Nokia’s 1997 game Snake authentically recreated on Windows Phone

There aren’t many mobile phone games
from the 1990s that are really worth taking
a second look. In fact, the entire market of
vintage cell phone games is sorely
uninspiring, but there is one that has and
always will stand out from its
monochromatic brethren. If you had a
Nokia phone back in the day, then you
either played Snake or you should have.
Now, developer Willem Middelkoop has
revived the archaically simplistic game on
Windows Phone. And no, it doesn’t just put
a black-and-greenish screen on the display
and let players have at it. This app
effectively turns your Windows Phone into
a mid-1990s Nokia handset, complete with
buttons and all. The experience is meant to
be as faithful as possible, giving players a
limited play area and requiring them to
push numerical buttons to move the snake.
It is perhaps a fitting tribute to the fact that
Nokia now runs a third-party operating
system, something that mobile enthusiasts
just a few years ago would have said was a
ludicrous idea. Of course, Nokia didn’t
create Snake; it lived as an old-school
computer game long before you could
carry a phone outside your house. But the
simplistic game made a perfect splash into
the mobile gaming sector. Incidentally,
Nokia tried to release a modern-day Snake
on its N-Gage phone several years ago.
Neither the game nor the phone was
successful. But when it comes to retro
goodness, you can’t lose.
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