GDI’s Slither: A $1.3M Arcade Crash and Burn

GDI and Red Alert? There has to be a connection with Westwood, but I have no idea what it is :)

And I just finished watching "Man vs. Snake" on Netflix over the weekend. Another also-ran video game.

(Not as good a film as "King of Kong", BTW, but, come on, that's pretty high bar.)

Interesting side note: Coleco had a version of Slither for their gaming console which shipped with a "Roller Controller" which was pretty innovative at the time. ColecoVision crashed and burned, too, of course.

A relative worked there and so my family had access to many prototype games that never made it into stores. But I know for a fact "Slither" was on the shelves as my copy was a retail package. I enjoyed playing it at the time, especially with the track ball.