Kotaku: Centipede

Can You Guess Which Game Remake This Back Story is For?

Brian Crecente — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:40:00 EDT

Wait! Stop. Don't watch the video yet. First read the included bit of fiction sent along with the trailer. More »

Atari Revives Centipede As A Post-Apocalyptic Shooter (With Giant Bugs, Of Course)

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:40:00 EDT

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Atari, after reviving (or attempting to revive) classic games like Warlords and Yars' Revenge, is turning its attention to 1980 arcade classic Centipede for its next project. This is Centipede: Infestation, a twin-stick-style shoot 'em up for the Wii and Nintendo 3DS. More »

Hands On With Game Room For Windows Phone 7

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:40:00 EST

Microsoft is bringing its Game Room retro collection to the Windows Phone 7, starting with Centipede, Asteroids Deluxe and Shao-Lin Road. What does Game Room gaming look like on a mobile phone? Let's take a look. More »

Atari Reviving Centipede, Star Raiders Too?

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:00:00 EDT

Earlier this week, Atari revealed an unexpected retro-revival, a new game based on the original Haunted House for the Atari 2600. Atari's plans for breathing new life into old brands may not stop there. More »

Dress Your Family Room In Asteroids And Centipedes

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Kitchen not Asteroids-referencing enough? Have a Centipede problem in your foyer, as in not enough Centipede stickers slathered upon your walls? Wall experts Blik and retro-game rights holders Atari can fix that right up. More »

Video Games Reincarnated as Board Games

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:40:50 EST

Some people like video games. Some people like board games. Some people like both. For those, there's the video game board game adaptation. Some of these have been more successful than others in bringing the spirit of the game to the tabletop. Others were simply churned out for a quick buck. Blog Yehuda points out: More »

Centipede Creator Speaks at Austin WIGI Conference

Mike Fahey — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:30:18 EDT

Next weekend the Austin Game Developers Conference will be playing host to "She Got Game", a conference presented by Women in Games International on Saturday the 8th that looks at the experiences of women in the gaming industry. The keynote speaker for the event will be Dona C. Bailey, a Professor at the University of Arkansas who is known in gaming circles as the first woman to create an arcade game. In 1980 Bailey designed and programmed the arcade classic Centipede along with Ed Logg, and her keynote will focus on women in the industry cultivating and communicating powerful ideas.

"I'm hoping to be helpful to someone now who may be in a situation similar to the one I was in at Atari, said Bailey, " I often wish there had been a group of WIGI colleagues back then from whom I could have gotten advice!"

Other topics to be discussed at the conference included the importance of diversity in development teams and how to expand MMO content and game play for women. More details after the jump. More »

Catan Hits Live Wednesday

Brian Crecente — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:00:00 EDT

Three games hit Live this Wednesday at 2 a.m. Pacific and one of them is Catan. More »

Pro Keds Arcade Series

Mike Fahey — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:20:42 EDT

Like many of you, I used to laugh whenever Crecente would start going on about his love for gaming shoes. Until I saw these beauties from Pro Keds, of all places. When I was a young lad, Keds were those plain white shoes your mother would always buy and try to pass off as sneakers. These are definitely not my mother's Keds. Crecente and I have been killing ourselves trying to find these for sale, since the Pro Keds site's Buy Them Online button isn't working. Bastards. I must have your Centipede shoes! More »

Clips: Bizzare Kafka-esque Centipede Commercial

fdemarco — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:00:53 EST

Wow, when you watch this you can really tell that most of the advertising industry in the eighties were out of their minds on coke. Obviously that's where all the money went on this little doozy circa 1982. I'm sure they didn't have to pay much for all that glorious stock footage that was sitting in the back of someone's closet. Still, the centipede costume is rather nice and the Metamorphosis like ending shows at least someone in the office was reading between snorting lines off the secretary's ample bosom. Flynn De Marco More »

Game Cakes, O Boy

egauger — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:40:21 EDT

Since my constant craving for cupcakes is surpassed only by my actual ingestion of cake and cake products, I give you photos of game-flavored cakes. Because you must also suffer for want of cake. It is fair and just. Thanks for the tip, Rick. More »

For A Lazy Friday: DC's Atari Comics

brownlee — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:00:12 EDT

Back in the good ol' days of Atari, there wasn't a lot of story you could cram into a few kilobytes. To counter this, Atari teamed up with DC to distribute mini-comics along with Atari 2600 games. One was a long-running series of comics about a group of extraterrestrial super heros called Atari Force; Swordquest, a line distributed with Waterworld, Earthworld and Fireworld, Centipede and Yar's Revenge. More »

Game Over! Stop-Motion Food Rocks Frogger

egauger — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:20:50 EDT

Stop-motion impressario PES lets loose with food and Frogger in this classic-gaming stop-motion carnival of deeeeelight. More »