I remember playing this game with a dance pad once. It worked surprisingly OK.

For those curious: The Magpie leaves her eggs behind in places that she stole stuff, so her chicks will steal more stuff for her. Clearly mother of the year candidate right there.

2:24 that joystick has seen better days

There's also something very 90's about the character. He got that distinct attitude that seems like he was meant to be a rival of Sonic.

"This is why I'm glad I didn't have an older brother growing up" Hit me right in the feels

Hey, so I happen to know a bit about the story behind the game, long story short, the studio that created Zapper was, in the first place, working on a Frogger sequel, yet for some licensing issues during the development of the game , the project was aborted. The studio had by that time completed a significant part of the game, so rather that deleting everything and losing a lot of cash they ended up re-working some features and mechanics of the game but just enough so they don't get sued or anything and this is where Zapper originated from, and that's why Zapper appears so similar to Frogger, simply cause it was intended to be a Frogger game in the first place. If you're a fan of the game and you're reading this, feel free to hit me up, I'd be glad to share some infos about the game ! Love Nitro Rad for reviewing this game

Zapper is clearly trying to cash in on that lucrative Buck Bumble gaming market, yet it didn't have a catchy song to back it up? No wonder this game is as forgotten as it is!

This is the correct third video in the Nitro Rad Frogger series

My nostalgic bug game was A Bugs Life for PC. You can really feel the nostalgia in the lack of polygons

Oh my God! Zapper was like, my childhood game! I never thought in a million years I'd see it covered on here. THANK YOU!!

I played both Frogger 2 Swampy's Revenge and then Zapper. I loved them both and I still do. I kinda prefer cricket maybe because that electric shock attack and his overall esthetic design pleased me a lot ^^ Yeah it definitelly was the electric wave attack xD

I love this game! The soundtrack is great, I really love the level design, and I used to have a lot of fun jumping on top of other crickets and holding Z.

It’s interesting coming back to this video after the Frogger marathon. I get the feeling his opinions on those games have improved since then, given his “only OK” in this video vs. his reaction to Helmet Chaos.

The developers of this game clearly don't know that crickets don't have a larval stage, do they?

(disclaimer: i am EXTREMELY biased about the game, i've been speedruning it for a while now) Hello, nice review :) I'd like to discuss some points you made in the video. You said this game is a Frogger clone. While this is mostly true, and Blitz actually had the licence for Frogger at that point which leads me to believe this was intended to be a sequel, it has a key element that you could have stressed out a bit more: you can be offensive. That may not seem to be much, but it makes a whole world of difference between just avoiding things and having the choice to go around an obstacle or destroy it. You said hovering was unnecessary and a waste of programming. This i disagree with for one reason: it's situational. Sometimes you jump into a moving enemy by accident, and this feature can save you. There is actually a small window where you can release the jump and press it again and it won't stop hovering. I think it's pretty nice to have as an emergency. At 3:35 you point out the "unnatainable" tile. While i'll agree level design is bad on some areas, there is a secret a little bit earlier in the level that allows you to get inside the wagon, and get out from this tile. You aren't supposed to be able to get to it from above, that would defeat the purpose of the secret. (It's still bad level design yeah) You didn't talk about the secret world levels! And worse than that, you go on about how pipewerx is the only one where the gameplay is different. I guess it takes a while to finish the game 100%, but just the first one of these is very different from the usual gameplay. That's all i could gather. Sorry if the formatting sucks, youtube comments are bad anyways :)

Hey, thanks for reviewing this game. I really enjoyed it when when I was young and still do now, but I can see what you mean that it's not that desirable. I'm just glad to see someone giving this game some recognition regardless because I felt really alone about knowing this game... And yes, I'm a silly nerd who 100% this game more than once.

"FROGGER: HELMET CHAOS" was my favorite frogger

in froggers defense, frogger 2 was the shit!

I loved this game! Especially the level with the dinosaur bones and the circular underwater one

If it hadn't been for you, I would now be in someone else's digestion. ~Zipper, probably

I remember getting this as a kid for my ps2. Damn what a blast from the past to find this video

Coming back from the far future where he's covered a WHOLE lot of Frogger, this dude really awoke a deep locked memory in me. I remember playing this years ago on a PS2 in Nicaragua. The game wasnt even mine, it belonged to the owner of the PS2 in the area we were staying in. I forgot the name of the game for all these years, but just seeing Zapper unlocked that deep memory from 15 years ago. Its one hell of a trip.

