Centipede!!!!
This was one game that while not my favorite was awesome to play even if I wasn’t great at it. A roller rink favorite still, my friends and I spent hours playing this great cabinet game.
Here’s a little more history about Centipete from the fantastic Gaming History/arcade-history.com, which I highly encourage visits to and support.
Centipede © 1981 Atari.
Centipede is a vertically oriented single screen shoot-em-up in which the aim is to use the ‘Bug Blaster’ to shoot the centipedes that snake down towards the bottom of the screen to amass as high a score as possible.
The play-field is littered with randomly placed mushrooms and the rapidly descending Centipede changes direction when it runs into a mushroom. When a segment of the Centipede is shot, the segment is destroyed and a mushroom appears in its place, the Centipede then breaks into two smaller centipedes, each with its own head, and continues its descent.
Players can move the Bug Blaster vertically as well as horizontally, although only for the lower fifth of the play-field. Mushrooms can also be shot for points and to clear blocked areas. Once a Centipede reaches the bottom of the screen, it starts snaking back up, but remains within the lower section of the play-field near the player’s Bug Blaster.
Additionally, any Centipede that reaches the very bottom of the screen without being shot releases its tail section which then becomes a new head. Other new heads also enter the screen from the bottom corners of the play-field as time progresses.
Centipede Classic Cabinet Game Play
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