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Old game about a boy and his frog + frog jumping contest
On my old computer (MAC) i had this game and it was about this little boy and hed go to class and home and he had a frog and it went in a frog jumping competition and he rode his skateboard everywhere and at the end of the game he was in like a war with his baby sitter behind the couch and stuff. does anyone know what im talking about? and if so whats it called cuz it was major funn
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Hello there,
So, classic Macintosh Game Player... odds are I have the answer to your little boy and the adventures of him and his frog:
"The Adventures of Willy Beamish"
From wikipedia:
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Willy Beamish is introduced as a typical Generation Y brat archetype of early 90s, being the middle child in a typical American family (and visited by his grandfather's ghost); as a typical kid, he is obsessed with science fiction, console games and hanging out with his gang, while he is tormented by older school bullies and of course his younger and older late-teenager sisters.
As the game begins, Willy Beamish is sent to detention on the last day of school; his pet frog "Horny" disrupted the final school assembly by dislodging the principal's toupee. This initial scene is a good example of the game's array of choices presented to the player: Willy Beamish can stay in detention until it is over, but then he won't get home in time to pick up the mail and intercept the report card that shows a "C+" in Music Appreciation. To sneak out early, Willy Beamish must forge a hall pass and avoid the school bully.
Willy Beamish's ambition is to qualify for the national "Nintari" (a portmanteau of Nintendo and Atari) competition. This goal is quickly placed in dire jeopardy: his video game privileges are revoked. To further complicate the situation, Willy Beamish's father loses his job, the babysitter is a vampire, a street gang terrorizes the town, and a plumbers' revolt is on the horizon.
Besides failing to solve puzzles, a way to lose is with a score system called Trouble-O-meter. Doing things that will annoy his elders will raise the meter up. When it's filled, Willy is shipped off to military school and the game is over.
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As a side note, this game was available for many different machines, so you may be able to play it on your current platform:
Amiga, DOS, Macintosh, Sega CD
Here is a neat site which lists screen shots, patches the music from the game and even a downloadable demo version for the IBM PC:
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As far as finding a copy to buy... this is a very rare item. I would start hunting eBay, right away.
From wikipedia:
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"This game has been out of print for quite a while now, and is no longer available in stores. Copies of certain versions are quite common on eBay, especially of the Sega CD version. The PC floppy disk version is fairly common, with the 3.5" version more common than the 5.25" version. The Macintosh version is less common than the above three, with the Amiga version coming next. By far the rarest versions are the CD-ROM talkie versions, made for PC, Macintosh, and Amiga. These can go for about $50 for the jewel case alone, and upwards of $100 if the box is included. The crown jewel of the entire version list is the Amiga CD-ROM version- this version is by far the hardest to find, if it even exists."
Good luck to you!
P.S. Try for the talking cd-rom version of The Adventures of Willy Beamish. If you can find it, the talkie version is way more fun.
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