Snake-A-Roid

It's snake, but mega hectic and pretty psychedelic. Maybe the snake ate one of those trippy frogs? Whatever it is, it's fun! Love the idea of mixing Asteroids in here, it fits really well. It's a pretty tough game to play, the bosses are really tough to beat but it's rewarding when you get through them. Powerups work well and it feels awesome when you're fully powered up blasting everything on the screen! (although tbh if it were up to me there'd be more powerups on the boss levels because they're pretty tough!) Works well with an xbox 360 controller (wireless, in this case) and I like that there are options to turn up/down the vibration on the controller as well as toggle screen shake on/off for folks who need less of that. It runs really well, no issues here, has a bangin' chiptune soundtrack, nice arcadey sounds and a nice arcadey feel to it all, so if you like classic arcade games I'm sure you'll like this.

This could not possibly be less like a game I normally play as an adult, but some magical confluence of "sounding like the Demoscene, and not even the Amiga Demoscene, like the Atari ST Demosccene or something" and "looking like someone doing a vague impression of Jeff Minter/Llamasoft" made me decide I absolutely had to own this game. And like...wow, yeah, like simultaneously playing Snake and Asteroids, and it somehow kind of works great. I am not going to say this is my game of the year for 2025, but it feels fun to play and sounds like a chaotic nightmare (in a good way) and really has me wondering how many other late 1970s/early 1980s games you could mash together to get good results. Space Invaders + Pac-Man has probably already been done but sounds fun; Frogger + Galaga? Rally-X + Donkey Kong?