London fountains turned into big game of ‘Snake’
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PEOPLE of a certain age who at one point owned a trusty Nokia mobile phone will remember the daily struggle of setting new high scores on Snake.
When the Finnish firm pretty much owned the mobile phone market with the 3210 model, Snake was the popular yet ultimately frustrating mobile game of choice, for mobile phone owners.
The aim of the game - which originated in games arcades around 1978 - was to make the snake eat up various objects, growing the creature in size and making it harder to avoid hitting the walls or ‘eating’ itself, both of which ended the game.
And Mashable is reporting that Londoners can now take a trip down memory lane on a much larger scale.
People can download the Granary Squirt app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, and turn the fountains in Granary Square in Kings Cross into a giant game of Snake, according to reports from Time Out London.
Players can control the lights in the fountains using their phone, which determines what direction the snake travels in.
People in London can play the game between 5pm and 8pm each day.
Nokia released a number of versions of the game, including Snake II, Snake Xenzia, Snakes (a 3D version) and Snakes Subsonic.
It is still included on some low-end Nokia phones such as the Nokia 108.
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