A very early memory I had was walking in a mall with my family and seeing a video game on display with a bluish background and an orange game character tapping the screen. It caught my attention but I couldn’t remember for the life of me what the game was. I can rest easy now.

I think the creators of Zapper also made a Frogger game. I distinctly remember that they had very similar death animations, especially the one where you get cut in half.

I actually like this game, at least more than Nitro seems to. Don't get me wrong, this game is brutally difficult especially in the bonus stages. I think you had to beat them all to get unlimited ultra zaps, which make the game way easier. That, or just put in a cheat code. Despite this, I kept coming back to it for the huge array of ideas in it. It was so diverse in enemies and places to be.

*jumps off a cliff* wwoooaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Your channel is genuinly a treasure. You constantly bring back nostalgia from my childhood. And even the games I dont know it brings back the times of the gamecube and ps2 and such. Thankyou man

Everything about all those cutscenes at the beginning are a rush of feelings and emotions! Wow!

Oh man I remember seeing the ads for the GBA version in Nintendo Power all the time. They all featured Zapper with a needle in his hands (?) superimposed in front of a photo of a frog mid-croak as though he was about to puncture the poor thing's throat. The tagline there was also "One Wicked Cricket," so I think you were on the money when you celled hi a terrible insect. On an unrelated note, glad to see another retro game review. I personally enjoy these videos more than your other ones, as I'm not much for most horror games (save for something like Deadly Premonition, which I highly recommend, by the way). Usually the games you go over are ones that I missed growing up for one reason or another, and I like to see this stuff from your perspective.

lol i used to play the demo of this game. Got in a box of cereal and i thought it was a realy decent game for being a cereal demo. I remember the train level to this day but i forgot what the name of the main caracter was so i couldnt find the game on the webb to replay it. Then, after all the years ive been wondering what it was you come along and upload this! Thanks for helping me remember! Now im of to play the whole game! :)

Man this game gave me my first ever nightmare. It was just so weirdly brutal and triggered my buding fear of blood and gore I remember this game so very well

this gives me nostalgia, used to play this on the PCs at my elementary school in kinder

God I remember getting this game on PC and never getting it to work as a kid. Looking back I think this game was the reason I stop playing games on PC for a long time

Yeah I'm on the same boat as you with this game. Played it once as a kid, beat it...and forgot about it. A more fav childhood memory of this kind of game to me is Blinx

Hey, this year is almost 20th anniversary of The videogame Zapper: one wicked cricket!

It's weird to watch current Nitro Rad and then coming back and see him be super cynical, almost the opposite of what he is now.

I played this on PC when I was kid and this is the best game ever !

HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER THIS

That's not hip hop, that's Drum N Bass

Wow I actually remember that game too! WTF?! I had totally forgotten about it! This is amazing!

I was so happy when you covered this! I could never remember what this game was called!

I ONCE PLAYED THIS GAME AT A FRIENDS HOUSE AND I HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS BUT NOW YOU TOLD ME THANK YOU SO MUCH

I used to play this when I was a very young kid. Super nostalgia.

this is the second game i ever owned

I actually played this game a lot on PC when I was younger

Watching This makes me want to play Frogger 2 Swampy's Revenge for the PC/Ps1 Great game imo but probably Average to most other people. but oddly I remember all the levels and the Music so they did Something Right

This game was my freakin' childhood ^_^

That title screen is giving me major déjà vu for some reason. Probably saw it at a friend's place or something

I remember playing this game as a kid...

I remember fighting with my classmates to play the game during computer time

I know I'm super late but i didn't know anyone knew this game. This is my childhood fr. It's one of those games only i played as a kid because everyone else had mario and stuff like that xD this brings me joy

I remember playing this game on a PS2 with some other kids at a restraunt in the kids area

Zapper appeared on Cartoon Network’s Toonami in between commercials, including Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee, both games I got for Christmas, including the Nintendo GameCube console of 2001

From experience I've learned that a lot of games I played in my childhood do not hold up when I play them today... Yes, I actually had fun playing Glover back then. I have no idea what had gotten into me.

I remember playing this when i was a little kid, but i can't remember getting much further than the train level, since i never understood why i couldn't jump to those pads. Now i see i wasn't the only one...

I've been lookin for this game for years! I used to play it way back when it first came out on PC at my grandmas house. The only level i can remember was...I think it was a food level? It had barbecue food on it or something? But anyway, thank you for helping me find this :) I need to play this again to tick it off my bucket list!

