Millipede
SCORE: 75
I am very thankful I had the money to
purchase the Atari Collection 2 on the Evercade systems. One of the
twenty games on that cartridge is
Millipede.
There are a lot of similarities between Centipede on the Atari 2600 and
Millipede. Sadly Millipede is the worse version of the two. Everything
is really blocky in Millipede on the Atari 2600. It can be quite a shock
to see this game. Of course there are plenty of blocky graphics in the
Centipede Atari 260 version as well.
We have a smaller block shooting at the enemies in Millipede. I noticed
some interesting graphical glitches in Millipede that were not in
Centipede. When I recorded Centipede it had audio glitches. When I
played it later there were no audio glitches. I played Millipede later
and it still had the graphical glitches. I do like the clouds of
whatever that appear in Millipede.
The movement is similar in both games. Millipede does highlight the area
the player can move around in. There are plenty of bugs that will come
and try to hit the player in Millipede. I found the spiders much more
annoying in Millipede personally. They had similar movements. The
spiders in Millipede seemed to target me a bit better. That might just
be a personal perception though. I ran into more spiders playing
Millipede.
When Millipede on the Atari 2600 is compared to the arcade version it is
really lacking. The same can be said for Centipede though. The concept
of the arcade is brought across in the Atari 2600 version of both games.
What is really strange is Millipede came out a few years after
Centipede. I would expect all kinds of improvements. There are a few
here and there like the gas. Otherwise for some reason I like Centipede
better. Maybe I expected more from Millipede.
I remember Millipede from back in the day. Those bugs coming down to get
us while we moved around at the bottom was hectic. Trying to get that
high score and take out bug after bug was the whole replay reason. In
this day and age though Millipede is just a piece of video game history.
I don't enjoy the same aggravation I did when I was younger. Millipede
can enhance the reflexes and improve hand eye coordination.
- Paul
Graphics: 60%
Sound: 75%
Replay/Extras: 85%
Gameplay: 80%
Family Friendly Factor: 75%
System: Atari 2600/Evercade
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Atari
Rating: ‘NR’ - Not Rated
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