Centipede (1981)

1981
Game Boy and Game Boy Color
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4th generation

History

Ed Logg and Dona Bailey designed Atari's Centipede (1981), a trackball shooter in a mushroom patch where the insect splits when hit. Spiders, fleas, and scorpions complicate the garden.

A flea plants extra mushrooms as it drops, and a poisoned mushroom sends the centipede diving straight down. The trackball flicks the wand along the bottom of the patch.

The cabinet's ball is the original control. Handheld ports keep the splitting bug and the mushrooms without that ball.

Related in this catalog

Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.

Same series

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Same franchise

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Same platform

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RAWG record

RAWG rating4.00 / 5

Ratings13

RAWG date1981-01-01

ESRB on RAWGNot listed

GenresNot listed

DevelopersNot listed

PublishersNot listed

Platforms on RAWGgame-boy-advance, game-boy-color, game-boy, apple-ii, commodore-amiga, atari-7800, atari-5200, atari-2600, atari-8-bit, atari-lynx

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