#Play classic snake windows#

Philosophical question: Does the game worth of buying the phone?įun fact by the end: Nokia port of Snake is one of 40 games that the curators wished to add to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City's collection. BTW, Snake classic (this time in version 2017) is available also in the new reincarnation of Nokia 3310. Some say that Nokia 3310 is the most secure hardware storage and people will be able to play Snake II on this device forever. Ideal conditions for the snake game and Nokia took the benefit! Although first snake game (Snake I) was released for Nokia 6110 in 1997, we all remember very well second version of snake ( Snake II) which came with immortal Nokia 3310 in 2000. Like on PCs years ago, mobiles did not offer high performance nor a quality screen to display any details.

However, the situation was extremely different in the field of mobile phones. Although new better-looking versions of the Snake game were not bad, snake had it really hard in the competition of other games. When personal computers achieved mass adoption, PCs already offered many games for playing and getting new ones was quite simple.

#Play classic snake windows#

On Microsoft windows OS we can play Snake since 1992. Arcade snake related games needed only a few years to become available for most devices which allowed playing games. Versions for next computers created by various companies were followed in the coming years. First version of snake arcade game for personal computers was developed by Peter Trefonas released for various PCs (TRS-80, Commodore PET, Apple II) in 1978. Next year, in 1977, Atari released two Blockade-inspired titles for their Atari VCS gaming console. The snake game design dates tens years back to October 1976 when Gremlin Industries (founded 1971) introduced a snake arcade video game Blockade. Snake game ends once a player hits an obstacle dependent on a game variation - with the head into own snake body, wall at the game area or a different snake. Game score grows together with the growing length of the snake after eating food easily reachable in the gaming area. Snake (alternatively Worm) is a common name for a 2D game built on a simple game design with a fixed wall along game area inside which the snake moves and whose edges cannot hit.