Millipede is one of many classic arcade games by Atari. As the sequel to Centipede, game play is very much the same. In fact, Millipede could arguably be considered a Centipede enhancement as easily as you could call it a sequel. Millipede was never quite as popular probably for just that reason. The original Centipede was released in 1980 and Millipede came along in 1982.
For those not familiar with these games, the concept is fairly simple. There are pests i your garden that you are trying to kill. First and foremost among these are centipedes that weave their way from the top of the screen to the bottom, switching direction whenever it collides with a mushroom. The centipede (or millipede) is composed of many segments. Whichever segment you happen to shoot urns into a mushroom and causes the centipede/millipede to break into two parts. To make it to the next level, you just have to shoot all the parts of the centipede. As the levels progress, the centipede gets faster and other creatures come to ruin your days.
While Millipede was not hugely different, it is arguable the better and more challenging game. It added additional creatures as well as other strategic items such as the DDT bomb that you could shoot to take out all nearby enemies. Game play was also faster and more challenging.
Millipede, not being quite as popular as Centipede, received fewer ports to home systems but there were still several. It was released for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers in 1984, the Atari ST in 1986 and the NES in 1988. There was also an Atari 5200 port but it went unreleased. There were some later re-releases as well including a Game Boy version in 1995, A PlayStation version as part of Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2 in 1997, a Game Boy Advance version in 2005 and the Atari 2600 and arcade versions were both released in 2005 as part of the Atari Anthology for Xbox and PlayStation 2. Both Millipede and Centipede were also available for the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade starting in 2007.
Screen shots above are from the arcade version of the game.
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