Centipede
Centipede is a vertically-oriented shoot 'em up arcade game produced by Atari, Inc. in 1980. The game was designed by Ed Logg along with Dona Bailey, one of the few female game programmers in the industry at…
Centipede is an arcade developed by Atari, released 6 June 1981 on Arcade and Web browser. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What Centipede is
Centipede is an arcade game developed by Atari and released in 1981. It is available on Arcade and Web browser.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Enchanted Forest Once upon a time in a misty, enchanted forest, there lived a colony of good elves. These elves had a major problem, though. Their prized mushroom garden was infested with pests--a giant Centipede, a poison-spreading scorpion, a mischief-making spider, and a pesky flea. The good elves tried everything they could to rid their garden of these bugs. But nothing worked. One day, an elf named Oliver was hacking away at a poisoned mushroom in the garden. Suddenly, he saw an unusual stick gleaming in the dirt. Just as Oliver picked up the stick, a spider jumped out from behind a mushroom and rushed at him. When Oliver waved his hands wildly to try to scare the spider away…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Centipede series
Centipede is the first of 36 entries we hold in the Centipede series. The next entry was Centipede in 1982. Its critic score of 75 is 7 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Centipede at 80.
How it was received
Centipede holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 53% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 63 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Centipede yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
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Quick answers
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