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Centipede
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Boasting one of the most impressive title screens ever to grace the 2600, Centipede is a fairly faithful port of the coin-op. The graphics are a bit on the blocky side, but the gameplay remains true. The first thing most people notice is that the mushrooms have been reduced to little square blocks, this is due to the graphical limitations of the 2600. The mushrooms are actually made up of bits of playfield graphics (same as they are in Millipede), so they couldn't be very well defined. The player is ... a block, most likely made from a missile sprite. The spider is a little blob with legs, the centipede is purple, the fleas are. so how about that snazzy title screen? Pretty cool huh?
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While the latest manifestation of Centipede is no box of surprises, the game.com does a great job, as usual, of providing an old-school gaming experience. While there's no little track ball, you still move your little gun in four directions on the screen, trying to blast through the mushrooms that are left when a part of the Centipede dies. The goal is simple enough: blast the baddies before they bum rush you. Succeed, and you get to continue through level after mind-numbing level of the stuff. Repetition is inevitable unless you're a big fan of the game, and having a soft spot for baseball sleeves helps.
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Centipede is regarded as the first arcade game designed by a woman, Dona Bailey. It arrived in the arcades in 1980 from Atari and became an instant hit with men and women alike for a number of reasons. It used bright attractive colors throughout the game that alternated between stages. Additionally, it had a simple and intuitive control interface, a trackball. Along with a single fire button, it was a game that just about anyone could approach and immediately know what to do. Even the side art was very impressive and inviting.
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Centipede mating does not involve copulation. Males deposit a spermatophore for the female to take up. In one clade, this spermatophore is deposited in a web, and the male undertakes a courtship dance to encourage the female to engulf his sperm. In other cases, the males just leave them for the females to find. In temperate areas egg laying occurs in spring and summer but in subtropical and tropical areas there appears to be little seasonality to centipede breeding. It is ... notable that there are a few known species of parthenogenetic centipedes[11].
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