This game is beloved,

can have a chance to play in reality,

It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Most of the games that used to be the same age as the post-70s "Snake" have become ancient.

The few characters who are still active in the game world, such as Pac-Man and Super Mario, have already undergone countless plastic surgeries.

Maybe it's really the fateful reason why "Snake" must die, and the first generation of "Snake" holder Gremlin can't escape the fate of decline, Nokia has also gone to the ebb after more than ten years of glory.

Why is Snake a genre that must die in the game, but it has always been an evergreen genre?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it also has a worldview of its own.

Ouroboros are considered to be the prototype of the gluttonous snake.

This snake is often found in ancient mythology of the Aztec civilization, the Middle East, and the Americas.

Most of the images are of a snake devouring its own tail, resulting in a ring.

In Plato's view, the Ouroboros is a cosmic progenitor in a state of self-devouring, immortal, and perfectly biologically structured.

Perhaps, it is this influence that exists in most of the ancient myths around the world that fans of "Snake" will have an inexplicable sense of intimacy when they first come into contact with it.

And the highest level of "Snake" is to let yourself bite your own tail.

In the era when "Snake" was all the rage, many people invented countless snake strategies to get the glory of dying at the latest.

The simplest and most effective way is to let the snake follow a "zigzag" route.

If it goes well, you risk ending up biting your own tail while occupying the screen.

But most people have the same feeling, "Snake", despite its simplicity, rarely scores the highest score.

Take the first version of "Snake" on Nokia mobile phone as an example, galloping in a 20*11 rectangular area, according to the score calculation formula, the total score = screen points (212) * level (1~9) + 100, the highest score in the first level of "Snake" is 312, and the highest score in the ninth level is 2008.

But even game designer Taneli Armanto himself has only scored 1,125 points.

In order to realize the ultimate dream of the snake worldview, countless people have taken on challenges.

In Nokia's hometown of Finland, the Snake Contest has been held since 1999, and it is said that the global master who has achieved the highest score has not yet been found in order to find the last snake player to die in the world.

IN FACT, IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE IT IS DIFFICULT TO REACH THE FINAL GAME OVER THAT "SNAKE", A SIMPLE BUT WORLD-VIEW GAME, CAN BE SO PLAYABLE.

Even, "Snake" has been moved from virtual to real by its lovers.

In 2010, Nokia hosted a pop-up event in Colombia.

They recruited netizens in the forum, and they were surprisingly willing to participate in the event, because this event was to cool off the live-action version of "Snake".

In the event, the netizens who played the role of food made "Snake" a little unbearable, and several people who were responsible for leading the way forward went through simple training.

As with other flash mob operations, after the snake hit itself and caused Game Over, the netizens disbanded and went home.

This kind of flash mob has been repeated many times, and even if Nokia has fallen, netizens are still happy to continue to find a place to flash mob.

The reason is simple, this game is a favorite, and the opportunity to play it in real life is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Times are changing, and so is this flash mob path.

In 2020, the aerial video of the military training of Chengdu Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School became popular on the Internet, and students and instructors played an upgraded version of the real snake with the participation of 400 people.

In order to ignite the enthusiasm for collective training, the school's military training instructor led six classes of students to form a snake.

Looking down from the air, the real snake is huge in scale and full of fun, and many netizens said: It's the military training I want to go!

In the same year, under the starry sky, 500 students from Qingdao University's business school spent five hours holding flashing lights to pose in the shape of a map of China on the playground in the form of snakes.

It means that every student represents a part of the map of China, and everyone is a part of China......

As the world's most widely distributed game, Snake isn't as glamorous as today's mobile games, but it's endured and beloved.

The secret to its success is actually very simple - simple swimming.

Published in the People's Post and Telegraph on February 25, 2025, Issue 433 of the column of "Le Youji".

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