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Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. [7] 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 ...
Atari was an early pioneer in the video game industry.In fact, it virtually created the industry with its introduction of the arcade game Pong.The brand name "Atari" was used for many years and applied to several other entities that developed products ranging from arcade video games to home video game consoles to home computers to video games for personal computers.
By the early 2000s, the sales of arcade machines in North America had declined, with 4,000 unit sales being considered a hit by the time. [193] One of the causes of decline was new generations of video game consoles and personal computers that sapped interest from arcades. Since the 2000s, arcade games have taken different routes globally.
Dona Bailey was born in 1955 in Little Rock, Arkansas.She graduated high school early and started attending the University of Arkansas at Little Rock at the age of 16. She accelerated her education by taking classes year-round, and by the age of 19, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology with three minors in English, Math and Biology.
The topic of retro arcade gaming had come up, and while the members had identified efforts to recreate arcade cabinets, these typically cost thousands of U.S. dollars and were heavy, a form that would not be suitable for smaller consumers at home or offices, or use in locations like arcade bars.
Enter the Arcade1Up 8-Game Retro PartyCade — on sale for $220 (that's $80 off!) at HSN. Now you can relive those glorious Saturday afternoons spent with Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede !
The game can be played in two game modes: "Arcade" and "Adventure" — the latter marking a departure from the original version. Arcade mode allows the player to experience a ported version of the original arcade Centipede, with some enhancements. In the adventure campaign, one completes a series of levels linked by a storyline. Here, the ...
Arcade Classics was panned by critics. Reviews commented that Arcade Classics includes very few games compared to other retro compilations, [5] [3] [6] that it fails to recreate the experience the games offered in the arcades, [7] [3] that the "enhanced" versions offer nothing but mild cosmetic changes, [8] [3] [6] and that the overly "busy" backgrounds in the enhanced version of Centipede ...