Frog revives Team17’s Superfrog for Windows and Linux

If you played platform games on the Amiga in the early 1990s, Superfrog is a name you may remember. Now the game is back in a new form. Frog is an unofficial PC adaptation of Team17’s 1993 platformer Superfrog, built for Windows and Linux. It keeps the original game’s basic look, levels and structure, but updates the experience for modern computers. That means support for wider displays, newer keyboard controls, adjustable difficulty and a few other practical changes. This isn’t a full remake with new graphics or redesigned levels. It sticks closely to the original game.

The same basic Superfrog adventure

The setup is simple. A prince gets turned into a frog by a witch, gains special abilities and sets off to put things right. From there, it’s pure 1990s platforming. Frog includes 24 main levels spread across six worlds. You run, jump, collect coins, avoid hazards and search through stages for the items you need to unlock the exit. Some routes are obvious. Others ask you to explore a little more.

There’s also Project F, the side-scrolling shooting section from the original game, along with the final confrontation at the end of the campaign. The main goal in each level is usually straightforward: collect enough coins to open the exit before time runs out. Along the way, you’ll find fruit, bonuses and other pickups while dealing with enemies and environmental hazards. It’s a very old-school design, and Frog doesn’t try to hide that.

Wider screens change the view

One of the biggest changes is support for ultrawide displays. The original Superfrog was designed for screens with a much narrower view. Frog lets you see more of each stage at once, which can make a noticeable difference.

You can spot platforms earlier. You can see enemies before you reach them. Hidden routes may also be easier to notice simply because more of the level is visible on screen. That doesn’t completely change how the game works, but it does make the presentation feel more suited to a modern PC setup. Frog also includes modern keyboard controls, so you’re not dealing with input designed around a 1990s Amiga joystick.

Classic and Easy modes

The game offers two difficulty choices: Classic and Easy. Classic sticks closer to the original Superfrog experience. Easy gives players a less demanding option if they’d rather focus on moving through the levels without quite as much pressure.

That’s a sensible addition. Older platform games can be surprisingly unforgiving, especially if you didn’t grow up playing them. You don’t have to use the easier setting, of course. If you want something closer to the original rules, Classic is there.

Updates after release

Frog has already received a small post-release update. Version 1.0.1 fixed several visual and interface problems, including issues with the fruit-machine bonus animation on modern high-refresh-rate displays.

The update also restored level numbers on post-level screens, corrected the exit-coin indicator and fixed a few brief positioning problems involving sprites and projectiles. Achievement text formatting received some attention as well. None of these changes reinvent the game. They’re mostly small fixes designed to make it behave more cleanly on current hardware.

Where Superfrog came from

The original Superfrog arrived on the Commodore Amiga in 1993. Team17 developed and published it, and versions later appeared for MS-DOS and the Amiga CD32. At the time, platform games were everywhere. Nintendo had Mario. Sega had Sonic. European computer developers were producing plenty of their own takes on the genre, and Superfrog became one of Team17’s better-known Amiga releases.

Its campaign featured six themed worlds and 24 levels, with players collecting coins while racing against a time limit. Fruit and bonus items gave players extra reasons to search every corner of a stage. Between levels, players could sometimes use a fruit-machine-style bonus game. Then there was Project F, which suddenly switched things up by turning the game into a horizontal shooter.

The soundtrack came from Allister Brimble, a composer closely associated with the Amiga scene, while Eric W. Schwartz created the animated introduction. Superfrog returned years later in Superfrog HD, released in 2013. That version took the remake route. Frog does something simpler.

A direct way to play Superfrog on PC & Linux

Frog keeps the original 2D style and familiar campaign while making the game easier to run on a modern computer. You get the 24-level structure, the six worlds, the coin collecting, Project F and the same general platforming formula. The main differences are practical ones: wider display support, updated controls, difficulty options, achievements and fixes for modern hardware.

So if you’re looking for a version of Superfrog that feels close to the Amiga original but runs more naturally on a current Windows or Linux machine, Frog is built around exactly that idea. It doesn’t try to turn Superfrog into something new. It simply makes the old game easier to play on a modern PC.

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