/ECS original. Sadly, a common theme with a lot of CD32 titles.

[@Larry]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Ah, thanks for the info. That's a shame, not even a properly animated FMV intro or something?

[@Flofutz]

@@Larry feeeddu

[@sunyt3431]

Superfrog HD for PS3.

[@MarcSola7]

@@Larry Nope, just a slap-in lazy port of Superfrog with other demos that they can fit onto a CD. But... Helllllloooooooo you!

[@TK2236]

Oh man ^^ I loved that game! Good memories!

[@dwm27-26]

Te gek, dit spelletje had ik ook. Leuk om te zien!

[@RetroDemoScene]

Amazing game, nice job

[@azeemfun]

i love this game

[@sandrodellisanti1139]

wonderful Game, i loved this on my Amiga the same for Rodland and Super Wonderboy at Monsterland.

[@jaxshroom]

1 of best games from my amiga childhood :)

[@hijack4661]

This was awesome! ☺️

[@Tan3l6]

Timeless classic!

[@richardcavell]

It’s worth noting the huge and fast-scrolling maps this game has. I wonder what tricks they used to make it all work.

[@rafanowacki2260]

The Amiga 500 was one of the first computers to have special graphics-enhancing chips, and even though the Atari ST had the same CPU then games looked worse, see game comparison. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3-qiaiHgLidnqs&ab_channel=GuruMediator

[@KBPv]

That old times!

[@ppate8]

Team 17 knew how to make games

[@p6mkq]

I loved tha tgame as a kid ! Always had problems with the Pyramid levels. The number of nasty traps was insane.

[@UltimateEnd0]

It's a Slippy, it's a Flippy, It's Superfrog!

[@ytgreeno]

A great game, one of my farourite in old good Amiga times. Nicely played with all secrets revealed. But I think the player used a trainer to turn off collision with thorns that do instant kill.

[@user-ng9gd4vl9s]

1:54:59 I remember seeing this bit in a magazine...

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Be sure to check out my full review of the game @ www.vintageisthenewold.com/retro-revisited-we-look-back-at-team-17s-superfrog-and-find-an-amiga-classic-still-fizzing-with-energy/

[@ridersonthestorm6304]

çocukluğumun oyunu. Ve Antik Mısırı sevdiren oyunlardan birisi daha kendisi.

[@ScrocchiarelloCLIPS]

i've played and completed this more than i should have

[@nikehermes5956]

my CLASSIC

[@movielover4244]

Classic

[@perihelion7445]

Team 17 were an incredible Amiga developer until Worms. Yes Worms was great but that's where they stopped and rested on their laurels. A crying shame.

[@turbopumped6490]

Yeah, they basically quit making other games, and just pumped out Worms sequel after Worms sequel.

[@ow85]

Still play to date! Never beat old games👍

[@sakismitsoulas7574]

Its a sonic clone but its a good one...the best two games I have ever played on the Amiga500 are Moonstone and Another World... Another World...made completely in vector polygons and with the use of rotoscope techniques by Eric Chahi... is the best game of all time...a masterpiece.

[@lazlogurzogonas878]

Very few European platform games came close to the quality, beauty and playability of the "Super Mario" series!, (Nintendo 8-bit), this was one of them, C64's "Mayheim in Monsterland" was also another one of the same level!

Great video! How many times did you have to play this game to go without dying? Well done 👏👍🏻

[@hakansayir832]

1990 lar da ne oynadım bu oyunu çok güzeldi hala güzel şimdi ki bir çok oyundan bile hala güzel :)

[@fahadbeats]

I didn't know that all those years god damnit

[@ennesimo84]

Una bella grafica !

[@yale3d]

I dont think anybody who hasn't played it has the faintest idea about how great this game was on the Amiga.

[@ExtremeWreck]

You know, I really want to play this myself at some point. Probably even complete the whole game :).

[@-S-777]

This one was well mede ❤

[@edengaming1631]

C'est quand qu'il va sortir sur la Nintendo Switch et la PS4 ?? Une merveille pareil mérite un remake et mieux encore, avoir remake ET la version original, tout comme ils ont fais pour le jeu Alex Kidd ! :)

[@jonathanabela6098]

It’s very weird how the trees watch you

[@markforster6948]

realised too, only apples in world 6 of the fruit!

[@lrl632]

I remember this had 7/8 discs with it, lol. I used to sit down in my brothers room, put on that weird Deep Forrest album (idk why) and play this for hours. I can't even remember if I clocked it, lol? Didn't really matter. Bubble Bobble, Superfrog, and Wonderboy were my fav games... And also this one game I can't ever remember the name of where you're like a little dragon and you complete a lvl by getting to the top of a castle/tower? For some reason I always thought it was called Nebula, but I don't think it is?!

