It's Tron-ish (the post says Tron, where did you read snake?) :P

collinmanderson · on Aug 1, 2018

Tron is a great game for fitting into a very small space. Back in high school I spent a lot of time optimizing Tron on the TI-82 to fit in as few bytes as possible. It looks like I got it down to 152 bytes: (only about 80 bytes of actual Z80 assembly code)

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/227/22747.htm...

yebyen · on Aug 1, 2018

Woops... I skimmed the article and watched the 30MB GIF

reificator · on July 31, 2018

It's a fair assumption to make, as the difference between Tron and Snake is effectively just single player vs multiplayer.

derrasterpunkt · on July 31, 2018

No it isn't. In TRON you leave a trail behind. In Snake, you grow as you eat and drag your body along the path you crawled. TRON's trail is static, Snakes body is dynamic.

lucb1e · on Aug 2, 2018

So then OP created single-player Tron instead of Snake?

reificator · on July 31, 2018

I said effectively.

> TRON's trail is static, Snakes body is dynamic.

And that difference only exists to support the single player vs multiplayer dynamic. If Snake left a Tron tail then it would be a very short, unfun experience. If Tron didn't leave a permanent trail then matches would last too long.

hacksoi · on Aug 1, 2018

> And that difference only exists to support the single player vs multiplayer dynamic

Maybe the single player vs multiplayer difference only exists to support the different tail mechanics.

crtasm · on Aug 1, 2018

In the middle ground, NIBBLES.BAS was snake and had a competitive 2 player mode plus a selection of levels/arenas.