Preppie! (video game)

[1] Leaning on the preppy trend of the early 1980s, the game follows prep schooler Wadsworth Overcash as he navigates the hazards of a country club to retrieve golf balls.

borrows heavily from Konami's Frogger,[3][4] with lanes of traffic in the bottom half of the screen and a river crossing the top portion.

Alligators are an element from both Frogger and preppy fashion; an open-mouthed gator is the icon of shirt brand Izod.

[6] Like Frogger, the player must cross lanes of traffic, then jump between floating objects to reach the other side of a river.

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.

[2]Programmer Russ Wetmore borrowed an Atari 800 from Adventure International founder Scott Adams with the intent of writing a video game.

In a 1982 review for Antic, Robert DeWitt concluded "Al has a real winner here, even if the 'cover' concept is only remotely related to the game.

"[3] John J. Anderson of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games stated that although gameplay is not original "the implementation is gorgeous.

"[11] The Book of Atari Software 1983 gave a rating of B-minus, writing "Animation and graphics are very good" and "I can't say it's very original in design; but, like Frogger, it is lots of fun.

[15] Elements of the original return as obstacles, including giant frogs, golf carts, and lawn mowers.

Wadsworth between the road and river, near a golf ball.