LGR - Snood Retrospective: Forget Life, Play SNOOD
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- 50 million players can't be wrong, right? Snood is a classic shareware puzzle game inspired by the likes of Puzzle Bobble, and in the late 90s and early 2000s it was a huge viral hit. Taking a look at everything from the original Macintosh game to the later Deluxe Edition!
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Music used is from the 2008 Snood Deluxe soundtrack.
Fun video - you got nearly all of it right. The puzzle levels started in version 1.1 for Mac, so they were around early, and Armageddon was originally on one of my PC versions, not the deluxe one that was programmed by others. The game was also featured on the TV show Undeclared (they asked for Snood shirts and posters for their dorm rooms), in the movie Surviving Christmas with Ben Affleck, on SNL (Lorne Michaels plays still) and in a couple of commercials. Thanks for the retrospective. Fun to read all the comments also. There was even a Snood TV game (like one of those ones you plugged directly into the TV) sold on QVC for a while - pretty wild.
Oh wow, you're the guy who made Snood! Always fun to see the original creators weigh in on these videos. :)
Great game thanks for all my hours of fun !!!
Thanks for the childhood bro
Isn't the Snood TV game is vs. maxx 50-in-1 console?
My daughter (age 21) asked me about this game tonight. She couldn’t remember the name of it but remembered I always played it, and taught her as a child. Thank you for years of fun and a great family moment tonight.
Wow...for this being such a popular game, this is the first time I've seen or heard of Snood.
Yeah same here. I've played Frozen Bubble on Linux machines but this is the first time for this.
agreed
seriously this game been around for ever and its been featured on sapramos and sheldon played it on few episodes on 1st season of big bang theory on top that its on gba and nds pcs linuxs apples ios androids and its first time u heard of it lol
next thing your gonna say is you never heard of puyo puyo or puzzle quest or columns lol
You might be like me and have an unnatural aversion to anything that becomes remotely popular by public standards.
Send Snoods.
Clint, what have you done?! They were forgotten! Their power over us had faded! But now you've brought them back, and now, the Snoods will consume all of our minds!
....
*Goes to download Snood*
It's how these fads happen!
Don't worry!! I'll fiht back with Hypercubes!!
Hah! Feel the same way. I feel the need to play some Snood again after not playing since being in college and DJing on the campus radio station.
He wants that mug, man.
OHHHHH NOOOOO (jojo ref)
Dave Dobson was my geology professor in college. He’s a really nice guy and a great teacher!
THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE GAME I WAS LOOKING FOR FOR YEARS THINKING "WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT MAC GAME AGAIN"!! THANK YOU!!
what he said
yes finally. its snood!!!
The only question remains: What mac model did my dad use in the late 90's Before he switched over to PC and windows 98 in the millenium? I Belive it was a Power mac G1 or G2 of some sort. (It was the non-Tower variant, what was taht called?)
This game was driving me crazy a few months ago. My brother and I both played it religiously when we were younger. One day the death song got stuck in my head (Volga Boatman?). He and myself were trying for weeks to remember the name. Spleef? Spoof? We couldn't remember.
SummerADDE ́s Transport Adventures! Power Macintosh G3 desktop
I attended Guilford College where Dave Dobson is a professor. Part of our freshman orientation class included a day in the computer lab playing Snood with Dobson present and talking about the game. I remember committing somewhat of a faux paux because I was unfamilliar with Snood and said to him "Oh, this is like "Dynomyte"...a game obviously ripped from Snood. I feel less bad after this video now that I know he was inspired by Bust A Move
Did you know that the same song, performed by different artists, used to be in the charts? As companies and some artists wanted to retain more and more of the profits they pressed more heavily on copyright. Before music was a means of income compositions would have their lyrics changed and performed, like Blues Standards, where the tune would be the same but the lyrics would be different.
I went to Guilford College and one story I heard from Dave about snood was that he made the game with the idea that perhaps he would make enough money to take his wife out once a year for dinner.
