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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

i'm losing it right now. snood. wikipedia says that snood was published for macos in 1996, then MS-DOS in 1999. wikipedia says that a whole company was founded to publish snood. wikipedia says that snood was the 9th most popular game in 2001. wikipedia says that articles have been written about snood, that the daily news said in 2009 that it was one of the top ten things online "to make you happy." wikipedia says that snood is steve wozniak's favorite game

snood is a programmer-art puzzle bobble clone. snood is the worst looking game ever to appear on a nintendo console. snood is the only example of deluxepaint artwork on the gameboy advance platform. what the fuck is snood. i have never heard of snood. how did this get a physical cartridge release


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

this looks like a FUCKING bootleg. this game didn't exist until i opened the wiki article. god my desire to order a cart of this from ebay is off-scale high. i already bought a cart of dynowarz: destruction of spondylous solely because that game didn't exist before jeff gerstmann played it. i'd say i fear no god but basically everything scares me


Willow
@Willow

just looked up some videos of snood gameplay and kept muttering "you fucked up" under my breath whenever the person in the video fucked up


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

our school computers had snood on them sometimes. it was okay.

EDIT: I also think you wildly underestimate the volume and poor presentation of trash that was being shoveled into the GBA market

This was THE biggest thing on the computers at my high school. I was the weird one mumbling “we have NeoRageX and Puzzle Bobble, we could just play that”. Snood was EVERYWHERE

I played Snood on Mac OS in the 90s and I didn't really get the hype either. I was vaguely aware that it was a "genre" like Breakout or the artillery games, having already seen earlier clones like Grotic, so this one was just another face in the crowd, pun intended. I also thought Dobson's programmer art aesthetic was way better in Centaurian, which had a lot of wacky gradients and zigzaggy lines.

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

I really distinctly remember learning about Snood in 2005 because I was working as a QA contractor at Microsoft Game Studios with mostly a bunch of gamer dudes who at the time were mainly into Halo and World of Warcraft and the guy I shared a cubicle with said this was his favorite video game ever and I had basically the same reaction you're having

oh my god I had this as a kid. We ordered it online and I remember it took so long to arrive that both me and my mom (the avid Snood players) had completely forgotten we ordered it, and were so confused when a GBA game arrived in the mail.

I installed Snood around the peak of its popularity and a malware scan found malware right after that

The situation seems very similar to Threes vs. 2048 to me. In each case, the original game (Threes|Puzzle Bobble) is better-designed and more polished. You can see the love that went into it. That is, if you know it exists, which most people don't, because they don't own the game and probably don't even own the platform that it's on.

Meanwhile, its cheap imitation (2048|Snood) is still fun and runs on the computer you have and you can get it for free.

(take as a given that most people do not know how to use MAME)

I had this exact experience in 2003 or 2004, except instead of Wikipedia it was visiting a friend I'd known for a couple of years and finding her mom playing Snood. Absolute shareware-that-inexplicably-came-preinstalled-with-your-PC-ass game, I thought. Frozen Bubble looks more competent. But no, I was quickly disabused of that notion. Snood was wildly popular, everybody loves Snood, I am the weird one for never having heard of Snood, what's Bust-A-Move?

The one thing I thought looked vaguely interesting about it was that it had mouse controls. But obviously that wouldn't translate to the GBA.

Snood is one of those games that was very popular and a lotta people played it, but nobody really mentions it after it died down. At least other puzzle games like Bejeweled get a mention for the sake of comparison, but it's rare for Snood to be mentioned since it was a clone of another popular puzzle game that commonly gets comparisons to. Either people know about Snood because they played it back then, saw LGR's video about the game, or because of the terrible box art on the GBA and DS(?) ports.

I definitely remember getting this on a burnt CD-R full of emulators and shareware a family friend gave me when I was in elementary school and got my first (win98?) computer.

forget life play snood!!! check out their official merch at snood dot com!

Oh, huh. That game.

I remember the teacher of my Computer Lab class believing this game was some kind of computer virus b/c she couldnt figure out how to close it when the boys booted it up instead of doing their typing exercises or whatever.