Played as part of Atari 50.
It's better than Centipede, at least. I mean, the green rectangle showing where you can move alone is a huge improvement. The board moving down each wave is another clear improvement in terms of mixing up the board, which was really boringly static in the original centipede. And the DDT bombs also help a ton in cleaning up the board.
But it's still kind of a clusterfuck. So many bugs just fly straight into the movement box and are frustrating to deal with at best, and will just kill you with almost no warning at worst. There's even more kinds of enemies than before, to the point where you don't even really spend all that much time focusing on the main gimmick, the millipede itself, at least, any more than any other individual insect type. It's been very tangibly improved but it's still not really in the league of other shootemups of the era for me.
It's better than Centipede, at least. I mean, the green rectangle showing where you can move alone is a huge improvement. The board moving down each wave is another clear improvement in terms of mixing up the board, which was really boringly static in the original centipede. And the DDT bombs also help a ton in cleaning up the board.
But it's still kind of a clusterfuck. So many bugs just fly straight into the movement box and are frustrating to deal with at best, and will just kill you with almost no warning at worst. There's even more kinds of enemies than before, to the point where you don't even really spend all that much time focusing on the main gimmick, the millipede itself, at least, any more than any other individual insect type. It's been very tangibly improved but it's still not really in the league of other shootemups of the era for me.