Worm

Worm

A classic snake game written entirely in 6502 / HuC6280 assembly language for the Commander X16, Neo6502, and PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 retro computers.

About

Guide your worm around the playfield, eat flowers to grow, and dodge the spiders that steadily fill up the grid. Simple to learn, tough to master.

• Eat flowers to grow longer and rack up your score.
• Avoid spiders — they spawn every 10 flowers and don't move, but they block your path. Up to 8 can be on screen at once.
• Collect hearts to gain extra lives (max 3).
• Eat the spiders — when you're at full lives, eating a flower turns all spiders yellow and vulnerable. Gobble them up before your next meal turns them deadly again.
• Don't hit the walls or yourself — there's no wrapping here. One wrong turn and you lose a life.

Features a menu jingle, sound effects, and an AI-driven demo/attract mode. Plays on three different vintage platforms — keyboard-driven on the X16 and Neo6502, controller-driven on the PC Engine. Runs in emulators or on real hardware via a HuCard flash cart (PCE) or your platform's standard storage. Documentation for the project was created by AI, sorry — I'm a coder not an author! :-)