Snake Byte

Snake Byte is a Macintosh take on the classic snake game by Pierre-Luc Paour, distributed as shareware in the mid-1990s. Players steer a growing snake around the screen collecting items while avoiding the walls and their own tail, with a built-in level editor that lets users design and save their own boards.

Gameplay

The core loop is the familiar top-down snake formula: the snake moves continuously, lengthens with each item it eats, and dies on contact with itself or a wall. Macintosh Garden files Snake Byte under the Arcade category and notes the top-down perspective.

Level editor

Beyond the stock layouts, Snake Byte ships with a level editor so players can lay out their own mazes and obstacles. Custom boards can be saved and shared, which extends the game well beyond the handful of built-in levels.

Releases

Macintosh Garden lists versions 1.1 and 1.2 of Snake Byte; the Info-Mac archive carries v1.2 as snake-byte-12.hqx in the game/arc category. The game has held a steady 4.2 of 5 user rating on Macintosh Garden.

Compatibility

Snake Byte targets 68k Macintoshes running System 7.0 through Mac OS 9 and runs cleanly under SheepShaver and Basilisk II for users on modern hardware.