This one is another type-in listing from the book "Games for your ZX Spectrum" by Peter Shaw in 1983. Children in the 1980s may well have used this program listing to learn some BASIC skills, but I hope no-one ever used it to learn about road safety! Use CURSOR keys/joystick to dash across the M4 motorway during rush hour whilst avoiding getting hit by cars. I don't have the book and so I'm unaware what contrived backstory may explain the protagonist illegally and dangerously trying to cross a motorway on foot, but no doubt it would be something mildly amusing. I also can't help wonder if the 'M4' motorway was chosen for this game because (a) the author is familiar with that particular road or (b) when viewed on a standard road map, the M4 runs largely horizontally across the page. Perhaps if the author had instead chosen the M1 then we would have had a frogger game rotated 90 degrees on its side?
As frogger games go, this one plays OK, but lacks any sort of creative flair. All of the cars are identical. We don't even have any HGVs. I always think this type of game is better served by having a river or any other (non-road) type of challenge after the halfway point - just to make things a bit more interesting. Alas all we get is two carriageways, so at least it is an accurate representaion of the M4 I suppose. This one is for "road spotters" only (yes they do exist) otherwise it's not likely to hold anyone's attention for more than a couple of minutes.
