An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia

Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by contingencies on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:17PM (#20957857)

Strange there is no mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game) (released 1991 and present on all MSDOS after 5 and early windows machines), probably itself paying homage to https://www.mobygames.com/game/rock-olas-nibbler * (1982). MobyGames' list of earlier Snake variants at https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/snake-variants/offset,1... attributes oldest position to Taito's 1977 arcade game Hustle https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=hustle&page=detail&id=1950... which also received a TI-99/4A port https://www.videogamehouse.net/hustle.html (1981).

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Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by mb_72 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:12PM (#20958515)

I remember copying the code out for a Snake variant from a Commodore 64 magazine in '83 or '84 - back in the days when they would publish source code for things in each issue - and it made Snake a craze at my country Australia Primary school where we had 8 '64s sharing a single networked floppy drive. It also made me, the biggest nerd at the school, the cool guy... for a few days..

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Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by contingencies on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:41PM (#20958690)

Similar story at our school in Sydney ... mid 1990s we had a 2P (one keyboard) multiplayer snake hacking contest. I implemented flamethrowers and mines in my version, which enjoyed relative popularity.

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Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by sehugg on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:05PM (#20958485)

Or Gremlin Industries' 1976 "Blockade" which invented the Tron light-cycles genre, and probably inspired the Snake game genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_(video_game)

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Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by empath75 on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:23AM (#20961074)

That is in the article

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Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by dan1234 on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:22AM (#20960493)

I remember playing Worm[0] on the school’s RM Nimbus[1] in the early 90s

[0]http://xbattlestation.com/xbs/worm/worm.html [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM_Nimbus

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Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by glaberficken on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:24AM (#20962434)

Nibbler (1982) is directly mentioned in the article.

>"The game Snake existed before 1995. It first arrived in 1976 as an arcade game called Blockade and spawned several clones from there. Whether it was Nibbler, Worm or Rattler Race, the basic concept was consistent."

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Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by ViViDboarder on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:06AM (#20959099)

There is a mention now it seems.

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Re:An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia by dpau on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:53PM (#20958761)

i grew up playing Serpentine (1982) on my awesome vic-20

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