"Most discussions about the this episode mention the fact that Frogger never allowed the player to enter intials in the first place. But actually the Frogger related plot hole went a lot further than just the high score table, which did not seem to actually appear in the episode as far as I could tell.
First off, that wasn't even a Frogger machine. It was a Sega cabinet, and it had a Frogger marquee at the top, but it wasn't a Frogger. Frogger machines have a distinctive control panel with a treadmark design. Frogger machines may have a single large frog picture/logo on the side, but they never had black frog stickers all over the machine. The one in the episode even had them on the back section, no old arcade games are ever decorated in back, that part faces the wall, so no one can even see it.
They powered the machine with a car battery. That is a big problem as well. The Frogger gameboard is a Konami Standard board, it requires +12 volts, +5 volts, and -5 volts power, which they apparently supplied with a standard car battery. They somehow managed to provide the needed AC power for the monitor as well. They could have possibly used some sort of power inverter to power the whole thing, except that that none of the standard ones that you buy at the store can put out enough juice to power an arcade game (Autozone sells these things, I tried, it doesn't work), and a higher rated one would have drained the battery in seconds, if it even worked at all.
Then there is the little bit about expecting us to believe that the game was really plugged in and turned on for ten years without losing power once. Nope, that would probably never happen, even if the place never had a single power outage, and even if they never had to service or move the machine, it still wouldn't have happened. The monitor would have given out by then. Arcade monitors often have some pretty impressive service times, but the one on the show had a perfect picture, while a monitor that had been on for ten years non-stop would have looked horrible, and would have had a terrific amount of screen burn."
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http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1298393Okay, which one of you dorks wrote this rant?
