Centipede
GOLDEN AGE GAME
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Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades.
Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the most commercially successful games from the golden age of arcade video games and one of the first with a significant female player base.
The primary objective is to shoot all the segments of a centipede that winds down the playing field.
Centipede was one of the top four highest-grossing arcade games of 1982 in the United States, along with Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
The Atari VCS port of Centipede sold 1,475,240 cartridges during 1982 to 1983, becoming the 11th-best-selling Atari game.
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Competition and High Scores:
The game was chosen for the final round of the 1981 Atari World Championships run by Tournament Games International. The men’s champion was Eric Ginner and the women’s champion was Ok-Soo Han.
The world record score on the arcade version of Centipede was 16,389,547 points by Jim Schneider of the USA on August 1, 1984.
Donald Hayes of Windham, New Hampshire, scored a world record 7,111,111 points under tournament rules on the arcade version of Centipede on November 5, 2000.
Accolades:
In 1995, Flux magazine ranked the arcade version 15th on their “Top 100 Video Games”.
In 1996, Next Generation listed the arcade version as number 84 on their “Top 100 Games of All Time”.
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