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Millipede Millipede - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Millipede - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Blast bugs and mushrooms with your cannon.

Millipede was produced by Atari in 1982.

Atari released 137 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Millipede was produced include: Neutron Star, Tempest Tubes, Tempest, Triangle, Maze Invaders, Akka Arrh, Atari Force Liberator, Fast Freddie, Black Widow, and Gravitar

Specs

Name Millipede
Developer Atari (United States)
Year 1982
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8698
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
Game Specific Millipede Pinout
Dipswitch Settings

Millipede Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Trackball: Optical - Atari Midi
  • Buttons: 1 - Fire
Sound Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
  • Cocktail
Control Panel Millipede Control Panel Image

Game Introduction

Sequel to Centipede. Defend yourself from hordes of larger-than-life insects. The bugs keep coming -- all kinds -- and the challenge continues while the intensity increases.

Armed only with a bow and arrows, you, as the "Archer", must fire through through a garden of enormous mushrooms to hit the giant millipede who steadily crawls right toward you. Single heads shoot out from the sides of the play field!

Spiders, earwigs, inchworms and beetles appear to wreak their own special havoc and then suddenly the screen is filled with waves of bombing bees, dragonflies and mosquitoes! Your only chance is to explode one of the DDT bombs!

Game Play

Although this game utilizes the same format and controls as Centipede, Millipede offers many extra elements that test your skill limits. You still shoot from the bottom of the screen at a field of mushrooms, but instead of battling the original four insects, you now face a deadlier variety of enemy bugs: millipedes, spiders, bees, beetles, earwigs, inchworms, dragonflies, and mosquitoes. Naturally, each of these insects has unique characteristics that must be studied.

Fortunately, there is a new feature that can be used to the player's adavantage: DDT bombs. Four of them can appear on the playfield at any given time. Shooting one of them unleashes a cloud of deadly gas that destroys any insects, flowers or mushrooms in the area. After every few levels a swarm of insects appears, the point value for each insect shot during the swarm increases by 100 points up to 1000 points. Another feature is the option to start at a higher level of difficulty, which progresses as the player scores more points similar to Tempest.

Millipede KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.70 (15 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.78

Overall Like 3.93
Fun (Social) 3.36
Fun (Solo) 4.07
Collector Desire 3.79

Technical Rating: 3.61

Gameplay 4.20
Graphics 3.93
Originality 3.29
Sound/Music 3.27

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Images

Cabinet Information

The extremely colorful artwork makes this one of the more appealing cabinets ever made. Not only are the sides completely decorated, but the cabinet also has beautiful artwork all over the front of the machine.

Miscellaneous

The game's original or working title was "Centipede Deluxe".

Millipede is available on the iPad and iPhone via Atari's Greatest Hits application.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Millipede Census

There are 15,177 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,629 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,346 machines (6,974 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 501 known instances of this machine owned by Millipede collectors who are active members. Of these, 419 of them are original dedicated machines. 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 74 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 19 active VAPS members with a Millipede machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Millipede circuit board for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 14 active VAPS members currently looking for Millipede. There are 9 active VAPS members looking for Millipede boards sets.

This game ranks a 80 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 30 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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Technical

The game uses a 6502 microprocessor and two Atari Pokey sound chips.

Legacy

  1. Centipede
  2. Millipede

Manuals

Foto-Finder® (Books)

  1. The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 127; Color photo Price guide: No
  2. Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 127; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

  1. 3D Model (External): Upright (4855cb797963e3dbcfe893744630a6b9)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Millipede is playable at 1 locations:

Name Location State Country Details Check-ins
8-Bit Beans 100 Brock St South, Whitby Ontario Canada Unknown 0

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Auctions Recap

Year Count Median $ Average $
2015 2 373.75 373.75
2016 7 345.00 394.29
2017 2 316.25 316.25
2018 4 560.50 649.00
All Years 15 413.00 449.07

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