Centipede (1981)
3.03 from 234 ratings
536 members have it in their collection · 2 playing now · 41 backlogged · 27 wish listed
How long? Main story 1h (from 1 logged playthrough)
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 this time. It was also the first arcade coin-operated game to have a significant female player base. The player defends against swarms of …
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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 this time. It was also the first arcade coin-operated game to have a significant female player base. The player defends against swarms of insects, completing a round after eliminating the centipede that winds down the playing field.
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Release dates
- Jun 06, 1981 (Full Release) (North_America) Arcade
- 1983 (Full Release) (Japan) Arcade
- Aug 2010 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Web Browser
Also available on
- Centipede (1982) · A800
- Centipede (1983) · 5200
- Centipede (1983) · 2600
- Centipede (1983) · TI99
- Centipede (1983) · C64
- Centipede (1983) · VC20
- Centipede (1983) · INTV
- Centipede (1983) · CVIS
- Centipede (1983) · BBCM
- Centipede (1983) · APL2
- Centipede (1984) · DOS
- Centipede (1986) · 7800
- Centipede (1992) · GB
- Centipede (1997) · Handheld Electronic LCD
- Centipede (1998) · GBC
- Centipede (1999) · GCOM
- Centipede (2008) · iOS
- Centipede (2010) · PC
- Centipede: Sega Version · GEN
- Centipede · LYNX
Related
Bundled in
- Arcade Smash Hits (Dec 1985) · C64, SMS, SPEC
- Microsoft Arcade (Sep 1993) · MAC, PC
- Arcade Classics (Dec 1996) · GEN
- Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 (Jan 1997) · PS1, SAT, SNES
- Atari Arcade Hits: Volume 1 (Jan 1999) · PC
- Atari Anniversary Edition Redux (Feb 2001) · PS1
- Arcade Smash Hits (Dec 1985) · C64, SMS, SPEC
- Microsoft Arcade (Sep 1993) · MAC, PC
- Arcade Classics (Dec 1996) · GEN
- Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 (Jan 1997) · PS1, SAT, SNES
- Atari Arcade Hits: Volume 1 (Jan 1999) · PC
- Atari Anniversary Edition Redux (Feb 2001) · PS1
- Atari Anniversary Edition (Jul 2001) · DC, GBA, PC, PS1
- Atari Anniversary Advance (Mar 2002) · GBA
- Atari: 80 Classic Games in One! (Nov 2003) · PC
- Centipede & Battlezone (Dec 2003) · PC
- Atari Anthology (Nov 2004) · PS2, XBOX
- Retro Atari Classics (Mar 2005) · DS
- Centipede/Breakout/Warlords (Aug 2005) · GBA
- Atari Classics Games (Dec 2005) · DGBL
- Atari Masterpieces Vol. II (Mar 2006) · NGE
- Centipede & Millipede (Feb 2007) · X360
- Atari Classics: Evolved (Jan 2008) · PSP
- Atari Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Nov 2010) · DS
- Atari Vault (Mar 2016) · LIN, MAC, PC
- Atari Flashback Classics Vol. 1 (Oct 2016) · PS4, XONE
- Atari Flashback Classics (Dec 2018) · NSW, VITA
- Atari Arcade 1 (Dec 2021) · EVER
- Atari Couchcade (Mar 2022) · Plug & Play
- Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration (Nov 2022) · NSW, PC, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
Remakes
- Centipede (Oct 1998) · DC, MAC, PC, PS1, PS3, PSP
- Centipede: Recharged (Sep 2021) · STAD, LIN, MAC, NSW, PC, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
- Centipede: Evolved · PSP
- Centipede X · N64
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Rating distribution
5 stars
12
4 stars
46
3 stars
118
2 stars
51
1 star
6
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Status lori.cerny Apr 7, 2017
One of my strongest gaming memories is staying home from school with a 2-litre bottle of Pepsi and my 110 camera by my side as I played Centipede continuously in my bedroom.
I played to a score of 999,999 points and had my camera ready when the counter flipped over to a million. Quelle surprise!! The counter did flip over, …
One of my strongest gaming memories is staying home from school with a 2-litre bottle of Pepsi and my 110 camera by my side as I played Centipede continuously in my bedroom.
I played to a score of 999,999 points and had my camera ready when the counter flipped over to a million. Quelle surprise!! The counter did flip over, but it reset to "0"!!!
Possibly the greatest gaming day of my life while also being the worst day, too.