My grandparents have a full size arcade version of this in their basement. It is a huge part of my childhood, and just watching this made me feel a sense of joy that, until just now, was almost unfamiliar to me. It is still one of the most challenging games that I have ever played. Thank you for posting this.
@@erictoombs4842 They didn't lack anything in graphics back in 80's when they were created. They only lack in graphics when compared to more modern games.
When I was a kid my mom taught me how to play both this and millipede. They are now two of my favorite old school games. My all-time favorite being Ms. Pac-Man
Personally this my favorite classic arcade game by Atari, I remembered playing the flash version awhile back. and back in the summer of August 2016 on my cruise ship Holiday they had this game in the arcade on the cruise ship and I had fun playing it! Awesome times man! :-)
My goodness! It's probably been almost 40 years since I've seen this game. If I'm not mistaken, the direction control featured a semi-recessed billiard cue ball in lieu of a joystick. I can remember some of the skilled players aggressively rolling that thing back and forth. Good times!
I felt like you knew all my moves haha! My son and I were talking about the game so I decided to show him an example. Thanks for posting this. Fun start to the morning!
'MY GOD, WILL YOU PLEASE FIND THE PATTERN AND ANTICIPATE?' Sgt. Duff: "I don't know the patterns!" Woman: "Sgt. Duff, 12:00!" *Centipede strikes down, and chomps Duff, pixelating him, and the General cringes in shock*. Seriously, the first time I saw that, it scared me.
had to get a ride to the arcade to play this. it was an hour away. i hung out with a girl who didn't like video games but i'd convinced her that several guys at the arcade liked her, just so her parents would take us there. i worked that as long as i could, until we moved back to the city.
I was really good at this game. Highscore in 1983 was 687,000. I think the game lasted like 40min on one quarter. I could have gone higher but you could only accumulate 6 lives max. That trackball was putty in my hands!
“AGGHH!!! I THOUGHT THIS WAS GONNA BE LIKE CENTIPEDE!!! WHEN DID VIDEO GANES BECOME SO VIOLENT AND SCARY?!?!” -Wreck It Ralph, comparing this classic video game to the Hero’s Duty game he’s currently stuck in.
Use to live in the local arcade "When I wasn't at school" then years later studied to be a software designer and network engineer for an international company 'thank you arcade gaming'
Giant tropical centipedes share their territories with tarantulas. Despite it's impressive length, it's a nimble navigator, And some can be highly venomous. As quick as lightning, just like the tarantula it's killing, The centipede has two curved hollow fangs which inject paralyzing venom. Even tarantulas aren't immune from an ambush. This centipede is a predator
I'm in my 40s but I remember playing this video game at the movie theatre on Saturday night along with Pole Position. Centipede requires good hand-eye coordination and cool thinking b/c it gets intense the further you go.
I felt high just listening to the sounds again! I remember going to Richways I think it was then, nowTarget and smelling the popcorn and my mom would give me several dollars worth of quarters to play Centipede or Pac Man while she shopped. I think Centipede will be the one game that always will stand out as my favorite!
Whether it was an arcade, a bowling alley, restaurant, or Showbiz Pizza Place (or Chuck E. Cheeses,) the sound from Centipede just got the place jumpin'!
Sadly forgotten to time. A real shame because it's a very important game from a historic standpoint, being one of the first two that was popular towards women. The other game was pac-man, which now basically ascended to legendary status
Nick DeGugs It was one of the most popular arcades in the 80’s, getting a sequel (millipede) and console and computer releases. It was never underrated, more like it has not been remembered as well as other arcade games. But this was one of Atari’s greatest and most popular games.
I have an Atari Anthology disk for the og Xbox that I still bust out sometimes just to play centipede. Something about these games are just so comforting yet disturbingly ominous but I love it.
I remember back in the late 90's early 00's the older kids played this in daycare. This game and asteroids. Some of us had gameboys. Other people played uno, yugioh, monopoly.
"Hey Ludlow! Grab a light cannon now! Get out here now! I need your help!" Ludlow: Me? No! I look delicious, they'll gobble me up like space dim sum! *Looks up* *Mushrooms changes colors* "It's level 2! We're the only ones that can do this! Come on! You're the Wonder Kid!"
I never could understand what that thing was at 1:48, but my brother and I always had a good laugh hearing it and we made up our own laugh calling ourselves trying to sound like it.
