🏓 Pong and 🐍 Snake

12 October 2026. The corner opened with the two games that fit in one sentence.

🏓 Pong

You on the left, the machine on the right, a ball between you. First to 5 wins.

Press S to start. W and S, or the up and down arrows, move your paddle. The machine follows the ball, a little late and a little short, which is the whole game. Each clean hit speeds the ball up. Miss, and the other side scores. R starts the match over.

The screen is a text field, forty columns by twenty rows, green on black, with a small beep when the ball meets something.

🐍 Snake

Same kind of screen. You are a line that grows.

Press S to start. Arrows or WASD turn. You cannot reverse into yourself. The apple is worth 10. Every 50 points the tick gets shorter, down to a floor where it will not get any faster.

The field is not empty. Cactus, rock, bomb, skull, fire, and lightning sit on it from the start, and running into one of them is the same as running into a wall or your own tail. R after the crash.

That was day one. Two games, both finished enough to lose.