Mato 2

Mato 2 is a Finnish take on the classic snake game, released as freeware by a group calling itself Team 20 000. "Mato" is Finnish for worm — and "matopeli", the worm game, is what the whole snake genre has always been called in Finland. According to its period blurb, this sequel was aimed at all fans of the genre and promised nothing less than "the perfect worm game".

Its main attraction is an unusual two-player mode: each worm crawls in its own field of the screen, and stars appear in both fields at the same positions. Whoever reaches the star first scores a point and grows a little longer — turning the usual game of careful avoidance into a straight race of reflexes.

The game comes from the Finnish BBS scene of the 1990s, a corner of gaming history international retro sites rarely cover, and it runs right in your browser on OldGame.cz.