Centipede (Atari 5200) (How To Beat Home Video Games 3)

[moravallor]

I just got done playing this on my 5200 :)

[DrSzalony]

This show is GREAT!

[ajcrm125]

Love the state of the art clock wipes

[destestimonials2]

Ace! Great memories . . .

[patmathis]

Centipede, the first commercial game made by a woman.

[WTFBOOMDOOM]

SLOW MOTION, YAY!

[bunnygal079]

I just got 5200 with this game.....one of the best versions of Centipede I ever played..

[bigpoopie69]

I wonder why they boxed the 5200 with Pac Man. I mean granted the new version was 100 times better than the 2600 version but Pac Man in no way displayed the 5200's abilities. What the fuck were they thinking eh?

[nexivdr]

one of my favorite games of all time. i always wanted to play a good 3d verison of this game. im not sure if there is 1.

[kurizzos]

The rolling white ball in the arcade version hutred my hands...

waaaa...

[SlashManEXE]

The quality is just so good in this video, it's like a TV show... If so, how do I find it?

[snakes3425]

I just downloaded Centipeid from Xbox Live Arcade, fun game, but it can be confusing at times.

[anubis2788]

watch that again in slow-motion

[Headbanger14]

The Atari 2600 Trak-ball was cool, but the Atari 5200 and its Trak-ball were an ungodly abombination that begs for Apocolypse!

[Doommaster1994ll]

I have this game for the intellivision

[pauljonnes]

are you employed sir? (heh just kidding xD)

[corebore13]

your fav game is centipede...

[wingnut4427]

anyone know of a good atari 5200 emulator thats easy to use ? a link would be greatly appreciated :D

[Houminid]

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[atari5200dude]

Join the atari 5200 message board at

atari5200.proboards53

type it into google

[VoidKeeper]

the atari 5200 and it's trackball were montruous, the size of the things OMG.

[rayduece]

yeah the atari 2600 trackball was sweet, you could even use it on their home computers. I used it on my Atari 600

[Ephraim225]

I like to intentionally let the scorpion poison mushrooms and nail the centipede's nuts when it hits one and drops down.

[Neon360]

not very predictable? W,T,F,?

[nibelung34343]

who every plays this game game with a joystick needs to get their hands cutoff atari2600 trackball>all

[Raymasaki]

are you crazy? telstar went out & Atari was new at the time we (my family) only had Joysticks,

either way this was a very hard game

[ApolloBoy]

There actually is a Trak-Ball (not trackball!) for the 2600 and another one for the 5200.

[Raymasaki]

hey, nibelung said trackball NOT me

besides trackbal or Track-ball who cares?

[ultramudvayne]

their was no 2600 trakball....only a paddle. the 5200 had a trakball.

[ApolloBoy]

Yes, there was. Look up "Atari 2600 Trak-Ball" on Google and you'll get a whole bunch of hits. I've even got a 2600 Trak-Ball to prove it.

[ManRayDali]

The 5200 is a pretty cool system, except that it is physically so large- I never took mine apart, but I bet that it's mostly empty space inside that case. The controllers would break too easily, and I'm still not sure why they put a calculator keypad on them... never saw a game that used those... maybe there were some math learning games or something?

[ProductionX]

The ColecoVision and Intellivision had similar numeric keypads as well.

[vatossan]

i got all the games in my computer.i dont know how my uncle did that.the same thing with the nintendo,super nintendo,and sega.

[ManRayDali]

He did it by using the Magic of Emulation. I'm serious.

[vatossan]

now i know i did a little research

[videogameknowitall]

I have this game but it is for the Atari 2600...so it dose not look at good as the one in this video.