Palm Pre Games: Snake (epic pass)

Snake is a game where you control a ravenously hungry snake that for some reason will only eat little yellow balls (aka “noms”) (he must have been raised in captivity). This snake will also get bigger and faster after every meal, so my estimate is that every second of playing the game equals roughly 3 months of real snake raising time.

The Palm Pre Game App is the all too familiar game to the generation that grew up before the birth of the smartphone. So if you grew up during those short 6-8 years during the reign of black and white cell phones, this should be one of your first app downloads. Since this game accurately recreates that great feeling of wasting time in the year 2002, I give this app an EPIC PASS (on a scale from epic pass to epic fail).

In this version on the Palm Pre you can control the snake with touchscreen swipes or with the keyboard, both of which I wouldn’t say is super easy, but I found the keyboard to be more accurate and less exhausting (we’re wasting time, not doing finger gymnastics, of which someone also ought to make a game app). To use the keyboard, use W, A, S, and D (or I, J, K, and L) to control the red headed serpent (which I think looks like a rare yellow breed of corn snake perhaps).

The snake can do that trick in Michel Gondry’s great movie “Human Nature” where Tim Robbins’ character tries to leave purgatory by leaving out the door on the right side of the shot, only to re-enter simultaneously through the door on the left. Unless there are walls (which appear in level 2) you can do the same with the snake. If you make it past level 2, you need to either get a job, or start doing your job before you get let go. It’s a tough economy, what can I say.

If you are able to beat the game, it’s rumored that the makers of the game will send you a beautiful pair of shoes of the style and size of your choice made out of the snake.