Classic Snake game tops apps chart

The 1990s classic Snake is top of the free app chart for iPhone this week

Published: 1:52pm, 22nd February 2012
Updated: 1:14pm, 28th February 2012

A simple classic game has slithered to the top of the chart for free apps for the iPhone this week.

Snake, launched in 1998, tests players' ability to get their snake to eat food blocks, while avoiding it slithering into walls or its own tail.

The app, by FujiCubeSoft, is described as "a very simple snake game" but its simplicity proved so popular it has knocked last week's number one, Save The Pencil, down to number three while Temple Run held on to second place.

Social networking tool WhatsApp Messenger made it up one place to the top of the iPhone paid-for app chart while last week's number one, The Lost City, fell to number three.

In the iPad app charts, Apalon's Weather Live fell from first to seventh in the paid-for chart as Grand Theft Auto 3 shot to the top.

Dune Rider topped this week's iPad free app chart while last week's number one, Ripple HD, dropped out of the top 10 completely.