Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! was noted in reviews for being a spiritual successor to Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, a game also developed by Blitz Games under contract by Hasbro Interactive in 2000. The following year, Hasbro Interactive was acquired by Infogrames, and their license for the Frogger IP granted to them by Konami in the late 1990s expired. This prevented Blitz Games from using the IP again despite later pitches for new Frogger games, resulting in them developing Zapper as a new IP with similar gameplay.