Snake Pit

One or two snakes slither around a walled pit with five minutes on the clock. Mice run out of six holes in the walls; steer your snake onto them to eat them, scoring 30 points and growing one longer each time. A snake never stops moving, and running into a wall or a snake, your own included, ends the round: the pit is set up again while the clock keeps running. With two players a crash gives the other player 20 points; alone you lose only time. Nothing moves until the stick is pushed. Choose one of five speeds on the title. When the clock runs out the game ends, and with two players the winner is named.

Controls: With one player, use either controller; with two, player 1 uses controller 1 and player 2 controller 2. The stick steers. On the title, up and down choose a line, left and right change it, and a button starts or shows HOW TO PLAY or the credits.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE!'s Gazette, December 1987: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.