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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 ...
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.
This is a list of arcade games that have used a trackball to interact with the game. World Cup (Sega, March 1978) [1] [2] Atari Football (Atari, October 1978) [3] Shuffleboard (Midway Manufacturing, October 1978) [4] Atari Soccer (1979) Atari Baseball (1979) BullsEye (1980) Centipede (1980) Extra Bases (1980) Missile Command (1980) Kick (a.k.a ...
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 ...
He co-developed the video game Asteroids with Lyle Rains. [7] Other games designed or co-designed by Logg include Centipede , Millipede , the Gauntlet series (with inspiration from John Palevich's Dandy ), Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey and the home versions of the San Francisco Rush series.
Millipede (stylized millipede in western releases and Milli-Pede in Japan) is a fixed shooter video game released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1982. The sequel to 1981's Centipede, it has more gameplay variety and a wider array of insects than the original. The objective is to score as many points as possible by destroying all segments of the ...
Fixed shooters are a type of shoot 'em up video game in which the player is restricted to a single axis of movement (such as side-to-side along the bottom of the screen, as in Space Invaders, and in which each level is contained within a single screen.
Sente Technologies (also known as Bally Sente, Inc.) was an arcade game company.Founded as Videa in 1982 by ex-Atari employees Roger Hector, Wendi Allen (then known as Howard Delman), and Ed Rotberg, the company was bought by Nolan Bushnell and made a division of his Pizza Time Theatre company in 1983.