Blockade

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Synopsis

Blockade is an arcade video game developed by Lane Hauck and Ago Kiss for Gremlin and released in November 1976. It is a two-player game where each player controls the direction of an arrow on the screen which creates a trail behind it. The object is to avoid any walls surrounding the playfield or trails created by each player for a select amount of turns. Blockade spawned many clones which came to be known as snake games. The game was designed by Lane Hauck. Prior to joining Gremlin, he had taught himself to code and met with the team at Gremlin before their entry into the arcade game market. After experimenting with a physics problem in assembly language, he created a game where a trail was left behind a player that disallowed them to return to a position they had already visited. After showing the concept to the staff at Gremlin, it was developed into a video game, test marketed and released to great acclaim at the 1976 Music Operators of America in Chicago. As Gremlin were new to developing arcade games, before they could release it publicly, several other companies such as Atari, Inc., Ramtek, and Meadows Games released their own variations of the game, leading to many pre-sales being cancelled for Gremlin.

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Details

Type

Game

Release date

January 1, 1976

Genres

maze video game

Platforms

arcade video game

Created by

Gremlin Industries

Countries

United States