Surround, otherwise known as Competitive Snake or Hey Isn’t That Just The Game From Tron No Not the Disc One The Other One With the Neon Motorcycles Wait Didn’t This Come Out Like Four Years Before Tron Did Tron Rip This Off I’m So Confused was one of the original nine launch games and one of the better ones.
Like most of those launch games, and I feel like this is another thing I’ve said a bunch of times in this along with ONE OF THE ACTIVISON GUYS MADE IT, its based on an Atari arcade game called Dominos which itself was essentially a clone of another arcade game named Blockade which makes a lot more sense than calling this Dominos. Surround is a solid title though as it accurately explains how to win the game. You lead your snake as it increases in length against another snake as it increases in length in a came of cat and mou- er snake and snake until one of you is trapped. There is also a completely useless “video graffiti” mode which just lets you move the snake around and, uh, I guess draw? Had to try and squeeze as many quote unquote game modes out of this concept as possible.
Anyway, Surround's gameplay is obviously decent because the main conceit stayed relevant well into the sitting in front of a Wawa playing snake on your Nokia Blue Phone while waiting for your high school weed guy era of gaming, but its hard to fully recommend due to both the snakes being the same color which just seems like a hilarious oversight for a game that you would think would want you to be able to tell your tail apart from your opponents easily.
Like most of those launch games, and I feel like this is another thing I’ve said a bunch of times in this along with ONE OF THE ACTIVISON GUYS MADE IT, its based on an Atari arcade game called Dominos which itself was essentially a clone of another arcade game named Blockade which makes a lot more sense than calling this Dominos. Surround is a solid title though as it accurately explains how to win the game. You lead your snake as it increases in length against another snake as it increases in length in a came of cat and mou- er snake and snake until one of you is trapped. There is also a completely useless “video graffiti” mode which just lets you move the snake around and, uh, I guess draw? Had to try and squeeze as many quote unquote game modes out of this concept as possible.
Anyway, Surround's gameplay is obviously decent because the main conceit stayed relevant well into the sitting in front of a Wawa playing snake on your Nokia Blue Phone while waiting for your high school weed guy era of gaming, but its hard to fully recommend due to both the snakes being the same color which just seems like a hilarious oversight for a game that you would think would want you to be able to tell your tail apart from your opponents easily.