Snake [SRAI]

Play free reimagined classic video arcade games of the past from Sonic Radiation

About

Snake is a genre of action video games in which players control the head of a continuously growing line, usually represented as a snake. The core challenge is to guide the snake through the playfield without letting it collide with walls, obstacles, or its own body - a task that becomes increasingly difficult as the snake grows longer. The genre originated with the 1976 arcade game Blockade by Gremlin Industries, a two-player competitive title where the goal was simply to survive longer than your opponent. Early Blockade clones were purely abstract and did not use snake imagery or terminology. The concept later evolved into a single-player format featuring a snake with a distinct head and tail that lengthens each time it eats food (commonly apples or eggs), steadily raising the risk of self-collision. Thanks to their simple mechanics and low technical demands, Snake games have appeared in hundreds of variations, many of them explicitly titled Snake or Worm. The 1982 arcade game Tron (based on the film) featured similar gameplay in its single-player Light Cycles mode, and some later snake games adopted that neon, futuristic aesthetic. The genre experienced a major resurgence in popularity after a version simply titled Snake was pre-installed on Nokia mobile phones in 1998.