Serpentine (video game)

Infobox VG
title = Serpentine


developer = Brøderbund
publisher = Brøderbund
designer = David Snyder
engine =
released = vgy|1982
genre = Action Game
modes = Single-player
ratings =
platforms = x86 (MS-DOS), Apple II series, Atari 400/800, Vic 20, Commodore 64
media = 5¼-inch_disk floppy disk, cartridge (Vic 20)
requirements =
input = Keyboard and/or joystick.

"Serpentine" is a 1982 action computer game developed by David Snyder and published by Brøderbund.

Description

The player controls (rides, by game description citation | date = Fall 1983 | author = Chris Vogeli | periodical = [http://www.atarimagazines.com/cva/v1n2/apple2games.php Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games] | title = Five Great Games For The Apple Computer | year = 1983 | pages = 100] ) a multi-segmented blue 'good' serpent in a maze with an objective of eliminating the computer controlled 'evil' (red or orange) serpents. The player can eat the tail segments of serpents to make them shorter and can hit them head first and eliminate them and grow one segment if their serpent has more segments than the computer serpent. A frog appears at random intervals and gives the serpent eating it an additional segment. As the game progresses, opposing serpents are faster and larger, increasing the difficulty.

One unique aspect of the game is how extra lives are gained. The playing serpent will lay an egg (losing a segment in the process) and given enough time, this egg hatches and runs to the protected area. Enemy snakes will also lay eggs and if one hatches, a new opposing serpent appears (new snakes start with 2 segments). It is possible to lose the last segment to an egg, resulting in death of that snake.

Serpentine ranked #13 for most popular game of 1982 according to Softalk Magazine citation | date = Apr 1983 | author = (unspecified) | periodical = [http://apple2history.org/history/appy/aha82.html Softalk] | title = It's Choplifter in '82 | year = 1982 | pages = 76-82]

Ports

This game was originally written for the Apple II citation | date = Feb 2007 | author = Alan Hewston | periodical = [http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM33/RTM33.html Retrogaming Times] | title = The Many Faces of Serpentine | year = 2007 | pages = 1] and ported to the Vic 20, Commodore 64 and Atari 400/800. Most versions included 20 different mazes, but the Atari version only had 5.

References

External links

*moby game|id=/serpentine|name="Serpentine"