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Centipede on the Atari 2600 by Atari, Inc.

Centipede is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc.

General Information

Developer - Atari, Inc.

Publisher - Atari, Inc.

Release - 1982

Platform(s) - Atari 2600

Number of Players - Single-player, multiplayer

Genre - Fixed shooter

It was designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg. It was one of the most commercially successful games from the golden age of arcade video games. The player fights off centipedes, spiders, scorpions and fleas, completing a round after eliminating the centipede that winds down the playing field. An arcade sequel, Millipede, followed in 1982.

Centipede was ported to Atari's own Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, and Atari 8-bit family. 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 developed by Handheld Games and published by Tiger Electronics.

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