Well, considering Snood is copied from Bust-A-Move, I wouldn't feel too bad.
Andrew Turnier that’s so wholesome.
Go Quakers!
Next week on LGR: Unboxing 50 fan sent Snood mugs
Did he ever get his snood mug?
@@Dun-N-Dusted Surely the dev in the comments would've sent him one by now.
@@SmaMan Fair
@@Dun-N-DustedYes. Yes he did.
@@Toonrick12 Ah hell yeah
I somehow never heard of this but I would thoroughly enjoy it.
A verified account with only 4 likes? I don't believe such a thing!
Me too
Wow realarcade.... I totally forgot about that, brings me back.
I remember how easy it was to get the full games out of it!
Miss me some sonic demos.
Was just about to say - really brings back memories!
It was where i fell in love with the Geneforge series
Tech Tales or Retrospect episode idea?
SNOOD THIS, SNOOD THAT
slipAngle he was a real snood guy.
Snood is swood af.
THE FUCK IS A SNOOD?
Nice JonTron reference
They just couldn't stop us. Snood this. Snood that
Also I played the Popcap(?) version called Dynomite, was super fun, watching this channel (and other retro channels) shows me that lots of games I played in the late 90s/Y2K period already existed
They had Snood installed on the Macs at our Primary School here in Australia. Why they chose to put such an amazingly addictive game on our PCS (Along with Bugdom, Spin Doctor, Bebop 2000 and Deimos Rising) is beyond me but I'm still hooked to this day.
I'm glad this got a video. For as popular as it apparently was, not many people seem to recall or have played it. Usually when I mention Snood it's rare anyone knows what I'm talking about, even people around my age and older.
My friend played this often, loved it.
ProtoMario,Hey Proto!
Those faces look like they were designed by the people that made LSD dream simulator
Edit: Oh, he mentioned it.
emulator
I know the Taito's original, but never heard of Snood....
In fact I feel their face so much creepy, especially early ones.
Never heard of it! So, thank you, kind Sir ;)
Awesome vid, as always! Have a great weekend ;)
Oh, good. I was watching this, trying to figure out how there were so many versions of this game, and it was apparently such a cultural phenomenon, and yet somehow I had never heard of it.
I also, never heard of it !
I know right? Apparently it was such a big thing, but I''d never heard of it and I've been using pc's since I was a little kid in the early 90's. AOL DUUUUDE
yeah, never heard of it in my life
used PC's since like 1993 (amiga before that) and been on the internet since 1997.
Ditto. I’ve never heard of this before today. Lol
I’ve been looking this game up for years thinking it was called SNOOP.
for me, i thought it was called SNOOZE
SNOOPING AS USUAL, I SEE?!
SNOOP there it is
Snood Pog. So nineties
Thanks LGR, now I can relive a game I thought was 10 times more obscure than it actually is.
I played a lot of snood back around 2002, I had always assumed it had come out way earlier than that but I guess I was riding the snood wave with everyone else.
"I don't seem to have any extra cash."
"Whadya do with that, leave it in your *SNOOD* ??"
My older sisters were addicted to Snood for a few years back in the early '00s, I myself played it but then we all kinda forgot about it for a while.
You should try to get an interview with Dave, while it's not your usual thing I can imagine it being really cool in interesting.
Agreed. I want to know how much money he made!
I'd be happy to do this if you're interested.
I remember playing the 96 Snood. Even today, the game is still addictive.
This must be a U.S. thing, never heard of it in the here in the UK
I'm from the US, and I've never heard of it, growing up in the late 90s/early 2000s. I even live in detroit area, where U of M is.
I'm from the UK and vividly remember playing it on a PowerBook G3 back in the day. I'm guessing it was distributed on the CDs that you got with MacUser/MacFormat magazine.
From UK and I remember playing this...
@@richardspritz854 same here in France...
