by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu May 02, 2013 11:00 pm
Well, it works again.
Some quick impressions. I never really "got into" Centipede. However, I was always fascinated by it because my next-door neighbor growing up had one. (He had a Centipede in his garage and some other game that for the life of me I can't remember.)
In fact, there were probably two specific incidents that caused me to get these machines as an adult. The first was that a Centipede machine was in the house next door. Though our neighbor invited us over to play it any time we wanted, we were too shy to take him up on that.
The second incident was one summer when a BMX race was in our neighborhood for a week. Our house in Rochester was situated in a way that meant if we walked out back, we'd go through a quarter-mile of weeds, trees and brush and then emerge into property owned by other familes, who had houses that faced a street perpendicular to ours.
One year a rich guy created some BMX track for his son and held some kind of competition there. They had a tent and placed some video games in it, one of which was Mr. Do!. I didn't care about the BMX races, but I was fascinated by the fact that I could walk out my door, walk through the tall grass for a bit and be
playing an arcade game.
Anyway, back to Centipede. I think I understand why it got so big back in the day. The colors are outstanding. There is nothing like it from the year it was released. I mean, Tempest looks like a goddamn nightmare come to life. But you're getting the same colors each time on each board. Centipede starts picking random combinations. (Someone correct me if I am wrong on that.) And these colors are wonderful pastels. More, Centipede doesn't do the thing where the first boards are too easy and a waste of time like Zoo Keeper. Maybe it's just because I can only get to 21,000 in it, but I have to pay attention the whole time.
My current strategy is to wipe out the mushrooms in the area I have access to, thus drawing the flea. I then pick off fleas (two shots to kill and he gets faster after the first one!) until the centipede itself gets closer to the bottom of the screen.
That's all I know. I know there is some sort of strategy to stop the spider from making his way across the field, but not the specifics.
Well, it works again.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/FdXlhXJ.jpg[/img]
Some quick impressions. I never really "got into" Centipede. However, I was always fascinated by it because my next-door neighbor growing up had one. (He had a Centipede in his garage and some other game that for the life of me I can't remember.)
In fact, there were probably two specific incidents that caused me to get these machines as an adult. The first was that a Centipede machine was in the house next door. Though our neighbor invited us over to play it any time we wanted, we were too shy to take him up on that.
The second incident was one summer when a BMX race was in our neighborhood for a week. Our house in Rochester was situated in a way that meant if we walked out back, we'd go through a quarter-mile of weeds, trees and brush and then emerge into property owned by other familes, who had houses that faced a street perpendicular to ours.
One year a rich guy created some BMX track for his son and held some kind of competition there. They had a tent and placed some video games in it, one of which was Mr. Do!. I didn't care about the BMX races, but I was fascinated by the fact that I could walk out my door, walk through the tall grass for a bit and be [i]playing an arcade game.[/i]
Anyway, back to Centipede. I think I understand why it got so big back in the day. The colors are outstanding. There is nothing like it from the year it was released. I mean, Tempest looks like a goddamn nightmare come to life. But you're getting the same colors each time on each board. Centipede starts picking random combinations. (Someone correct me if I am wrong on that.) And these colors are wonderful pastels. More, Centipede doesn't do the thing where the first boards are too easy and a waste of time like Zoo Keeper. Maybe it's just because I can only get to 21,000 in it, but I have to pay attention the whole time.
My current strategy is to wipe out the mushrooms in the area I have access to, thus drawing the flea. I then pick off fleas (two shots to kill and he gets faster after the first one!) until the centipede itself gets closer to the bottom of the screen.
That's all I know. I know there is some sort of strategy to stop the spider from making his way across the field, but not the specifics.