[@giuseppecoluccia7230]

1:55:00 what's that? an inside joke?

[@rinatennouji5988]

I remember seeing this as a kid I was thinking there is a way to use that pencil

[@Mike-or2cv]

Yep, it was supposed to be a "not finished map edge" :)

[@vasileiosmalefitsakis5160]

team 17 great company sensible soccer superfrog project x etc etc i remember play these games with james pond rick dangerous etc etc shadow of the beast amiga best machine game ever so many great games beyond of their time far beyond even ps 4 would jealous of

[@hardcoretam]

I thought he was going to motorboat her at the end

[@jimmyjryan6645]

back when developers still cared and actually had some imagination and where pushing boundaries nowadays well you don't have to lay a game it plays itself and you are just a third party, there are some exception but still the golden age of discovery and development unfortunately have gone now everyone just copies everyone else. so sad, but i am glad i had a a600 and 1200 and cd32 so many great times playing games like this, sensible soccer, settler the original and so many many many more the pile of cu amiga and power mage, my dad even used to game with me play Jack Nicholas gold tour was so cool lol. ty for the vid dude keep it up :-) i just installed antarcade from epic store and so many retro games lol

[@Hyde209]

Oh man this game is soo great. Hey I hope it's OK that I use the Egypt part of this video for a remix I'm making. I'll post links to this video and your channel ^^

[@tomaszkaminski2813]

amiga 500+ patrzac na super froga to platformowka z 21wieku. kurde jak ja bym chcial miec ten staaary sprzet... zagrac we flaszbecka lotusa jaguara jumping flasha alfabet smierci franko cannon foder czy jakos tak gralem w to ok 25lat temu i do teraz pamietam tytuly

[@rafanowacki2260]

Możesz w te gry zagrać na swoim PC-szukaj-Amiga the company Gry są tam skonfigurowane pod Win 10 i nie trzeba żaglować dyskami-F-12 menu, i robisz zapis gry gdzie chcesz(Extras) thecompany.pl/gra/Superfrog thecompany.pl/gra/Flashback thecompany.pl/gra/Cannon+Fodder thecompany.pl/gra/Lotus+III:+The+Ultimate+Challenge thecompany.pl/gra/Jaguar+XJ220 Pozdrawiam były Amigowiec🕹👍

[@myun7853]

best ending ever

[@legendmake1838]

Super

[@AlphaTheBird]

They call him ugly, But, He is cute to be honest. (Who even thought of this cliche?)

[@kookoon]

@37:49 The music sounds like Solomon's Key

[@barrywhite663]

Had this as a kid but it would crash on one on one of the levels so never got to see da ending

[@mattx5499]

I remember people saying it was a sonic copycat. The game is completely different than sonic games. Actually it was really great platformer with excellent graphics and sound for it's time. You better forget about that stupid HD remake nobody needed and play it on Amiga emulator with a gamepad.

[@ratius1979]

Team 17 😍😍😍

[@Yewell81]

i remember. .

[@MCHmuzykaElektroniczna]

Świetna gra.💪👀

[@jhowler9235]

lok 7 years ago .. over thirty years ago @michelle cant fight the past. it be passed

[@Nemo_DK]

343522 was my favourite starting point. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@mark1953]

I cant bye or find the PC version.....:(

As of 03/2021 I wonder if SuperFrog will also be fortunate to profit being an NFT Art token? James Pond, Manic Miner and the 100s of other Amiga Game characters.

[@serdaryildirim76]

it can be best amiga game

[@HikingFeral]

I was bullied badly as a kid, beaten everytime I went out so I didn't, I didn't need to because we had an amiga 500, then a mastersystem, megadrive and a Packard Bell pc 😅😅

[@plalondecai]

The last world with autofire. :P

[@metalcoola]

It also was released on PS3, and thank god it had unlockable original levels ad music, new levels, music and intro sucked there.

[@littleman7514]

I saw someone playing this at Comic Con.

[@user-pn5ms8ch8q]

Where are more fruits in world 1-2?

[@ricktaylortheferret2428]

The author of Sabrina Online worked on this?

[@bythewayisay3053]

0:18 WTF? King's Quest ajahahah

[@doritopenguin3048]

Greensleeves, older than either game.

[@AndRewUK24]

has anyone played Superfrog HD that came out in 2014?

[@vickysimpson3547]

Dissapeared from the stores without a trace. Really disappointed I never got to try it

[@tockar]

@@vickysimpson3547 You lost nothing. No original sounds, no original music, no original model. I was so pissed off.

[@lovette1613]

Das Spiel war cool