It is moved around the bottom area of the screen with a trackball and fires small darts at a segmented centipede advancing from the top of the screen through a field of mushrooms. The player controls a small insect-like Bug Blaster. Versions for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color were also produced, as well as a version for the short-lived developed by Handheld Games and published by Tiger Electronics.Ī new game, with the centipede at the top and a spider in the lower right. Superior Software published the port for the BBC Micro. 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. An arcade sequel, Millipede, followed in 1982.Ĭentipede was ported to Atari's own Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, and Atari 8-bit family. The primary objective is to shoot all the segments of a centipede that winds down the playing field. 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 with a significant female player base.

Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc.

Centipede arcade game