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Millipede

Description

Blast bugs and mushrooms with your cannon.

Millipede was produced by Atari in 1982.

Atari released 139 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Millipede was produced include: Neutron Star, Tempest Tubes, Tempest, Triangle, Maze Invaders, Akka Arrh, Atari Force Liberator, Fast Freddie, Black Widow, and Gravitar

Specs

Name	Millipede
Developer	Atari (United States)
Year	1982
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8698
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color 19-inch Matsushita
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Millipede Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Millipede Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Trackball: Optical - Atari Midi Buttons: 1 - Fire
Sound	Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cocktail
Control Panel	Millipede Control Panel Image

Video Clips

Millipede Arcade

Centipede Cabaret Arcade Game Review with MULTIPEDE - Centipede/Millipede Multig

Millipede shortplay by Ivan Paduano

millipede 1,902,984

Game Introduction

Sequel to Centipede. Defend yourself from hordes of larger-than-life insects. The bugs keep coming -- all kinds -- and the challenge continues while the intensity increases.

Armed only with a bow and arrows, you, as the "Archer", must fire through through a garden of enormous mushrooms to hit the giant millipede who steadily crawls right toward you. Single heads shoot out from the sides of the play field!

Spiders, earwigs, inchworms and beetles appear to wreak their own special havoc and then suddenly the screen is filled with waves of bombing bees, dragonflies and mosquitoes! Your only chance is to explode one of the DDT bombs!

Game Play

Although this game utilizes the same format and controls as Centipede, Millipede offers many extra elements that test your skill limits. You still shoot from the bottom of the screen at a field of mushrooms, but instead of battling the original four insects, you now face a deadlier variety of enemy bugs: millipedes, spiders, bees, beetles, earwigs, inchworms, dragonflies, and mosquitoes. Naturally, each of these insects has unique characteristics that must be studied.

Fortunately, there is a new feature that can be used to the player's adavantage: DDT bombs. Four of them can appear on the playfield at any given time. Shooting one of them unleashes a cloud of deadly gas that destroys any insects, flowers or mushrooms in the area. After every few levels a swarm of insects appears, the point value for each insect shot during the swarm increases by 100 points up to 1000 points. Another feature is the option to start at a higher level of difficulty, which progresses as the player scores more points similar to Tempest.

Millipede KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.70 (15 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.78

Overall Like	3.93
Fun (Social)	3.36
Fun (Solo)	4.07
Collector Desire	3.79

Technical Rating: 3.61

Gameplay	4.20
Graphics	3.93
Originality	3.29
Sound/Music	3.27

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Cabinet - Video Game Marquee
(Contributed by: Rik Morgan)

Cabinet Information

The extremely colorful artwork makes this one of the more appealing cabinets ever made. Not only are the sides completely decorated, but the cabinet also has beautiful artwork all over the front of the machine.

Miscellaneous

The game's original or working title was "Centipede Deluxe".

Millipede was previously available on the iPad and iPhone via an Atari's Greatest Hits app.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Millipede Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 503 known instances of this machine owned by Millipede collectors who are active members. Of these, 421 of them are original dedicated machines. 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 74 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 19 active VAPS members with a Millipede machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Millipede circuit board for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 14 active VAPS members currently looking for Millipede. There are 9 active VAPS members looking for Millipede boards sets.

This game ranks a 80 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 30 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

The game uses a 6502 microprocessor and two Atari Pokey sound chips.

Legacy

Centipede
Millipede

Manuals

Operation, Maintenance, and Service Manual - Millipede Manual — **Operation, Maintenance, and Service Manual**
(57 pages, 5.1 MB File)

Supplement to Millipede - Millipede Manual — **Supplement to Millipede**
(32 pages, 1.17 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 127; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 127; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (4855cb797963e3dbcfe893744630a6b9)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Millipede is playable at 1 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
8-Bit Beans	100 Brock St South, Whitby	Ontario	Canada	Unknown	0

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