Re: Centipede for Apple //

[gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <3636824B.17EA19C3@swbell.net>, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>     Regarding Centipede-- it, along with Millipede and Bug Attack, is
>available from the Asimov archive. Since none of the Centipede-type
>games is very large (roughly 100-130 sectors), they are on a mult-game
>disk image (DSK) with a nice "Beautiful Boot" game selector.

	As soon I read "Millipede" (love the 2600 came, started to play
it quite a bit at the campus arcade...until the crapweasels removed it)
I headed over to asimov to check it out.  I downloaded some of the
images, started up the emulator, and...

	...that 'aint Millipede.

	It's titled Millipede, but if you're looking for Atari's sequel
to Centipede, this isn't it.  The few minutes I played, it was sort of
a watered down Centipede, no fleas or scorpions, and the mushrooms
break down like the shields in Space Invaders.  And if I remember
correctly (might be thinking of one of the other Centipede clones on
the disk images, and I deleted them already)  The centipede behaved
something like the segments in Photar, it would sometimes vanish into
a mushroom and emerged from another.


>and look for "Bug Attack" as the first game in the title/list. (There
>are two multi-game DSK's with Bug Attack. One includes Nightmare Gallery
>instead of Centipede.
>     After trying Centipede and Millipede, I still like Bug Attack best
>because it has better animation and much better sound effects. 

	My favorite is Nightmare Gallery, I used to play that one a
lot long ago.  Something about the game that "played smooth."  It
managed to keep up the challenge without having to get insanely hard.


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