Centipede

centipede

by lummi

Cart #centipede-3 | 2020-02-05 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

Here is my Version of Atari's arcade classic shooter Centipede.

In 1980 Dona Bailey developed the arcade game Centipede for Atari.
It was the first arcade game designed by a woman and became one of the most successful
arcade video games (see: Killer List of Video Games).

My kids and I already had a lot of fun with this Pico8-Centipede-Version and we are working
on an update! Wait and see!!...

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atari arcade classic shooter

Spaz48 • 2020-02-05 2020-02-05 11:26

Wow, great work! I'm not the most familiar with the original, so I'm not one to say how it compares, but this plays great!

merwok • 2020-02-05 2020-02-05 16:14

This is really well done!

dw817 • 2020-02-05*2020-02-05 16:54*

Great graphics and all, @lummi, but is decidedly harder to play compared to the original because of Pico-8's smaller resolution and using 8-vertical pixels per mushroom.

As you can see there are a lot more vertical levels to place the mushrooms.

Here is a video of the original arcade:

https://youtu.be/fUVgcfzIeGI?t=2

Suggest Mushrooms take 6 or less pixels of vertical space and the Centipede itself only travels down 6-pixels as well.

Also even holding down the firing button as they all came down a narrow corridor I could not shoot them all and was overrun. You can do so in the original. I think the shooting speed is too slow perhaps is why this happens.

lummi • 2020-02-05 2020-02-05 21:10

Thanks for praise and criticism!

@dw817, I tried a 6 pixel step already and wasn't that happy with the gameplay. The tunneling from the original version also works perfectly on my computer. Maybe you are lacking in practice.