There should be another game where zappers brother is grown up and gets revenge,

HOW?! Out of the games you've posted I've played most of them. They aren't even common games, I got this shit on PC forever ago and it was my jam. I fucking love you Nitro.

I love this game, particularly the atmosphere

I loved this game as a kid I played this on the GameCube all the time!

Who else came back after this game was mentioned in the frogger 2 video?

Found this video after he mentioned it in his Frogger 2 review

love the music in this

You forgot to mention that Squires, Ants, and the slime things can also be killed, but only with a supercharge.

Seems like you and me had a similar childhood. I also played Zapper! And Scaler, and Ty, and Ty 2, Ty 3...weird.

Great video man! Youre a hero for trucking right through this game so others wouldnt have to! XD

I dint remenber this game being that violent

Yeah! I've been waiting for this video for a long time now!

I just found the GameCube version at a game store today. My years long search for the name of this game is over! I used to play it on my Win98 machine 24/7!!! So mystical and entrancing.

I grew up playing Frogger 1 and 2 countless times as a kid, so years later, I saw this at a Goodwill, and thought it reminded me of Frogger 2. Then I saw it was from the same developers, and I knew I had to try it out! I actually really like this one, and DANG, the music is awesome! And of course, the ending had me in hysterics! Oddly enough, you never even pointed out the extra stages. There's an extra stage that plays things differently for each world you get 100% completion of. And as for your questioning as to why Maggie is leaving eggs everywhere, it's because she's trying to bring about offspring en mass in order to raise an army to take over the world, so she's planting her forces everywhere. I know, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that's the plot. I think it was brought up in the manual.

I remember my daycare's computer had a demo of this game

My second favorite gamecube game to date

I *swear* I played this on the PC as a kid once and then never saw it again. Guess I know why I never rediscovered it.

Hey cool! i got this game on the PS2 from a thrift store for 5 bucks a few weeks ago.

"Frogger's Adventure: Temple of The Frog" WAS MY SHIT

Used to watch my mom place this cuz i was too young, been tryin to find the name of it for so long. Thanks for the vid!

That game was the good old days.

ya know you're the only person that really does these sirt if games nowadays, should make a billy hatcher episode

Wow, I used to love that game back in a day. I even completed it 100%. Probably should replay it.

9:05 whenever you see a cricket looking enemy

I had this game on pc as a kid, got it for free or for a dollar from something don't remember what, but I remember enjoying the game well enough.

It good to see that those video right after watching the Frogger review

I have really found memories of zapper. Like, for me it's still the best pure frogger game there is, and that's a gameplay I really like. Still sad it's so short tho, like really the game could have used one more world at least...

I surprisingly forgot this game existed until I found this video

My childhood right here, I had the xbox version

I loved those frogger games

I remember playing this game, I remember enjoying it and beating it. But I don't remember those later levels at all.

I remember playing a little bit of this at my grandpa's house for five minutes

Wouldn’t it have just been easier to actually fix the TV or replace it instead of saving his brother?

Saw this in my subscriptions and said " oh I remember this game... "

This is a game I used to see in the stores all the time and was mildly curious about. May give it a look one day

YEA NEW NITRO RAD! That's so...rad...

Before watching everything I'm just going to say this: no matter what you say, I think this game is great :D

When I saw jet set radio I was hyped for no reason

Nitro, you're One Wicked Canuck

its cool that this pc game finally came on steam in feb 2024

Zapper is what i call an unsympathetic comedy protagonist

The BGM in this game is dope. Also, I didn’t know this game had a cult following, same for the PS1 Frogger (which was my first game, played that on a ps2 slim.), allegedly this game was made by the same people who developed the frogger games. Ps. Funny that you mention the US vs Foreign box art stuff.

Thank you for reviewing another game of my childhood! It seems only me in the entire world appreciate well this game D: I even 100%'d it! In fact you miss two things which make this game better: 1) the fly animation makes sense,because you can change direction while flying,so you don't have to do two tiles at jump: 2) If you find every sphere in the world (100 in every level of the world),you can do a bonus level. Not the bonus level at the end of the level,but a ENTIRE NEW LEVEL with a different gameplay! After beating it,you can get a cheat. If you beat the last bonus level (again,not by finding every sphere in a level,but every sphere in every level in the world),you can get the infinite super zap! So there is more than that :D

This game looks pretty cool.