Centipede

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4.4K plays 1987 #Shooter

Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. 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 widely played by women and girls. The primary objective is to shoot all the segments of a centipede that winds down the playing field.

Centipede was ported to Atari's own 2600, 5200, 7800, and 8-bit computers. 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. Superior Software published the port for the BBC Micro. Versions for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color were also produced, as well as a version for the short-lived Game.com. Other developers released more than 25 Centipede clones for home computers. It was followed by the arcade sequel Millipede in 1982. In 1998, a 3D remake for Windows, Mac, PlayStation, and Dreamcast was published by Hasbro Interactive.

This game was never released; this is a prototype.

From Wikipedia's article Centipede (video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

LynxPlayer 1
D-pad↑↓←→
BZ
AX
Option 1A
Option 2S
PauseEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

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Keyboard controls

LynxPlayer 1
D-pad↑↓←→
BZ
AX
Option 1A
Option 2S
PauseEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

2.5 Could be better

Players 63 · 819 votes

No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.

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  1. Graphics 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  2. Sound 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  3. Control 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  4. Fun Factor 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback

Overall fallback: Players 63 · 819 votes. The same 63/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.

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  1. 1.0Wake me up when it's over0+ out of 100
  2. 1.5Wake me up when it's over+ thumbs-up40+ out of 100
  3. 2.0Could be better50+ out of 100
  4. 2.5Could be better+ thumbs-up60+ out of 100
  5. 3.0Good job68+ out of 100
  6. 3.5Good job+ thumbs-up75+ out of 100
  7. 4.0Great job!80+ out of 100
  8. 4.5Great job!+ thumbs-up85+ out of 100
  9. 5.0Outstanding!90+ out of 100

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