Snake is a genre of action video games where the player maneuvers the end of a growing line, often themed as a snake.
Snake on a TRS-80
Snake on a Telmac 1800, CHIP-8, published 1978
Blockade is an arcade video game developed by Lane Hauck for Gremlin and released in November 1976. It is a two-player game where each player controls the direction of an arrow on the screen which creates a trail behind it. The object is the avoid any walls surrounding the playfield or created by each player for a select amount of turns. Blockade spawned many clones which came to be known as snake games.
Arcade flyer
Two players each control one of the arrows on the screen.