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by groaner 5118 days ago
Is this supposed to be Tron or Snake? I distinctly remember Tron being a multiplayer game, with the mechanics such that moving along a wall or trail increases your speed, putting you in position to cut off the other players and make them crash.
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In the classic Snake game, the tail of the snake moves and the snake grows longer when you eat snakefood. In Tron, the light trail stays there and you try close in your opponents. So this game is definitely Tron, not Snake.

Tron is usually a multiplayer game and the speedup next to light trail you mentioned is missing.

Btw. back in the BBS days there was a Finnish freeware Tron-with-weapons game called "DeLuxe Moposota" (rough translation: moped wars). I have very nice memories of it. It works nicely DosBOX. Here's a youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gozt-1BgVrU

Calling it "Tron" saves a byte ;)