In case you've been locked in a closet the past 20 plus years, centipede is a shoot em up type arcade style game. Your player is at the bottom of the screen, and you have the ability of moving left & right. The centipede starts at the top of the screen and scrolls it's way down. Your job is to fire lasers at it, destroying each of the centipede's segments. If the centipeded manages to hit you, you lose a life. There are also scorpions, which poison every mushroom they touch, but these never appear in the player's movement region. A centipede touching a poisoned mushroom hurtles straight toward the player's area. Upon reaching it, it returns to normal behavior. Centipede originated in arcades and classic consoles, and it has since been updated and reproduced numerous times. But none of them manage to capture the charm of the original.
If you haven't played this in either the arcades or the 2600, you're missing out. Easily one of the best arcade games ever made, Centipede was also one of the best games on the 2600. Any Atari fan should have heard of Ce... Read Full Review
Centipede was the original button mashing frenzy game. Both the graphics and the sound were subpar by today's standards but were rich and rewarding back then. You could hear that the spider was around and you would rol... Read Full Review
