Sssnake

Sssnake is a shooter game developed and published by Data Age for the mh:awesomegames:Atari 2600 released in 1982.

Gameplay
You play as a hunter who's at the Amazon's legendary lost world while being hunted by prehistoric creatures. You are inside a fortress shooting the prehistoric creatures located outside the fortress while avoiding the snake(s). The game plays similarly to Centipede.

Why It Sssucks

 * 1) Shooting the snake doesn't reward you with points which is stupid because the game is named after the snake.
 * 2) It's very easy to avoid the snake because the snake goes in the same pattern every time it appears on the screen. The second option where there are two snakes to avoid/shoot is also easy because they move slower than the first option.
 * 3) The controls are terrible which can cause you to accidentally get hit by the snake(s). You move left and right when your at the top or bottom of the square and move up or down when you are at the sides of the square.
 * 4) The prehistoric creatures that you are supposed to shoot that give you points for doing so pose no threat to you. All they do is move from one side of the screen to another outside of the fortress. Sometimes they don't move at all which poses an even less of a challenge. For some reason. if multiple of them appear at once, shooting only one kills all of them and you still get only one point.
 * 5) The sprites are lazily made. The snakes are just a line of blocks and the different sprites for the prehistoric creatures don't resemble any kind of creature.
 * 6) You only have one life with you forcing to restart the console to play again.
 * 7) The game loops until you die. There's only one level and no way to change the layout of the stage other than to change the amount of snakes to avoid. It would have benefited from having a timer to beat the high score.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) The artwork on the cover looks cool.

Reception
Sssnake is frequently regarded as one of the worst Atari 2600 games ever made. The game has a rating of 2.1 stars on GameFAQs.

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