Jeff Minter Upset with Frogger
- Scribbled on November 22nd, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Casual Gaming, Interviews, Microsoft Xbox 360, WTF, Xbox Live Arcade
Jeff Minter’s blog revealed that he’s upset that Space Giraffe flopped, obliquely threatening to quit making games altogether.
“Not seeing a lot of reason to continue even trying to make games, at this point, when a remake of Frogger, one of the worst games in the history of old arcade games, can outsell Space Giraffe that we put so much love and effort into, by more than ten to one, in one week… OK, we get the message. All you want on that channel is remakes of old, shite arcade games and crap you vaguely remember playing on your Amiga. We’ll shut up trying to do anything new then. Sorry for even trying.”
Of course, Minter probably didn’t notice some of the more exciting games on Xbox Live Arcade, such as Switchball, Puzzle Quest, Undertow, Pac-Man Championship Edition, and Super Puzzle Fighter - none of which are ports of old arcade games. What was the last arcade port on XBLA? Centipede/Millipede?
Sorry, Jeff - they didn’t like your game. Stop throwing a tantrum. PS. Some of us love Frogger.
(Thanks, CVG.)
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:58 am
Yeah. Some of us love good games, not attacks on my eyes.
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
After reading some of the reviews gushing about how brilliant the game was, I spent a fair bit of time with the demo really trying to get it. I couldn’t. It was just too cluttered and too random to be any fun.
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