This game like many early classics has its roots in the arcades of the 70s it was first released to the public in 1976 by a company called gremlin under the name of blockade two years later it entered the world of computers with there lease of worms for the micro computers 18 from there the game spread to nearly all personal computers and adopted its lasting name of google snake as there was no one single owner of the game versions of it were created for nearly all major consoles and that is mainly the reason why it's so widely recognized to this day apart from being played on video game consoles the game was also adopted by the self Nokia in 1998 as a preset games for many of their cell phones also beginning in the late 90s versions of the game were created with programs like flash and released onto the internet this allowed for younger generations to reach the game and is now more popular than ever on sites such as Facebook and new gowns with so many outlets for the google snake franchise if I make all of that the game entered the collective conscience of our society although google snake was never an established trademark and it was never advertised.