Forum Overview :: Atari: The 80 Classic Games :: CENTIPEDE

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]<b>CENTIPEDE</b> <img src="http://lh6.google.com/robb.sherwin/RtPQX6urRPI/AAAAAAAAAOA/4NUu0Ya55is/s400/IMG_2120.jpg" align="left"/>That's Boggit, he hates buggies. I thought I would hate this game as well due to the fact that you control it with the joystick and due to the necessary changes from the arcade version's vertical monitor to the horizontal TV. But it really is quick to respond. The extra horizontal room is nice and offers more chance to shoot down the centipede. The graphics are colorful and crisp. Centipede is the game that everyone used to point to and use as the one that women liked more than men. My theory to this is not because there are pastel colors in the game, but because of the spider. Allow me to explain. You get 900 points if the spider is right on top of you when you kill it. You get 600 points if it's a little farther away and if you're some kind of baby you get 300. The game dispenses an afghan and booties out of the coin return if you're continually trying to get 300 points from the spider. And that's just it: the spider can <i>never retrace his steps.</i> If he enters on the left he can move up and down, but never to the right. If he enters from the right, he can't go to the left. He's the easiest thing in the game to avoid, so long as he does not kamikaze himself right at you before you can respond. But there is something that will cause men to pick a fight with the spider, whereas a woman doesn't get personal. Not with a video game spider, anyway. It's okay, though, as men are better at all the other games ever made except for Sim City, SimAnt, SimEarth, the Sims and Tecmo's Deception. I don't have an 800 "trakball" so I don't know how it is on that. Probably better, but there's no negatives to this vesion being played on the joystick. CENTIPEDE: <b>HOLDS UP NICELY</b>! ICJ [/quote]