Atari5200 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 (edited) real men play Centepede with a trak ball on easy mode just wait til i get some time, i'll go to standard mode and blow you all away. My in laws have a centepede arcade cab in their basement and I have the high score of 56,000 on that so i'm sure i can catch up and win this compo. Edited April 9, 2007 by Atari5200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I played this thing all weekend of and on and never got a score worth posting...I really suck at centipede. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I don't think the Spider behaves the same as the arcade in this version. Spidey in here is on meth or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I don't think the Spider behaves the same as the arcade in this version. Spidey in here is on meth or something. I think you are right, i played the arcade last night and the 5200 is wwwaaaayyy more sporadic than the arcade. moves alot more side to side where as arcade the spider always goes up and down before moving left to right. at least seems that way to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 13492 - played with Atari800win+. Control was tough - seemed like I had 6 spots I could move left and right to due to mismatch on a PC stick vs 5200. Played on Easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimsterAA Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 That's not the 5200 game. Damnit! I suck - and it wasn't even on the right version!!! Doh! I should have my 5200 this week, so I'll give it a go on that and then I'll be sure it's the right version. Unfortunately, I don't have a trak-ball for it, so my score probably won't go up much. --Timster-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNixer Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 This is an awesome idea, I'll have to jump in as soon as I get a good working 5200 controller. I'm not big on emulators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 This is the best I could get so far...the spider gets me every time 13,043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 booooooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I think you should keep the leaderboard updated on the first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I think you should keep the leaderboard updated on the first post. good idea and done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lintwarp Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I just played a number of games and the best I did was 21677. Dang, I forgot how hard that game is...or I should say...how hard the spider makes that game! I never played Centipede all that much, but wasn't the screen on the arcade game turned so that it was taller than it was wide? (The 5200 version is the other way around.) I think the distance your shooter can travel up and down is more limited in the 5200 version than the arcade, and that also makes it more difficult to avoid that insanely difficult spider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82atari5200 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 47,469 My best score ever.Man did my hand cramp after that round. After the first few rounds it actually evens out to where you can get a little ahead. It's getting past the 24,000 mark that is difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lintwarp Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 47,469 My best score ever.Man did my hand cramp after that round. After the first few rounds it actually evens out to where you can get a little ahead. It's getting past the 24,000 mark that is difficult. Wow! Nice score and good job! 5200 Centipede is one *tough* game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 47,469 My best score ever.Man did my hand cramp after that round. After the first few rounds it actually evens out to where you can get a little ahead. It's getting past the 24,000 mark that is difficult. Jeez...good score! I gotta try again so I can get my score out of the cellar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I tried again this morning, but couldn't beat 20k. I'm figuring it out though. I noticed a bunch of times where the spider glitched out and moved basically horizontally across the screen. It was kind of cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lintwarp Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I tried again this morning, but couldn't beat 20k. I'm figuring it out though. I noticed a bunch of times where the spider glitched out and moved basically horizontally across the screen. It was kind of cool. Yeah, I hate it when the spider does that. Sometimes I would swear the spider is on an unavoidable kamikaze mission with your shooter, and there's nothing you can do about it. The spider is sooo hard, I think it takes the fun out of the game. It makes me wonder what was going through the programmer's mind when the game was designed. Has anyone else noticed that the (flea?) characters which fall down and make new mushrooms are quite hard to kill? A lot of times it seems like you shoot one, yet it still rams into your shooter. I'm pretty sure they're much harder to kill than the ones on the arcade version. I found it's best just to totally avoid the fleas on the 5200 version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 the collision detection in general is off compared to the arcade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82atari5200 Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Yeah the collision is kind of off. I totally avoid the fleas and the spiders on the later levels. I just try to wait for the scorpions to show up. That's when you get the big points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 (edited) Fleas take 2 shots to kill. After the first they fall at twice the speed, that's why it's insanely hard to take them out. Gameplay wise I can't find any real consistency. I can't count on scoring a certain minimum amount at any time due to the randomness of the Spider. It's a great game but wow the randomness of the entire game really makes it difficult to score consistent. All the enemies add another layer of randomness, no two games are ever alike. Edited April 12, 2007 by Gunstarhero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Getting better... 20,570 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari5200 Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 i tried again last night and didn't do any better than what I've done, even on standard mode so I just stopped lol. maybe this weekend i'll devote a block of like 45mins of straight centepede, but it will be hard to pull me away from the Dreadnaught Factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Well, I'm only going to take a picture when I best the top score, but as of right now I improved my score to 30,009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I know my score is pathetic, but after a while of playing, I finally had a game where I scored 16,947. It was the only game where I scored above 10K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I played the 2600 and 7800 versions of this game tonight in order to make myself feel better about my crappy score. The 5200 version is hard as hell...and it cheats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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