Preppie! (video game)
| Preppie! | |
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| Developer(s) | Star Systems Software |
| Publisher(s) | Adventure International |
| Designer(s) | Russ Wetmore |
| Platform(s) | Atari 8-bit |
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| Genre(s) | Overhead view action |
Preppie! is an action video game for the Atari 8-bit family. The game was created by Russ Wetmore as a re-themed version of Frogger and published by Adventure International in 1982.
Preppie! was followed by Preppie! II, also by Wetmore, in 1983. The sequel is a maze game. In January 2016, Russ Wetmore released the source code of Preppie!, Preppie II, and Sea Dragon to the public on the Internet Archive.
Preppie!'s gameplay follows the design established by Frogger: cross lanes of traffic, then maneuver across water by jumping on floating objects. The frog is recast as a preppy, and the setting moved to a country club where traffic consists of golf carts and reel mower-pushing groundskeepers, and canoes occupy the water (in addition to alligators and logs).
Instead of simply crossing from one side to the other, as in Frogger, the goal is to retrieve a golf ball from the top of the screen, then return it to the bottom of the screen. When all golf balls have been collected, the level is over. There are ten levels in all.
Bill Kunkel, in a 1983 review for Electronic Games, wrote "Sure it sounds familiar, but what elevates Preppie! from the score of Frogger-clones on the software market is the enchanting four-part harmony sound effects and the stunning graphics."
A 1983 Compute! review also lauded the graphics and stated, "this program easily ranks among the best games to appear for the Atari computer to date."
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