Don’t be fooled by their sluggish looks - these fielders can be fast on their feet!” “A team of crickets sans tickets have set up their own wickets for a game of pest cricket! As they face their archrivals, the snails, it’s sure to be a match for the centuries. “Ah, summer: the sound of leather on willow, and the spectacle of cricket … cricket! As the tournament begins in the Oval cricket ground, something buzzes outside,” Google says. It proved to be one of the most popular Doodle games the company has created. The Cricket Game was unveiled by Google earlier this year to celebrate the ICC Champions Trophy. The Nokia 6110 was Nokia’s first phone with Snake and they continued to manufacture new models with the game installed throughout the next decade.”

“By 1997, it had found its way into people’s pockets, onto their Nokia phones and created the craze of mobile gaming among teenagers.

But their game still lives on,” according to Microsoft. In 1984, they closed their doors, never to open again. It was the creation of Gremlin Industries, who specialised in coin-operated arcade machines. “The Snake has appeared in many different forms over the decades, but it’s first appearance took place in the mid 1970s and was called Blockade. The game dates back to arcades in the 1970s, according to, and was one of the first to be featured on mobile devices. If you run into the wall or into the snake itself, you lose. The snake is controlled by the user by pressing the keyboard arrow buttons. The Snake game features a line, the “snake” that grows in length as it eats apples. The Snake game is one of the latest to be featured in Google’s “Search Funbox,” which puts classic games right at your fingertips when you search for them.

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