About FrogSlayer Studios

FrogSlayer Studios have been producing video games for almost 200 years, since their inception in 1836 by Eli Terwilliger, the inventor of the first video game, which he called Reginald, the Ne'er-Do-Well Toad Swindler! It was wildly applauded as a technological triumph, but did not yield the sales that Terwilliger had hoped. In those days, game consoles were so large that they were typically equipped with wheels so that they could be transported by rail, and usually consumed nearly as much coal per hour as the engines that pulled them.


1838: Eli Terwilliger oversees new track construction to bring "Reginald" to Racine, WI.

In the years that followed, Eli's son Mortimer Terwilliger (no relation) helped to bring lead-free pipe technology to coal-powered games. He only ever produced one game, called Moustache Wax Salesman, which turned out to be all the rage with opium addicts in the New Mexico territory.

In 1901, the company was purchased by an Irish oil baron named Gerry "Knuckles" O'Houlihan. O'Houlihan succeeded in virtually eradicating the player mortailty rate by replacing the 30 feet of razor wire in the popular controllers of the day with copper tubing.


Gerry "Knuckles" O'Houlihan glares disapprovingly at a worker. The worker was given a good thrashing shortly after this picture was taken.

O'Houlihan had a penchant for gambling, and was not very good at it; hence, an ill-played hand of Go-Fish lost him the deed to four gentlemen who ran the shadow-government known as The League of Incalculable Justice. Under their leadership, the entire catalog of games was retro-fitted with military hardware and used to turn the tide in the devastating, but little-publicized, American War of the Antarctic.


The League of Incalculable Justice: Horace Lassiter, Rex Van Tassler, Lord Elroy Bimbleton, Charles "Specs" O'Reilly.

In 2007, Ross Wright and John Januskey moved the company to College Station, TX and made a fresh start, developing games for modern consoles. The company currently produces games such as Go Go UFO Smackdown, which is available for download on XBox Live Community Games.