Snake
is a video game the is best known in the late
1990s as an addictive game on cell phones. It is
a relatively simple program involving a long,
thin creature that roams around, picking up food
(or some other such item), trying to avoid
hitting its own tail or the "walls" around it.
Each time the snake eats a piece of food, its
tail grows longer, thus making the game more and
more difficult. The user controls the direction
of the snake's head (up, down, left, or right),
and the snake's body follows.
Some better-known versions include the Neopets
example, which is known as "Meerca Chase."
An earlier version, called Nibbles, was included
with MS-DOS for a while
