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irkiIIer (June 27, 2008 at 7:10 pm)
hahaha wow this guy is fuckin pro, i sence a bot
xFireSquirrelx (December 12, 2007 at 10:00 pm)
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That WAS FUN!!
johal1001 (November 24, 2007 at 8:22 pm)
wow what a piece of shit
livardo (September 25, 2007 at 11:25 pm)
yay, nibbles.bas
thewiirocks (May 29, 2007 at 4:13 pm)
Ok, even more info. I discovered that the game appeared in 4BSD (1980) as "worm". I haven't been able to track it back any farther than that, but there are quite a few Usenet postings in the '80s of improved versions of the "worm" game.
Looking up the worm.c file from the Attic of the FreeBSD CVS shows that it was written by Michael Toy in 1980. Toy is more famous for his popular dungeon-crawling game: "Rogue".
Therefore, "Hustle" predates the PDP Unix game. Case closed. :-)
thewiirocks (May 29, 2007 at 3:50 pm)
Thanks to the wonders of Usenet, I believe I've traced the game back. A game called /usr/snake first appeared in the Unix System III release (1982). Downloading a copy of the System III source code shows the file to have a modified date of 4/15/1980.
thewiirocks (May 29, 2007 at 3:35 pm)
I have my doubts about Nokia's claim of the PDP-11 version arriving prior to the arcade game "Hustle". There were very few PDPs equipped with vector displays back in those days. (Or a graphical display of any kind!) In result, there is a strong history of the graphical games from that time.
I do have references of people who remember playing snake on a PDP & Unix, but they're all from the 80's. Which was after terminal displays became common for these machines.
VonRichter (May 29, 2007 at 7:41 am)
My research tells me that snake dates way back to the early pioneering days of game programming, done by tech university nerds on ancient computers.
thewiirocks (May 29, 2007 at 4:18 am)
It all started with an arcade game called "Hustle" (1977). The game combined the aspects of both Tron and Snake games into one, with players fighting to eat the points. Atari went the Tron way with their Surround (1977) game while Spectravision went the other with Tapeworm (1982).
VonRichter (March 5, 2007 at 1:22 am)
There are hundreds of versions of snake out there, this is most definetely NOT the first one. Might make an interesting research article to track down the first ever snake game and who designed it. |
