Snake (video game)

Snake (English for snake ) is the name of a classic computer game in which you control a snake through a playing field and forage (sometimes called Apple ) is scheduled to start. The snake gets longer with each morsels of food. , Other snakes emerge, which may not be touched. Also Plums can arise that can not be touched (except the tail). Even touching the playing field edges or own tail lead to death of the snake.

A similar gameplay is Tron.

An early, possibly even the first version of Snake was programmed in 1979 by F. Seger on a TRS -80 ( " Hyper Worm ").

A well-known version of Snake was a part of MS -DOS and be available in the early 1990s under the name Nibbles as QBasic program for several years on almost every PC.

Today, the game is playable on many mobile phones from the factory. Especially the 1990 Generation Nokia models had preinstalled Snake. The slightly newer versions for mobile phones, such as anaconda, opposite Snake offer a newly prepared graphic and various game modes that provide somewhat higher demands on the player.

Snake can also be played on YouTube videos that use the 2010 version of the software. The game is activated by pressing the arrow keys ← (left) for at least two seconds and ↑ ( Up ) and ↓ ( down) and is playable in both click to playDem and pausiertem video both in windowed mode and in full screen mode. If the playback software waits for video data from the Internet (ie, when the center of the window, the points rotate ) can be omitted pressing the left arrow key.

The game exists in different variations: How it applies in more difficult variants, the snake also to lead through a maze whose walls must not be touched as well. In order to enable higher highscores, some versions also bonus points were introduced and the side walls removed.

On some graphics calculators from Texas Instruments, it is possible to play a similar game with the name Nibbles 2.