Centipede

retro

Video Games Reincarnated as Board Games

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:

The bad news is that many of these games are pretty much now loss leaders to get people to buy into the video game with little originality or creativity. Witness the large number of new and useless CCGs based on recent video games, included in the packaging or given away at conventions.

The site has done an admirable job of noting the adaptations. Swing by and check it out. I remember having the Centipede and the Donkey Kong board games.
Based on Video Games [Yehuda via Boing Boing]

6:40 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
1,378 views, 29 comments

Latest by OtakuboyT: I still have my Super Mario Bros. board game more »

women in gaming

Centipede Creator Speaks at Austin WIGI Conference

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 »

11:30 AM on Thu Aug 30 2007
By Mike Fahey
721 views, 9 comments

Latest by hfabulous: @Tyrannical, Planetidiot: Isnt' that interesting? My mom generally doesn't touch games at all other than Centipede. She's been an ardent Aperion fan (a cool Mac interpretation of the game by Ambrosia Software) since it's release some ten years ago to this day. more »

catan!

Catan Hits Live Wednesday

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

3:00 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Brian Crecente
3,928 views, 42 comments

shoes

Pro Keds Arcade Series

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 »

2:20 PM on Thu Apr 26 2007
By Mike Fahey
7,846 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: I got my pac mans today... seemed to be an entire size bigger then the shoes I had. sucks. (I ordered the same size as my old shoes.) more »

centipede

Clips: Bizzare Kafka-esque Centipede Commercial

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

3:00 PM on Sat Jan 6 2007
By fdemarco
603 views, 32 comments

Latest by jesus_bon_jovi: Noooowhere girl you're living in a dream... Nooowhere girl you stay behind the sceeeeenes... Noowhere girl you never go outside.... Nowhere girl cause you prefer to hide... more »

cake

Game Cakes, O Boy

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 »

6:40 PM on Fri Aug 4 2006
By egauger
1,139 views, 5 comments

atari

For A Lazy Friday: DC's Atari Comics

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 »

8:00 AM on Fri Jul 21 2006
By brownlee
212 views, 6 comments

food

Game Over! Stop-Motion Food Rocks Frogger

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

7:20 PM on Tue Jun 13 2006
By egauger
351 views, 2 comments

Kotaku

Another Mario Sonic Collaboration in the Works?

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