Tape Worm (Atari 2600) (How To Beat Home Video Games 2)

[KartKing4ever]

"The next wave sets up automatically" No shit, I thought I had to build it in game myself and then play it.

[shaun991000]

Slinky?

[mrwonkabar98]

beap beap

[ImSoJohnDeleted]

imagine this on the crysis2 engine...

[TitenSxull]

Its amazing that video games ever became popular considering how tedious this seems and how obnoxious the sounds are

[vexun11]

he is playing it on easy slow

[loneshewolf74]

the only problem now is that there will probably be disgusting graphic videos of real tapeworms under "recomended for you" on my home page. Yeah, I know I don't have to watch them, but...ick! :-c

[qubei]

All of god's creatures are beautiful. Look at the tiny hooks!

[livardo]

I love how there's a disgusting "Colonoscopy Demonstrating a Moving Worm" video in the related videos section.

[irkiIIer]

hahaha wow this guy is fuckin pro, i sence a bot

[xFireSquirrelx]

beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,beep, beep,

That WAS FUN!!

[livardo]

yay, nibbles.bas

[VonRichter]

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.

[thewiirocks]

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]

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]

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.

[thewiirocks]

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]

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. :-)

[tehsmex]

It is nice to see where snake came from. That in the dark crap was ridiculous!!! @_@

[FlukieLukie]

Isnt this just snake?

[videogameknowitall]

That was a pretty interesting game!...Spectravision was one of the many companies that tired to cash in on the Atari 2600 sucsess!...Still a nice game though!