Snakes on a phone!

Mobile gaming was popularised by Snake, but that isn’t where it began…

MR BIFFO

“So iconic has it become that there’s been a version of Snake on every Nokia phone since” I’ve gone and messed up my sleep patterns. I’d temporarily misplaced my Kindle, you see, and reading a book at night is generally how I fall asleep. The first game to pay a nod to the horror genre was Haunted House on the Magnavox Odyssey. Via a rather attractive overlay placed on your TV screen, one player controlled a ‘detective’ (represented by a dot – a ‘dotective’, perhaps) as they wandered through the titular home searching for clues. A second player adopted the role of the resident ghost, and before the game began would hide in one of the clue boxes while the detective player kept their real-life eyes closed. I have the Kindle app on…

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