I remember this! My mom use to play this all the time, and I would watch her! Gods, this brings back some memories.
Oh man. My mom was *addicted* to Snood when I was growing up. She was a teacher and had tons of work to do every evening, and yet she stayed up till like 4 in the morning just so she could play Snood. She even kept a journal where she wrote down high scores. Thanks for this blast from the past, Clint!
Great video. I actually have that Snood mug! When I was in high school, my mom and stepdad used to play the game all of the time. I eventually started playing too and we competed for high scores. My mom bought my stepdad the Snood mug in the mid 2000s as a Christmas gift. Last year, they passed it onto me.
Snood became something of an obsession in the offices of my University Student TV station, leading to the creation of the term 'backseat snoodist'.
Oh yeah, Snood. This is the first game I played on my big sister's yellowish-white PC (it runs Windows Me) when I was little and I loved it so much! Every time I listen to the sounds, I would smile because those sounds resemble my fun childhood... 😇
What a blast from the past, man. I remember spending a day at my mom's work around age six, playing this intensely on her colleague's computer. Didn't expect to be able to see those faces again.
Here because of Kitboga's Twitch emote, been following LGR for decades (it feels like) but indepth analysis like this tend to slip by unnoticed.
Glad you made this video :)
I played the crap out of this when I was a kid. It came preinstalled on my family's first Windows 98 computer.
It was fun and addicting, but looking back on it the graphics are ugly as helllllllllllllllllllllllll.
Bejeweled is better.
Nitro Rad Nitrooo!! So cool to see you here :)
@@biancatherescuemouse3305 You just unlocked so many memories of younger me playing Bejeweld 3
As a longtime macintosh gamer, I must say it's unusual to see a video from you talking about a game I actually played! I was so pestered by that musical "Thieeeeef" that played every time I clicked Register Later, that I eventually mailed them some dough.
BUST A SNOOD
Bubble Snood Saga
Nice. Kudos for that Osamu Sato Reference, Clint.
Death by Snood Snood.
+Mace 2.0 Futurama reference!
I'm scare-roused
@joshua... THAT'S DA JOKE
+hellwyck I knew it!
Mace 2.0 lol I was waiting for this 😂
Holy shit, I had completely forgotten about that game. My grandma had this Windows 95 (or 98) machine that my sister and I would mess around with when we were bored. This was simultaneously the most fun and most terrifying game we had ever seen. To be fair, we were also
Somehow I managed to completely miss this one in the 90s never played or seen it, even tho I love puzzle bubble
same here.
Same here. Played Puzzle Bubble for 20 years and never hear of it. Never had a Mac though.
+HPZeta Same here. Let's blame it on the Mandela effect! 😁
Same here. Never heard of it.
+boom baby I don't think that's how the Mandela effect works
Dude I played so much of this!!! I love Snood my mom would let me play this after I was done with my homework and I would spend hours playing this
I remember people raving about this and I saw it and thought "oh, it's just puzzle bobble." Why couldn't we get a great online Panel de Pon clone instead?
Bejeweled, in a way, is a Panel de Pon clone.
Not really. They are both Match-3s but Bejeweled is definitely not a clone of Panel de Pon.
I've been playing games since the early 80's and never heard of this. Thanks for pointing it out. I like seeing things that I may have missed.
It’s amazing Snood never got ‘sood’ by the Puzzle Bobble people
Kevin Carlow yeah, to me at least it just seems to be a far inferior knockoff product.
You can't actually copyright game mechanics.
@@franzferdinand2 Nintendo patented Eternal Darkness' sanity effects, actually. It not copyright, but its close
@@dnkakusei Patents by themselves aren't particularly evidence that they're legally enforceable. As far as I'm aware, there's no precedent here for a gameplay patent being used (successfully) in an infringement lawsuit. Nintendo would have a bit of an uphill battle on this one---other games have done similar things prior to Eternal Darkness (MGS's Psycho Mantis fight, just as one example) so they'd have to prove that these aren't prior art, which would invalidate their patent.
