Levels will have geometric objects appear on screen to fill up some of the field. Having unique stages rather than just being an infinite challenge until you die is another way Hoser sets itself apart from the basic Snake game formula. Dying also reverts you to the more manageable size, meaning even if you get incredibly large and unwieldy you’re the one with a pressure valve of sorts since you can die and try the stage over again. You can conceivably still finish the level, and when you start the next stage you’ll be back to your shorter length as well.
The extra mass needs some time to uncoil though, as you start moving forward it will be a bit before you can see where your tail truly ends, but even if you fail to beat the pressure valve you don’t lose a life. If the pressure valve reaches its limit, the action is briefly stopped, any faucets on screen disappearing to appear elsewhere while your hose’s body is lengthened. At the top and bottom of the screen though, bars of purple will slowly expand from the left side to the right, these identified as a pressure valve perhaps more for the pun of applying pressure to the player than making sense to the real life object. Once you touch one, a new one will appear elsewhere, but your hose will remain the same length. While you play as this game’s replacement for a snake, a somehow animate garden hose, you try to guide yourself to little dots that are meant to represent faucets. Hoser’s main threat is instead a countdown timer. Hoser, despite being a snake game that came out fairly early on to boot, was already seeing which elements could be adjusted and iterated upon, because when you grab a dot in this game, you don’t grow. In most of them, your long character eats little dots as they move forward automatically, growing bigger with each one they consume and having more trouble avoiding their own tail as any contact with it or the area’s borders means instant death.
The Snake game formula is one of the earliest styles to catch on in video games, many iterations starting to explore how the simple gameplay could be altered or evolved.
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