No pressure, Bill, since I'm sure you have a lot on your plate, but I would love to see some video of these games.

I thought I'd seen it all on the TRS-80, but I can't recall ever seeing or playing a licensed arcade translation for the platform. And I certainly never knew ports of "Frogger" and "Zaxxon" were made for the TRS-80!

There were many knock-offs of arcade games that were surprisingly good and exciting for the TRS-80. Adventure International's "Eliminator" was a very fun and graphically excellent clone of Defender. And then you have the "Big Five" games, which were considered the pinnacle of gaming excellence for the TRS-80. There was "Scarfman," a Pacman knockoff that was otherwise excellent, but had a fatal gameplay flaw in that you can easily beat the game by just eating the power pills and clearing the maze while the ghosts stayed vulnerable for much too long (who playtested this game?).

The screenshots of Frogger and Zaxxon on the back of the boxes (in the pictures you provided) look surprisingly good. I can imagine that Frogger could be competently ported, but I can't imagine how Zaxxon would play on the TRS-80.

Here's a video of "Scarfman" that someone was kind enough to upload on YouTube. Believe it or not, this primitive-looking game was considered a technical success for the TRS-80, despite being too easy to play.

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