This brings back memories, i remember constantly playing it as a kid on my old Performa
Hey LGR, speaking of the Osamu Sato comparison you made, what about a review of one of his games, such as Eastern Mind?
yes ........................................!
I was online when this phenomina came about, but it literally passed me by. I'd never heard of Snood before now! (Though I do remember RealArcade!)
Dobson! Dobson! We got Dobson here!
See? Nobody cares. Nice game.
I understood that reference.
+George Vasquez What was he referencing?
Joshua Coleman Jurassic Park, when Nedry yells out Dodgson's name.
Gotcha! Thanks!
I am bewildered as to how this is the first time I've ever heard of this game, what with that level of success, coupled with the fact that I like this style of game.
My only exposure ever to this game was on a plug and play that included a butchered version of Contra and other games that are common on a plug and play.
I loved Snood and used to have hi-score battles with my parents. I know it is a Puzzle Bobble clone but playing with the mouse is so much better.
Man I used to play the crap out of this on my parent's powerbook 540c.
I later eventually started playing it on Windows too.
You need a LGR Tech Tales on Gator! I remember hearing all about that on the Screen Savers in the early 2000s.
I only knew of this game now, but I once played Dinomite, or something from PopCap with that similar mechanic. It's amazing that for Snood to popularize that mechanic.
Well, now you need to go interview the creator of Snood, obviously.
Yoooo I thought this founded familiar. My sister had Dobson as a teacher at Guilford. As a kid, I thought she was so lucky to have a game developer as a teacher.
I've played so many iterations of this game, it's so cool to see its origins story!
I have actually never heard of this, I guess I was too busy playing Slingo. I don't recall ever seeing the PC or DS games on sale during my time working in the Electronics department of a big box retailer, then again maybe I did and thought it was shovelware.
has anyone here played "pocket tanks" i got hella addicted to that game in the early 2000's
Yeah, I still have it installed on one of my pc's. Same type of gameplay as the "Worms" franchise.
Since we had a Mac, my Dad bought MacWorld magazine with each issue usually coming with a CD full of demos and shareware, including Snood. Some of the best games I've played were on those CDs. A lot of them can be found on Mac abandonware sites such as MacIntosh Garden or MacIntosh Repository. Some other highlights to check out are Ocean Bound, Factory: The Industrial Revolution, Boom and Short Circuit (not a copy of the 1986 Commodore 64 game, but an entirely separate game). They are very difficult to get running on modern systems but it is do-able with emulators such as Basilisk and Sheepshaver, even on PCs.
This game and Napster were on all the computers in the college lab around 1999-2001, with Elf Bowling during the holidays. Aside from having to clean up from all those ad/mal/spyware crap the students kept installing (like Gator eWallet), it was fun working as a lab assistant...even got paid for playing games like Starcraft & Snood!
I've never once heard any mention of this game anywhere, and I'm glad (those snoods kind of creep me out)
3:05 - You mentioned Osamu Sato. I think I'm in love.
lol ur that guy i see on any sato video/whenever someone mentions him
redapplefour - Simple answer for why that is? I'm the founder of /r/OsamuSato, the subreddit for discussing his content, and I'm the current owner of the associated Discord for that place as well. Basically what I'm trying to say here is I'm basically the accidental leader of the fanbase.
oh huh, i remember seeing you on summoning salt's mario 1 video and on assorted gameplays of eastern mind, i've lurked that subreddit a little bit lol
s a t o b o i s
*waves*
Following on the heels of Bonzi Buddy and Snood, I think a video on that 2000s era of having to scrutinize EVERY BIT of free Windows software lest your computer get tons of malware would be very interesting. Words like "Gator" still put a lil' fear in me.
If we get a modern military FPS spin-off, would that be Call of Snood-y? :P
Thanks! Finally, someone who knows how to SEND SNOODS!
