Millipede (game)

Millipede is a 1982 arcade game by Atari. In it, the player is an archer at the bottom of the screen. The player's goal is to destroy the creatures that come down off the top of the screen. One of these, the millipede, can be shot only one segment at a time. Because the mushrooms block the millipede, players can shoot the mushrooms to redirect the millipede. The game is in color and the controls consist of a trackball and a "fire" button.

Millipede is the successor to Centipede.

In contrast with Centipede, the field of mushrooms moves up and down. This prevents a common tactic in Centipede, where the player arranges the mushrooms to direct the centipede in a specific path.

There are all the enemies present in Centipede, and several new ones. There is a worm, which slows down all enemies temporarily when shot. There is a ???, which turns mushrooms into indestructible flowers. The ??? is like the flea, but it moves from side-to-side down the screen as it adds mushrooms. The ??? removes mushrooms, and moves the entire mushroom field up one row if hit. Mutliple spiders can be present simultaneously. There are DDT bombs which take out an area.

External Link

• The KLOV entry on Millipede