About Nerds Rope
Nerds Rope is a Follow the Leader game from The Willy Wonka Candy Company, released in 2001. You steer a rope of Nerds through a candy maze, and the rope grows as you eat the candy.
Each level has a goal of Nerds. Once the rope is long enough, the elevator opens, and you reach it to finish the level. The original movie has 20 levels.
Browsers can no longer play the original Shockwave movie, so this page runs a rebuild of it: the game's own Lingo scripts, translated to run in your browser, with its original artwork and sounds.
How to play
- Click anywhere on the title screen to start a new game.
- Press an arrow key to start each level, then steer the rope with the arrow keys or W A S D.
- Eat the candy to grow the rope. The NERDS Needed box shows how many the level still needs.
- Run into a wall or into your own rope and you lose a life.
- Press P to pause. When the last life is gone, the Game Over screen appears. A click returns you to the title screen.
Controls
- Arrow keys or W A S D: steer the rope
- Mouse: the title screen and the Restart and Quit buttons
- P: pause
On a touch screen, arrow buttons appear under the game.
How this version was made
The original is a Macromedia Director movie from 2001, from The Willy Wonka Candy Company. Director's Shockwave plug-in no longer runs in current browsers, so this site rebuilds the movie rather than running the plug-in.
The movie's Lingo scripts were translated into code a browser runs. A small player draws the original 450 by 400 pixel stage with the game's own artwork and its 31 sounds.
The game files come from the copy kept at the Internet Archive.
Questions
Do I need Shockwave or a download?
No. The game runs in your browser from one click on Play. There is nothing to install, no plug-in and no file to pick.
Does it cost anything?
No. It is free to play and needs no account.
Is this the original game?
It is a rebuild of the 2001 Shockwave movie from its original scripts, artwork and sounds. If something plays differently from the original, tell us with the Feedback button.
How many levels are there?
The original movie has 20 levels.
Can I play on a phone?
This version is built for a keyboard. Touch arrow buttons are not in it yet.
Where does the game come from?
From the Internet Archive's copy of the 2001 game. The Credits and rights section below links to it.
Credits and rights
Original game: Nerds Rope, 2001, from The Willy Wonka Candy Company.
This version: a rebuild of the original Shockwave movie, its Lingo scripts translated to run in the browser, with the game's own artwork and sounds.
The Wonka name, the candy names and the game's artwork belong to their owners. The game is hosted here free under this site's removal policy: the rightsholder keeps all rights and can ask for it to be changed or removed.
Rebuilt from the copy kept in the Internet Archive's Tucows collection. Attribution and rights information ↗ · Ask for a change or removal ↗