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Centipede is a vertical shooter developed by Atari Inc. that was originally released in 1980 as an arcade game. In the game you control a strange craft that has been described as a resembling a snake head or human head, shooting bugs that come down from the top of the playing field. A centipede will snake back and forth down the screen until the player successfully destroys it thus completing the round.
Centipede - (segment: 10 points, head: 100 points) The centipede is a multi-segmented insect that descends on the player from above. It moves from side to side through the mushroom patch, moving down a level only when it reaches the side of the screen or hits a mushroom. When a segment of the centipede is hit, it turns into a mushroom. If the player shoots one of the middle segments instead of one of the end segments, then the centipede will break into two independently-moving centipedes which must both be destroyed.
Flea - (200 points) The flea will appear when the number of mushrooms on the playing field starts to get low. As the flea drops from the top of the screen, it creates mushrooms in its path. The flea takes two shots to be destroyed. When it is hit for the first time, it's rate of descent increases greatly.
Spider - (300-900 points) The spider moves from left to right on the playing field near where the player's gun is. It destroys any mushrooms that it comes into contact with, but will also destroy the player if contact is made. The spider can be killed with one shot, and the amount of points it is worth changes depending on what it's distance from the player is.
Scorpion - (1000 points) The scorpoin appears and slides from one side of the screen to the other. Any mushroom that the scorpion comes into contact with becomes a "poison" mushroom. If the centipede touches one of these poison mushrooms it becomes sick and will plummet down the playing field towards the player.
Centipede is a vertical shooter in which you must destroy centipedes and other bugs before they reach the bottom of the screen and destroy you.
Overview
Centipede is a vertical shooter developed by Atari Inc. that was originally released in 1980 as an arcade game. In the game you control a strange craft that has been described as a resembling a snake head or human head, shooting bugs that come down from the top of the playing field. A centipede will snake back and forth down the screen until the player successfully destroys it thus completing the round.
Enemies
Centipede - (segment: 10 points, head: 100 points) The centipede is a multi-segmented insect that descends on the player from above. It moves from side to side through the mushroom patch, moving down a level only when it reaches the side of the screen or hits a mushroom. When a segment of the centipede is hit, it turns into a mushroom. If the player shoots one of the middle segments instead of one of the end segments, then the centipede will break into two independently-moving centipedes which must both be destroyed.
Insects are jerks.
Spider - (300-900 points) The spider moves from left to right on the playing field near where the player's gun is. It destroys any mushrooms that it comes into contact with, but will also destroy the player if contact is made. The spider can be killed with one shot, and the amount of points it is worth changes depending on what it's distance from the player is.
Scorpion - (1000 points) The scorpoin appears and slides from one side of the screen to the other. Any mushroom that the scorpion comes into contact with becomes a "poison" mushroom. If the centipede touches one of these poison mushrooms it becomes sick and will plummet down the playing field towards the player.
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