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Logg, a supervisor, said that he did the design, while Bailey did about half of the programming. An extra life is awarded every 12,000 points.ĭona Bailey and Ed Logg developed Centipede for Atari. 5 points are awarded for each regenerated mushroom. The Bug Blaster is destroyed when hit by any enemy, after which any poisonous or partially damaged mushrooms revert to normal. This 'poisoned' centipede can be both beneficial and detrimental to the player the player can destroy them rapidly as it descends down, while at the same time, they can be very challenging to avoid, especially if already split into multiple segments. A centipede touching a poison mushroom will attack straight down toward the bottom, then return to normal behavior upon reaching it. Scorpions are also worth the most points of all enemies with 1,000 points each. Scorpions move horizontally across the screen, turning every mushroom they touch into poison mushrooms. Spiders move across the player area in a zig-zag pattern and eat some of the mushrooms they are worth 300, 600, or 900 points depending on how close the player shoots it. Fleas drop vertically and disappear upon touching the bottom of the screen, occasionally leaving a trail of mushrooms in their path when only a few mushrooms are in the player movement area they are worth 200 points and takes two shots to destroy. The player also encounters other creatures besides the centipedes. This pattern continues until all segments are separate heads, after which it repeats with a single full-length centipede. The initial centipede is 10 or 12 segments long, including the head each successive centipede is one segment shorter and accompanied by one detached, faster-moving head. When all the centipede's segments are destroyed, another one enters from the top of the screen. This continues until the player has eliminated both the original centipede and all heads. Once the centipede reaches the bottom of the screen, it stays within the player area and one-segment 'head' centipedes will periodically appear from the side. At higher levels, the screen can become increasingly crowded with mushrooms due to player/enemy actions, causing the centipede to descend more rapidly. The player can destroy mushrooms (a point each) by shooting them, but each takes four shots to destroy. When it touches a mushroom or reaches the edge of the screen, it descends one level and reverses direction. The centipede starts at the top of the screen, traveling either left or right.

Shooting the head is worth 100 points while the other segments are 10. If the centipede head is destroyed, the segment behind it becomes the next head. Each piece then continues independently on its way down the screen, with the rear piece sprouting its own head. Each segment of the centipede becomes a mushroom when shot shooting one of the middle segments splits the centipede into two pieces at that point. It is moved around the bottom area of the screen with a trackball and fires small darts at a segmented centipede advancing from the top of the screen through a field of mushrooms. The player controls the small insect-like creature called the Bug Blaster.

Gameplay A new game, with the centipede at the top and a spider in the lower right Versions for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color were also produced, as well as a version for the short-lived developed by Handheld Games and published by Tiger Electronics.

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Superior Software published the port for the BBC Micro.

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Under the Atarisoft label, the game was sold for the Apple II, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, VIC-20, IBM PC (as a self-booting disk), Intellivision, and TI-99/4A. An arcade sequel, Millipede, followed in 1982.Ĭentipede was ported to Atari's own Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, and Atari 8-bit family. The primary objective is to shoot all the segments of a centipede that winds down the playing field. Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the most commercially successful games from the golden age of arcade video games and one of the first with a significant female player base. Centipede is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc.

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