Another tip: you may instinctively want to hug the very bottom out of fear, but since you can't shoot again until your shot hits something (or, if it hits nothing, goes past the top of the screen), the closer you are to your target the sooner you can shoot again. So, especially if you are trying to clear mushrooms or machine-gun a centipede, move up.
Ahh, before corona hit the world to hell and back me and my dad went to this arcade when I was 15 called flashback games and he introduced me to this addictive lil game aside from galiga this is definitely one of my favorites and it always reminds me of that arcade. Corona unfortunately killed that cool arcade, I met a lot of intresting people there to so I'll miss that lil arcade
I remember in late January 2013 me and my parents went down to Missouri for the funeral of my (real) paternal grandfather (who I had never met in my life whatsoever), and we met up with my aunt (my father's stepsister) and my late uncle (my dad's brother who died in February 2019) at a restaurant. The restaurant had a little game room where it had some interesting games you'd see in an arcade, including an air hockey table and a Centipede arcade machine. So I played Centipede alone while at the restaurant, and then me and my aunt played Centipede to see who could get the high score. My aunt ended up whooping my butt at Centipede and got the best high score. :)
Centipede was the first major arcade game written by a woman, and that was part of the marketing to try to expand the appeal of video games to women. Supposedly it's still one of women's favorite classic games and one they do well in
And see you played this game right here for bragging rights. You played to have your name immortalized in the high score. You didn’t play for online fame or to be sponsored. You beat the high score you make sure that whoever was going to go for the high score and bump your name off you made sure that they earned that spotAs the top dog
@@olafb.2929 it is different. I Spent days at the arcade playing this game. I earned my spot . On the high score kids today will never Know the pressure of trying to go for the High score and having a line of Of people staring at you. Waiting for you to lose or some entitled soccer mom with her kid Asking you if you could let her son have his turn. Because he just “” Got a participation trophy For his team
Released June 6, 1981; official copyright registration filing also confirms this. Atari probably intended for it to have been released in the fall of 1980, but for whatever reasons its release was pushed back by nine months.
A great video game should be able to . . 1) drive your heart rate up . . 2) make you cuss and accuse it of cheating . . 3) have your hands or body hurting . . 4) have you completely hooked that you have to play it every day. Centipede did just that.
The key thing to understand about the Flea (the bug that falls straight down with a descending tone and leaves mushrooms behind) is that it takes TWO shots to kill it, and after being hit once it falls way faster, so don't go under it with the intent to kill it unless it's high enough up so you have enough time to finish it off
Me n my sister and our friends would spend hours playing this game a several others. Of course after a few hours my mom would turn off the game and kick us outside.
Does anyone have any idea how to deactivate the kill screens in the original stand up centipede games? High scores are really limited by how often the game throws kill screens at you in the higher levels.
Dr. Heiter would probably mod this game, turning the sprites of the centipede’s segments into humans. Note: If you don’t get this reference, don’t research.
If another Smash game gets made, I think they should incorporate Centipede into a stage. The fighters are at the bottom as the centipede starts to come down. The spider can be a stage hazard. All the blocks make it hard to be launched (like original mario bros game).
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My grandparents have a full size arcade version of this in their basement. It is a huge part of my childhood, and just watching this made me feel a sense of joy that, until just now, was almost unfamiliar to me. It is still one of the most challenging games that I have ever played. Thank you for posting this.
Awesome! I grew up playing arcade games. What they lacked in graphics, they made up for in playability.
@@erictoombs4842 They didn't lack anything in graphics back in 80's when they were created.
They only lack in graphics when compared to more modern games.
my dentist has a centipede arcade machine too
Guys every time he hit the mushroom he’s Changed directions
“DON’T SHOOT THE MIDDLE OR HE’LL SPLIT INTO TWO!”
@PatyQ Drummer I LOVE PIXELS!
Damn pixels was such a good movie!
I love the light cannons.
I love pixels
Me too.
Takes me back to my roller rink days in the 80s when I was a kid. Pac Man, Space Invaders, Centipede and pinball machines. So thankful to be Gen-X!
Ever heard of Arcade Bars?
@@gamerofgamers1417 definitely!
The EPITOME of an arcade classic! I almost feel as if i'm obligated to put a quarter in at the mere sight of such classics!
OMG! I use to play this so much as a kid! This one and Pac-Man was my favorites!🤗
Leon Dietrich if you’re born in 2008, aren’t you underaged?
Imagine, pacapede
Me too😊
My favorite arcade game!! I had to show my 12 yr how I got down at her age.
