Play Snake

Thirty-two hills and a World Cup, the whole flight steered with one mouse gesture; the DOS game every Polish computer ran through Malyszomania.

Slingshot birds at pigs in wooden towers; the game that made the phone a console.

Worms in real time and in two dimensions: two players, one keyboard, forty weapons and no turns at all.

Four ghosts, a maze and 256 levels before the kill screen; the 1980 arcade icon.

Rows of aliens that speed up as you kill them; the game that caused a coin shortage in Japan.

Jumpman climbs girders to save Pauline; Mario's first appearance, 1981.

Dual fighters and the captured ship; the shoot-em-up perfected.

Ryu, Chun-Li and the hadouken; the fighting game that filled arcades in 1991.