Laser Snaker is one of many snake

Snake (video game)

Snake is a video game that originated during the late 1970s in arcades and has maintained popularity since then, becoming something of a classic...

 games for the ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...

. It was written by Stephen Crow

Stephen Crow

Stephen Crow is a game programmer who worked in the 1980s on the ZX Spectrum platform, programming for companies such as Hewson Consultants and Bubble Bus Software. He also worked with members of the Graftgold team...

 and published in 1983 by Poppy Soft.

The game involves working up through a progression of eight skill levels, ultimately reaching "SUPREME SNAKER". Skill level 1 is called "Snake Cadet" (possibly, perhaps subconsciously, a reference to the beginner "Space Cadet" level of Gorf

Gorf

Gorf is an arcade game released in 1981 by Midway Mfg., whose name was advertised as an acronym for "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force". It is a multiple-mission fixed shooter with five distinct modes of play, essentially making it five games in one...

), but this is the only pun

Pun

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic,...

ning level name.