Centipede

Description

In Centipede, players control a magic wand that is used to square off against a horde of nasty bugs that make their way through a mushroom patch.

The Flea falls straight down towards the player, laying fresh mushroom in its path. The Scorpion runs from side to side across the screen, turning mushrooms into poisonous toadstool, which cause the Centipede to behave irrationally and dive bomb the player. Spiders jump up and down towards the player; the closer he is, the more points are earned (300, 600, 900) . And the Centipede makes it way down the playing field. Shooting segments cause the Centipede to split off and form multiple targets.

Shooting any bug turns it into a mushroom, which can block (or speed up) the bugs on the playing field. If any of the bugs touch the wand, it's lose a life until Game Over.

Centipede was created by Ed Logg, and used a trackball in the original arcade version.

Part of the Following Groups

• Centipede series
• Centipede variants
• Video games turned in to board/card games

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User Reviews

A nearly perfect arcade conversion!	Atari 5200	Servo (51671)
Nostalgia is great. But c'mon...	PC Booter	Colin Rowsell (45)
The centipede is coming to get you	Commodore 64	Black Wolf (37232)
BOOM!	Atari 2600	DANIEL HAWKS ! (1246)

The Press Says

The Video Game Critic	Atari 2600	Jul 14, 2001	A	100
The Video Game Critic	Atari 7800	Dec 19, 2006	A	100
The Video Game Critic	ColecoVision	Apr 07, 2008	A	100
The Video Game Critic	Atari 5200	May 03, 2008	A-	91
The Video Game Critic	Intellivision	May 18, 2001	B	75
Game Freaks 365	Atari 2600	2002	7.5 out of 10	75
Abandonia	PC Booter	Apr 20, 2007	3 out of 5	60
Commodore User	VIC-20	Jun, 1984		60
The Video Game Critic	Atari 8-bit	Dec 28, 2002	C	50

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Trivia

Centipede was popular enough to have a song inspired by it on the full-length "Pac-Man Fever" album - "Ode To A Centipede".