772: Frogger - Revision history

2A00:23C8:3309:F01:C879:EAFF:FE01:9824: /* Trivia */ spelling

2026-02-20T13:50:25Z

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81.179.195.93: /* Trivia */ Cannot rely upon the dashed lane markings for positioning information, only really either the frame borders or the frog (with no obvious lateral movement ascribed to it by any of the motion-lines). In both cases, frog has repulsor technology?

2025-10-05T22:54:03Z

‎Trivia: Cannot rely upon the dashed lane markings for positioning information, only really either the frame borders or the frog (with no obvious lateral movement ascribed to it by any of the motion-lines). In both cases, frog has repulsor technology?

81.179.195.93: Undo revision 388218 by 104.153.230.46 (talk) ...no, that Summary explanation is wrong is several respects. Can't reconcile the respective positions of things/effects like that.

2025-10-05T21:45:24Z

Undo revision 388218 by 104.153.230.46 (talk) ...no, that Summary explanation is wrong is several respects. Can't reconcile the respective positions of things/effects like that.

104.153.230.46: Removed a mistaken "error" description in the summary, which claimed that the skid marks had moved and the truck's cargo been damaged in the last panel. The "additional" skid marks are smoke and the damage is the truck's wheels.

2025-10-05T20:30:22Z

Removed a mistaken "error" description in the summary, which claimed that the skid marks had moved and the truck's cargo been damaged in the last panel. The "additional" skid marks are smoke and the damage is the truck's wheels.

TheusafBOT: Reverted edit 367901 by 172.71.215.38 to 342367

2025-03-05T00:59:17Z

Reverted edit 367901 by 172.71.215.38 to 342367

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172.71.215.38 at 00:58, 5 March 2025

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2022-11-16T15:57:54Z

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172.70.147.148 at 15:38, 16 November 2022

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 ==Trivia==
-Randall made a mistake in the last panel, where the skid marks of the car start further towards the right than in the panel before. The motion of the wrecked car and truck (which also includes a rolling action by the truck that inconsistently places where the unlifted left-hand wheels end up) seems to rebound back along the highway a short distance. Even further if the movement of the top-lane truck (entirely vanishing from the final frame) indicates a view shift that tracked the therefore also improbably moving giant frog (the alternative being either that the time between the final frames was significantly longer than the prior ones, or that the sight of the exploding collision in the mirrow had provoked that vehicle's driver to increase its velocity significantly).
+Randall made a mistake in the last panel, where the skid marks of the car start further towards the right than in the panel before. The motion of the wrecked car and truck (which also includes a rolling action by the truck that inconsistently places where the unlifted left-hand wheels end up) seems to rebound back along the highway a short distance. Even further if the movement of the top-lane truck (entirely vanishing from the final frame) indicates a view shift that tracked the therefore also improbably moving giant frog (the alternative being either that the time between the final frames was significantly longer than the prior ones, or that the sight of the exploding collision in the mirror had provoked that vehicle's driver to increase its velocity significantly).
 {{comic discussion}}

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 ==Trivia==
-Randall made a mistake in the last panel, where the skid marks of the car stretches longer towards the right than in the panel before, even though the car and truck did not move (and the view has also stayed the same through out the comic.) However, this could just be smoke plumes.
+Randall made a mistake in the last panel, where the skid marks of the car start further towards the right than in the panel before. The motion of the wrecked car and truck (which also includes a rolling action by the truck that inconsistently places where the unlifted left-hand wheels end up) seems to rebound back along the highway a short distance. Even further if the movement of the top-lane truck (entirely vanishing from the final frame) indicates a view shift that tracked the therefore also improbably moving giant frog (the alternative being either that the time between the final frames was significantly longer than the prior ones, or that the sight of the exploding collision in the mirrow had provoked that vehicle's driver to increase its velocity significantly).
 {{comic discussion}}

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 :<big>''Boom''</big>
-:[Only the two crashed vehicles are left on the road with smoke pouring out of their hoods. The truck has been knocked on its side by the collision, with its rear wheels in the air. Frogger turns around and hops back to the side of the road, again indicated with lines and sound. At the bottom of the panel three off-panel voices call out:]
+:[Only the two crashed vehicles are left on the road with smoke pouring out of their hoods. The trucks rear end also seems to have crumbled more than in the previous image, and strangely enough the skid marks of the car now stretches longer towards the right than before... Frogger turns around and hops back to the side of the road, again indicated with lines and sound. At the bottom of the panel three off-panel voices call out:]
 :''Hop''
 :Off-panel voice 1: Oh god!
 :Off-panel voice 2: Someone call 911!
 :Off-panel voice 3: Mom!
 {{comic discussion}}

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 :<big>''Boom''</big>
-:[Only the two crashed vehicles are left on the road with smoke pouring out of their hoods. The trucks rear end also seems to have crumbled more than in the previous image, and strangely enough the skid marks of the car now stretches longer towards the right than before... Frogger turns around and hops back to the side of the road, again indicated with lines and sound. At the bottom of the panel three off-panel voices call out:]
+:[Only the two crashed vehicles are left on the road with smoke pouring out of their hoods. The truck has been knocked on its side by the collision, with its rear wheels in the air. Frogger turns around and hops back to the side of the road, again indicated with lines and sound. At the bottom of the panel three off-panel voices call out:]
 :''Hop''
 :Off-panel voice 1: Oh god!
 :Off-panel voice 2: Someone call 911!
 :Off-panel voice 3: Mom!
 {{comic discussion}}

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 :<big>''Boom''</big>
-:[Only the two crashed vehicles are left on the road with smoke pouring out of their hoods. The trucks rear end also seems to have crumbled more than in the previous image, and strangely enough the skid marks of the car now stretches longer towards the right than before... Frogger turns around and hops back to the side of the road, again indicated with lines and sound. At the bottom of the panel three off-panel voices calls out:]
+:[Only the two crashed vehicles are left on the road with smoke pouring out of their hoods. The trucks rear end also seems to have crumbled more than in the previous image, and strangely enough the skid marks of the car now stretches longer towards the right than before... Frogger turns around and hops back to the side of the road, again indicated with lines and sound. At the bottom of the panel three off-panel voices call out:]
 :''Hop''
 :Off-panel voice 1: Oh god!

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 {{w|Frogger}} is a classic video game introduced in 1981. The aim of the game is to safely get a frog across a busy road and a river to a lily pad at the top of the screen.
-The title text reveals that a team of programmers misinterpreted a task to make the game "more realistic", i.e. with better graphics, and instead made the trucks swerve to avoid the car-sized frog, causing another vehicle to crash into the truck resulting in a serious road accident. This is instead of the traffic just inexorably moving at a constant rate in their assigned lanes and disregarding the movements of the frog(as in typical Frogger gameplay), who is normally the only one who ever needs to take evasive action or suffer the consequences.
+The title text reveals that a team of programmers misinterpreted a task to make the game "more realistic", i.e. with better graphics, and instead made the trucks swerve to avoid the car-sized frog, causing another vehicle to crash into the truck resulting in a serious road accident. This is instead of the traffic just inexorably moving at a constant rate in their assigned lanes and disregarding the movements of the frog (as in typical Frogger gameplay), who is normally the only one who ever needs to take evasive action or suffer the consequences.
 The game continues to introduce increasing drama with the reactions of off-panel bystanders.