Buy low, jet around town, sell high. Beat the Snack Patrol, beat your debt, and build the biggest snack empire of the summer!
🖥️ RETRO MODE — the original 1980s terminal game: 6 districts, a 100-slot tote, no shops, and street deals only. High scores are kept on a separate board.
The first one is:
⚠️ The patrol might spot you dumping stash!
You are a summer snack trader in a town of 8 districts. Prices change every day and differ from district to district. Make money by buying cheap and selling high somewhere else. You only have 31 days — every trip to a new district costs one day.
Click any district on the map to jet there (one day per trip). Big, busy districts like Downtown Mall have the best prices but way more Snack Patrol presence. On arrival you may get random events — muggings, friends sharing snacks, patrol chases, bake-sale raids… and you might spot your rival Jaz.
You start $5,500 in debt to Finnegan the Shark 🦈, and it grows 10% every single day. That snowball will eat your profits — pay it back early at Candy Cove. Score = cash + bank − debt, so debt hurts twice.
Deposit money at the First Piggy Bank (Candy Cove). Saved money earns 5% interest a day and can't be stolen by pickpockets. Withdraw any time.
Pals carry your stash for you: each one gives +10 backpack slots and can also carry a squirter. When you take a nasty splash in a fight, a pal takes the hit for you instead of you going down. Hire them at the Lemonade Stand (Sunny Square), or grab bargain offers on the street.
Squirters are water blasters for defending your stash — or hunting your rival. You can carry 2 yourself, plus one per pal. Each takes 4 backpack slots. Buy and sell at the Splash Shack (Sunny Square). Without squirters you can't fight back — you just get splashed!
The Patrol busts traders: three chiefs (Chomps 🕵️, then Sprinkles, then Licorice 🕶️) patrol with cadet squads. You can run (succeeds 60% of the time) or fight. Beating a chief pays loot, but the next chief is always tougher. Dropping stash, fighting, and visiting busy districts all raise your chances of being caught. Lose all your health with no pals left and it's detention camp — game over.
Jaz roams the districts buying and selling too. If you meet them and you're carrying a squirter, you can attack (a squirter showdown — beat them to take their whole snack fortune) or evade (they never see you). Careful: in busy districts, attacking can draw the Snack Patrol in against you.
Accomplish memorable feats and earn badges beside your name on the leaderboard.
What each one means — and how to earn it? Those mysteries are revealed by playing! 🕵️
Final score