Hyper Viper

A long-forgotten snake game created at least a dozen years before Nokia put something similar on just about every phone ever, rediscovered in December 2009 when Arcadian went through Kenton's development disks from the 1980s, and finally released 25 years later by Retro Software. Whilst Kenton has little recollection of writing it, one of his friends recalls that in 1986 before he wrote Ripton and Starquake, he was inspired by something he'd seen in an arcade and wrote Hyper Viper in about two days. The name was in homage to Kenton's favourite fruit machine at the time, and indeed to this day (and he still wants one if you know where to get one), Barcrest's Hyper Viper released in 1983. There is probably a clone of that fruit machine on those old disks somewhere too.