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CLUSTER GAME-SNAKE-TERMINAL · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2012-03-04

Terminal retro game clones

This cluster consists of terminal-based recreations of classic arcade games, primarily Snake, with a few Breakout and open-world variants. Entries appear sporadically from March 2012 to July 2026, with no consistent monthly pattern and at most one new entry per month. The traction leaders all show zero stars, indicating minimal engaged user base.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2012: 1MAR 2019: 1AUG 2019: 1JUN 2020: 1JUN 2024: 1DEC 2024: 1FEB 2025: 1MAY 2025: 1NOV 2025: 1FEB 2026: 1AUG 2026: 3OCT 2026: 2
MAR 2012OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 11 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01snake1★8 dayslivehobbyRetro snake game for Apple TV where players steer a pixelated snake on a green LCD screen using the Siri Remote and chase high scores.
  2. 02sssnake0★11 daysliveopen sourceSnake game for the terminal that offers manual play, autoplay, and screensaver modes.
  3. 03ratatui-snake0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA terminal-based rendition of the classic Snake game for casual entertainment.
  4. 04sdl2snake0★unknownlivehand-codedhobbyDesktop clone of the classic snake arcade game supporting single-player and two-player keyboard-controlled modes.
  5. 05csnake0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal game that lets players play Snake with keyboard controls.
  6. 06tbreakout-bin0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceRetro Breakout game playable in the terminal with simple controls.
  7. 07simple-go-snake0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal-based Snake game offering the classic arcade experience with responsive controls in a text interface.
  8. 08retrobyte0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceRetro terminal game pack featuring Snake, Brickfall, and Pong for console play.
  9. 09craftrogue0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based game where players kill monsters in a text environment.
  10. 10snake0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceClassic snake game played in the terminal.
  11. 11Classic Snake Terminal0★unknownlivehobbyTerminal-based recreation of the classic snake arcade game controlled with keyboard commands and command-line options.
  12. 12tsnake0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceClassic snake game that runs in the terminal, implemented in C++.
  13. 13terminalworm0★unknownlivehand-codedhobbyTerminal-based remake of the classic Snake game, played using keyboard controls in a command-line interface.
  14. 14nyble0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA snake game that runs in the terminal.
  15. 15nsnake0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA customizable Snake game that runs in the terminal using the ncurses library.

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