Rattler Race

by: Christopher Lee Fraley

Publication date: 1991

Platform
Windows 3.x
Released
1991
Published by
Microsoft Corporation

Perspective
Top-down
Pacing
Real-Time
Genre
Action, Strategy/Tactics

Description

Very much a snake game, Rattler Race adds a few twists to the long-held conventions of the genre (those being: you guide a snake from a top-down perspective, always in forward motion; it eats its targets and grows in length, but dies should it collide with any obstacles): in addition to a competing snake foiling your routes, a ball bounces around the play-field, Pong-style, killing your snake should the ball ricochet against its head.

The other standout qualities are largely cosmetic: periodically enemy movement "freezes", giving the player a period of free motion; the opposing snake will also "eat" your targets (here "apples" -- occasionally bonus "golden apples") and grow longer, though it doesn't seek them out; gameplay can be conducted with as many as three opposing snakes and three bouncing balls complicating the playfield at once; you head for the exit once all apples are eaten, but the enemy snake(s) can exit instead, restarting the level. Triumph against all these odds and you get 29 more levels of similar gameplay!

This unremarkable clone is largely known on account of having been included in the original Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows.

From Mobygames.com. Original Entry

Addeddate: 2016-01-31 03:26:39

Dosbox_drive_d: emularity_win31/win31.zip

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: d:\runapp RATTLER.EXE

Identifier: win3_RattlerR

Mobygames: http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/rattler-race

Mobygames_genre: Action, Strategy/Tactics

Mobygames_pacing: Real-Time

Mobygames_perspective: Top-down

Mobygames_platform: Windows 3.x

Mobygames_published_by: Microsoft Corporation

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Reviewer: Epimundo - - January 23, 2021
Subject: Very nice snake game!

Im pretty impressed, the ball(s) and enemy snake(s) add a lot of depth, and the mechanics of getting out the level too! A little bit dissapointed that I couldn´t maximize its window, but anyways, thats a game from 1991, so let´s be cool with it.

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