This game was my childhood!
Kimberly how do you get to play the game on your phone
When I was a kid my mom taught me how to play both this and millipede. They are now two of my favorite old school games. My all-time favorite being Ms. Pac-Man
@@esmooth919 Your mom (sounds awesome)
Personally this my favorite classic arcade game by Atari, I remembered playing the flash version awhile back. and back in the summer of August 2016 on my cruise ship Holiday they had this game in the arcade on the cruise ship and I had fun playing it! Awesome times man! :-)
Brenner:grab a light cannon a get out here!
Ludlow:what no I look delicious!
Lol
My goodness! It's probably been almost 40 years since I've seen this game. If I'm not mistaken, the direction control featured a semi-recessed billiard cue ball in lieu of a joystick. I can remember some of the skilled players aggressively rolling that thing back and forth. Good times!
Many sore wrist from playing this game
It was called a track ball.
Track ball
I felt like you knew all my moves haha! My son and I were talking about the game so I decided to show him an example. Thanks for posting this. Fun start to the morning!
Ralph: "I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE LIKE CENTIPEDE!!!"
"WHEN DID GAMES GET SO VIOLENT AND SCARY?!?!"
"PLEASE FIND A PATTERN AND ANTICIPATE!"
Tigerman1138 xDD
*spider appears*
Military captains: "AAAAHH!!!"
*pew*
Sam Brenner: "Ok, you can let go of each other now." LOL
+R&AShows I know the pattern
'MY GOD, WILL YOU PLEASE FIND THE PATTERN AND ANTICIPATE?'
Sgt. Duff: "I don't know the patterns!"
Woman: "Sgt. Duff, 12:00!"
*Centipede strikes down, and chomps Duff, pixelating him, and the General cringes in shock*.
Seriously, the first time I saw that, it scared me.
¡It's been 30 years since I kicked your butt! I can do it again!
had to get a ride to the arcade to play this. it was an hour away. i hung out with a girl who didn't like video games but i'd convinced her that several guys at the arcade liked her, just so her parents would take us there. i worked that as long as i could, until we moved back to the city.
xd
I was really good at this game. Highscore in 1983 was 687,000. I think the game lasted like 40min on one quarter. I could have gone higher but you could only accumulate 6 lives max. That trackball was putty in my hands!
This game was my childhood!
new generations will never understand how cool is our generation
itnuki sagara i like thud game and im only 12
itnuki sagara my dad lets me play it
dont even understand wot the fuck u saying mate
90z kids rule
mhm but this is a 80s game.....
I've never been happier in my life!
you forgot the quotation mark. God gives you happiness
@@uralittlebtch1605 you just had to reply to a 5 year old comment lol
@@bigeli6277 and?
“AGGHH!!! I THOUGHT THIS WAS GONNA BE LIKE CENTIPEDE!!! WHEN DID VIDEO GANES BECOME SO VIOLENT AND SCARY?!?!” -Wreck It Ralph, comparing this classic video game to the Hero’s Duty game he’s currently stuck in.
Centipede is my favorite 1980s game
Mine two. Ever seen pixels? It’s a good movie to watch
Use to live in the local arcade "When I wasn't at school" then years later studied to be a software designer and network engineer for an international company 'thank you arcade gaming'
“I thought this would be like Centipede!”-Wreck It Ralph
"YOU SHOOT THE SPLIT LIKE A GAME!"
I just finished playing this game on my phone. Love these classic games that I remember. And I have dig dug to.
This game was my childhood!
Giant tropical centipedes share their territories with tarantulas.
Despite it's impressive length, it's a nimble navigator,
And some can be highly venomous.
As quick as lightning, just like the tarantula it's killing,
The centipede has two curved hollow fangs which inject paralyzing venom.
Even tarantulas aren't immune from an ambush.
This centipede is a predator
The sounds of the arcade
Taking down a full centipede has still got to be one of the most satisfying acts in gaming.
0:22 It's level two!
WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN DO THIS COME ON YOURE THE WONDER KID
YOU DONT HAVE PERMISSION TO USE THAT WEAPON
Let the nerds take over.
@@PhilipBarronWhat was that?
@@SC_Dave Let the nerds take over!
I'm in my 40s but I remember playing this video game at the movie theatre on Saturday night along with Pole Position. Centipede requires good hand-eye coordination and cool thinking b/c it gets intense the further you go.
I can see that
Centipede, Berzerk, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Kaboom, & Defender! Our era was better than any other era. There is no debate.
