Yeah, I threw a few quarters at this classic. You can see the high score I reached at the top of the screenshot. Yeah, I suck ass. But as this is an old infinitely running arcade game, the kind that loses my attention after a few credits, that will be the score I will settle for.
Excuse the shitty screenshot, I DID use scanlines while playing, but for some reason the emulator snapshot doesn't include the. And printscreen on MAME seems to work about as good as on a vlc video. IT DOESN'T CAPTURE ANYTHING!
But let's get back to the game. Yeah, I did have fun the 20 minutes I gave Centipede. Will I ever go back to play it again? Probably not. I am not a huge fan of gallery shooters, but I do enjoy the few that I personally count among the best of the genre. During this time, I still think of Galaxian as the BEST gallery shooter. And Centipede sure as hell ain't even close to that. But like said, I had fun. And I swore a lot. Especially at that fucking spider that runs in on the screen and sometimes AIMS right at you.
Also ,it's definitely a fresh take on the Space Invaders concept, what with the splitting enemies and their corpses becoming obstacles.
Even though those are part of the games defining elements they give some slight annoyance. Breaking obstacles can be a pain due to your snakehead's (the player looks like one to me) slow firing rate (traditional of ooooold games).
Source: http://evo-ge.blogspot.com/2010/08/centipede.html
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