Snake Pit

See if you can gobble up the snakes as they writhe around the screen - before they have a chance to eat you. Superb graphics on a totally addictive game.

Instructions

A two-phase game for one player. You are in control of a grinning gobbler and using this, you must outwit the menacing snakes which wriggle and twist around the screen, forming an endlessly changing dynamic maze. At the start of the game, the screen is filled with tiny eggs. The snakes are in separate boxes. Your gobbler begins in the bottom right-hand corner of all computers except BBC when he is in the lower middle of the screen.

Phase One

The following rules govern the actions of the gobbler and the snakes:

1. The gobbler can eat eggs, gaining ten points for each egg eaten.
2. No snake (except the red one) can eat eggs to move on top of an egg. At the beginning of the game they are trapped in their starting positions by walls of eggs.
3. The red snake does eat eggs and as the game continues, it releases the other snakes by eating the walls of eggs that surround them.
4. All of the snakes can eat the gobbler.
5. No snake can cross over another snake, but a snake can cross over itself.
6. The gobbler cannot move on top of or cross over a snake nor can it eat a snake.
7. When all the eggs have been eaten, the game speeds up and phase two begins.

Phase Two

1. The same rules of movement apply and the snakes can still eat the gobbler but now the gobbler has its chance of revenge - *it can eat the snakes*!
2. To eat a snake, the gobbler must move onto its tail. When it does so, it automatically chomps its way along the whole snake ending up at the head, 200 points are gained for each snake.
3. When all the snakes have been eaten, the game waits for you to press S. When you do so, it goes back to phase one and a fresh screen of eggs but with the new higher speed of phase two.

Game Controls

Z - Left, X - Right, * - Up, ? - Down

Scoring

The score for the current game is shown at the top left of the screen. The highest score since switch-on is shown at the top right hand of the screen.

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Disc: SHIFT-BREAK