I dont know what the game Kaboom is
This is my favorite game i need this game!! nostalgia for me❤the sounds are just bringing back so many memories😂😂
Old memories
Masterpiece of the era
This was one of my favorites along with Joust, Frogged, Galaga, Punch Out and Zelda...✌😜
This was my mom's favorite game when she was little
The thing that killed me the most was the color of each level.
my all time fave , havent heard this since the 80s and it kind of gave me chills hearing it
I felt high just listening to the sounds again! I remember going to Richways I think it was then, nowTarget and smelling the popcorn and my mom would give me several dollars worth of quarters to play Centipede or Pac Man while she shopped. I think Centipede will be the one game that always will stand out as my favorite!
Thanks for the memories 🕹
My grandmother used to play this game all the time at a chuck e cheese when my mother was in elementary school.
Pixels brought me here?
My love for video games + Pixels = Brought me here too! Lol
same lmao
for real
Me too
Me to
FUN FACT:
This game was originally meant to attract female gamers, thus this game is created by a female named Dona Bailey.
Yet it attracted this male gamer (me) when he was 5 years old.
Whether it was an arcade, a bowling alley, restaurant, or Showbiz Pizza Place (or Chuck E. Cheeses,) the sound from Centipede just got the place jumpin'!
Sadly forgotten to time. A real shame because it's a very important game from a historic standpoint, being one of the first two that was popular towards women. The other game was pac-man, which now basically ascended to legendary status
I love this game I’m 11 but I know all games from 1980
Okay? Is that suppose to suprise someone?
Played this hours and days on end with my dad when I was a kid.absoulett lived the game!
Well this game was clearly underrated
Nick DeGugs
It was one of the most popular arcades in the 80’s, getting a sequel (millipede) and console and computer releases. It was never underrated, more like it has not been remembered as well as other arcade games. But this was one of Atari’s greatest and most popular games.
I have an Atari Anthology disk for the og Xbox that I still bust out sometimes just to play centipede. Something about these games are just so comforting yet disturbingly ominous but I love it.
this game was so loud. loved it all cranked and super bassy EDIT also super neon and fast
I played this all the time at the Arcade and it was so hard! Then again I was like six years old. 😆
This game lasted just under 4 m. I was so good that at 4 minutes I was just getting warmed up
I remember back in the late 90's early 00's the older kids played this in daycare. This game and asteroids. Some of us had gameboys. Other people played uno, yugioh, monopoly.
"Hey Ludlow! Grab a light cannon now! Get out here now! I need your help!"
Ludlow: Me? No! I look delicious, they'll gobble me up like space dim sum!
*Looks up*
*Mushrooms changes colors*
"It's level 2! We're the only ones that can do this! Come on! You're the Wonder Kid!"
President:Let the nerds take over
Girl:LET THE NERDS TAKE OVER
Fat guy:Your right I am a the wonder kid
KineKlei and the wonder kid has babies with q*bert
Anyone remember the game 'Joust'? You rode on flying camels, skidding around between flights. Headtrip.
Theyre actually ostriches and not camels...
Great game and awesome sound effects.
This takes me back. Love it!
I never could understand what that thing was at 1:48, but my brother and I always had a good laugh hearing it and we made up our own laugh calling ourselves trying to sound like it.
Another tip: you may instinctively want to hug the very bottom out of fear, but since you can't shoot again until your shot hits something (or, if it hits nothing, goes past the top of the screen), the closer you are to your target the sooner you can shoot again. So, especially if you are trying to clear mushrooms or machine-gun a centipede, move up.
Ahh, before corona hit the world to hell and back me and my dad went to this arcade when I was 15 called flashback games and he introduced me to this addictive lil game aside from galiga this is definitely one of my favorites and it always reminds me of that arcade. Corona unfortunately killed that cool arcade, I met a lot of intresting people there to so I'll miss that lil arcade
I am addicted to it now. Hubby bought an arcade
Interesting fact, this was one of the first video games co-programmed by a woman.
that spider is just there to be a show off 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was another classic that the chicks always were good at...
