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The first mobile game was a snake that refused to stop growing. Which is why phone batteries still die dramatically.

✗ FAKE
Snake is a classic mobile game, popular on Nokia phones from 1997, and the snake does grow as it eats. It was not made to drain batteries dramatically, and it was not the first mobile game.

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