1980-????

Summary The main character is the gnome(you), basically your mission is to protect your garden by shooting your enemies. First you move around using the track ball, then you shoot using the shoot button. Your main enemy is the centipede, it appears at the top of the screen traveling horizontally until it hits a mushroom then it starts moving downward till it kills you unless it misses it will travel upward to the top and then traveling down again in a repeating pattern until you or the centipede dies. To add on there's additional enemies with their own pattern and abilities in the game like spiders, fleas, scorpions and additional centipede heads appear if original centipede hits bottom. Only destroying the original centipede will make you move to the next level. Further more the higher the level your at the more enemies will spawn. The main character is the gnome(you), basically your mission is to protect your garden by shooting your enemies. First you move around using the track ball, then you shoot using the shoot button. Your main enemy is the centipede, it appears at the top of the screen traveling horizontally until it hits a mushroom then it starts moving downward till it kills you unless it misses it will travel upward to the top and then traveling down again in a repeating pattern until you or the centipede dies. To add on there's additional enemies with their own pattern and abilities in the game like spiders, fleas, scorpions and additional centipede heads appear if original centipede hits bottom. Only destroying the original centipede will make you move to the next level. Further more the higher the level your at the more enemies will spawn.

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Enemies Fleas drop vertically and spawn more mushrooms. Scorpions move vertically and poisons any mushroom it touches. Spiders travel in a zigzag left and right were your at and eats mushrooms it touches. Centipede travels downward vertically till it hits bottom and vise versa. If shoot on the head then next segment becomes the head, if shoot at the middle then it splits into two centipedes. All body parts shoot becomes mushrooms, any poisoned it touches will fall straight down. It will move faster the more mushrooms are on screen.

Highest score The highest score in history and recorded in centipede belongs to Jim Schneider from USA on June 11, The highest score in history and recorded in centipede belongs to Jim Schneider from USA on June 11, ,389,547 points scored on the world record marathon the arcade version of Centipede.

True Facts In the US, 55,988 arcade game consoles were sold, each sold from prices of $1,000 to $4,000. In US revenue, Centipede made $35.8 million just with quarters.