I remember in late January 2013 me and my parents went down to Missouri for the funeral of my (real) paternal grandfather (who I had never met in my life whatsoever), and we met up with my aunt (my father's stepsister) and my late uncle (my dad's brother who died in February 2019) at a restaurant. The restaurant had a little game room where it had some interesting games you'd see in an arcade, including an air hockey table and a Centipede arcade machine. So I played Centipede alone while at the restaurant, and then me and my aunt played Centipede to see who could get the high score. My aunt ended up whooping my butt at Centipede and got the best high score. :)
Rest in piece to your dad's brother and your grandpa 😔😔 🙏🙏:(
Centipede was the first major arcade game written by a woman, and that was part of the marketing to try to expand the appeal of video games to women. Supposedly it's still one of women's favorite classic games and one they do well in
Centipede is a nominee for the Video Game Hall of Fame!
EVERYTIME IT HITS A MUSHROOM IT'S GONNA CHANGE DIRECTION
I love this game from beginning to end and in between
For some reason this is my Mom's favorite game from back in the day she liked it more than Galaga
omg this game my parents introduced to me on the atari... miss it
Kid:" who are you mister?"
Branner:" son, im just a loser who's good at old video games"
Kid:" well thank god for that"
0:46 When Centipede Drops Da Bass
Best comment!
probably the first game that teach us to predict.
Centipede was one of my very favorite!
This is a hard game just like millipede.
And see you played this game right here for bragging rights. You played to have your name immortalized in the high score. You didn’t play for online fame or to be sponsored. You beat the high score you make sure that whoever was going to go for the high score and bump your name off you made sure that they earned that spotAs the top dog
Totally agree. So different from today.
@@olafb.2929 it is different. I Spent days at the arcade playing this game. I earned my spot . On the high score kids today will never Know the pressure of trying to go for the High score and having a line of Of people staring at you. Waiting for you to lose or some entitled soccer mom with her kid Asking you if you could let her son have his turn. Because he just “” Got a participation trophy For his team
whatsup man you are too good
I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH !!
Released June 6, 1981; official copyright registration filing also confirms this. Atari probably intended for it to have been released in the fall of 1980, but for whatever reasons its release was pushed back by nine months.
I used to play a lot. Great classic!
The 80s were a golden age for movies, music and video games. I imagined Heaven as being in an arcade with an infinite supply of quarters.
Supposedly the last centipede piece going faster isn't by design but because the CPU runs the game faster with only 1 piece to render
You're thinking of space invaders. On centipede, it's quite deliberate.
I WOULD LOVE THIS AS A RING TONE.
GOOD MEMORIES.
This was much harder at Pizza HUT when the control ball was slick with the pizza grease from the last hundred people that played it.
Blast The Bouncing Spiders, Mushroom Creating Fleas, Poisonous Scorpions, And Of Course, The CENTIPEDE!
The Arcade Hit From Atari!
I watched this video because of the awesome movie Pixels. And the centipede was my favorite part! :D
Pixels sucks,exept the centipede part
A great video game should be able to . . 1) drive your heart rate up . . 2) make you cuss and accuse it of cheating . . 3) have your hands or body hurting . . 4) have you completely hooked that you have to play it every day.
Centipede did just that.
The key thing to understand about the Flea (the bug that falls straight down with a descending tone and leaves mushrooms behind) is that it takes TWO shots to kill it, and after being hit once it falls way faster, so don't go under it with the intent to kill it unless it's high enough up so you have enough time to finish it off
Me n my sister and our friends would spend hours playing this game a several others.
Of course after a few hours my mom would turn off the game and kick us outside.
This game was my childhood!
It was always a toss up, do I drink my slurpee or play another game of centipede? I let the sun decide cause it was a long bike ride home.
Tense moments toward the end. My parents quarters weren't safe with Centipede around.
My all time favorite game.in the 80s!!!
Does anyone have any idea how to deactivate the kill screens in the original stand up centipede games? High scores are really limited by how often the game throws kill screens at you in the higher levels.
Addictive, entrancing, phuckin' awesome! Like ole' Jack Burton always says, it's all in the reflexes. ;)
Dam I need this games I remember getting them high scores with my friends
This game was weird, but fun. It was released on my birth year, 1980!
Memories:))
awesome, great memories from this game.
40th Anniversary of Atari's Centipede (1980-2020)
I had this game play out in real life, where I was rushed by a centipede in a McDonald's in Fall River, Massachusetts
Dr. Heiter would probably mod this game, turning the sprites of the centipede’s segments into humans.
Note: If you don’t get this reference, don’t research.
If another Smash game gets made, I think they should incorporate Centipede into a stage. The fighters are at the bottom as the centipede starts to come down. The spider can be a stage hazard. All the blocks make it hard to be launched (like original mario bros game).