Snood's Food and Sood
ambrosiaplatypus Formerly Chuck's
THIS is the one I was looking for.
Ah Snood. I played Snood 2.0 and it was the first viral downloadable game I remember. It's also the first downloadable game to introduce me to ad-ware. It was my impression back then that the game was purely created to distribute this ad-ware so I stopped playing. Nice to learn the game's more innocent history.
Finally someone else who remembered Realone Arcade! That was my introduction to Snood and it had me hooked. You should totally do a video about Realone, it was Steam before Steam.
Sounds intriguing...
...just re-acquainted myself with Snood...so fun! Great video.
Funny enough, just last night I downloaded Snood on the PC I built for my dad cause I know he used to play it all the time. And low and behold when I woke up this morning I found him playing again just like old times. Just really funny to me to see you post a video about Snood within 24 hours of me getting it for him
I loved this game And I played it in college. I was a cartoonist for the college paper and I drew a joke about Snood but none of the editors knew what I was talking about. So it didn’t get published.
Wow, this is a throwback. I remember it from around 2002-2003.
I know you only mentioned it for a second, but man oh man, RealArcade. I have a lot of fond memories with that program- it introduced me to addicting games like Tropix and Pizza Frenzy.
I also remember playing some kind of isometric 3D RPG not unlike that of Diablo, but I can't for that life of me remember the name of it.
FoxMan Is that game Fate?
Sadly, no, this game wasn't full 3D. It was a fake isometric 3D- think graphics not unlike that of Age of Empires or the original Diablo.
The Creppy Face From
LSD Dream Emulator
Or Thomas The Tank Engine
Be more specific, *which* "creppy" face.
Well, he did say Osamu Sato, I think it's redundant to mention LSD:DE if it's been mentioned
In terms of what?
English please?
Guess that means no. I'll try Google Translate.
I miss this game!!!! My first childhood :((((
I downloaded the shareware version of snood for windows and is actually pretty fun to play even today.
I had no idea what this was called, and I forgot all about it, but I now vividly remember playing this on my grandpa's computer when I was younger.
This was my late mother’s favorite computer game. Thanks for the rundown. :)
I don't know why, but Snood seems so familiar to me. I have no recollection of playing it, but still... Maybe it was on the iMac G3s in the computer lab in 1st grade.
OH, i DEFINITELY sent him money for the full version of this in those early shareware days on Mac.
I used to play this when my mom would take me with her to clean her friend's house. I have been trying to remember the name for the longest time lol. 😂
Just know we appreciate your never ending quest to fill our insatiable appetites for those sweet, sweet LGR vids. :)
I remember having a nightmare about this game.
lol what happened
Is it corrupted
So happy this came out. Makes me feel so confortable
LGR but every time Clint says "Snood" it gets 5% faster
Looking at those characters, I think I'm starting to realize where that childhood nightmare of mine I still remember came from...
Had snood on my ti84 calculator back in the day.
Never heard of it now I am addicted. Thanks Clint!
I hope this guy got to feed his kids. Seemed like his damned family always needed food.
i LOVED this game as a kid. Actually just bought it because i figure they earned it after all those years of free play
Snood's Sood and Food
Formerly Chuck's
The Snoods you have to shoot at look like those little Crazy Bone plastic figurines that you could collect in the 90's👹
Never heard of this before, but interesting nonetheless
woa, seeing the thumbnail of this video instantly brought back memories. i had totally forgotten this game.
Dobson....DOBSON! WEVE GOT DOBSON HERE!!!
I remember downloading version 3 when my mom bought a new desktop computer. It's actually because of Snood that I discovered Bust A Move.
Bust-A-Move without that damn timer? I NEED to play this!
Just played it for the first time yesterday.
Its pretty fun, ngl
send snoods
I was there man, I was there and I never seen or heard of this game til today
Snood was my jam