This Metal Gear Solid spoof is heavy on the 'snake'

Leigh Alexander 3:22 am Mon Sep 28, 2015

Imagine you are playing the classic arcade game Snake against your friend, except the "snakes" are Solid Snake and Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid. Well, your imagination is real.

Snake? Snake! has you competing with a friend or coworker or whoever else is in the room with you right now to crawl over as many snoozing soldiers (if you don't know anything about MGS just go with it) as you can while avoiding the other Snake.

You don't need a player two to check it out, although it will probably be pretty easy for you to win. Maybe you can play against yourself using both hands. You're pretty good!

Snake? Snake! was made for DUPLICADE, a game jam themed around arcade-style player versus player games that can be won in less than a minute, and that feel like barely-legal bootlegs of existing properties. See all the entries here; I'm partial to "KoolBert" and "Poutine Time", and we love the totally unofficial Twin Peaks dance-off Fire Dance With Me.

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