Magic Maggot
![Magic Maggot - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji]()
Description
The player controls a gun that can only move in the bottom fifth of the screen. The object is to shoot a centipede that works its way down to the player area through a field of mushrooms. Other attacking enemies are fleas, spiders, and scorpions.
Magic Maggot was produced by Digimatic Italia in 1980.
Digimatic Italia released 3 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Digimatic Italia was based in United States.
Other machines made by Digimatic Italia during the time period Magic Maggot was produced include: Missile Defend, and Millepiedi
Specs
| Name | Magic Maggot |
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| Developer | Digimatic Italia (United States) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 8495 |
| Class | Bootleg |
| Genre | Shooter |
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| Conversion Class | unique |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
| Controls |
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| Sound | Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp) |
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Game Introduction
This is an obvious bootleg of Atari's Centipede.
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Cabinet Information
The Zaccharia cabinet is a copy of Atari's Centipede. The marquee and sideart are ripped off from the Atari designs.
Miscellaneous
COPY OF: Centipede
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Magic Maggot Census
There are 14,777 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,484 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,627 machines (6,906 unique titles).
Very rare - There is one known instance of this machine owned by an active member Magic Maggot collector. It is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.
This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
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