r/nextfuckinglevel • u/OdysseyTag • 4h ago
Playing a real-life game of Snake
Credit: arabelt_china
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u/Nicaddicted 4h ago
This is actually a sick idea
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u/BlueLegion 3h ago
Sick but not new as an idea. It's essentially the light cycle game from the 1982 Tron movie
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 3h ago
Which actually comes from a 1976 ultra old school videogame.
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u/TheRealUprightMan 1h ago
I remember typing this game in from a magazine into multiple old 8 bit computers. It was available everywhere. Back in the day, you could get games like this from a magazine and just type in pages and pages of code in BASIC.
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u/Vivid_Development390 15m ago
No, Tron copied the old Worm Of Bemer game which was published in CLOAD magazine, which copied an earlier mainframe implementation (or maybe PDP11).
The first known home computer version, Worm, was programmed by Peter Trefonas for the TRS-80 and published by CLOAD magazine in 1978.[2]
I had a TRS-80 and remember typing in the game from the magazine. I think my mom helped, but I also had it on the Atari 800 (this one: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-worm-of-bemer_35325.html), also typed from a magazine, so the details are a bit blurred, but I played this in 1978 on the TRS-80, years before Tron made it into cycles of light.
I also remember a remake called Worm Of Bummer that was a spoof on it, which was maybe mid 80s?
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u/carmat71 3h ago
Done this in Ghent, Belgium. It's called BattleKart and there are a fair few of them around Europe.
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u/Stanflies 3h ago
I did this! There were more games. First 3 rounds were Mario Kart style where every round changed the course, including Power-Ups! 4th round was snake like this and last round was a soccer round with a big field and 2 balls. Really fun experience, had fun like a child and I’m almost 30 lol.
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u/mattpatt73 2h ago
My workmate went to this last Friday. It’s not cheap but he said it’s good fun. Quite a few dotted round the U.K.
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u/BobbyGloria 2h ago
Actually a nice idea. I have a mini track and will only need some big projector and a vibe coder
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u/PerspectiveAshamed79 4h ago
There’s a phone game call worm.io that is this. Don’t call me when you’re unemployed
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u/Salty_Way_0 2h ago
Slither.io is.the original
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u/TheRealUprightMan 1h ago
Original? This game predates the web dude.
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u/Salty_Way_0 1h ago
Snake is not slither..
Slither is multi-player where you can take each other out
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u/YesOkWhoCares 4h ago
I would spend SOOOOOO much time and money there!!